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Their Excellencies the Governor-Gen-eral and Lady Jellicoe left New Ply* mouth for Wellington by the mail train yesterday morning. Sunday night had been spent aboard the vice-regal carriage and the departure was an informal one. A good gathering of citizens assembled on the station, and in bidding good-bye to the Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson) and the general manager (Mr. F. T. Bellringer) His Excellency expressed his appreciation of the enjoyable time they had spent in New Plymouth.
A London cable announces the death of Mr. H. B. Marriott-Watson, Canadian trade commissioner-in London. Mr. R. W. Smith, M.P. for Waimarino, spent the week-end in New Plymouth, returning south yesterday. The French delegation for the Washington Conference, headed by M. Briand, has embarked at Havre. The Auditor-General (Colonel R. J. Collins) will be in New Plymouth on November 9.
Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P. for Waitomo, who arrived in Auckland last week after a trip to England, Ireland, Europe and America, is due in Wellington to-day. A Sydney cable reports the death of Mr. James Murdoch, Professor of Oriental Languages at the Sydney University. The death is reported from Sydney of Captain Webber, who was secretary for 28 years of the Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society. A Christchurch message reports the death of Mr. James Little, aged 87, the founder of the Corriedale breed of sheep.
Mr. R. Cock ( was re-elected chairman of directors at last night’s meeting of the Taranaki Land, Building and Investment Society. Major F. Wallace, who has been divisional secretary of the Salvation Army in Christchurch for some time, has been transferred to the p®sition of divisional commander of the new Taranaki division, which includes the King Country. The Bishop of Auckland, Dr. Averill, is expected to arrive in New Plymouth on Friday morning next by the Rarawa, and it is hoped that he will open St. Mary’s Rose Show and Work in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hayden, who have been touring England with the New Zealand bowlers, returned to Auckland by the R.M.S. Makura on Friday last, and will arrive at New Plymouth by mail train this evening. Mr. A. Corkill, chairman of the Inglewood County Council, was unable to attend yesterday’s meeting of the council owing to illness. On the motion of Mr R. Stuart (acting chairman) a vote of sympathy with Mr. Corkill was carried. 4 Our Stratford reporter states that the death occurred yesterday of an old- resident of the district in the person of Mrs. Hatcher, wife of Mr. Wm. Hatcher, of Broadway North. Mrs. Hatcher came to New Zealand from Kent, England, forty-two years ago. The death took place in New Plymouth last ..evening of Mrs. E. C. Pearce, of Devon Street east, a very old and respected resident, who came to New Plymouth in the ship Gold Condor in 1864. She is survived by a family of five sons and two daughters. At last night’s meeting of the Taranaki Land, Building and Investment Society, the chairman (Mr. R. Cock) 'stated that one of their old directors (Mr. Newton King), who had recently sustained a severe illness, was now recuperating at Rotorua and was making favorable progress. Reference to the death of Mr. W. L. Newman was made at the annual meeting of the Taranaki Land, Building and Investment Society last night, the late Mr. Newman having been an ex-director. It was decided to convey the sympathy of shareholders to Mrs. Newman in her bereavement.
Advice has been received in Wellington of the death of Mr. Joseph Poulter Leary, a well-known settler of the Manawatu district and founder* of the Manawatu Daily Tinies, at the age of 82 years. Mr,. Leery was educated in New ibouth, Wales, wnere he followed the trade of a general printer, and ultimately entered journalism. In receiving an apology from Mr. A. Shuttleworth at last night’s meeting of the Taranaki Land, Building and Investment Society, the chairmen (Mr. R. Cock) said members would be pleased to hear that Mr. Shuttleworth’s health was now fairly satisfactory. In view of the fact that Mr. Shuttleworth was one of the original directors of the society when it was formed in 1865, the meeting carried a resolution expressing appreciation of his past services.
Private advice has been received of the death at Ellerslie of Mrs. Wilson, w.ife of ex-Superintendent Wilson, of the police force, who was formerly stationed at Wanganui. The late Mrs. Wilson, who was a daughter of the late Mr. Bernard McManus, of New Plymouth, was born in Dublin 62 years ago, and came to New Zealand with her parents in the “sixties.” They settled in New Plymouth where she married Mr. Edward Wilson, an ex-armed constabulary man, then clerk in the police station at New Plymouth, and afterwards superintendent of police; now retired on superannuation and living at, Ellerslie. She is survived by her husband and one son, Mi*. E. V. Wilson, chemist, Bulls, formerly of New Plymouth. Her three brothers are Michael McManus (New Plymouth), Robt. C. McManus (Palmerston North), and James MeManus (Melbourne).
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