PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

•. On severing liis connection vrith. tlie local staff of- • Sargood, .Son, and Ewen, : Mr. - J. : A: > Guthrie,- late .cashier, was presented ,by Mr.: T.; L'.'Austin) on behalf ■ of the staff, With a .silver biscuit barrel and'. teapot,'-as Evidence?'of,-, theesteem iri which hcis held. -Mr.Gufchrie leaves for Sydney • to-day, en! route -for South Africa.' / v • ■' ■■ ■ ■: At- a meeting :of the Hawke's Bay Presbytery yesterday it-was unanimously decided to nominate, the Rev. P. B. Fraser.'o'f Lovell'a Plat, as Moderator of the next. General. Assembly.rPi'ess . Association. , Mr. P. J. Sheridan has 'been appointed an inspector under, the Slaughtering and Inspection Act. ''. Mr. W. G. Taylor, M.R.C.V.5.," has been appointed a Government veterinarian. : r y'•,,■ Mr. Frank Williams has been appointed\ Registrar of Bittlis/Deaths and Marriages for the. . Palmerston - district. Deputy-registrars have, been appointed, as. followGreytown, Mr. G. S. Fuller; Huntly, Mr. A. W. P..Hewitt; Kaikoura, Mr. I'. A. Young.. v Mr. G. G. Bell has. been appointed . ,ai cadet .in the Supreme Court in Welling-; ton. Mr. N..3: Adatnson has been apr pointed .to a similar, position., in the Agricultural' Department. '• V v A Westport Press Association; telegram, states that. Mr. James .Fletcher-is 'ma•jug his connection with the Mines Department as manager of the. Seddonville state Colliery, to take over the management' of the Huntly collieries, belonging WtheTaupiri-Company, Auckland.... Mr. A. H. Hollis Mr.' A. H. Andrews will shortly .be gazetted to subaltern appointments on the. staff of. tho No. 2 Company, G.A.V.; (Petone Navals). . . ' At the .Wellington • Garrison. Non-Com-missioned Officers'. Club, last .evening,; .a euchre party and presentation of prizes took place. A valuable trophy, in .the form of a silver-bound oak tray, and tea service, was presented to' the_ club 'for, a billiard tournament by-Mr. P. Robert, of Palmerston North. , .After a very; keen contest the winner turned up in Quarter? Master-Sergeant Smyth. ' The , winner/of the eu'ehro prize was Sergeant Hugo, and the winner ,of the booby pnzo was "Sergeant Barcham. . . Among the passengers by the Monowai, which arrives to-day from Napier, are. Canon Tuppor-Carey, Canon H.. V. Stuart, and the Rev. A. B. Lillingston, who are to . take i part in. .the . Anglican General . Mission in Wellington. -/., " Mr. Justice Williams 36 .; a,passenger, by the Maori from the south ,this morn-; ing. "] ' .' \ i The kiigh Ward Comedy Company arrived here from the Wairajapa yesterday, and' will leave for' Sydney' by the Moeraki to-day. The company return to New; Zealand in March next; ■,;