PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. W. H. Herries, member for Tauranga, was called to Auckland at end of Inst week on account of the illness of his wiff. Ho will return to ■Wellington to-day. , Mr. H. J. Okey, member for Tnranaki, left on a brief visit to Auckland on Saturday. He will return to 'Wellington this afternoon. Brs. Gibbs, Elliott, Walker, and Wylie were'passengers by the Maori from Lyttelton yesterday morning. Sir John Nutting was also a passenger by the same vessel. Major W. M. Doyne, of the 21st Lancers, arrived in Wellington from London on Saturday, for a month's tour of New Zealand. Messrs. E. H. and G. E. Black were pnssragers from London to Wellington by the lonic, which arrived on Saturday. Dr. A. L. Napier M'Lean, M.8., whose death we announced on Saturday, succumbed to consumption. He was'the son of Br. Laehlan M'Lean, of the Indian Army, and arrived in Wellington in 1894, | subsequently proceeding Home to com- [ plcte ins studies at Cambridge and Aberdeen University. He was well known to the local sporting community as a prominent official of the Wellington Boxing Association, and acted for the past few' years in the capacity of referee.' He is survived by a widow (a daughter of Mr. J. AI. Butf, of Wellington Terrace) and two children. An old resident of Timnru, John A. Cowan, draper, who had been in business there for forty years, died on Saturday morning, aged GO years. He was a nephew of Peter Gray, the famous Peter Bend whaler, and a brother of Captain Cowan, who for many years was captain of various Shaw, Savill sailers.—Press Association. Major W. M. Boyne, who is on a visit to New Zealand, was amongst the passengers who arrived on Saturday by the lonic from London. Tho passengers from London by the lonic 011 Saturday included Sergeant T. W. Dollimore and Corporal R. S. Bale, Royal Engineers, who have been engaged as instructors in the New Zealand Befence Force. Mr. Fred. W. Crombie, who is severing his connection with the Now Zealand State Guaranteed Advances Office, was, on Saturday, presented by Mr. J. W. Poyntou, Superintendent, with a gold albert watch-chain, on behalf of his fel-Ibw-oliiccrs, as an expression of goodwill and esteem. Mr. Crombie, who has been in tho Civil Service ten years, has joinof the commercial staff o£ our evening contemporary.

Mr. W. St. G. Douglas, Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, retires from the postal service at the end of March on three months' leave of absence. After having been several years in a -mercantile office, Mr. Douglas entered the accountants' branch of the Telegraph Department, Wellington, as a clerk in March, 1869, Mr. Douglas is thus retiring after fortythree years' service. He can lay claim to two records. He has been an officer in cliarge since he was twenty-one years of age, and during all those years he has never onco been off duty on sick leave.

Sir John Gardiner Nutting, Bart., who arrived from the south yesterday, en roule to Rotorua, is chairman of Messrs. E. and J. Burke, Ltd., the famous brewers of Dublin stout. He was High Sheriff for Dublin County in 1595-9G, and was created a baronet U-α years ago. His son is Captain Harold Nutting, A.D.C. to Lord Deiiham. and an officer in the 17th Lancers. When in Christchureh, Sir John Nutting visited the Riccarton racecourse and the Christchurch Meat Company's works.

At Holy Trinity Church, Avonsido (Christchnrch), nest Friday, a tablet in appreciation of Canon Pascoe's long connection with the parish will be unveiled by Bishop Julius, who will subsequently induct tho Rev. 0. FitzGcrald to the charge of the parish, consequent on the resignation of Canon Pascoe, who has been vicar of Holy Trinity, Avonside, for thirtv-two years. An illuminated «d----dress" signed by the parishioners, many of whom have been connected with the parish for thirty or forty years, will be presented to the Canon.

Dr. Crowthcr was a passenger from Hobart to Wellington by the lonic on Saturday. Mr. JF. W. Colloy, who has bc«n eu■gaoed restoring a 'number of painthgs belonging to the Canterbury Society of Arts, will shortly return to England. Mr. Colley, however, intends to settle permaiiontly'in Now Zealand, nnd will probahlv reside in Chriftchurch.