PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 162, 3 August 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. Walter Symes, late M.P. for Patea, has purchased a 1000-acre section r.t Ka-wa, Waikato, where lie intends eventually to live. Mr. T. M. Itobertson, of Timaru, lias been selected from among twenty-seven applicants as manager of the Makahi Dairy Factory. At a meeting of the newly-appointed Greymouth Harbor Hoard last night Mr. Felix Campbell was unanimously elected chairman.—Press wire. Mr. ]). C. Gebbie was on Friday entertained by the settlers of Te Roti, and presented with a marble clock, on the J occasion'Of hi a leaving the district. I Mr. Philip W. Robertson. Rhodes scholar (son of Mr. Donald Robertson. Secretary of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department), has accepted an appointment as lecturer in chemistry in connection with the University of Calcutta, and will go out to Rangoon after his final examination for the Doctor of Science degree, for which he will sit at Lcipsie this month.

The death is announced of Mr. Malcolm Miller, of Lyttelton, who was well known in various parts of New Zealand, and who had been a resident of Lyttelton for over thirty years. The deceased, who was 71 years of age, was born at Lochranza, Island of "irran. Scotland, and came to Dunedin in 1802.' He was in business at different periods in Invercargill, pieton, Greymouth and Wanganui, and finally settled in 1874 at Lyttelton, where he carried on very successfully the business of a shipwright. He was an enthusiastic yachtsman, and lor some years had been owner of the well-known yacht Pastime, in which he made frequent cruises. He leaves a widow and groivu-up family. I