PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 994, 8 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

During his visit to the Feilding district this week, Lord Islington is making a brief stay at "Highden" (the residence, of the'late Hon. W. W. Johnston) as the guest of Sirs. Johnston.—Press Association. ' ■ The Hon. J. A. Millar left Wellington yesterday morning on a fishing expedition to Taupo, .■ - ' The Hon. Dr. Findlay, \vho is going Home early next year on Government business, expects to leave New Zealand about the beginning of March. Among tho passengers who arrived from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday were Mr. W: D. Lysnar, M.ayor of Gisborne, who has been to London; Sir. J. H. Coleman, of Hawke's Bay; Air. Sydney Johnson, of Hawkc's Bay; Jlv. J. C. Field, of Gisborne; Mr. arid Miss Bleehynden, of Shanghai; Captain Stuart, of the Rifle Brigade, England; Mr. T. Baillie, of Westport; Captain Pennington, of the Kittawa; Mr. Carman, chief engineer of the Eosamond; Lieutenant Colonel Heard; and Mrs. L. Divan, of Wellington. The Ten. Father Bannon, Superior of the, Redemptorist Order; the Rev. F. Lynch, Rector of Waratah, formerly in Dunedin; and the Rev. Fathers O'Farrell and Hunt, urrived'by Hie Manuka from Sydney yesterday. They 'were met by Fathers of tho "order in Wellington. Dr. Henry's Mission party, consisting of .Dr.,- Mrs., and Miss Henry, and Mr. and Mrs. Potts, arrived here by tho New Plymouth express- last evening. They will remain ■ in .Wellington until'to-mor-row, when they' go to Nelson to conduct a mission there. Mr. E.-B. Morris, Inspector of Sayings Banks, returned from a holiday trip to Australia by the Manuka yesterday. Miss F. Grant, tho Wanganui Education Board's copkery instructor for the southern district, has resigned her position to take up the post of cookery instructor at the Dunedin Technical School, to which she was appointed at last meeting of the board of directors. Miss Grant assumes her new duties on February 1. Mr. E. W. G. .Poulton, private secretary to tho Hon. Dr. Findlav, will make the trip to England with the AttorneyGeneral. ' .• A settler of 1811—Mr. Frederick France —died at his residence, Belmont, yesterday morning. Mr. France came out to New Zealand in the ship Lady Nugent, and was for sixteen years associated with the signal-station staff located at Mount Victoria; afterwards he took up farming pursuits in the : Manawatu. Deceased, who leaves a widow and one brother (Mr. Richard France, of Wadestown), has resided at Belmont for ten years. t Mr. David Crewe, of Masterton, _ who leaves in a few days' time on a trip to tho Old Country; has tendered his resignation as a member of tho Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Mrs. T. Dwan, who has been visiting relatives in. South , Africa, arrived here by tho Manuka yesterday. Mr. R. Walker, of the Public Works Department's engineering staff, has been elected an associate,member of tho Institution of Mechanical Engineers. This institution was established in ISM, and. its first president was the celebrated engineer, George StepUensoiii Mr. R. Walker is a New Zealander. Hβ was born in 1871 at Duuedin, and served his apprenticeship to engineering , at the 1 Fetono Railway WorKshoua,