PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 101, 6 August 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs. Bailie, wife of the Hon. Captain W. H. Bailie, M.L.C, was the recipient of very many congratulations on Saturday, when her seventy-ninth birthday was celebrated. Mr. F. Black, electrical tramway expert, left for Wellington yesterday. His report upon the suggested New Plymouth installation will be ready in .about three weeks' time, and will be considered by a special meeting of the Borough Council. The petition to the Taranaki Presbytery, which met at Hawera on Thursday, from over 100 signatories in the Okato district, and which included nearly everj adult Presbyterian from Oakura to Pungarehu, asking that their present minister, Rev. !EL Braddoek, be confirmed in the appointment there «for six months,, made by the Home Mission Extension Committee, was received, considered and granted. Mr. F. J. Dignan (well-known in New Plymouth) son of the late Hon. P. Digital, of Auckland, and manager of the Ashburton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, is now in England on nftß months leave of absence. Mr. Dignan is making a trip round the world for pleasure and in search of health. He travelled to Naples by the Otway, spent a month, seeing Italy, Switzerland and' France, and then proceeded to London. Mr. Dignan has been visiting his son at Loughborough, Leicestershire, prior tomaking with him a motor tour of England, Scotland and Ireland. He will leave for New York about the end of August. He will visit Niagara Falls, go up the river to Montreal, and travel by the Canadian Pacific Railway across to Vancouver, and pick up a boat for Japan, where he will spend- a few weeks. From there he proposes to take boat for Brisbane, via Chinese seaports and East Indian Islands, rail to Sydney, and steamer for New Zealand in December.