Personal Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 222, 23 September 1904, Page 2

Personal Notes.

Dr. Leatham roturnod from his holiday trip In the North yesterday.

Mrs McKenzie, wife of Mr R. McKenzie, M.H.R.., diod yesterday morning at Oamaru, where she was on a visit.

Mr E. G. Allsworth, chairman of the Tananaki Education Hoard, ixy turned from Auckland by the Rarawa yesterday morning. A Sydney cable received this morning says that Mr W. P. Crick has !>oen elected Chairman of Committees in the New South Wales State Assembly.

Mr W. Allen, clerk in a Palinerston ofllce, received a cable on Wednesday stating that a former employer had bequeathed him £40,000 in England, fir Allen left for Sydney, en route for Homo, to-day. Messrs J. C. McTver, E. H. Noel, and Misses Starck, C. R. Newport, and B. Shirtcliffe, all of Palmerston North, have elected to take up missionary work' in Indl a . The party is to leave Wellington by the Monowai on the 7th prox. for Sydney, conr.ect.ing there with the Oldenberg for Colombo.

Mr Henry Gray, at one time of New Plymouth, where he was butter buyer for Messrs Pearson a n<l Rulter, and who left the colony some twelvs months ago for Natal, South Africa, has returned to New Zealand om a business visit, and is now at Stratford. The object oi Mr Gray':; visit is to purchase New Zealand butter for the South African market. Mr and Mrs A. Ilatrlck, of Wanganui, were passengers by the Moura. which arrived at Auckland from Fiji on Tuesday. They are returning from a seven months' trip, in the course of which they visited the Old Country, Canada and the United States, the St. Louis' Exposition l>eing included in the sight-seeing in the latter country. Mr and Mrs Hatrick were to leave for New Plymouth, en route for Wanganui, by the Takapunyesterday.