PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Lieutenant-Colonel G. C. B. "Wolfo has tiilcou up duty as Adjutant-General, vico Colonel Robin, C.8., on the General Headquarters Stall. Lieutenant-Colonel If. Logan (late of Otago) assumed Colonel Wolie's duties as Officer Commanding tko Auckland District. In connection with tlio slrnniiing of the Star of Canada, Captain Taylor, of Brisbane, representing the London Salvage Association, left for Gisborne by the s.s.' U'estralia yesterday. Jlr. Justice Cooper arrived from Palmerston North last evening. A Press Association message from London announces the death of Jlr. George Thomas liait, chairman of Van Diemen's Lund Company. Jlr. W. A. Walsh, of tho "Evening Post," lias accepted a position on tho literary staff of the Syduey "Daily Telegraph." Jlr. Robert Fletcher lias been appointed ,a member of the Wellington Licensing Committee, vico Sir. G. W. Wilton, resigned. Jlr. Richard Price has been appointed Official Assignee at Dunedin, vies Mr. F. 11. Jlorice, deceased. The appointment of. Jlr. Arthur 0. Gibbcs as accountant to tho Treasury is gazetted. Jlr. .1. J. Eslon's appointment to be chief clerk of the same Department is also officially notified. Jlr. Wm. M'Lonnan has been reappointed a member of the Crown Land, Board of tho Land District of Wellington. Mr. Valentino Blake has boon appointed an assistant surveyor in tho Ltexiarfcment of Lands and Survey. Jlr. Frank Bird has been appointed registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for Whaugarei, district, and registrar ol electors and returning officer at Jlarsden. Jlr. W. J. Reeve 'has been appointed registrar of electors and returning officer at Stratford. Mr. Mark Blake, an old Palmerston North- identity, died on. Wednesday, aged S3 years. Deceased caiuo to New Zealand in 1879, in the ship Kakaia, and took up residence in Palmerston. Ho afterwards engaged in farming pursuits in the JJanawatu and Wanganui districts, and, retiring some years ago, has since resided in Terrace End. Ho leaves a widow and three sons. Mr. Chas. MacMahon, of MacMahon and Donnelly, who hns been on a visit to Sydney, left Auckland for Wellington by tho Main Trunk express last night'. A new arrival in Auckland, who spent a year in British. Columbia, conversing with a , "Star" representative, said that an epidemic of "hold-ups" was nfl'lictiug the towns along the seaboard of the British State. This state of affairs ho said was attributable to the fact that the present is an "off se.isou" with tho lumber camps, many of the lumbermen seeking recreation from their arduous labours, had flocked into the towns, and after exhausting their substance in riotious living were left in penury On the principle that desperato diseases require desperate romei'es some of them were lidding tho

"lenrterfeet" up promiscuously at tho revolver point, and demanding them to hand over all their money and whatever unconsidered trifles they possessed. Such a state of lawlessness,- remarked the informant, was remarkable for these usually law-abiding towns, and the police were up again a difficult proposition in their endeavours to restore order.

Another of the old residents of Auckland (lied on Monday evening, namely, Mr. Isaac Phillips, who.was in ' his eighty-ninth year. Mr. Phillips was born in Kant, and from,there went to .Australia. He came over to Auckland •17 years ago in the Claude Hamilton, of which the present Captain Carey was then chief officer. For some Km? Sir. Phillips carried on business in Que?n Street as n clothier and mercer, from which ho retired about 27 years ago. Ho was treasurer and also president of the Jewish Synagogue for sixteen years, which shows tho appreciation in which ho was held by his cwn people. Mrs. Phillips predeceased hnr hnslftnd. There are seven" children, Mrs. Ehrenfried and Mr.?. Moses' (!rth resident in Auckland), and Mrs. Ballin (Cliristehurch). Tho sons 'n.i-0 Messrs. Abraham, John, Joseph, and Charles Phillips.

Mr. C. R. Poll?n, tlio new Commissions of Crown Lands for Canterbury, was welcomed to that district by members of the Lam! Board at a mcctins: of tlio board at Christcliurch ' yesterday inornin<r. In acknowledging the welcome, Mr. Pollen said ho was a complete stranger to that part of Ihe world, but ho had heard that the Canterbury Board was one of tlio most capable boards in the Dominion. lie asked" them to nssi.-t him in the mine way us they had evidently n=?isl«l Mr. Brcdrick. In a letter thnultin? tlir> board for a resolution voicing appreciation of his service, the late commissioner (Mr. T. X. Brodrick) eaiil: "The. Cnnli-rßury commissioner is foriun(ito in having such capable, lcvoMicndotl, practical members on tlio Land Board, nnil I have much pi entire in aelnicvlniVins? that while m tlint p;i=i"Ho!i my dulie* and responsibilities were srrtaily lichtcnnd by your support and co-opcra-lion, for which I cksiro-lo thank you most heartily."