PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 705, 3 January 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Hon. Dr. Findlay is the only Cabinet Minister in Wc.llihgtoli this: morning. The.Priiile : Minister is ::ht:lhverdargill; tho • Hon . J: Carroll at Bulls, the Hoii. J.' A. : . Millar and 1 - tho. .Hon: G. .FowldS at Auckland;: the'Hon-.''R'. M'Keiii zie. at Gr^ylnouth,; the ;:Hon;;■ D.;-Buddo;at Eangibra, the'Hon. ; .T. Mackenzie;.atvDuWedin; ;S.n<T the Hon. A. T. 'Ngaia'atPort Aivanui. Diiiinie retired',.froii'.tupvpbsi-, •tjon ■ .'of, ,:Commissibrier' of;; PbUiDa= l .p4;V-I' , rf-' ■ The funeral •of -Mr.P; bkerrett; father of C; P. Skerrett, K.C., oi ton, took : : place; yesterday. hioming. lief fore tho . cortege left, for tho. Knrori Cemetery -'tt; service was held :at -, the Basilica, ; Hill 'Street.' '/rhe.<}EeW; Father liicksbn: ; bfficiated .'-at','tho'i graveside,' /,>; ■ Mr. J. B. Heywood, 1.5.0.; Assistant-'.-Auditoi'-Goiieral,; ■ who:iisV retiring : fro'iii; the Civil 'Ser.vice,-intends to leave on. a. trip to England in March next.- • Mr, •H. K. Billing, solicitor; of Inglewood, is at present spending a holiday,; in : i Wellington. ; y : v-W s v Tho Hon. D, Buddo will: remain in Can-' terbury';; throughout I,'the ' present '.'.week,spending, the' time as a. holiday;. Tlie Eov. Dr.Gibb, who has been: at l^^liUttrton-/attendiiisV.tli^ViSamiiipi:/sC!Oi*ferr' j- • Class ihortyboliday'.at;Jlo4irtt^ :At' the" annual conference -of the. ,N.orth : - : :;eri^ : .'Djyia6n'S4f'::.tK6 : \T6qng-*MiWHiipirtirr i held at, Auckland last, week,, the.'following officers ...ltereelected;:7-Pre«deht,vjDrl- T i'o Rangihiroa, \VM;P,; ./ivice-preoidents,;' Rev; l H.' : :A.',HawkiusV(pubii6 health),'"Mr. 1 1.G.-G.- Paul: Undus try),'; the ,-ReV;- J. Sitnmonds (education),' Dr. Te'Eaiigihifba; (anthropology ;, and: ethnology); 'the,: vEcyi-. i P.' 1 A: ;• Ben'nttt, (social problem's),;-the 'Bey, ■ I J.".T^M'Williani'(religion);treasurer;';Miv Ai i Wilson Mr.: assistant-secretary, Mr.' 1., To Taij executive 6olilhlitt6e,.Mr.;A : ..Leaf,iMr; ' raki, tho Eev, 11. A;':, Hftwkißs,': tho ' Eev.'. •1. T. William,. Mr. -11. M.- Nuku,. and the Roy. W.-'Gittcs.S'' • : : ' . ;::'lt; ; is:somewhat ; bf; : a ; :c6incidonce;that:it. .■Wasl.lonvJanuary.v-lSj.'i'sixt'eeri;..years :, ago, that : Archdeacon;. AyerUlv.left' England to tako.up.hi3 duties at .St. Michael's,"/and it seems •. probablo that, he will leave Christchuroh;'bn i'Jnnuary',l2 ithis''year,to take:v,up ':his; new : duties an': .the diocese .of AYaiapu.'^W:!;'^^ < -.The "W. Walker.'F.H.'A.S., vicar of ; Ellerslie ;h'as, received! infbi'inatioli- from London': to; the effect- that lie' has been;. electeda Fellow ■of, the' Royal.Astronomical" &ciely/--:'-MrY :Walker, who' has..been ,;aMeinbertof; the' i ■British Mine years, went to Flint Island with, tho 'Anglo-Australasian expedition •in connection with, the total solar eclipse, which ■took place on January 3, 1903.z',-V;' 1 Tho Eev. Joseph 'Blight, i formorly : of the Waimato.and Toinuka Methodist; oirctiilS, now in charge of . the Thames Church, will, under medical advice,. retire ;te;npbrarily' from,: the r active':, work;of. the ministry at i the ensuing conference; in Dunedin. Mr._ Blight has given,twenty-; ono years to ministerial, service,' and a,; wide' cirole' of, friends '.is:, .hopeful that, as tho , : resiilt; of: twelve months' retire-: niont ,aiid"a: dbuntry life,' he may be able to re-enter the active ranks in which he has laboured for so many years with 'great acceptances . Th'e : Rbv. 7rhoma6 'Feo, president of tho Methodist . Conference, has given'fnotiM: .that'he 'Avill : apjily. for : p'er^ mission torest ftorn active , work' during' the .'year 1911. Mr, Feb-'will then have given ' thirty-threo years Vto::' ministerial .'\yp'irkil'in^uding.U^eoial :: -abtiTities. : 'in'':tlie.' cause of : temperance reform.. Mr, Fee's : genial-;.'disposition,' brotherly.^spirit;and; ilrish.hnt haye:' liiin to: : his brethreh;;in the. tb : the congregations 'to.;)vhioh he. hds mrnisterid: ■in : various; parts of '--the'--Dominion, and' ; tho members of the :synod: have agreed, to' support. his: application.. whan' it.:is; made'; to the annual • conference —Chrietchurch' "•Press." • Jtr.. C. 'f. Richardson, an old and much-respccted : resident" of Wellington, passed .away. at., his';!' residence,; Upland Koad, ."Kelkimej:." on f Saturday morning.' Three' months ago he had a severe,.-at--tiibk ofi'bronbhitis;: from' never perfectly recovered. - The deceased, .was the eldest son 'of ilfr/: Geo'rgei Richardson; of, Croydon, ■ Surrey, England, and came out- to relatives in Sydney sixty years ago, < A few years, later be., came: to. Wellington, and managed ".the business .of his'.uncle,': Mr'.: G eorgo; Moore, for screral:y'earSi On the sale of tlie. business : lie retired frOmVactivo commercial affairs.for twenty years," : and 1 he . then became.' man--dging director of the Wellington Trust, and v Loan;; Company,.', whicli position he had held for: 15 years, until his resigna-, tiou on Docembcr 31. Tho deceased was" : a tnlm; of..a.strictly upi'ight: and honourable nature, and courteous to all—a line representative, o.f :• that old band of colonists v. fast 'passing . away. " Ho was 'the lust of tho original guarantors . for St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, and tho oldest parishioner of the Church. His wife (nee Miss Charlotte Nicholas) predeceased- him four years ago. There are live surviving children—Mr; C. T\ Richardson ("Wailawhiti," llasterton), Mrs. John G. Howell (San Fraackco), Sire. G. '» Guy Powlci!; Jliss . E;: M. , Richardson, and. Sir. W. It. Richardson (Wellington). The interment (to take place to-day) will be private. . , r:J < According to, tho • "Church. News," Bishop: Wiisoiii' of Melanesia, 1 on account of his health, recently' sent ill his resignation to* tho Primate,' but. : becausb,; of.itho uiianinious wish both of. the English committee and the members of the Mission at Norfolk Island;, he; has withdrawn-the resignation and is determined to carry 011 his. arduous work, for a while, longer, It is now fifteen years since Bishop Wilson v,-as consecrated. to the Island, diocese, and: the tropical climate is • apt to tell , upon tho strongist constitution in that period, v