PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 507, 14 May 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister and the Hons.. Dr. Findlay, G. Fowlds,, T.r Mackenzie, and D. Uuddo, aro in Wellington to-day; Hon. R. M'Kenzio is in the Gisborne district, Hon. J. A. Millar is at Christchurch, Hon, A. W. Hogg' leaves Wellington', in the' afternoon: for Masterton, and Hon. A. T. Ngata goes riorthby the early train to. Napier, en routo to Gisborne. Mr. A l . B. Wright has been appointed Inspecting Engineer of Roads. Mr. David Nealo has been appointed a /member of the Taihapo Domain Board. "• Constable Wm. • M'Lennan has been appointed police gaoler at Kaikoura. ! ■ Mrs. Annio Scanlon has resigned her position as matron of tho, Wanganui Gaol. . Mr. Archibald M'Callum has been : reapI pointed a member of tho Marlborough Land Board. '/ Mr. W. H. D. 801 l is gazetted. ActingConsul for Denmark, vice Mr. F. H. D. BeU, now absent from tho Dominion, r Immigration officers have been appointed as followLyttelton, Mr. A. P.' Browne; Wellington, Mr. C. S. Nixon; Napior,Mr. E.R. Brabazon.. ; ... Captain It. W. England, who commanded the Nirar'od on her first-trip to tho Antarcleft for.the Old Country by the Kia ■ Ora yesterday. .. i ' The Gazette issued last oveniiig notifies, the reappointment of the Hon. James Holmes, of Hokitika, .and tlio Hon. . James | Marshall, of Totara Flat, as membors of the Legislative Council. ~ The Hon. R. M'Kenzie, Minister for Mines and Public' Works, is at Gisborno to-day, and will remain thoro till Sunday. On Sunday ho will go on to Napier, leaving that town for I Wellington on Tuesday morning. Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, with Mrs. Hodgkin and their son and daughter, will leave tomorrow for Hawko's Bay, where they will bo tho guosts of Mr. and Mrs. John Holdsworth, of Ilavelock North. Tho Hon. A. W. Hogg olaves for Mastorton by train this afternoon, and on Saturday morning ho proceeds to Featherstoii for tho purposo of oxamining roads in tho neighbourhood of Martinborough, Dyorvillo; and Longbush. Ho returns to Wellington on Saturday, ' Mr, R.. D. D, M'Lean, chief Of the Hawko's Bay Highland Socioty, was yesterday presented with a handsome portrait in oils of himself painted by Mr. \V. A. Bowring. Our Napier correspondent states that Mr. D. S. 'M'Lean, in ranking, the. presentation, said that tho gift- expressed tho desire of several gentlemen to record in permanent fashion the affection and.honour in which Mr. R.. D. D. M'Lean was held amongst. tho Sootsmen of Hawko's Bay.

The Rev. Dr. Qibb, the Bey. Isaac Jolly, and Rev. A, Whyte arrived back from Christchurch yesterday, Mr. Geo, G. Lowe has boon appointed -an engineering cadet to the Publio Warts Department. ■ The Hon. J. T. Paul, M.L.0., arrived ■frnm the south yesterday morning, imd went cm by the Main Trunk express to AocklomL ■ where ho has somo Labour business to attend to. ' The . death occurred yesterday of Mr. George Anderson. an ox-City Councillor and a resident of Wellington for over fifty years. Mr. Anderson, who was 78, years of age, waa bora at Finchley, Middlesex, and after working for eleven years at the fancy goods trade in London, emigrated to Now Zealand, arriving hero in 185G by the ship Indian Queen, ono of tho old Blackball lino. Ho has resided hero over sincoj with tho exception of one trip to England. Ho was in the employ of Messrs. Loviri and Co. for Bomo years." Mr. Anderson was elected to tho City Council in September, 1889, and occupied a seat at tho table for: two years, representing Thorndon in the days of tlio old ward system.' J3ne of his chief anxieti.es was to secure a recreation ground for tho.northern -end of tlio city, and 'ho has always been credited as being the originator of the idea of making a recreation ground out of the gully which existed at tho Glenborvioßoad end of the Botanical Gardoiis, and on'that account tho City Council: in 1907 decided to call the ground made on tho sate! ('Anderson' Park." Ho tbok, a lively interest in beautifying the city, and was conoorned in tho Thorndon Esplanade movement, and was one. of those who urged the closing down of tho Sydney Street-. Cemetery and the desirability of'securing a burial ground elsewhere, which suggestion was subsequently given effect to. For tho last edgfat years ho has laved in retirement.