PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

—-—« — : — Captain Davey nrrived yesterday morning from "Wellington. \'s Captain Preston went north laet night. # <-; Mr Samuel G. Ferguson was unani- • : rnously elected chairman of tho »v»v laud County Council yesterday. The Hon. J. T. Paul, M.L.C., w> --3«g rired in town last night, and leaves for ■>£ •Wellington tonigbt. ■ ( ,^f At tlio annual meeting or «c Waimairi County Council yesterday VJ oflemoob, Mr S. A. ateplee **» unanijnously rc-ekcted ciiainnaii..:-- f Bisliop AveriU, who is rcrkrns w* final visit to Gisborno bctoro taking up tbo soo of Auckland, was entertained .w on Tuesday evening at a public meeting __<? over which tho Mayor presided- * Arrivals in town yesterday included:: —Messrs N. A. Shay (New lork), U 43 11. Wallis (Danedin), 0. H. Cotaxniiß (Wan«auin), W. E. Davis, and Mr and Mrs W. J. Birch (Wellington). ' ';m . Tho Eov. m B. Hughes, of Haetingfc ' M

siaA accepted a unanimous invitation to Tfte* pastorate at the Aehburton Baptist fihurch, and is expected to commence bis ministry in Ashburton in March. Mr Ernost H. Hammond, manager of th& Wellington branch of tho bouth British Iniiirance Company, has been abliced to wiign from the service owing to .iii-hcalth. Reference to tho death of Mr J. Tα. ficbtfc was made by Mr T. W. Adams, chairman of the Education Board, at the Bba'd meeting yesterday, and the followins resolution was carried:—"That thi3 Board desires to express its sincere tetrret at the death of Mr J. L. Scott, ••one time a vaJued member of this Board, and to tender to Mrs Scott and family' its deepest sympathy with them in their bereavement. , "One of the finest and most popular of Dominion athletes," ran the report of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, read at Monday night's "meeline in Wellington, in referring to the death of Mr \V. F. Simpson, the renowned long-distance runner. "As a performer on the track, ,, added the K port, ,: he ranks with the Empire's fc ee t and his keen, unswerving support' of nnmteur athletics was known and appreciated. He was a man whom it might rightly bo said it was good to jtnow. Fie was cut off in the flower of jnanhood, and we desire to place on record the sincere regrets of all athletes at his untimely.decease. ,.