PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Dr. If. I!. .V! ill, a director of the British liamfall Organisation, arrived ;n Aew Plymouth last evening.

The death is reported from Tokio of Admiral Count Yuko Ito, chief of the •Japanese naval general staff.

Miss E. Howell, who was knocked down and run over by a motor-car last week, is making good progress towards recovery.

-Mr .Tames Cowling, member of the AVcstown family of that name, is spending a holiday in New Plymouth. For a number of years Mr Cowling has bceu located in South Africa.

A Sydney cable message announces the marriage of Mr M. A. Noble (the famous Australian cricketer) to Miss Ullen Ferguson, youngest daughter . f -Mr and Mrs Ferguson, of St. Peter's. Molbourne.

Mr F. W. Marchant, consulting engineer to the New ' Plymouth Harbor Board, arrived in town last evening and later conferred with the Harbor Board. To-day lie inspects the harbor, and will subsequently attend the monthly meeting of the Board. The l?ev. Mallett, of the Ohura, is spending his holidays in New Plymouth. The reverend gentleman was at one time in a' commercial position in. the town, and subsequently went to England, where lie was educated for the ministry and ordained.

A Wellington telegram says that an announcement of considerable social 11terest was made yesterday in the shape c£ the engagement of Mrs T. <r. McCarthy to Mr Walter Ueid. Mrs McCarthy is (lie widow of the late T. Ci. McCarthy, who made such a. magnificent bequest to Wellington "Province last year. The marriage takes place at an early date. Mr. John Ctuin, the most popular and straight-going.of New South Wales Tjubor Ministers, has made public confession of his early adventinm He walked into Broken Hill, which be has represented in Parliament for twenty years or more, with his swag on his bark. Xot ;i sovereign was in the pocket of the man who now, at the head of the State's finances, plays with millions. He could not buy a. second-class ticket on the railway, of wliie.lv he is now the Minister. He carried a swag then.