PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 296, 11 June 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. Felix McGuire, of Okaiawa, arrived by the mail train last night. Mr. N. Mcleaac, of the New Plymouth Post Office, is under transfer to the secretary's office, Wellington. At last night'j meeting of the Stratford Borough Council the resignations of Crs. Paget and Sangster were accepted with regret. Mr. Hansen, formerly assistant Government grader at New Plymouth, and now at Auckland, is on a brief visit to New Plymouth. Archbishop Redwood will leave for Auckland to-morrow, en route for Tonga, where he will attend the consecration of the new Catholic Bishop of the Islands diocese.—Wellington wire.

Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of the late Mr. Seddon's death. Wreaths were placed on his grave by the Prime Minister and members of the Cabinet and Sir Joseph Ward. Several others were also sent by relatives and friends.—Wellington wire. Dr. Truby King, medical superintendent at the Seacliff Mental Hospital, is to released from his duties at that institution for a term of three months to enable him to make an active crusade against infantile mortality. He will make a lecturing tour of the Dominion. On being approached by a Dominion representative, Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., who has just returned from a trip to England, said that his policy for the immediate future could be summed up in the words of a now popular music-hall song at present the rage of London, entitled "Keep Your Foot on the Soft, Soft Pedal." The Right Hon. Jas. Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, will leave Wellington for the south on Wednesday night, en route for Australia. Yesterday Mr. Bryce, accompanied by Captain McDougall, A.D.C. to the Governor, visited Victoria College and the Dominion Museum. To-day he will be accorded a civic reception in the Town Hall.—Wellington wire. Tn telegraphing on the 6th inst., the Dunedin correspondent of the Oamaru Mail .said: "I have the best reasons for stating that Mr. J. A. Millar's indisposition is much more serious than is generally believed. There seems little prospect of his recovering the sight of one eye, and there is grave possibility of the other being seriously affected. He has been ordered complete rest, and t'lie general opinion is that there is practically no hope of his taking an active part in political affairs again."