PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 722, 22 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

';f' ThefPrime.- Minister' .(Sir; Joseph-Ward)' . willUeaye'ioiv.^Hastings,':yia':'Palmerstpn, ■■. . by:;:.therlOLSO. a.m.-'train?;to-day; i ■ ; :,;-V: 1 The,\ J ustice) is-en• route;ifroni-PairlioitovWel-' lington.-;,-The: Eon-'iT; Mackerizio. is : -still' at,Dunedin; ; :TheiHon.! A;;;T;'::Ngatd-is at;;lT^Paroa.<;:iA;.;;yi;;■ 'r± ■ y.y o'-'if of: New bouth-.vWales,: whii.', has-.;bceu; recruiting' his .'health'.at '.Botbruay ■;arrived in ungton,-;last::eyeaing^.:' r ; ;:i% i ,•;•■,; '-■. :."■ '■.■■;■■; y:t Iwho'is , a't-'.tondihg.-ituef-^vgliciin--I'Generni-'Synod> is staying; a;c-:tKe:iGrand ?Hotel.■;. :, : h- " chief: of :the : Saivai bon Arnjy staff for Australia, accompanied by Mrs.'Hay;.reached.'Dunedin yesterday: l morning; and they.;were accorded a - civid' reception ■at the ..Town'HaU.-Press"A6so-~ oiation. ry , :?; 1 .:- -'.:":-«:,-■;•■;:■;:;.,"',.-..:,--■- '■-:•.. ; :'■

FiA* iinteresKng;career,. came' tq"*an :; end : when ;Major> Brobke'-died ■ at his' residence 'in in- the early' part of IJecember. .;...An correspondent of ,the. : '..-Evening: Star'.'.'says, that -he. first' saw-seryice in:the ilaori 1803-64 and:.was-.:twice ;raentipned ;in Vdispatches; ; nn'd- received his brevet of. major - for- his' ■ services.- at.- the' biattlej-of •■ Eangiriri, • where ho;\was; wdunded-jr-He fwas then-Vthd : Toungest .major in the service!'VfHe was : in rthe^Transvaal-at:;the;:timeV'of '- the annexation , : of-that:.'co'untry by-' Sir T ' ,&hepstone;vandv hoistedcthe .British , .flag■ at Pretoria on-that .beccasion. : ' ; ' "-■:;■■ ■•• ,:

r^^S- te Mr. : H,s..ißarron,nbt-being able: to. obtain leave, of,:absence, .the . Star Jipatins,Club,s;semor- crew, : bf-which' he is will;' hot;:be, able.to - V™~: - a .t: on'; crews -:'Tfill..leave,'for Picten to-day : '•

VV. D £- and 'Mrs. Joncs { wfllije ' H*™? : Wellington' on , ' February 25A On tariaa.AgspciationyofiLondon, Dr.- Jones will- deliver • about U twelve on , liberal: I !"? d ., Adelaide. ■Hβ,has.just received an" my^ation,t ? / : occupy,; the'-pulpit- 6f •■' one' of-the •most.iraportnnt Unitarian • churches :in- ; tondon :j (Unity,\Churcli;-I s li n gS, '.supplied byyDrc Dnwes editor:of the."Hibbert , Journal'!^'P'rW fessor,; of :in;i the : University , .of Xor.don::. ; :a}r:v.Jones, ; will-:'attend' y in ■August : :: . the ; vlntornational '], .Congress- of •Liberal i Eeligious;:Thinkers.'and:-W.ork''rs ,in v .]3erlm > ?,and-.)will. l , : ; romT a. *;paper ■■ W _liiberal-:-Eeligioii";Spnth' rot; the' Equator" The:forewell.!;ineetmgt of-thb congregation has; ijMn- arranged , ': for ■Wednesday' even- , ing,;.l' ebruary; -IC, - in>.'the"' Unitarian' Tree jChurch.'v'lngestre^Street.'-v;.:;:'- -■:-■.■;.-. :hv ••■

■•■■ Tho.Eev.- : H;-S.: Woollcombe, travelling -.representative.of.the Church'■;of England Men's Society,': arrived in Dnnedin yester-,dny,-.and.received-acivio;welcome;.: Ho* -will commehoe' his mission in. , New,. Zen-' t land at Dunedin■,on Sunday,:making, a special foature' of 'addresses'.'.to men, and will: afterwards iyisit'l the: -rest: :of Othe ■ Dominion.';':/ ..•'.■/.-'-,':"|,-'V. ; .: f ( '.-■;•'. -.'.•.• --.:: : -. . -jrr/'Edward jbhnXbok, of the teaohing staff' of,-the." Brooklyn , .SohooV, .died at a:priyato hospital /.at; , '- on-early, ..hour ■'■ this morniug...;'-; \>: : ;'r ■■'... '•:■:■■. "••'■'-'V '■':.','■'. ■':. i~/ ■ ;.:;Captain' Newton/, of:thb'viill-fated:stea-.mev, Waikare.vwfts': yesterday .chosen for' the-position-of harbour-master/.at '.New ;I'lymouth, frani', over' thirty, ■"applicants.— Press, -Asspoiation; ;''•.''",.::/■ ■:" -.■.■.'■'" '■'•. :■■'"