PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 649, 28 October 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. J. C. Ballard, Inspector of Telegraph , Offices, who has been on a tap to Australia ' for tho benefit' of lis health, returned hero yesterday. , Ifr. Andrew Campbell, an old-time officer of the Wellington Bowling Club, has been elected president of tho Mahern-Canlueld Bowling Club in Melbourne. ■" Mrs. M'Lean, who has been to trip to England, returned to Wellington by the MoernVi yesterday. She was accompanied from SydMr. Neil,H'Lcan. 'Dr. Gfiicia Webster, of Wellington, who has been on a visit to Australia returned from Sydney by the MoorakO yesterday Mr. D. F. Kenny, l the popular Wellington musician who has been touring Australia for

the~last tiro months, is expected to arrive Wk in Wellington to-morrow. Mr. Oliver Nicholson, Mayor of Mount Eden, Auckland, is visiting Wellington. I Comtesw de l're6ne3o ; who resides in Can--1 tcrtrary, is l a through passenger to Lyttelton by Moeraki. Mr. Peter Ban, who was one of the Dnnedm \ delegates to the Empire Chambers of Commerce Conference in Sydney; returned here by tho Moeraki yosterdaj. JT 1 - Bennett v who* represented tho Wellington builderp at the recent Builders' Confcronco in Sydney, rshirned'to' Wellington by the Moeroki yesterday. Mr Bennett speaks in high £erms of tho hospitality accorded him wmle } ;in, City of the South." > After twenty-eight years' service as engineer to the Chmtchurch Drainage Board, Mr E. Cuthbert leaves No-ft Zealand in MoTch next nn six months' leuve of absence in the Home Country. When Mr. Cuthbert took up his present position tho board had thirty-threo miles of sewers and nine miles of storm-water sowers At tho present time there miles of sewers laid, thirteen miles aro Tinder construction and fifteen miles in courso of preparation, while there is a length of fifteen and a half i miles -of storm-water sewers, besides many miles of j storm-water phannel6 The sewage , farm at Bromley, -with its extensive system of 'septic tanks, has been, instituted during Mr. i Cnthbeit's period of office. r Mr. F. C. H]orring returned to Wellington by i the express train yesterday from Auckland. 'Mr. Horatio Nelson (of Nelson, Moato and ' Co r .), who has been visiting Colombo, returned to, Wellington yesterday by the Moeraki. Auckland City-Jost nn interesting personality by the death on Saturday last of Mr. J. M. M Lachlan, His father was connected with one of Auckland's earliest banking establishments. Tho family (states the *' Herald '!) arrived by the ship Brilliant, and for some years past Mr. J, M,.M'Lacblan had presented the oldest survivor of the voyage tuth the, sum of £i on tho anniversary of her nirival, (October 10), and before his death expressed a wish that theso payments should bo continued,—Press Association. Tbn Rev. Dean" Lightheart, of Eotorua, has been re-elected for a further term of office (four years) as Superior of the St. Joseph's Mission to J,ow Zealand.' Dean'Lightheart has held this position for the past 15 j ears, having cpme from America, where ho was working among ti\o negroes, to tako up work among the Maoris. Under h|a guidance (savs the ''Hot Lakes Chronicle ) the mission hai developed to a comprehensive scalo, and from three pneste under .his charge he now has nearly' a score, Tilth tho addition of four coiueuts and over a dozen sisters of St. Joseph. • Tho members of tho Anderson Dramatic Compajiyamved from Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday, Mr. Harry Hoby, eon of Mr. Arthur Hobv, who wont Homo to study medicine some lime . ago, .has been appointed student demonstrator in anatomy at Guj's Hospital. His was ono of two such appointments Lieut-Colonel Robert Hughes (Commandant), and Uptein ty, g j v - 1Ilg) Captain Harper, Lieut Ha-fvthorne, Lieut, Duncan, Col-Seigt Hadheld. and Riflomen Fianklin and Marenzi, of-the New Zealand Representative Rifle Team which competed at the Commonwealth Kifld Meitmg at Randwiek Range, Sydney, recently, returned by tho Moeraki yesterday. -..I^ 1, '„ JamC5 < Corporal Patrick, Corporal MUnnoll, and Rifleman Masefield, members of the: iNew Zealand Rifle Team, have gone on to Melbourne, to compote at tho Victorian Hide Meeting. '