PERSONAL ITEMS

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr Cbas. B. Buxton (Auckland) arrived in town yesterday.

Tho Rev. Father Creagh arrived yesterday morning from the north. Captain Hennah left last night for Wellington.

Mr L. L. Ashley of tho Bank of New Zealand staff at Woodville. has been transferred to Christchurch.

The. Eev. J. Flanagan, the wellknown missioner, came to Christ-church from the north yesterday.

The members? of the Pan-ma Exposition Commission were passengers for Wellington last night by tho Maungunui.

Mr D. W. Walker, of ChrietchurcFi, will act as judge of the pipo music competitions at the Wairarapa Caledonian Society's annual sports gathering pn New Year's Day.

Arrivals in town yesterday included : —Messrs J. Henderson (London), Geoffrey Hunter, C. R. Carr (Wellington), C. E. Andrews (Timani), Charles H. Willis (Kaikoura), S. J. Moon, and M. A. Christie.

At a recent meeting of tho Elmwooo. School Committee, a vote of condolence- was passed to Mr J. C. Adams, late chairman in his recent bereavement; also a voto of sympathy to Mr A. S. Howard in his illness.

Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, and Mr C. Holdsworth, general manager of the company, arrived yesterday morning from Wellington, and left for the south by tho second express.

A Crimean veteran, Mr William Neilson, late of the 2nd I>ra goons (Scots Greys) died at the Veterans' Home, Auckland, this week. in. his eighty-second year. The deceased eorved all through the Crimean. War, and in the charge of tho Heavy Brigade at Balaclava on October 25th 1854, he wae wounded.