PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 891, 10 August 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Prime' Minister (Sir J. G. Ward) arrives from the south this morning.

Tho Hon. J. A. Millar arrived in Cbristehurch from the north yesterday morning, and r.'a« Minister in attendance on the Governor yesterday. He goes south to-day, returning hero on i'riday.—Press Association. At tho Supreme Court •' yesterday morning, Mr; Mark Salek was. admitted as a solicitor on the application of Mr. 0. Beere. Mr. A. Saunders, of tho Melbourne office of the Tourist arid Industries Division of the Agricultural Department, is being transferred to Wellington. The death is announced of Mrs. Catherine Letitia Heaphy, widow of the late Major Heaphy, and eldest daughter of the late Rev. J. V. Churton, -vi.A., LL.D. The deceased lady arrived in Auckland in the year 1840, and 11 years later was married, travelling with her husband over the greater part of New Zealand, often under great hardship and in imminent danger from hostile Jiaoris. Mrs. Heaphy was with her husband, then an officer of the first volunteer corps, at St. John's redoubt. In 1864 Major Heaphy was awarded the Victoria Cross for numerous acts of conspicuous bravery and valour, ihe first occasion on which tho V.C. was ever presented ou* of the regular British Army, and this prized record of her husband's gallant conduct has been bequeathed by Mrs. Heaphy to the Auckland Art Gallery. She was at all times a valuable helpmeet to her husband in his various duties as M.H.R. for Parnell, Commissioner of Native Reserves, and Judge of the Native Land Court successively. Mr. Kayll, the prisons expert recently ' appointed by the Government, was referred to by Dr.. Findlay in tho Legislative Council yesterday as being "not only enthusiastio in his prisons work, but one of the best - instructed criminologists among modern workers in that field." Our. Masterton correspondent states that Mr. A. E. Praguell has severed his connection with the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative' Association./ with which he has been identified for some years, in order to begin business. on his own account as a timber merchant. On Saturday night he was presented by the staff of the W.F.C.A. with a mark of their appreciation. Mr/ Joha Fuller, juii., leaves for Palmerston North and Wanganui this morn ing. After visiting* other inland towns in connection with a scheme to establish combined picture halls and skating rinks in each, Mr.' Fuller will proceed to Auckland, where the firm's new theatre is rapidly approaching completion. • Yesterday morning Messrs. P. Hally (Conciliation Commissioner) and "W. Pryor (secretary of the Employers' Federation) left for Palmerston North to attend a sitting of the Council of Conciliation, which sits to-day to deal with the creamery, cheese, and butter workers' dispute. .

Mr. Horace Cramond, local manager for Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son,, is suffering from an'attack of quinsy.

Mr. M. A.'Carr, who is relinquishing his interest in Buchanan C 0.,,' ljtd., in .order, to unter business on his own account, Jeft Auckland on Monday for Sydney per Wimmera for a short holiday. On his return to New Zealand, Wellington , will be his future headquarters. ■ '