PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 193, 24 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Unholz, the American boxer, arrived in Wellington by the Marama yesterday. A Waipawa telegram states that Mr. A. E. Jull has been re-elected county chairman.

A telegram reports the death of Mr. John Munro, formerly representative for Buller.

Mr. J. Brown, of Durham road, Inglewood, was yesterday re-elected chairman. of the Taranaki County Council. The condition of Mr. F. E. Hardy is reported to be not so favorable as • it was, and is causing his friends some anxiety.

Mr. J. T. Mannix has been elected unopposed to the vacancy in the West Ward representation on the Borough Council, caused by the resignation of Cr. Hobbs. Advice has been received from London that Mr. Robert Stout, son of the Chiel Justice, has, in addition to degrees formerly granted, obtained the degrees ol B.M. and B.S. from the London University. Mr. E. P. Webster, secretary to the Taranaki Agricultural Society, attended the Hawera Show yesterday in the interests of the Society, and was most successful in securing entries for the show in New Plymouth next week. Mr. Webster will again visit Hawera to-day on the same mission.

Mr. W. Lockhart Fitzherbert, of Palmerston, formerly of New Plymouth, and son of Mr. Fitzherbert, S.M., left on Mondaiy by the Mongolia, on a trip to Australia. Mr. Fitzherbert will visit Sydney and Melbourne, and will be absent from Palmerston about a month.

The Governor, attended by Captain Hamilton, A.D.C., went' to Wellington from Featherston on Monday, and Lady Islington, with Miss Stapleton Cotton and Captain Shannon, A.D.C., returned from Christchurch on Tuesday. Their Excellencies, who are at Government House, will remain in Wellington for some days. Professor MaeMillan Brown, of Christchurcli, lias been spending some time in the library of the Polynesian Society, at New Plymouth, obtaining information for his work dealing with the origin of the Polynesian, Malayan and Melanesian languages. He expects that it will be about three years before he has completed the investigations upon which he is now engaged.