PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1205, 14 August 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Justice Edwards left for Auckland on Saturday to preside at tho Supreme Court sittings in that city. A Press Association message from Westport states that the funeral of the late Mr. Jonathan Dixon, district manager for tho "Westport Coal Company, tool; place yesterday, and was one of the largest seen in the district, there being present a large representation of miners, members iof local bodies, heads of local Government Departments, and shipping and a large following of the general public. On Saturday, on behalf of the staff of Dalgety and Company's Palmerstou branch, Mr. T. A. Mowlie, the local manager, presented Mr. H. D. Batchelor, who has been transferred to the Auckland branch, with a handsome suit-case. Mr. John Philip Sojisa, the «inisest bandmaster, is accompanied throughout the tour by Mrs. Sousa and tho Misses Sousa (2). The ladies intend to leave on a visit to Rotorua on Friday next. This morning Mr. Juslico Chupmaii will sentence the young man, K. J). 11. Calders, who pleaded guilty in tho Magistrate's Court last week io a, charge of false pretences. Mr. John White, who was some twelve years ago in the employ of Joseph Nathan and Co., and who has been absent from New Zealand for a decade, has returned as world's representative for His Empire Porcelain Company of Stoke-oii-Teut, England. The friends of Mr. W. H. Quirk, of tho legal firm of Quick and Waril, will regret to learn that he is seriously, ill. Mr. R. W. Wilkinson, manager in Wellington for the Neuchntel Asphalt Company, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis, is making a satisfactory recovery j A private telegram received in Wellington on Saturday states that tho condition o£ Mr. Eugene O'Conor, formerly member for Buller in tho House of Representatives, who is in a private hospital at Auckland, shows no improvement.