PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 765, 14 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

A Press Association message from Napier states that the Prime Minister. armed in that district on Saturday night from the north by motor-car, and left yesterday morning for Wairarapa, en route to Wellington. The Hon. D. Buddo, who has been on a visit to Auckland and Cambridge, returned to town on Saturday evening. Mr. T. M. Wilfard, M.P., deferitelj announced, on Saturday,, that he will be a candidate for the city mayoralty. Mr. J, T. Hogan, M.P., was among the passengers from Lyttelton by the Maori yesterday morning, - Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, 13 a passenger by the P.; and 0. 6teamer Mongolia, which left Sydney for Ancfc land on Saturday. . , Mr. Donald Ikid, stock and etetioa agent, of Donedin, is proceeding through to Napier by the Hanroto. , : ' Mr. D. AI"Killop, late bandmaster of the Federal Band, and well known in band circles throughout the Dominion, died at the Gisborne Hospital, on Saturday night. l —Press, Association. ... ..•., ;.. Mr.' John C. Brechin, a very old resident of Wariganui, celebrated his 88th birthday on Saturday, and as a pleasant incident to the occasion,: he received the congratulations of the Sunday School children whose picnic he attended.—Press Association. ' ; Mr. Louis Cohen, the well-known Wangantri solicitor, who is leaving on: a ( trip to England on Tuesday,.was the recipient of a travelling rug from the members of the Wanganui Bowling dub on Saturday afternoon as "a mark of the esteem in which he- is' held by ■ the ' members. Eulogistic speeches were made, Mr. Cohen replying in a few appropriate remarks. In; the evening some members of the Cominer" , cial Travellers' Club also made a presentation to Mr. Cohen, this presentation taking the shape of a bowl bag. '; Mr. Cohen anticipates! being absent from Wanganni some ten months and will rutuot via America, where he hopes to get Wγ, , Carnegie interested in his proposal for the establishment of a conssrvatorrnm 0? music .in the Dominion. . . . >■'■■' Mr. Justice Williams will arrrra in Wellington from the south on r Wedne* ■ day morning. ' , Mr. W. G. Evans, Dominion advocaia for the Amalgamated Society, of Railway Servants, has returned to Petone, after: a fortnight of organising work in Auck-' land. A' deputation is to wait upon Mr, Evans shortly to ask him to contest the Hurt seat, at the next general election.It is , understood that Mr. Evans'will accede to the request. , Sergeani Bernard, who has been in charge of the Hawera police dietrict for nearly 11 years, will retire from the ■ force under the ago limit at the end of March. .. ■' ' ; ■ . . . . , Mr. A. C. Fleming, of Dnnedin, who has been studying : . medicine at ' Otago Uuivorsity, proceeds Home by the Tairiui this month to continue hi course at Edinburgh University. ; The funeral of the' late Mr..Charles T. Mitchinson, who died from the effects of a bathing accident -at Paremata, took place yesterday, the interment: takinj : place in the Anglican section of the Ka* rori Cemeterj'. Among ■ the mourneri present were a large number of those who had been associated with deceased in football and other: athletic 6ports. ~ Thfl-, Poneke Football Club, of which he was' a member, wa.3 represented by several of its officials, and the Wellington Eugby. Union, by Messrs.' J. Burns and J. "■ Sweeney. The pall-bearers were Messrs. F.; Roberts, F. Brace, W. Wallace, Dennehy, Calcinai, and J. Sweeney. ; • Mr. L. W. J.; Morton, assistant town clerk,aid. ( accountant in the Invercargill Corporation, has resigned his position on account of ill-health. He will probably take up fniit-growing. in Hawke's Bay,