PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 178, 20 August 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. Henry Weston, proprietor of the Taranaki Herald, was a passenger to Auckland by the Rarawa last night. Arnst, champion sculler of the world leaves te Sydney shortly. Ho intends seeing Pearce and Day row for tho championship of Australia.

The !. .ilth of Mr. Alfred Hill, tlia weH-kiiui.il musician, of Wellington, continues to steadily improve. He hopes soon to resume the practice of his profession.

At a special meeting of the Invereirgill Borough Council last night, Jonn Sturroek, of Wellington, 15 months' out from Scotland, was appointed town engineer, out of 3-1 applicants.—Press wire, A cable message states that Miss Talbot, secretary of the Victoria League, sails for Australia and New Zealand in September. She also visits Canada. The tour i.s intended to extend the leagued work.

. The Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Wallis) and Mrs. \i allis arc at present on a visit to friends in the southern district. This (Friday) morning, at 11 o'clock, His Lordship will consecrate the Anglican Church at Kaponga,

The death has occurred at Sydney of the Hon. W. J. Foster, ex-Judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court, at the age of 79. Deceased took a prominent part in the political life of the colony for some years, anil occupied a seat on the Supreme Court Bench from 1888 to 1804, when he retired. | The Hon. Millar, Minister for Railways was entertained at a social last | night, at Dunedin, by the combined committees which worked to secure his return; for Dunedin West at last general election. The attendance was large, and addresses of a semi-political character were given by the Hon. Millar and tin Hon. Roderick McKenzie. A correspondent informs the Christchurch Frets that Mr. David Jones', of Weedons, and Mr. O. Clothier, of Hawarden, prominent members of the Farmers' Union, having bought land in the Waikato, will be leaving Canterbury about' the end of the month, Messrs Jones and Clothier botii polled largely as' Opposition candidates for Ashburton and Hurunui respectively at the last election.

The gross value of the estates of Sir John Hay, L.L.D., ol Cooiangatta, Shoalhaven river, and the Crow's Nest, North Sydney, who died on February 28th, is estimated at £410,572 10s 4d, of which £214,272 14s Cd represented real estate, £45,438 as 9d shares in public companies, and £03,183 19s 8d debte due io the estate. The net value of the estate was stated at £139,70(f 0s Id. Probate has been granted of the will. Don Manuel llasraneas, a wealthy ranch-owner and banker of Mexico, arrived in Wellington oil Wednesday from Sydney on a short visit, as part of a tour round the world. He returns to Sydney again by to-day' 6 steamer en route to India, China, Japan and 1 Europe. He is of opinion that the opening up of the four-track railway at Tehaatepec will, when completed Shortly, give a much quicker route to Europe from Australia and New Zealand than the Panama Canal, Another of the old settlers, in the person of Mr. William Hancock, for many years proprietor of the Red Boot Warehouse in Devon street, passed amy yesterday morning. The deceased, who had passed by a year the allotted span of three score years and ten, came to New Zealand in 1852, in the ship Berwick Castle, as a youth of 14 years. When the gold fever broke out in Victoria, hi joined the "rush," and spent some years there, returning in 1802 to New Zealand and starting business' in New Plymouth. He was one of the party which went from New Plymouth to Pukearuhc to bring in the bodies of the Rev. Joan YVhiteley, Lieut. Gascoignc, and his faoi. ily, after the Whiteclift's massacre, and he claimed to have been till l one man to volunteer for the work of disinterment. The deceased, who was a brother of the late Mrs. W. G. Stockley, was a member of the volunteer force at one time, and was a Free Mason. The interment will be a private one.