PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143574, 12 August 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Majdr Young was in town to-day.

Mr. H. Okey, M.P., was a passenger by Friday night’s mail from Wellington

The Into Sir W. S. Gilbert’s estate has been valued for probate at £11,971 —Press Association.

Mr. J. G. Littlejohn, engineer to the Waimea County Council, has been appointed Nelson City engineer. There were eighteen applications from various parts of the Dominion. Mr. T. Humphries, ex-Surveyor-Geheral and now President of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, was a passenger to New Plymouth by Friday night’s mail train. He will hold a conference with local surveyors. Mr. W. S. Percy, the mercurial little comedian, who as'Blats has made a big hit in ‘'The Balkan Princess,” has yielded to hianagerial inducements and signed a further two years’ contract with idle J. C. Williamson management. This means, of course (writes Call Boy iu the Dunedin Star), the abandonment of his immediate ideas of “breaking into London.” as ho says, there is much compensation in thru knowledge that the saving margin of his salary will allow him to purchase the desired orchard. “And, anyway,” he remarks, “better the public you know than the public you don’t know.”