Personal Pars.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5035, 15 November 1906, Page 2

Personal Pars.

Mr Charles Hall, M.H.R, arrived in Waipawa last night. The Hon A. Pitt’s condition last night was not so good. Count de Witto has returned to St. Petersburg after a health trip.

A Dunedin wire intimates the death, from apoplexy, of Mrs J. A. Millar, wife of the Minister for Labor. Mr and Mrs Russell Duncan arrived in Napier yesterday after an extended visit to the Old Country, The Government has appointed Mj J. Cowan, of the Tourist Department, to write an official history of the Exhibition.

Mr Acdrow Carnegie has made a further grant of £SOO to enable the Hastings Borough Council to complete the interior of the looal publio library. Sir William Steward, who has boon in indifferent health for some time is now lying at a private hospital in Wellington seriously indisposed. A Greymouth Press telegram states th*t Mr Henry Smith, inspector of schools under the Grey Education Board, died to-day aftor a six weeks’ illness.

Messrs Burnett and Jones, of the Railway Department, arrived in Waipawa yesterday afternoon. They examined the line between the bridge and the station with the object of improving and widening it. Mr C. J. Smith, of Williams and Kettle, Limited’s staff, has aooepted a position in tho New Zealand office of the Ooeanic Steamship Company, which is being opened at Auckland, and leaves for that place on Friday, the 23rd inst.

Mr R. S. M‘Gowan, the New Zealand Government Insurance Department’s manager at Dunedin, who hes been granted extended leave of absence on account of his health, intends to take up his residence in the South of France for a few months.