PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 175, 3 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. c. W. Hursthouse is reported to be seriously ill in Wellington. „ r - 9- Freeth, 'lately of the New Zealand Times, has purchased the Hutt and Petone Chronicle. Mr. F. J. Strang, late of New Plymouth, has been appointed borough solicitor at Taumarunui. Mrs Ayson, wife of Mr. L. P. Avson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, died in Wellington on Monday evening, aged fifty-two years. . Miss Clarice Buckman has received cabled intimation of an engagement with Mr. J. C. Williamson's Opera Company m Australia.

Dr. McArthur, S.M., and Mrs. McArthur, who had been on a visit to Enrrland, returned by the Arawa on Tuesday, greatly improved in health. A Sydney cable message states that Mr. Henry, representing the British Life-saving Association, is a passenger by the Maheno for New Zealand. Mr. Rolleston, British trade commissioner, is visiting Great Britain on duty in January next. He will be absent from the Dominion about five months. The condition of Mr. F. E. Hardy, of Eltliam, who is an inmate of the New Plymouth Hospital, shows no improvement, and is causing his friends some anxiety.

Mrs. Hohvorthy, formerly Lady Buckley, a sister of Mr. H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., died at Wellington on Tuesday night. Mr. Fitzherbert left for Wellington by yesterday's express. Superintendent William Lucas, of the Spit (Napier) Fire Brigade, is dead. He was a gold medallist of the United Fire Brigades' Association, and an immediate past president of that body. .Lieut. Evans, a member of the Antarctic expedition, is married to a daughter of Mr. T. G. Russell, barrister and solicitor, of Christchurch. Mrs W O'Callaghan, of Hawera, is a sister of Mrs. Evan3.

Mr. Arthur Griffith, Minister for Works in the McGowan ,Cabinet in New South Wales, is a nephew of the late Sir Hercules Robinson, at one time Governor of New Zealand, and was more than once the guest of his uncle at Government House in Wellington. Mr. Griffith was, in his younger days, a junior master in Christ's College, Sydney, but for some years past he has been a patent attorney in Sydney.