PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, leaves to-day for Wanganiii. Ho will spend to-morrow at Mouniahaki. On Wednesday ' evening Mr; Mackenzie proceeds to New Plymouth, where he will attend the local A. and P. show on Thursday. IF time permits, Mr. JlacIwnzia will ascend Mount EEmont.

Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commis sioueri left for Auckland yesterday to hear a number of disputes which Mr. Harle Giles, Auckland Commissioner, is unable to hear through indisposition.

Private advice has been received iu Wellington that Mr. M. K. Litchfield, son of Mr. B. M. Litchfield, chief auditor of tho Bank of New Zealand, has obtained honours in taking the degree of D.D.S. of the University. of Pennsylvania. Mr. Litchfield will now leave for Englaud to study British dental methods.

. Colonel A. W. Kobin, C.8., chief of the general staff, accompanied the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, as far as Palmerston yesterday. , He is expected back in' Wellington to-day.

Colour-Sergeant E. Evatt, of the Collego. Rifles, has boon promoted to commissioned rank, with the appointment of acting-lieutenant on the staff of tho Wellington Guards.

Mr. W. Coffey, who underwent an operation recently, is still in a serious condition.

Captain G. W. Bignell, who has been harbourmaster at Hokitika since 18S6, died on Sunday night, after a protracted illness. He was also secretary to the Hokitika Harbour Board, and was widelyknown, having been a colonist for over fifty years. He was at ono time cap-, tain of the tug Titan, and afterwards of the steamer Wni para .—Press Association.

A largely-attended meeting 0f... St. Andrew's Church, Palmerston, last night decided on giving a unanimous call to the Kev. E. Doull, of Otahuhu, Auckland.—Press Association.

Mrs. Johanna Flockton, wife of Mr. H. Flocktoni died on Sunday, June 5, at Cambridge Avenue. Mrs. Flockton was born in 1829 at Paisley, Scotland, and when a young woman went to reside in Yorkshire, where she married Mr. Bedford, who died leaving one son, Mr. F. Bedford, of this city. Later, deceased married Mr. H. Flockton, who for many years carried on business in Manners Street. Mrs. Flockton is survived by her husband and two sons, Mr. F. Bedford and Mr. J. 11. Flockton.

Mrs. George Cook, an old resident of Wellington, died at Hataitai on Sunday night. She arrived in Wellington with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Teal, by the sailing ship Oliver Lang, 42 years ago, and remained here with .her" two brothers when her father and mother returned to England. Mrs. Cook) loaves eleven grown-up sons and daughters, among whom are Messrs. Cook Bros., builders, and Messrs. Cook Bros., boot manufacturers, of Wellington, Mrs. Kennedy, or Hataitai, Mrs. Johnston, Mrs. Barton, and Mrs. George Frost, of Brooklyn, and Miss Jessie Cook, her youngest daughter.