PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Acting-Premier (Hon. J. Carroll) roturns to town from Hawko's. Bay to-day, the Hon. G. Fowlds is at Christohurch, tho Hon. Dr. Findlay goes on from Palmerston North to Feilding,; tho Hon., T. Mackenzie and tho Hon. A. I'. Ngata will also be at Palmerstoil, tho Hon;. D.' Buddo is at- It&ngiora, and tho other Ministers arc in town. \ .Tho Rev.'/ Father O'Laverty, of Christchurch, returned from America, via l Sydnoy, uy tho Wimrimoo yesterday. Dr.; M'Arthur, S.M., left for Auckland yesterday to, preside at a sitting there of the .Railway- Appeal ,Board*. Messrs. .A. ;Ay. Hogg. J; P. Luke, and Colvin, M:P. b,; who havo visitod tho National Dairy. Show\ at' Pftlmcreton, ix>turned, to Wellington lart evening.: ■ D. Buchanan; of Palmerston North, was a passfinjjor from Sydney by tho -'. ■ft arrimoo, which arrived in Wellington yos- v t-erday. .. .Constable Q; MacCartney, watcbhoaso; keopor at . Mount Cook' Polieo Station, haa been transferred ■to .Oamaru; where ho wiS met as gaoler. - ■ 1 ■ • Mrs. Helen Gillespie, relict of tho late Mr.' ' C. H., Gillespie, - and a well-known resident * of Thorn don,, died at her residenco, Tinar Icon Road, yesterday.

Air. A. Murdoph, of Messrs. Murdoch Alid Co., manufacturing cheuiista, of : Dnnodin, passed through Wellington on his way to the Palmerston ShoN? .yesterdayVMS l .'

.* ,lho Hon. C... C.v Bowen, arrived from thff south yesterday in order .to preside, as Vio& Chancellor of.' iho' 'Now- 'Zealand'' University f at tho Victoria Ctllogo capping ceremony today. ■:• .■; • ■ ■

■ Constable Percy Jonos has bqon appointed Court Orderly at tlio Magistrate's Court, in' succession to -Cohstablo Clarko, vriio is severing his connection with tlxi forco to tako up farming, : :

Kio lion. T. Mackenzie, iMinister for Agriculture, yas at the Weraroa Experiment Farm arid the Palmorston' Dairy .'Snow yesand went" on to Huntorvillo for-the' night; Ho returns to tho show to-day. '

Mr./ Geoffrey Nyoj of West's Pictures, niv rived yesterday to preparo for a'special seasonl 1)1 the Town' Hall for the .purpose of presenting Patho FreresV pictorial adaptation. . of Emil Ziola'd famous novel "L'Assoinmoir" (Drink). v ■ 'Mr. F, K.: Reeves, who is retiring-from the. office Vof ..secretary to ' the : .Thorndon Bowling Club, after 10 years' service, was, - at the annual meeting' of tho club last evening, accorded a special vote of thanks for.his,past efforts on behalf of the dob.: • Sir William -'Steward; accompanied!.- bj Lady Steward and their daughter,/ Mrs. Cur- ■ tis, of . Anhburton, arrived in Wellington by v tho^Wammoo' yesterday: from, a holiday trip to South Africa. . One of Sir' William's sons ' holds aa position in; Durban. Natal. ./ :; l .-■■■ ' ■ Tlio .death was annouriood yesterday of Mr. Egbert Feist; senior me'mter of' 'the well, j, known Lower Hutt firm of E. Feist and Co., general storokeopors.: ' Deceased was idonti- '• lied with the development'of tho borough foj many, years past,'and. took tin active interest : : in'localchurch! matters.^: /i . ; ' Yesterday morning tlio students of St. Pat. rick's College mot; ac thq Collego Study Hall to bid-farewell to thoir. lata rector, the Very Rev; Father Koogli, and, pi'oseut him with au v illuminated . address 1 and a sit of the Cambridge Historyin' fifteen ■: volumes! Master •C. J. Outtrim made the presentation. Musical items were rendered by the college orchestra; and- choir, and Masters Dohcrty find '' Wulsli, a ' 'collo solo being contributed by ■ Mr; W; Johnston. The acoompanimonts wero played by Mr. Laurence Watkins, Mus. Bao.. ana tho Rev. Fatbor Scliabfej'v S.M. Tho address presented-makes grateful mention: of the deep . interest' which Father Kcogh has always taken in his.students, expresses the. boys' regret ;at his departure, and wisher him all success in his new.Bpliere.v,;: