PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 978, 19 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

• The Chief 'Justice, Sir Robert Stout, leaves on. Monday . week for Nelson, ' wjiefe the, Supiome .Court sessions are to be opened on November 30. Tho Chief Justice will also preside over the Court at Blenheim, where it opens on December 7.' Sir Maurice O'Rorke, M.L.C., Auckland, has received-notification of his election as a vice-president of' the. Historical Society of Dublin, which has been in existence, since 1746'.. The appointment is a considerable distinction, there being no other colonial vicepresidents. The president of'the' society is Lord Ashbourne, and tho vice-presi-dents include many distinguished personages in Ireland. ', Mr. J. A; Young, Mayor of Hamilton, is in town on business connected with'the affairs of that borough. Mr. Geo. W, Adair, late boys' work director' of ' the Wellington Y.M.C.A., has been appointed hon. secretary of the Auckland Y.M.C.A. Boys' Department. . Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of'the New Zealand Employers' Federation, instructed by tho Parliamentary Committee of the federation, has written to the Hon. R. M'Kenzie, Minister for Public Works, stating that the federation is strongly opposed to'.tta inclusion o5 any provi- 1 sioiis for the sotting up of Appeal Boards in the Tramway Bill. Tho fed- 1 eration has previously informed the I Minister of the reasons for its opposition, and -.t' now states that the proposal to appoint stipendiary magistrates as chairmen still further strengthens the objections held. The federation therefore .hopes that the Minister will see his .way. to support any proposal that may be made for the purpose of deleting the provisions objected to. A copy of this letter has also been forwarded to the' Prime Minister. Among the passengers to arrive from England by the Ruapehu yesterday wero Mr. A. S. Kompthor.no, of Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. T. J, Maling, of Nelson, and Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Guthrie-Smith, of Hawkc's Bay. Mr. J. M. 1 Clark, the well-known elocutionist, left for Auckland yesterday to judge the elocutionary section of tho. Auckland competitions. The funeral of Mr.- George Gray, late Accountant and Controller of the Post and Telegraph Department, takes place this morning. The funeral will leave his late residence, 105 Brougham Street at .9 a.m., for the KarOri Cemetery. Mr. F. Pearson, the English cricketer, whp has been engaged as ooach by the Auckland Cricket Association, arrived from London by the Ruapehu yesterday. Mr. Stephen Jacka, a resident :of Wellington for over fifty years, died at his residence, Hanover Street, Wadestoivn, on Thursday afternoon. He-was sitting in a chair when he suddenly' fell forward and expired. The deceased, .who was 83 years of ago, was born iu Cornwall. He,was a builder by trade,' and for years conducted a business in Courtenay Place. His wife died about two years ago, leaving a family of threo sons (Messrs. Arthur aud Harry Jacka, of Wellington, aud Mr. Thomas Jacka, of Auckland), and two daushters (Mesdamos Judd and Kow). The late Mr. Jacka was ono of the earliest niombers of the City Council. • Mr., CalJaghan, of the Tfmaru Post Office staff, is spending a . holiday in Wellington. . ' Mr. S. J. Flewellyn, proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Auckland, is a visitor to Wellington. Mr. A. F. York, of Lower Hutt, late of Messrs. Barraud, York and Co., lias been appointed auctioneer to the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co., Ltd. Mr. Law Atkinson, an old resident of Newman, Forty Mile Bush, but who has resided in Mastcrton for. two or threo years, died yesterday afternoon (says our local correspondent), at the ago of sovcnty-onc. .Deceased was a nativo of Leeds, Yorkshire,, and came to the Dominion in 1888. Ho leaves a family of two sons and ono daughter.