PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 535, 16 June 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor lias appointed Sir, James Prendergast to bo Deputy-Gover-nor of Now Zealand'during the time his Excellency is absent from the Dominion .'on lis visit to tho Cook Group. It is reported that Detective Cassclls will shortly leave 'Wellington on a trip to England. . s Tho resignation of Probationer Walsh from tho staff of the Wellington Hospital was acooptcd at yesterday's meeting of tho Hospital Trustees. Mr. Fi D. M'Govern, accountant in the Gisborna branch of the Hank of New South Wales, has been promoted to the position of assistant accountant in the Wellington office. Dr. Elder, formerly surgeon oil the R.M.S. lonic, is now in the Atlantic .service, and his position on tlio lonic, has been filled' by Dr. P. Ryder Nash, who is paying his first visit to New Zealand. It is understood that Major J. G. Hughes,D.5.0., recently appointed district adjutant at Nelson, hasbeen' offered aji appointment ill England. A private calilo message from Sydney announces the fact that ho has sailed from that port for London. • Mr. J. G. Ballard, inspector of telegraph - offices, who has not enjoyed tho best of health for some time past, has been forced to relinquish his duties once more. During his absenoe. Mr. H. W. Harrington, lately officer- in-chargo at Nelson, will perform . the duties of inspector. A Dunedin Press Association telegram states that intimation has been received that Sub-Inspector' Norwood, of tlio polico force, who has been stationed in l. unedin for the past two vears, is to be trausierred to Wellington, and that Sub-Inspector Phair, of Wellington, wilt go to Dunedin, Mr. Walter Barratt, F.G.S., 8.L.5., a member of tho East End Emigration Com-mit-too of London, boarded tlio .lonic when sho arrived yesterday aftoraoon. and watched the arrangements for dealing with assisted passengers, as earned out by Mr. A. A, S. Danby, immigration officer. Mr. J. Alexander, who is in charge of tlio Sydney offico of tno . International ' Correspondence Schools, is a passenger from Sydney by tlio Moana, duo to-morrow. Sir. Alexander comes to confer with the general manager for Australasia, Mr. J. G. Smith, and is to return- to Sydney accompanied by Mr. Smith, by the Ulimaroa next week. . Mr. Geo. Burton, secretary of the Hospital Trustees,, has resigned office on account of ill-health, and the resignation was placed before the. meeting of trustees yesterday. The meeting expressed its sympathy with Mr. Burton and its appreciation of his services'. It was also decided that such services by Sir. Burton as may lie neoessa,ry bo retained for three months, A cable .mossago has been received by a local resident (w-ritos tho Opotiki correspondent of the Auckland "Herald") announcing tho death of the B. Sowell on May 31, at Ipohi, in tho Federated Malay ■States, at the age of 57 years. Tlio late Mr. Sowell was born in the Straits (if Bab-el-Mandeb, on a voyage Home from India. He , was educated at Sandhurst, and was entered as a cadet in tho Royal Engineers. Ho camo out to tho colonics i'.i, 11.M.5. Blanch, and was invalided in New Zealand. Mr. Sowell subsequently joined' tho Government staff, and was for a number of years engaged in survey work in Westland, under Mr. Mueller. Later on he came to the north, and settled in the Raglan district, where ho carried on sutroying and civil engineering, and also actcd as county engineer. From Raglan Mr. Sowell went tp Opotiki, on account of his health, under appointment to the- Whakat.ano County Council, as county engineer, and from 1897 he actcd in a similar capacity for the Opotiki County Council, until Ins departure from tho district for tlm Malay States, a fow years ago. Tlio.late'Mr. Sowell was also a justice of the peaco, arid ho will bo remembered by most of the residents of the Opotiki and WhakataiM distriots,