PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1399, 27 March 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Justice Sim and the members of tho Arbitration Court left for Napier yesterday morning.

. Archbishop Redwood is expected to a: rive from the south by the Maori tilmorning,

Mr. 1\ A. De la Mare was yesterday admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by tho Chief Justice on the application of Mr. K. 11. Ostler. The Acting-Mayor, Mr. J. Smith, has received a letter from Mr. T. M. Wilf'ord, dated January 31, and posted at lenerifl'e, on his voyage Home. Mr. Wiltord tendered complimentary greetings to councillors, and asked to be informed of the council affairs—lion- the Fuller trial ended, how tho estimates enme out, and was the duplication getting on well? He wrote that ho was recovering his ncrvo and was improving in health.

Mr. Charles Hunt, of Palmorston North, celebrated his 80th birthday yesterdav. Ho is quite hale and heariy, and can read and write without the aid of spectacles. Mr. Hunt is a Gloucestershire man. He arrived in New Zealand in the ship Alma in 1857 after a !I0 days' passage in Hie biggest ship Hint had, up to that time, visited Wellington, the Alma's tonnage being 2200. On arrival iu Wellington ih. Hinit took tho first job offering, which was to assist in preparing tho site for the provincial buildings which were to be erected on tho present Parliamentary Buildings site. Mr. Hunt resided in and about Wellington for several yea re, part of the time being devoted to tanning on a property ho acquired at Makiivn. In 1801 he went to live in tho Raugitikei district, having purchased a farm adjacent to Marton. Ho resided there until about ten years ago when he retired from active work and came to Jivo in Balmerston. On taking up his residence in the Raugitikei Mr. Hunt was elected to a seat on tho tipper R-angitikei Highway Hoard. He was an enthusiastic volunteer in his younger days, ..having served in the colonial forces for eleven years. Mr. Hunt lias nino children (six sons and throe- daughters), forty-eight grandchildren and twenty-eight 'greatgrandchildren living.

, ?ff- $• , W - Holm os. Engineer-in-Chief to tho Public Works Department, returned from a visit to the West Coast yesterday morning, lie goes to-day to Napier, to meet tho Australian engineers who are to report upon tho Napier Harbour works. *h'- M- J- Eenrdon, president of the Wellington Trades Council, who underwent an operation for appendicitis a few weeks njjo, and has since been an inmate, of a private hospital, returned to his home yesterday. Tie is now convalescent, but is not yet by any means restored to lull health and vigour. Air. Evan Parry, Government hydroelectrical engineer, returned from a visit to the south yesterday morning.

Nominations for membership of tho Victoria Collego Council have bocn received as under:—Education Board's re-

presentative, Mr. K. M'CaHum, M.P., teachers' represontatifo, Mr. C. Watson, graduates' representative, Mr. J. G. W. Aitken; Parliamentary representative, Messrs. C. Wilson and A. I{. Atkinson.

The first threo were duly elected, and an election for, tho remaining seat will take placo on April 8.

Mr. Tom Thornycroft, one of the directors of Messrs. John I. Thornycroft's, Ltd., England, is paying a visit to tho Dominion, arriving from Sydney to-day.

Mi'. B, L. Harris, representing a number of English nnd American poster specialists, is at present on a visit to Wellington.

The funeral of tho lato Mr. George Brown, of Duller Street, which took placo at Upper Hutt yesterday morning, was the occasion of a very representative gathering of old friends," townsmen, and relatives of deceased. Prior to the ceremony at the graveside, the people assembled in

the church (St. John's), where deceased had been wont to attend regularly for over half a century. Tho llevs. lather Devoy (Wellington) and. Daly (parish priest) paid high tributes to deceased. Amongst others present wcro tho Rev. Father Lane (Lower Hutt), and Messrs.

W. it. Field, M. 6*Connor, Drummond, R.B. Williams. Several pioneers, who remembered deceased when lie was a mere lad, also attended. The beautiful wreaths, letters, and telegrams of sympathy gave evidence of tho high esteem in which deceased was held by all who knew him. Drs. Begg and Teichclmann arc expected to arrive in Wellington bv tho Maori this morning. Sir Geo. Clifford and the Hon. G. .T. Smith aro passengers by the same vcssol.