PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 569, 26 July 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

If -W/.i* ;\y7\:\!*K . ' • AH the Mmistors of the Crown aro in town, , ; to-dayoxcepfc- the 'Hon. ;T.^'Nga ( ta,; 'i\' i ho ]s , ':.v :-=V ; . ■ f ; '■ Sir Wr J. Steward was a passenger from the "south by the Pateoiia 'on Saturday Mr R R' Martin, ihfl Opposition organisor, has returned -to .Welliflgtoai -after few. days' absonoo m Taranaki , 'Mr "WmPryor,-sM»'etaryof. the/? New. ■. Zealand Employers' 'Association,: leaves- on J; .business tfip to Dupeduiiithis'Overling, , ; ' '...' • The . death' occurred oii "'Saturday 'of ..Mr. '■ George Woodhouse/, late ■ of Neivply mouth and Auckland He uaa 79 years of age Tho Hon." Dr. Findlay returned from :the • . • feouth:-yesterday by.^lie/'Maov l - . Other pas-. Bengers by ■ the samd yessc! * meludcd Sir 0.Luoosi '.Oaptam vßone, , and Major rlip^cclles.: " -• , i.. X ■ < Commissioner .Dinuie : arrivecl;.fiQJla. • the .-"south . on;- Saturday, _ .and Av ill TGtiii'n. •to Cjinstchul'cb tins evening,,;to attend tho Pohco Commission, now sitting' in .that city.. ■... Rqv Elder, of Vfaikqpae, has been nominated for'the vacancy on'the Board of . ■ Education, by ;th<s .AYaikanao School' Commit tee, of Which he has been "a member" for. ! • rn.ariy .years'aiSd also chairman.-''. '■ ' ' ; 4 . The Rov G W Ivens, .apresentative in New Zealand of the Melanesian .Mission,. preached on .the. work of thg mission ,at St.- :' . Paul'a-iProiQathedrali last (aveniflg.lhere was a large conmegation. Mr. George Gariy, ~tha welWafown .musician, .qiod'iat 'Chri^tehurch>.on Fri,day, aged"iso v yearsV:!; } He, vfw-T. - Napieiy:; residen'cela.ti New Plymouth, and .soon assumed a leading: position in everything musical, Orchestia--tinn was oiievof his talents jiho was, also,tho : originator of -a'few. band: selections and songs, r

Tho full name of the,' young Wanarapa Maori, Orangatira, who has just inheiited a laigq atfipu.nt of propertj, ,reterrec\ to >n Tuesday's'jssuo ot katuakma Kerehoma (whites our tta>(slling correspondent) Hejs a son of the'late To Raio, who tlied some twenty years ago at Tablelands, and >a grandson of the lato Nopera Tilci. About twenty years ago tho estate was placed in tho hands of tho Public Trustro by Judges Baiton and Von SturJi'er, with the result tha,t is now worth £30,000, apart frpiri,, his landed property, übput * acres' The gioater portion of the wealth/is hold m tiust by tho Public Trustee, cand. Kerohpma merely diaws the interest". It'-ls undei stood, a.lso, that, as , pne of tho descendants of, tho lato "S.im" Mahupuki}, he "will inhout further piopoity, Mr, Barley t Donald, of who left Now Hrftlaiul on February, \1 nil a. business viait to the United states of , America, will afuvo in Wellington by the Aoiangi on August 18 , Mr. Donald -olir travelling correspondent) has made the most of h|s time in ,tllfi States Coinmencing at Sail FianciscOj ho journeyed Paso, in Mexico, then,-back to Chicago, and afterwards on to ifeW Yqrk, Pliilndclphia, , Boston, and Dotroit." In'tha coiirse of a , Jottor to his rclat)»cs, Mr, Donald lemaike, that he met seventeen young" Nriw Zcalalidcrs in Philadelphia, and all bpardmg in ;tho «nto liouso 'J hej were nearly ( all 'of dentistry. Amongst them were Air. Arthur Logan, brother of Mr, D. K. fcogan, solicitor, Alastcrioji," and Mr Rupert Sutton, also of v ,

The retirement fiom active duty is announedd oi , Mr. 11. WwNbrthcroft, Stipendiary Magistrate at Auckland .Mr Northcioft ttns born in Essex, on August 28y 1846. He crtmo with his famll>' to Zealand in 1851, and wbb odiicated fiist at Now Plymouth, nhero hib peoplo settled, and subscijuontly at Nelson. Whon he Tias 15 jgars of ace, the Tnranaki war broKo out. Mr. Nortlidroft joined tho colonir.l forooa at tho commencement of oporationa, end for J8 years was seldom put of tho held 1 hough moie than 50 times under fire, ho was novor onco lvoundcd. On soveral occasions lie porfoimod conspicuous acts of bravery, and was retonunonded for the Victoria Cross.' Ho Mis'a.K'ardcd the New Zenland war medal in 1868. When peace was restored Mr. Northcroft had «ome oxptn once in connection with mining at the Thames, and m 1877 was appointed resident magistrate for the WaiKato district Mr. Noithcroft for some timo hold the position of goldfields lvarderi and magistrate nt tho Tliamos, pi lor to his appointment in November, 1892, as stipendiary mngisti ato at Auckland, which position ho held foi foiir Jtr, Northoroft was then statioi'ctl aticccssively ?t Wanginui and Mastorton, and uns m'IOOO tranbferrod to 'lupoid magisterial dutriot, the Wailtato, with Hamilton as his hcadqnatters, which ho recently left again to take up magisteilnl duty in Ms llari'ikau district