PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 15 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

.Sii Joshua \\ii 1 il-.ni^, who rcccntlv re tired from the Mipreine Court Bum-ii receives a pension of vcar.

Dr. Whetter has purchase,! the practise f>f Dr. (il i (lyjl ||;is commenced practising his profession. Air (r. \\. ilooors ]i;k resigned th,sccretoryship of the Opmutke Racing C/lub, jtiul Mr I*. S. Jlilcv Juis been uppointed to the position, Mr G. Hutch. Australasian manager of Cook's, visited tiie .Mountain House yesterday, and leaves by the iua.il train*for Wellington this morning. Mr 11. 1). l)e Lai our hai finally decided to contest the (Jisbonie ' seal, against all eoinevs in the interest* of the Uefomi Marty, at the next geueral election, state- tin- < Jisborne Time*.

Tli# death (if n well-known scUbr, I Mr M, llartigan, took place at Ihvrvillc, nc.ir JliUliiiliuriiii;;!!, on Friday I Tlic deceased. who li:ul been aii- ' hig f»i- some lime, win in his 4fltk year. Mr. 1)\ l.lack, consulting engineer lo tlic New Plymouth llorough Council, wlio lias fur tlic past two in- three days liccn in Xcw Plymouth on Tramway business, luiivun i'or Wellington by the mail train this iiiornniL'.

Another well-known and highlv-rcspci-teil old le-ddeiit of Waiijpinui', Mr Silas Wall, passed av. ,iy <ni Sunday at the ai;e of 117 year-'. Mr Wall's 'wife died a,l«>ut l.eu years ago. and lie is surlivcd liy an adult family of two sons and four daughters