PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 371, 23 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. P«oosevelt has arrived in Pirns, and received a warm welcome.

Mr. .T. \Y. Winf'teld has been returned Mayor of Ingle wood unopposed. Mr. T. Finlayson, one of the principals of the linn of Messrs. Sargood. Son and Ewen, was in Xew Plymouth yesterday.

Mr. .Tames Steele died at Kumara on Monday last, aged eighty-four years. Deceased was at Weatherstone* and other ()t ago gold rushes, and afterwards went to NVstland, being one of the first to arrive in Ilokitika.

It is understood that the Government lias appointed Mr. J. Graham Gow to represent New Zealand at the Argentine international exhibition. «nd to take with him a collection of the chief products of the Dominion.

The Hon. J. A. Millar has completed inspection of the various railway systems, and has left for Sydnev en route for Xew Zealand. He hopes to be able to place before the Cabinet a number of important alterations which will he to the advantage of the Xew Zealand railways.

the a of Powelka in tlie Magistrate's Court, at Wellington, on Monday. (in- Dominion says:—He was thin, shrunken-looking, unkempt. <i|>p&rcntly oiv the verge of a physical collapse, looked the very last person whose lining-- could 'have reduced a hirge district to i condition of intense excitement. lie looked tired—done. Only his eyes .betrayed the restlessness of his spirit.

Mr. \V, P. Masscy, Leader of the Opposition. is at present visiting portions of t.'ie Otago Province. The visit, though designed in t'lie interests of the party, is of a (jiiiet nature (says the Otago Daily Times), and nothing in the way of public functions or speech-making is intended. Mr. Masscy !has been invited to speak in the Wairaraj :i, and he will also deliver an address at llipiedin, probably at tne close of the season.