PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Railways, visits Foilding , early next week in accordance with a promise made to the Chamber of Commerce there recently. ' . The Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for Edu« catioc, left for Christchurch (trid Dunedin ' last night on Departmental business. Ho intends to 6pend the. week-end at Mount Cook. On Friday the 11th- ho is to open the new out-patients' branch and dispensary in connection with the Dunedin hospital. ■" . . The Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Internal Affairs, leaves to-morrow night for Christchurch, where Departmental business will occupy him two or threo days. The non. Dr. Findlay will accompany His Excellency the Governor on the occasion of his visit to Napier to-morrow. Whilst at Napier Dr. Findlay will also deal with a number of Departmental matters. It is understood that Dr. Borghetti will bo a candidate for the new Wellington Hospital Board, as constituted under the Act of last year. The election takes place next month. Dr. Borghetti had experience of hospital administration as superintendent of a large hospital before he came to Wellington. Mr. Vernon B. Willis, who wa? for 6ome time managing clerk in the legal office of Mr. J. J.. M'Urath, has btcii taken into partnership by Mr. M'Grath. The firm will now carry on business undez the name of M'Grath and Willis. ■ ' . ..

Among the visi'.< rs to 'Wellington, at present is Mr. Albert E. Nash, general manager in Australasia for Messrs. Walker and Hall, the famous Sheffield firm - of manufacturers. Mr. Nash, who is located in Sydney, is a big figure in athletic circles on "the other side." He if chairman of the New South Wales Bowing Association, president of the . Australian Football Association (Australian game) in Sydney, and is vice-president of the Australian Football Council. He is also a director of the Australian Sports Club, Sydney, and is a member of the Zoological Society of New South Wales. Indeed, Mr. Nash states that he_ is connected with so many sports bodies that he forgets half of them. He is in New Zealand to inspect the Walker and Hall agencies and to reorganise ■ the - centve staffs. Mr. J. F. Atkins, late of Sydnoy, has been appointed manager.of the Wei-. lington branch, arid has already assumed his new duties. . : • Mr. Jordan, of the Christchurch branch of the Audit Department,: is at present paying Wellington a visit.. ' . Mr. W. Pryor, secretary to the . New Zealand Employers' Federation, has returned from a holiday spent at Botorua, He will leave for Palmerstqn <North. on Monday iri connection with the flaimillers' dispute, which is to' come before the Arbitration Court there next week. Colonel B. J. Collins, ex-Secretary to the Treasury, who succeeds Mr. J. X Warburton as Controller and AuditorGeneral, assumes his new duties to-day, Couut Bismarck of Carlsburg, Germany, who is making a tour of New Zealand, will visit Wellington this week. He is a relative of the famous Chancellor. The death is recorded of Mr. Jamcj Dunn, of the firm of Messrs. Bethune and Hunter, and a very old resident of Wellington, who passed away at his residence, Wallace: Street, on.. Sunday night Heart disease was the cause of death Deceased, who was born in Perthshire in 1836, gained a good grounding in commerce in Glasgow, London, and Burton-on-Trent, and came to 'Melbourne in 1862, arriving in Wellington the next year. He was appointed to the position of ac- , countant to the pioneer firm of Bethune and Hunter, of Customhouse Quay (the old office still stands on its original site). He led a quiet .retired -life, and never took any part in public affairs. His wife a Miss M'Menamin, of Terawhitv died about twelve years ago. He leaves two children, Mr. A. Dunn, barrister and solicitor, and Miss Janet Dunn. -Mr 1 , . H.'g. Galvin, accountant to Dalgety and Co., at Henheim, has been transferred to the hea.V off.ee at Wellington.' -Before, leaving 'Blenheim he ms handed a .memento of esteem ■ by the. members of the Blenheim .Bowing Club, of which, he was captain and actingsecretary.- ■•, ■.-.•■!- •■■■■•:■■.■ '-; ■-"

Captain O'Sullivan, director of military stores, was taken by surprise on Sunday morning, when he was presented vrith a case of pipes by the Nelson and Harlbovough Cadets. The, P"**** tion was made, said Captain Majes, to mark the appreciation of the ooys for all Captain O'Sullivan had; done in providing • them with such comfortable alters at the drillshed. ' .... . •■,-., The death is announced of Mr. Eichard E. M'Eae.of Hawera, aged64.Do- , ceased was born in Nelson, and resided in South Taranaki for thirty-five years. Eβ was well-known as a judge of horses, and formerly owned of racehorses and thoroughbred stallions.-Press Association.. , Our Feilding correspondent states that the funeral ofthe late Mr Owen Heasante, of Halcombe, took place yesterday with military, honours. . . . Amongst the passengers for. Wellington by the Main Trunk express yesterday were Mr. P. Goyen, Chief Inspector oi Schools in Otago, and Mr. . Commissioner for Crown Lands for tho. Wellington district. . Mr Hugh Davy Densham, of Chelten-. ham, died on Sunday, at his residence, and word of the event .vas received witli. greit sorrow, by. a wide circle of mends in the Cheltenhiim, , Y/aituna, Coljton, Kimbolton, aiul-Fe.Udiug districts.. The late Mr. Densbain was one of the Pioneer, settlers of the Eewa district, in-which he . commenced farming many years before settling at Cheltenham, where he had re-, sided about two years.' He was in his sixty-sacond year. Mrs. Densham, wno is a sister of Mr. Justico Edwards, survives her husband. Before becoming a farmer Mr Densham was a school teacher at Colyton, and he was, when a young man, a member of the teaching staff of the Boys' High School, Dunedm. Mr. Graham,' formerly ' S.M.. • cf. Duncdin, will temporarily fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Turton, SM Wairarnpa, who.is entering upon private practice as' a barrister and solicitor. .■'■■• In response to an invitation co deliver a political address at Whangarei, the Hon. Dr. Fhullay has written espressm' his willingness to accede, to.the,request , if, later, his Ministerial duties will permit him to do so.