PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 695, 21 December 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., loft. for Auokload ' yesterday (iternoon to 'preside nt sittings of the Novth Island Railway Appeal Board. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. lirown,'of Kyde, Notf Soutli Wales, who liavo just comploted n tour of tho North Island, ale %isitois to Wellington. ' Tho R«v. Father Doylo, of Sydney, who has been assisting in thi> administration of the Ponsonby parish (Auckland) for the past tw* years, is leaving l'or ,Ilomo this nionlh. Mr. B. Ellison, traveller for Messrs. Edward Anderson and Co., has been presented with • a % valuable gift by tho staff of the firm, in yiow of liis approaching marriage. Mr. John Russell Itooton has been elected tho Ilhodcs' scholar for New Soulli Wales for IDIO. His educational course has been n brilliant ono. He was educated nt tho Sydney Grammar School, leaving thai institution .13 captain of the school. He was successful in tho junior nnblio examination of 190J, obtain* ' ing three A's, mid four U's, boini{ marked "proximo accossit" to Uie medallist in both Froncli and Latin. In the senior of 1900 ho - won tho Lithgow- scholarship for French and Gorman, and also passed Iho higher nmlricUlation. Proceeding to tho Unixorsilr. he on. tored St. Andrew's Collese, aud>on the Slrutii" and Gordon (College) scholarsliips, al well as tho open University scholarships, tho Gartoa, 1 and 2, and Litligow, Mr.' Henry Kaihau; for tho" Western Maori district, look his seat in tho Hou&o for tho fii'st tinio this session yoetorday.