PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. His Excellency the Governor (Lord Islington) has, accepted the position of patron of the recently -formed South African Campaigners' Association of Wairarapa. The intimation of the acceptance of the position has been received with much satisfaction (says otir local correspondent). His' Excellency , was, at one stage of the Boer War, Chief-of-Staff to Lord Methuen, and not a few members of the Waira> rapa Association were. connected wiln the same column. His Excellency Lord Islington has consented to become patron of the Wellington Boys' Institute. - - Mr. Howard Hadley has been appointed by the Associated Board of the R.A.M. and R.C.M., London, to eon : .duct the. practical examinations in New Zealand this year, and he. should reach Wellington early in October. Arriving at Auckland in August, Mr. Hadley will probably remain in the' Dominion for nearly four months, as there are some 2000 candidates to bp examined. This will bo his first visit to New Zealand. Mr. David White, who has been em; ployed at the Gear Company, Petone, on the engineering staif, for the last six years, was yesterday afternoon made the recipient of a handsome gentleman's companion, the gift of his fellow employees. Mr. White, who holds a third-class engineer's certificate, is about'to sail for England,'. where he intends to,further pursue his studies. Mr. W. Johnston, who was a member of the "All Black" amateur team that toured England a few years ago, left for England yesterday by the Arawa. Mr. Jonnston expects to sign oh for \Vigan for the next two years, and will have- for- a clubmato his old friend, Mr. C. Seeling. ' William flarward, the Victorian centenarian who' died on July S at the great age of tO/, was born in .Dublin in 16U3. Jle joined the British Navy when he was only 11 years old, and qn board a cruiser in the English Channel witnessed the sailing past of tfie ships taking- home the English troops that had been, engaged in Waterloo and other campaigns. Harvard arrived in Australia in 1842, and was one of the smv vey party engaged in defining the boundaries between Port Phillip and New South Wales prior to separation, m 1851. Ho also assisted m the layingout of the principal streets of Melbourne. He had frequent encountors with blacks, and his body bore many spear-marks. The Ellwood trio—Harry, George, and Polly—the clever instrumentalists whose recitals in Wellington created such genuine enthusiasm, left for London on route to Vienna by the Arawa- yesterday. Mr. Ellwood came up from Christchurch to see his children off, and there were present on the wharf the Rev. Father Hickson, Mrs. Prouse, Mr. Hugo. Gorlitz, the Messrs. Prouse, and others to bid farewell to the young aspirants for musical fame. Mrs. Prouse entertained the- Ell woods at "Cricklewood-' on Thursday oveniug. Among the passengers to arrive from Sydney yesterday wore a number of agricultural machinery esperts on the staif of Messrs. Nicholson and Morrow, of Melbourne. Tlioy left for Buenos Ayros yesterday by the Arawa, where thev will bo employed in connection with the firm's business in the Argentine. During an interval in the proceedings at the social function of the Post and Telegraph Association last night, Mr. C. S. Plank was made the recipient of a handsomo present of books, as a mark of appreciation of his. pastservices as secretary of the association., , Entries for the test cyole race, whicli is to be held at Trentham Racecoursß on Saturday, July 80, close with the secretary on Tuesday, Jnly 26.. The race is to select a Wellington representative tn ride in the Timaru to Christohurch road race- ', '