PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 610, 13 September 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. Dr. Findlay.is in the Rotoruadfo trict, and the Hon;"T. -Mackenzie,.. who has boeu visiting Hastings - and Napier, is' eipeoted back! in- Wellington. to-night. - ' .The v othor iMinisters are .in town to-day. ■ The Acting-Premier (Hon. J. Carroll) and the •manager. (Mr. Geo. Smith) and principals of the "Jack and. Jill" Company wore tho guesU of honour at.-the" Savago .Club, on .Saturday evening. ■.

Mr. A, Allen, .manager of: the Petono Hallway Workshops,,is at present oh his. annualvaoationl: During his absence, jMr. • Richardson^, is taking charge. '

The name of Mr. Alfred T'j. Bndd, of Wellington, should;havo. been, included among the . list • of acoountants authorised as members of r tho Now Zealand Society of Accountants,bjvthe • board set up for .that purpose bythe;,Govern- . ment. ; \w ; -v .' The Minisfer'-fofEnilyays' Dying visit to the, •, south has been siibjeoted to .alteration, says a Press Association rmessago from Dunedin. H« has consented to;perform. the' officii opening, •: ceremony of the Urepuki-Waiau railway on. . Thursday, September' 23, the day before he undertakes .a' similar,, cerimony in connection with , the Waikaia-Switzer line. ( Tho Acting-Primo Minister (Hon. J. Carroll? expects to leave some; ; time -this,' week,,, to attend a, Maori gathering to bo held in his honour at Parewanui,. near Bulls, , Maoris of' the Wanganui 1 and Rotorua districts, also desiring to congratulate the Acting" Prime Minister on his promotion; have invited him to be present at:a Similar gathering, but. ' tho hon.,-gentleman- has not ;yet 'arranged' tin northern trip. ■'' ■ ■ : : Mr. It. H. Tuttiin, who has been appointed ' stipendiary 1 ' ibagiptrato for '.the.'' Wairarapa,. consequent.on,the.death of Mr., W. P.' James,' . S.M., will tako..up, i his new'duties thi? week. An old lady,' familiarly known' to her army ,r of descendants and her numerous friends in all'parts.of New'Z&aland as "Granny Brydon," passod '■' away' Sunday week • (says the ■ "lCaikoiira . Star"V, at lie* 'residence" nuar Ecnwiclt' Tojvn, (Blenheim) at tho great ago of >00 -years.' • She, Was oiie ;, of ; >the very .' few . • grand old nioriceir's'- left' ■who : came to tho ■ colony iin the 1 'forties,. and", in ' those days'' underwent many, privations) discomforts; and '' hardships. She, was .blessed' with a very retentive memory, and, iwtil'quite'lately, impressed delighted visitors to hor '.hospitable • home' with, stories quaint, . pathetic, and ' humorous of those early 'times. Sho';is sup-J - posed to leave behind 1 heV the largest' numbor of descendants of any mothor in' Now Zealand, . reaching vto tho'. fourth generation—children, . grandchildren, groat-grandhildron, and great-, great-grandphildrpn.' Tho occurred at. Foxton on Wcdncs- ; day.of one of Foxtou's oldest , aud most re. upected settlors in tho person of Mr. .Walter 11. Alzdorf. Tho deceased gentleman was born at Petono in 1841, and claimed the: distinction of having .been the first European born'at Port Nicholson, 110 was educated in New Zealand, and served' his apprenticeship in tho Survej ; Office at Wellington, .completing his term, in 1861.' Ha was subsequently employed by tho , Provincial and General Governments as a sur-veyor-and botwoen the years 18G3 and ISG9 laid , out a portion of tho.town of Foxton and most of tho township of Palmirstbn. The late ■ Mr. Alzdorf resided in Foxton for upwards of 40 years. His wife predeceased him by about ■ sixteen months, and ho leaves a grown-up' fam. . ily. .of four daughters awl .one-soil.- The late Mrs.' Alzdorf was a sister, of, Mrs.- G. Trask, of. Palmerston North, Mrs. W. IC. Simpson,_ol Bunnythorpo; and.' Mrs. D. A. . Poole, of Ka< ponga. ■ . ■" • '