PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13791, 24 October 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL.

\ Melbourne cablegram announces the death of Mr Herbert Fleming, actor and theatrical manager. Mr. Fleming was a very powerful actor, most successful in the heaviest drama. Tlip company in which he and the late Robert Brough were associated was one of the most powerful .pourtrayers ot real drama that have visited New Zealand. > . - Business will during the .course ot the next few months- take Sir Thomas Lipton to India. It 19 stated that he wifi probably extend his tour to Australia and New Zealand. . Mr P. A. Hadley leaves to-night tor Auckland. .1. 1 Mr J. Clarke, of New Plymouth, has been appointed tcr represent the Taranaki centre at the annual meeting ot the New Zealand Athletic union at Dunedin in January. Mr J F. Lever, who is now settled in the Waikato, is on a short visit to New Plymouth. Since leaving Awakmo two years ago he has spent ten montlis in the Orange River Colony. Mr S. Turner, of Wilier and Riley, Ltd., left "Wellington yesterday afternoon for Sydney, en route for England. ■»»••. £ Tho Hon. J. McGowan, Minister for Mines, will pass through New Plymouth to-night on route from Wellington to Auckland.