PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 536, 17 June 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. :W H.Triggs, editor of "The Press," returned to Christchurch last night. • •,!?. _ Mrs. \V. B. Edwards, wife of Mr. Justice Edwards, returned to 'Wellington from Sydney by tho Moana yesterday morning. The Victoria Colles© Council decided last night to award the Jacob Joseph Scholarship to Mr. A. B. Pitt. 1

Professor Gaby,.who has been appointed. to tho of.physics afc Victoria College, is expected to arrive from England on July .9' ,? ryer > °f Christchurch, who visited Australia two. seasons ago wjtli tho w , *1 00 " ) all team, is at present in Wellington, Mr. T. Arthur, traffic superintendent of the Knilway Department, retires on June 30. His term of service with tho Department is ono of the longest among the'officers still on tho active' list.

Mr* Richard Coombos, editor of'the Sydney Referee, arrived from Sydney by the Moana yesterday to witness, tho Arnst-Webb sculling raoe. He will leavo for Wangnnui this morning. Mr. S. C. Barraud, manager of the Lower Hutt branoh of the Bank of New Zealand, is to retire on superannuation at the end of tho month; Mr. Barraud has been connected with, tho bank fop thirty \ years. Mr. A. L. Beattie, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Railways, has been gazetted lion, captain of the Ist Railway Pioneers, a vol- - unfceer company in' Duhodin composod of skilled railwaymen. , : On tho application of Mr. G. H. Fell, Mr. S. W. Fitzhorbert, of the firm of Fitzherbert and Macintyre, Feilding,. was admitted yesterday, by, his Honour Mr. Justice Sim, as a barrister, of the Supremo Court. 1

Tho death occurred yesterday of : Mrs. Cowan, wifo of Mr.' James Cowan, journalist attached to tho Tourist Department, a Wellknown pressman, and ono of the best known writers on Maori subjects. 1 The deceased lady was 44 years of ago. .

Notification of proposal to grant pensions W 'tho following officers of the Civil Servico was madp in a return - laid on tho table of the Legislative Council yesterday:—James Delany (Post and Telegraphs), £189 10s. per annum from .April 1, 1909; James Howard Sheath (Post and TolegraphsV £293 6s. Bd. per annum from May'l,. 1909. The death is announced of Mr, E, G. Lalie, chomist, soys a Press Association message from Oatnaru. ' Mr.. Lane, for some years in his younger 1 days, mado frequent trips to foreign parts as a member hi the mercantile marino service. He, arrived. in Victoria in 1851, spent ten years en the goldfields,. aiid later crossed to Now Zealand. Ho was a chomist at Port Chalmers, Waikouaiti, and. Dunedin, coming to Oamaru in 1868. The Rev. ](. L. Gwynne, of the Kentish Colonisation Association, arrived by tho lonic on Tuosday. The-organisation, with which he. is connected is promoting the settling of English young men on the land in Australasia. The emigrants, who arc of tho working classes, nro selected with special regard to physical fitness and general character, and arc given two years' practical training before they lcavo England. The association works on voluntary lines, and calls upon tho rich to help the unemployed l>?or..

A Hokitika Press Association telegram states that at the Westland' Land Board meeting yesterday special rcferenco was made to _ tho retirement of Mr. 6. J. Roberts, Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands. All the members of tho board paid a high tribute to liis.zoal and unfailing , courtesy, and aho to his ominont services in fostering settlement. Sinco his assumntion of tho offico settlement in Westland had made enormous strides! and tho ground work had been.laid for further extension. It wis stated-that. Mr., Roberts was ritiririg, not because lie has reached tlio age limit, put because he feels his health is not robust enough to-do,full justice to his worlc. In acknowledging the vote, Sir. Roberts'- snoke highly of the class of settlers on the West Coast, and'mado reference to its vast 'mineral resources. At some future timo these resources, would prove the salvation of New Zealand. At the. close of the proceedings, the new commissioner, Mr, G. H. M. M'Cluro, formerly District Surveyor of Canterbury, was introduced, and heartily welcomed. '

Tho numerous friends in Wellington of Sergt>Major Butler, formerly of the New Zealand ltoyal Artillery, Wellington, will reg Tot to hear cf his death, which occurred on June sth at Wcntworth Tails, Bine Mountains, N.S.W., when ho made a habit of sojourning during Hlo'winter months. The rospect in which the deceased was held was shown at tho fuileral wliioh ivaj attended by all his acquaintances in' the district! Tho chief monrners were Mrs. Iteboul (daughter of tho deceased) and her husband, of Sydney, Drs. M'lntyre and Sinclair' (win attended Mr. Duller in his illness), and Mr. Willson. 'The parifli priest of Kalooniba officiated at the graveside.. At the conelnsion of the ceremony there was a meeting of friends, W'lin passed u resolution sympathising with Mrs. Rcboul in her bereavement—(Advt.)