PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1199, 7 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The following received invitations to dinner at Government Houso on Saturday, August S:—Archbishop Redwood, Kir Robert Stout, Lady M'J.eau, Colonel and Mrs. Burnett Stewart, Colonel and Miss Robin. Dr. and Mrs. Fitchott, Mr. and Mrs. Salmond, Rev. and Mrs. Johnston, Mr. Turrell, Mrs. and Miss Pearce, Mr. W. H. D. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Biss, Dr. and Mry. Newman. Our Wanganui correspondent slates that Mr. C. E. Ma okay announces himself as a candidate for (he Wanganni Etat at the general election, lie will stand as an Independent Liberal, and lie denies the rumour that he is standing in the interests of the Opposition. Mr. J. .T. M'Grath was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court on Saturday. before the Chief Justice, on the motion of Mr. A. AV. Blair. Senior-Sergeant Mackinuon, of . the Waihi police, was presented on Friday 'night with a purse of fifty sovereigns by the citizens of Wailii, in recognition of his tact and ability in the administration of police matters. The presentation was made by the Mayor, in the presence of a large representative gathering. The sergeant was als.i the recipient of presents from tho police and court officials. Sergeant Mackinuon has been transferred to Auckland central station.—l'rcss Association. Mr. Harry Price, for the last eighteen years chief booking clerk at (lie \Vanganui Railway Station, and who is revering his connection with the Railway Department to enter commercial life, was presented at a largo gathering of railway men 011 Friday with a silver lea and cciVea service as a parting gift from the whole of tho stall' on the Wungaiuii section of the railways. Mr. Thomas Fimieane. for eleven years on the slafi' of Ihe Mi. View am! Poririm Menial Hospitals, and prior lo that a member of the Permanent Artillery and Sehvyu Football Club, died last Thursday alter a short illness. The deceased, who was a son of the late Mr. J. P. Fiuueane, was only 3:1 years of nge.