PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. J. M. Bell, Director of Geological Survey, returned from a visit to Australia" yesterday by tho Euapehu. He has been attending the annual conference of the Australasian Institute of limine; Engineers hold at Jit. Morgan. The Hon. L. Curtis, who was formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly of Cape Colonv, arrived in Wellington by the Kuauehii yesterday. llr. Curtis will remain fn Wellington about a fortnight, and will then pay a visit to Auckland. Ho is interested in observing tho legislation and conditions of the Dominion. Mr. J. 11. Owen, general manager for Sharland and Co., returned from a visit to Sydney by the lloeraki yesterday. Mr. T. Shailcr "Weston, of tho legal firm of Izard and Weston, was a passenger by the lloeraki from Sydney yesterday. Lieutenant Stevens, lalo of the Royal .Field Artillery, has been appointed stuffofficer to Major T. W. il'Donald, Commandant of the Junior Cudets. It is expected that a number of officers will shortly be appointed in connection with (he cadet forces. These appointments will be quite distinct from the appointments of nreu officers under Lo\l kitchener's scheme. tho Euapehn .vestordfl.v'was Major 0. A. Scott, of the "Welsh Borderers, who comes on a visit to the Dominion. Sir. it. S. King, electrical engineer, formerly of the stall' of Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, arrived from England by the Euapehu yesterday. Mr. Frank Hume, of Wellington, arrived back from a visit to England by the Euapehu yesterday. Mr. II E. Temple, who lias come out from England under engagement to the Christ church Gas Company, arrived Indie Euapehu yesterday. Mr. A. Tlindlo Smith, of Duncdin, who has been in England for some years, returned to New Zealand by tho Euapehu yesterday. Our Carterton correspondent slates that Mr. U. 1!. .Herbert, _ Carterton borough engineer, has re.-igiini the petition, having been appointed engineer to the Patea County Council. On Tuesday ovcuiug the Carterton Council, in accepting the resignation, placed on record its appreciation of 11 r. Herbert's The Eev. Mr. Piper, who arrived from Sydney by tho Moeraki Inst evening, is niiout to undertake missionary work in Tahiti,

Among Hie returning passengers from Australia by the Moeraki yesterday were Mr. Leslie Rutherford, of Canterbury, Mr. Louis Plnrazyu and Ills son, of the Wairurapa, Br. Williams, of Oisborne, and Mr. C. Miranid, of Wellington. The employees in the Painting Depaitment at the Pntono Jiaihvay Workshops last night tendered a "social" to llr. I'. Waddell, who is about to sever fun connection with the service. Mr. T. Brooker presided. During rho proceedings the guest was presented with a handsome oak salad bowl, and salvers, llr. G. Braid mndo the presentation. A private cable message received last night anuouncVl the death, at midday on Tuesday, of tiic Rev. Father Archibald A. MatDouahl, at Cooma, New South Wales. Deceased, who was 30 years of ago, was the eldest son of the late llr. Aloysius Mac Donald, formerly manager of the Bank of New South Wales in Wellington. Born in Victoria, he received the greater portion of his education at Riverview College, Sydney, whence he went to St. Patrick's Seminary, at Manly, New South Wales, to study for the •Church. Ho was ordained towards the end of December, 190R, when he was appointed to the Mcsman Bay Parish, S\\lney. From there he was transferred to Noss-Yale, New South Wales, under the Kev. James Carroll (now Bishop of Lismore). Early in 1900 he was sent to do parish work at Cooma, New South 4 Wales, where he succumbed whilst undergoing an operation for apendicitis. It was only on June 18 that the mother of deceased, Mrs. Ellen Mac Donald, passed away at her son's residence at Levin. Deceased leaves four brothers to mourn his loss, viz., Messrs. Ronald and John MacDonalid, of Levin, and Messrs. Colin and Aloysius Mac Donald, both of "Wellington. The death occurred yesterday at her residence, MTarlane Street, of Mrs. Rentier," widow of tho late Captain F. W. S. Renner, and mother of Mr. Robert Kenner, manager of the Patea Shipping Company. The deceased, -who was widely known and rspected, was 8i years of age.