PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 30 August 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL

' Mr. and Mrs. A. Mcintosh, Shandon, leave by this morning's train for Wellington, en route to the cold lakes of the South Island. Mr. A. T. Mag ; nniiy wa« yesterday unanimously re-leleeteu hairman of the Nelson Education Board lor the fourth time.—Press wire.

Mr. G. Sheppard, who for tiree yeari has represented Booth, McDonald and Co. in Taranaki, has boon appointed to the charge of the Blenheim district, Mr. Robert Bell, proprietor of the Ashburton Mail and Guardian, is at present visiting New Plymouth. Mr. Bell :« staying at the White Hart Hotel.

Mr. Aruthur Tomlinson, licensee of the Top House Hotel, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon. At the inquest yesterday) a verdict of heart failure was returned, says a Nelson telegram. Mr. D. Bain, of Toko, who is leaving to-day to take up his residence at Tauranga, was on Friday evening presented with a four-piece Bilver tea and coffee servico as a token of esteem from the residents of the district.

Mt. J. W. Walker, better known as "Long Drive Walker}" t!he man ■who introduced the famous Waihi and Waihi Grand Junction properties in London, sand whose mining memories go back to the days of the gold rush to Victoria in 1849, was in July re-visitiiis» London. Mr. Thos. Wyllie, an old resident of Auckland, who has been a farmer in the Tamaki and Papatoetoe districts since l&i2, and whose age is O.i. the other day attended tho Auckland Winter Exhibition, and was presented to the Governor at the recent reception at Government •Bon'e. Mr. Wyllie is said to be the oldest farmer in the Auckland province. For the Melbourne's great celebration sale every possible pressure was brought to bear to keep the prices down. The firm is anxious that everybody shall participate in the benefits arranged, and there will be no deviation from the policy of low prices which has been adopted. New bargains will be immediately substituted when original lots are exhausted. This great sale is an event that must be taken as seriously by the public as it is by the management of the big Corner Store.