PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 664, 15 November 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir Joseph Ward returned from ■ the south 3; : by the Maori yesterday morning. ■'■ ( The Mayor (Dr. A. K. Nowwan) will receivo ■ a deputation at 12.15 to-day of those desirousof according Mr. Will Crooks, M.P., a oivio reception.; . ; The Hon. C. H; Mills left for Blenheim by the Arahura on Saturday afternoon. Our Palmerston North correspondent telegraphed yesterday: r.Sub-Inepcctor 01)onoTan, whuo walking along Broad; Street last night in company with Dr. O'Brien, was suddenly seized with a fainting fit, and fell to the f round..'The sub-inspector was vomiting lood.and was found to bo in a sorious condition. He was'convoyed homo in a cab, and received medical attention. there was no further hemorrhage, and ho is. practically out of danger.;.: ~ The second cremation in Wellington within a week took place on Saturday morning, when the remains of Mr. Percy It. Hutson. of . Sydney,-were cremated. Mr. Hutson was on a visit, to Wellington, when ho bocame ill and died.- ... .v,-;.; The remains of the Into Mr. J. B. Innos wer» interred at the Karbri Cemetery on Saturday morning.' Among tho many at the gravesidp were the sons of the'deceased. Messrs. Alfred Charles, Prank, Henry, and Arthur lnnes, as' ohiof mourners,-Messrs. P. GoJvin and J. B. > Armit, two of Mr.-' Innos's partners in the "Hawera • Star," Mr. W. M. Muir,' whose .father;was co-proprietor with Mr. Thos.' MT&nzio in the "Wellington Independent," and many bthor old friends and formor :■ colleagues, , Mr. Thos, M'Konzie, the : veteran printer, with whom tho deceased worked forty . years', ago, was represented by his sons. Scry oral representatives of Freemasons' lodges (deceased was a P.M. in tho Pacifio Lodge) wore also in attendance to pay their last respects' to the dead. Wreaths and letters of, condolence have been received by members of tho family from all-parts of tho country..The eer- ' viooat the' ; graveside was read, by tho Rc», James, Paterson.]; '^ ■'■■ Mr. W. J. 1 Macdormott. secretary in Auckland; of the ; New Zealand Alliance, has been; an inmate; of the hospital recontly, where he has nndorgone an operation. He is now progressing -favourably.