PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 97, 21 May 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

Detective Boddnin was a passenger by the express train yesterday morning for Wellington on a short business trip.

The Stratford l'.Wt records the death of an old settler in the Midhirst district in Hi., person of Mr. George Shuinaeher, at the ripe age of 78 years, which took place at his home on Denbigh Bond yesterday.

Regarding the statements i>s to Lady Plunket going Home some lime before Lord Plunket. the Manawatu Times is authoritatively informed that nllhowrh her F.xcellcncy will -precede Lord Plunket to England, it will not be before February next. —Press wire. lluckuain Pasha. Hie Turkish admiral and aide-de-camp to the deposed Sultan, was formerly Captain llucknam. of the Pacific Mail 'steamship line. After leaving the service of the Pneilie .Mail, the admiral tool; service in Hie (.'ramps shipyard at Philadelphia, and was sent tlieucc lo Constantinople In charge of a new vessel constructed for the Turkish navy. At the end of the voyage lie so won the regard of (he ruler that lie was at once taken into (he Turkish naval service The llawera Star records the death of Mr. .Michael llolger. of Manaia. at (he comparatively carlv age of 43 years. "..Mick" llolger was - one of the best known and most popular men on the Plains. He was 3ion; in County Carlow. Ireland, and arrived with his par»nlK at .Manaia in ISS2. When his father lied -some seventeen rears mm lie look ip the carrying lmsine*. established by "lis fatbiT ten years earlier, and continued in (his till a ye..■ ~- >. [le had been :ll for about two months, but till last '.veck appeared to be improving. Mis jged mother, now over ninety, survives him.