PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 20 April 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. A. M. Myers leaves for Auckland to-day, and the Hon. O. W. Russell for Ngaruawahia. The Hon. ..I. Colvin is expected back from tho West Coast tonight, afld the Hon. H. G. Kll from Christchurch to-inorrow. The other Ministers are in town.

The Prime Minister and the Hon. (1. W. Russell have accepted invitations to he present at a citizens' reception, to he tendered to the Hon. A. M. Myers at Auckland on Thursday next. Other Ministers will probably he present.—Press Association.

Tho Hon. J. Colvin, Minister for Mines, arrived in Nelson overland from tho West Const last night. Ho leaves for Wellington to-day.—Press Association.

Iu tho eighteenth annual report of tho ■New Zealand Boxing Council, reference as follows is made to the late Dr. Napier M'Lcan, of Wellington, the well-known referee, who died recently:—"lt is with very great regret that tho council has to 'record the death of Dr. Napier M'Lean. The deceased gentleman was an enthusiastic advocate, of boxing, and was rightly regarded as one of the pillars of the sport in the Dominion. As a referee his methods were along the lines which make for clean sport and manly conduct, and in Hits and in other respects ho rendered a very valuable service to tho sport."

The Rev. Canon Dtmkley, of. Christchurch, was a passenger by the Athcnic from Wellington for London this morning. Mr. 11. Briltnin, local representative' for .Harringtons, Ltd., was a passenger for Sydney by the Moana. yesterday.

Mr. W. Nathan, of Wellington, left by tho Moana for Australia yesterday. Mr. A. Weston resigned his position as a member of tho Pahiatua Borough Council on April 15, owing to his decision to leave the district for Hastings. Tho Mayor (Mr. W. W. M'Cardlo) said he was sorry to heal 1 Mr. Weston was leaving Pahiatua. Ho hoped that 'when Mr. Weston becamo a member of tho Hastings llorough Council he would bo as consistent in looking after the interest of tho ratepayers as he had been in l'ahiatun. Councillor Kichardson remarked that Mr. Weston had been a good councillor and ho thought his services should be recorded in tho minute book. Councillor G. L. 11. I)rew supported this. A motion to that effect was carried unanimously. Mr. U'eston replied, and stated ho had endeavoured to do his duly as a councillor.

The Balcluthn "Free Press" states that on March 1!) it published .a paragraph, to tho effect that Mr. William Taylor, of Stonev Creek, had fallen heir to an estate valued at .£5,01)0,000, loft by a near relative who had just died without issuo in Holland. The statement "went tho rounds" in tho newspapers of the Dominion. Tho result is that Mr. Taylor, in less than a month sinco tho first announcement of his prospective good fortune, has received over sixty letters from people who are uttflr strangers to him. The writers invariably begin by congratulating him, and end with a request for pecuniary assistance, Some bear tho unmistakable mark of the professional begging-letter writer, but there arc others doubtless prompted by genuine hardship. Ono gontloman writes from Molbourno asking for tho "prospective beneficiary's assistance in founding a new religious soot,