PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 298, 11 May 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. B. Connctt was a passenger fot Auckland by the Ranuva last night. I General Sir Charles and Lady Bennett ] are passengers by the Victoria from Syd- A ney to New Zealand.—Press cable. i"

Mr. G. Tisch, Mayor of New Plymouth, intends taking a trip to England and Ireland in about eighteen months' tine.

An Adelaide cablegram states that Mr Grattan Congblan, the comedian, was found dead in his bed. He had performed at the theatre the previous night. The death is announced at the age of 7(1 of Mr. William Bell, who, over thirty years ago, became a settler in the Halcome end of the Manchester Block.

A Sydney cablegram states that Mr. MacDonnell, State Chief Secretary, is dangerously ill in a private hospital in Melbourne, suffering from an internal disease.

The death occurred in Wellington on Sunday of Mr. Richard Robinson, aged 50 years. Mr. Robinson was a wellknown colonist, having been 30 years in the New Zealand railways. Mr. w. J, Gcddis, of Napier, and Mr. W : RloniHeld, of Auckland, now touring Europe, were, through the influence o( friends in Rome, on March 23, received in audience by His Holiness the Pope. At the first statutory meeting of the newly-elected Gisborne Harbor Board yesterday Mr. John Townsley was reelected chairman of 'the board, which now consists of fifteen members.—Press Association.

A London cablegram states that Mr. H. B. Irving and Miss Dorothea Baird had nn enthusiastic reception at Hii ■ Majesty's Theatre in a farewell performance of Hamlet prior to their leav- ' ing for Australasia. Dr. Pomare publishes a denial of a statement telegraphed from Te Kuiti ■ that he is standing for Parliament to ', defeat the dominance of Malmta. He states that he consented to stand owing : to the repeated request, of the tribes of the Western district for redress of their grievances.

Messrs. A. de Bathe Brandon. Bean- M champ-Platts, Harcourt and Allport, of M Wellington, and Messrs. Palmer, Lcwit M and Pawson, of Wanganui, will be in 1 New Plymouth to-day and will assist ~M at the installation "of Bro. W. H. M Broome as Worshipful Master of Mt. il Egmont Masonic Lodge, in St. Mary'* ' <£■ Hal] to-night. fj The estate of the late Mr. James Oar, >jH of Wellington, has been valued for pro- .JB bate purposes at £73,000. The Public fflj Trustee is the executor, and the property i«l has been divided among various members ' *■ of the deceased's family, subject to a *MM charge which will produce a life annuity 19 of £BOO for the widow. There ore no §9J bequests to public institutions. H A cable message received in Welling- |9 ton announces the death, at Snntander, JH in Spain, of Mr. Adam Hatton Feather- J9J ston Johnston. «on of the Hon. C. J. '-'«■ Johnston. M.L.C Dwated was educat- «J ed at Wnnjnnui Collesre, and afterward* IH entered the Roval Nnvv as lieutenant IflJ He subsequently returned to New J!ea- mM land, and about five years ago left for 9J Spain, where he na3 since resided. Hfr Iffl was 33 years of age. J9J