PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 566, 22 July 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

f: Mr. Tom Mivnn haa been appointed ; organ*'' iser of the Victorian Socialist party. .:'': . .: V Messrs; Laery, and Tlobert Turnbull; ■'returned- from a,' visit; to Australia yesterday morning. ;.:'.';; r.^V, , .. : ;- : 'o ; .' ■ "•'; ,",<■■•'•'• .;■ ■ ', Mr; H, Kempthorne is a passenger to Dun- :; odin by: the Moana,; which arrived iroinSyd. ney yesterday..:'\'. ,; ,..-.'.-''\-' : - : ':.'; ":■;"'/" :,':■:"' '['■■■' . . - Warder Bowies, , of Uie 'New : Plymou* Qaol, has received notice; of transfer to the Torrace.'Gaol, Wellington.! ,;: ■>~-. ■.:•■■ ' < the Hon. S. S. Joicoy, eon of Lord Dudley,!, \vho visited.Not" Zealand a few,' months ago,. returned'from'Sydfiey. by- the Moana yester-day-morning... ~■ 'H^-.'ss^:;.Y4A\ : ■;■ (': '<■ '■'.■''■■.■'■ '. \ ' AYitk a. View 'to checking breaches of the law. in relation to: moistyre' content in butfo* •'Agriculture) has 'given \ instructions ■ to; hayo ; ;cortain:manufacturers; prosecuted.:, ■)■:,;;'; ■■..■';- : - ; Mr. W. Reecej of Christchurch, member ' of the Tramway lioard of that city, returned from'a trip to. England by the Moana yes-. : tefday. 'He was accompanied:by Mrs.,ana jliss Eeece. ..-.':;, ■.; -~,•;■;:..'.'■■;. '■~...■' ■■ .- , • Mr. H.-N. Holmes/ eecrofcary of Y.M.C.A.j. has received ai lottor from Mr. Ricliard C; Morse, international secretary at Now' York; informing \him; .that . Mcsers.:/ Clovcland and Bayird Dodge, two enthusias-. tip'members of the , association,, and their . friend Mr. Appleton, are about to visit Now' Zealand. 1 -The Messrs'. Dodge are the sons of Mr; Cleveland: H; Dodge, one of America s, great philanthropists, and.' to'.:wbonv the Y.M.C.A. owes thanks for several colossal cifts, the last being/ the site, of tho'lnterr ;■ national, Y.M.O.A.' building in, New York City.. , -THe .two young men are graduates, of, the Princeton. Uiiiycrsity, and- their .compan« , ion, ,Mr/Appletori, is a Harvard graduate. ; Efforts are ,tb bo, made to make their visit to Wellington incnjoyablo one. | ; .. : ;

■Alderman John .Brown, of Central ■ lUawarro Counoil: (N.S.W.); holds an >' Austra--lia.li, if not a world's, municipal record. Hβ was one bf the first setof aldermea elooted 50 years ago,-being tho first Mayor of the ! borough, and with the exception of one year: has- occupied a scat in the council ever'since, ■ Although he has to drivo several miles to the . council chambers, and is over 80 years of age, he is a member of the finance and other committees, and attends most regularly. As;au indication of the interest he,takes iri. things municipal, it may, be mentioned that he has a faithful'record of, every resolution • passed" by the council during , the half-century be has' been connected with it.' . At the jubilee of,the : inauguration of the municipality, which takes • place on, August 19, it is proposed to present• thie, veteran alderman with a :