PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 100, 25 May 1909, Page 3

PERSONAL

l-'or the convenience of local i and stock-owners wo are asked to announce that Curtain Young's pvisenl address is at YVanganiti. Xlr. Bert Koyle, \ou* Zealand manager for Mr, J. ('. Williamson, is ai present in town for tiie pro-diK-tioii ui *'Tlit» .Merry Widow" on the 7th prox. Mr. .ludah Myers, founder of lim linn of ,1. Mum-> and Co*. "Wellington, retired from business yesterday, states a Press wire. Ik* is seventy-eight yews of age, and has lieeu in Zealand for nearlv lmlf a century. He cam* to Wellington from the West Coast in 1878. A cable irom Sydney states that Professor liOwrie, late of Lincoln College, Canterbury, who way asked to accept the Professorship of Agriculture.at the .Sydney Lnivers'itv, deeTlned owing to having made a five years' engagement witlh the Government'of West Australia to fill the position of Director of Agriculture. The bnivorsity offered him a ten years' engagement and a thousand pounds a year—tile same salary as the West Australian Government is givinir ' him. 8 b

We record with regret the deat'h ot a „ ln 'e hour last niglit of Mr. Arthur E. I'arrar. who for the -past seven years has held the position of superintendent Xew 1>l !' lnoutl1 01(1 People's Home, lne deceased gentleman has been incapaeitated for some months, and bore a trying illness with rare fortitude anu cheeriulness'. He was a man peculiarly ailnpted for- Uta difficult .position he held under the Board, and under his management the Xew Plymouth Home was brought to a very higlf state of elli-l cicncy and comfort. TflE goo 3 fortune or tlie Hoard in retaining the services uf officers so capable as Mr. and Mrs. Farrar was many times commented on bv the authorities, and u very one will regret that the happy relations have been severed l)jr death. The deepest sympathy will .be felt for Mrs. Farrar throughout a very wide district. Mr. Donald Macdonald, writing in the Melbourne Argus, expresses the opinion that Mr. Alexander Macdonald, well known as a writer of books for boys may be the next maji to make a dash' for the South Pole on Shackleton's old route from New Zealand." Mr Alexander Macdonald, who left England with Lieutenant Shackleton, was "on the Klondike" in tile early days with Jack 'London. The dog team of which Jack London writes in his "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" wore their own dogs J? .ttfe early days Canada and the United States both claimed control of tlie Klondike. One time a party of American cowboys came up without authority to enforce their claim. There was a fight. A sergeant-major of the Canadian forces led the Britishers, and the cowboys, who had demanded that the Union Jack should be hauled down, were driven off. Mr. Macdonald has a memento of this brisk little unrecorded fight in the form of a bullet in his" foot. " They couldn't lu\vc got the flag down in any case," he said to a friend, "because it was frozen stiff."