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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hopes to visit Canada, New Zealand, nntl Australia, shortly, writes the Auckland Herald's Loudon correspondent. The Rev. C. H. and Mrs. Grant Cowan, who leave Hawera next week, are (reports the StarJ to ho entertained at a farewell social before their departure. Mr. L. Blcnnerhassett (of Eltham) left by the mail train yesterday for Mntamafa, to join his father on the farm there.
Mr. A ,H. Eoekell has been appointed to the position of | pupil teacher on the staff of the ,I'atea District High School in place of Miss A. Prideaux, who recently resignedMr. Norman H. Blackmore, who has been manager of the Palmerston North branch of the National Bank since it opened business there, is retiring from the service of the bank.
Colonel D. S. Wylie, Inspector of Hospitals, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night. To-day he will pay a visit of inspection to the New Plymouth Hospital.
Mr. E. A. Washer, president of the Egmont A. and P. Association, leaves this morning for Dannevirke, where he will act as judge in the dairy Shorthorn classes at the Dannevirkc Show.
Mr. Justice Sim, who has been presiding at the sitting of the Supreme Court in New Plymouth, left yesterday afternoon for Wanganui, where he presides over the Supreme Court there to-day. The position of Superintendent of Mercantile Marine, Wellington, has been filled by the promotion of Captain S. G. Stringer, formerly Assistant Superintendent. Captain J. W. Burgess, formerly Surveyor of Ships, Wellington, has become Assistant Superintendent.
The death of Captain John William Millman, formerly of. the Union Company, took place- at the Wellington Hospital on Friday. Captain Millman had been suffering for some years with partial paralysis. He commanded several of the Union Company's smaller cargo steamers und Wi* 'well-known at all New Zealand ports. He retired from the sea several years ago. It is (states the Argus) with great regret that wo have to record the death of Mrs. Cooper, wife of Dr. H. A. Cooper, which occurred on Sunday night. The news will prove a shock to many of her friends, for Mrs. Cooper was in town on Friday, and was then suffering from nothing worse than a slight cold. Pneumonia, however, supervened, and the deceased passed fvway last night. The sinccrest sympathy will be extended her sorrowing relatives in their sudden bereavement. The funeral takes place today (Tuesday). A telegram received from Auckland yesterday afternoon states that the Supremo Court adjourned to enable Mr. Justice Cooper to make hurried arrangements to attend the funeral at Klthnm of the wife of Dr. Cooper, iiis sop
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