Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 3 March 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes .

Mr C. S. Paniell, the well-known builder of Masterton, was in New Plymouth yesterday. Mr George Swanson, son of the late Hon. V. Swanson, M.L.C., is staying at the White Hart Hotel. Air J. Masters and Mrs Masters, of Stratford, were in New Plymouth yesterday. They left for Auckland last night, en route for Uotoroa, where they intend enjoying a rest, afterwards travelling overland to the head of the Wanganui river, und thence by river boat to Wanganui. Mr J. McCluggage, of Whangamomona, was in town yesterday on Land Board business. Lord Francis Hope, heir~presumi>tive to the Duke of Newcastle, win married in London to Olive, younger daughter of the lute Mr George Thompson, banker, of Melbourne. The npw engineer for the borough, Mr Gibbons left Wellington la># night by the ltotoiti and arriveuhere this morning. Mr S. L. Htewarf, of Duuedln, was yesterday selected, from eigßfy-Uve applicants, to till the positron of s»»sretary to the Ellington Education Board. Jnglewoud Record reports that on Friday afternoon at the luglewood School. Mr Grant, on behall oJ the leaclu»t*s and children presented \ft- with a )iamlfiomo dresswig-case 'and pocket-book accompanying the gift with a lew pleasant and eugolistic remarks on Ilis now closing career «t this school ami the high esteem iff winch he whs held l v both his Hllow workers and tin children and wishing him, on behalf of all in I lie, school, a pleasant and prosperous future. Mr Kvans has lien granted dhaig'e of the Oaomii sclnol. Ihe Stratlord I'osl records the death of .Mr ,|. ,|. Taylor. n t . set I led there in the seventies and was always well respected. lie I ad lieen puriHilly for (lie past two years and had a bad strike about, a I'orlniglit ago, when hope wafl abandoned. ih'V. Alavis, successor to Pev. '• ii. B. Woaloxull in the Primjtjvc Methpdjsr Churrh ut Eltluun, arrived there last. I'Veniug. At llawi-ra yesterday Mr 11. Eyre-Txemo , S.M., was farewelled bv iuember« of tho llawera Licensiiiufc Committee. Jwo ol Sir Robert Stout's sons will leave by the Gothic to-day, to study medicine at Edinburgh. The new (Jovernor of New Zealand. the lil'Lh Baron Plunket, was bom in 18GL Mis father, the late Protestant Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, was a man of h-uruint «»d ability, ami of broad views. Lord Plunket. comes ol an illustrious family, the first holder of the title being the brilliant orator and politician of the eighteenth century, whose name is so inseparable from the distinguished school which included such eminent ninn as (Jrnttau, -Flood. Ponsunby and Buwhe, jie was elevated to the peerage in 1827 on Ikis appointment as Chiet Justice of the Common Picas, and three yearn later was raised to the Lord Chancellorship of Ireland, the highest judicial ofllce In the land. The present peer is a K.C.V.0., und has been Privafo Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland since 1000. lie had previously been in the diplomatic service as honpmry lUtScho to the Home un«j at Constantinople subsequently.' In 186 Mhe married Laily Victoria Alexandrian, the youngest daughter of Hie lute MarPlunkei'K mother was a daughter of flMbj »}i' Vn§>v\u' aiu| Aiu. Lprd the hue Sir Benjamin Lee 'Cluijtuess, Hart., and a sister to Lords Ardilaun and Iveagh, the heads of the i)jg his educatjqii m Ifarrpw and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graihiCtl, Tip hoa Pi'ver figured pronijn-: cntly in ttn> public life of the Oiji Country, Inß is known to b» v a inan of great cunmv and tnai f»? naid to lie exceHent plalrorm speaker.