PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 327, 14 June 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Mayor, Mr. G. Tisch, was indisposed yesterday, and was confined to hia bed.

Mr. Joseph McCluggage leaves early next week on a six weeks' holiday visit to Russell.

' Mr. A. Ambury, one of the principals in the firm of Ambury Bros., left with. Mrs, Ambury on Monday night lor the north on his annual holiday.

The death occurred on Sunday night at Morven, South Canterbury, of Mrs. Bridget Kennedy, widow of the late Mr. Duncan Kennedy (formerly of Papanui), and mother of the Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy, rector of St. Patrick's College, Wellington.

Mrs. M. Rudd and family worn passengers for Auckland by the Rarawa on Monday evening. Mr. Rudd left for the south yesterday morning, prioi\ to taking up his new duties at the Auckland office of the U.S.S. Co., for whom he has been manager at Xcw Plymouth for the past four years. Mr. Joseph Hammond, an aviator who has been giving exhibitions of flying in Australia, as representative of the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company ol Bristol, will arrive in Wellington to-day by the Moeraki from Sydney. Mir. Hammond is an ex-Now Zealander, claiming Feilding as his birthplace. Leaving Wellington, he first wont to Australia to take up sheep-farming. Later, he was at Klondyke, and next he was heard of in Alaska. For six months he toured in the United States as a cowboy in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Then the aviation fever seized hold of him, and he went to Rlieims to take up aeroplaning at the local school, duly becoming a certificated piloteaviator.

The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Railways, yesterday paid his first visit to the Taranaki Petroleum Company's bores, and was much interested in the boring operations, the steady flow of oil at No. 2 bore, and in the use of natural gas and crude oil as fuel. lie was taken for a drive about the environs ot the borough, visiting the Recreation Grounds, the Racecourse, and other places of interest, fn the afternoon, he received a number of deputations at the Criterion Hotel, and then motored with Mi'. P. A. Hadloy and a party to the Standard Oil Co.'s bore on the Carrington road, crossing to the Franklcy road to sec the peculiar sight of a steady blaze of natural gas on Mr. Grooby's farm.