PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 278, 15 April 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. I'. Bishop, a popular member of the local telegraph staff, is under orders to transfer to Xapier. A Sydney cablegram states that Whitty, the cricketer, was operated on for appendicitis, and is recovering. Messrs. W. T. Jennings and H. Okey, M.'sP,, leave this morning to join the Auckland ltailwny League party to inspect the cast coast railway route, etc. A Wellington telegram states that the following have been appointed Justices of the Peace: Walter Dudley, Opunake; .Tolm Chapman, sen., Tongaporutu; .John Connett, Xew Plymouth; 8. Knrquhar, Awntnnn East; William Kent, Kotore; James Rutherford, rungarehu; John .Medley, Xew Plymouth. An Ottawa cablegram states that Mr. Clifton Sifton may be appointed High Commissioner in London to succeed Lord Strathcona. Mr. Sifton is an exMinister who has broken from his party on the subject of the reciprocity agreement. [A cablegram received after midnight from Ottawa denies the report.l An old Taranaki boy, Mr. John Wilkinson, father of Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, of Kltham, is repaying Taranaki a visit after an absence of thirty-five years, during which time he has resided in many parts of the world. Mr. Wilkinson was a well-known Native interpreter here in the sixties.