PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 229, 2 November 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Messrs. Isaac Bayly and T. K. Skinner were passengers by the liurawa to Onehunga last night. It is understood that ill', .laives Hawkins has disposed of the Uremii Hotel to Mr. If. Campbell, of Kltlfain,

A London cablegram stales that Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of New Zealand, who Ims been ill of late, is progressing favorably. | Sir Percy Scott, of the famous ''paint is more important than drill" message, I is mentioned as the next Admiral of the Australasian station.

Miss Nellie lleldt, daughter of Mr. I". Ileldt, formerly of New Plymouth, wn", thrown from her horse last week, an' sustained a fractured skull. She is lying irt a,critical condition ut the Palmerston North hospital.

Prior to his departure for Auckland, Mi. Horatio N. Seldon was presented with a set of silver-mounted hairbrushes by the l'ost and Telegraph stall. Mr. Seldon took a keen interest in football, tennis, and cricket, and will be a loss ito thc'6e circles.

ill". Graham, the cheese expert of the New South Wales Government, who has joined the staff of the Dairy Commissioner in New Zealand, will be station d in the Wairarapa, and will have charge of the testing in connection with the Diilciield Cow-testing Association, ilr. \Y. E. Gwilliin, who has been stationed at Carterton, doing the heavy testing | work, will resume his position of chief j grader at Wellington, ill 1 . Stevenson, of Taranuki, another of tilie staff of dairy experts, will be stationed at Opun* ke. I'rank Lehar, the composer of the "Merry Widow" (says the Northern Whig) takes his good fortune very wcil. When Vienna found that "The Merry Widow" was much to the liking of their folk, they took him in their arms ever/ evening when he arrived at his favorite restaurant. He is glad, he says, to he independent now; money has made his iife easier, so he can work better. He is a director of tile Raimand Theatre, Vienna. lie is an alert, industrious

man, of medium height, and is in his thirty-eighth year. Mrs. Broome, wife of Mr. W. H. Broome, of New Plymouth, passed away yesterday morning at her residence in Vivian-street, after a brief illness. Mrt. Broome was very well known and well respected in the district, and the news of her death will be received with fec!- , ings of regret by her friends. Of a kindly disposition, the deceased lady performed many little acts of kindness and self-sacrifice in her own quiet and un- > ostentatious manner. Tile deepest sym- ' pa thy is expressed lor tho deceased's • husband, who is left with three young children. '