PERSONAL.
Tommy Hums, ex-world's champion boxer, arrived in Auckland yesterday by (lib s.s. Victoria from Sydney and left in (lie evening by the "Alain Trunk express for Wellington. The Northersi (taxing Association formally welcomed Burns on arrival. A London cabin states that Mr Oresley Lukiu, editor of the Wellington Post, who has been attending the Press Conference, will return by the.Kuapehu.
Mi' J. Morey (Morey aiid Son) returned, via the .Main Trunk, on Satur day night, from a business visit to Auckland. He reports that the trip through the cold highlands of the Island is not an inviting one at present.
The death is announced of Mr. J. F Collins, of Kylemore. fnvercargill, in his
'.-■•venly-liftli year. Mr. Collins came to New Zealand in the earlv (lavs. He had been a member of the' Southland Provincial Council, ami was for years on the council of tile Southland Acclimatisation Society, ol which he was a valued member. His elilcst s on. Mr. Frank Coll.iis. is on the stall' of the General Post Ollicc in Wellington, and his second sou, Fred, who qualified 1( s a mining engineer, left for Klondike in the early stages of tlie gold discovery in that region.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 167, 9 August 1909, Page 2
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