PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1563, 5 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

It is reported (says a'Press Association telegram from Christchurch) that the failing health' of Sir William Steward, now in the seventy-second year of his ago, is causing somo anxiety to his friends. Ho is suffering from an old-standing throat trouble. The Eov. J, J. North, who has been minister of the Wellington Baptist Church for tho past eight years, has been called to succeed Hie Rev. E. S. Gray, of tho Oxford Terrace Church, Christchurch. Mr. North is taking a week to think over tho situation. Amongst other Main Trunk passengers yesterday morning was Mr. P. H. Mather, manager of The Economic, who is going to Wanganui on business connected with the Wanganui branch of Messrs. George and Kersley, Limited. Mr. William. E. Woods (of Great Peppermint Cure fame) arrived in Wellington by tho Manuka from Sydney.' Ho represented tho London Chamber of Commerco at the Pure Foods Congress, Sydney, and is visiting this Dominion in connection with business of, tho company. A special meeting of the Dunedin Education Board was held on Thursday night to appoint n principal of the training college in succession to Professor White, nine applications being received from various parts of tho Dominion. The board decided to appoint Mr. E. Pinder, nt present headmaster of the Normal School.—Press Association. Mr. R. B. Morris, chief postmaster at' Christchurch, who is suffering from neuritis, has obtained three months' leave 'of absence. With his wife he leaves Wellington to-day for Auckland, where he will connect ivitih tho Tofua for the South Sea Islands. Mr. J. H. Owen, who has resigned tho managership of Sharland and Co., Ltd., to accept a seat on tho board of the company, was entertained at Godber's Eooms on Thursday evening by the combined office and warehouse 6taffs, and was mado tho recipient of an illuminated address. Mr. Owen has been connected with Sharland's for about 38 years. Captain Pearse, an ex P. and 0. Company s officer, was a passenger from Wellington to Sydney by the MoeAki yesterday. The death occurred at Otaki on Tuesday of Mrs. Hughes, mother of Mrs. George Jenkins, of Forest Lakes, Otaki. Deceased was one of the pioneers who experienced the trials and rigours of the Maori War. Senior Warder Eiddick, of the Terruco Gaol staff, who has retired after many years' service in tho Justice Department, was on Thursday last presented with a handsome case of pipes and travelling rug by his fellow-officers. Tho presentation was mado by Chief-Gaoler Scanlon, who referred to Warder Kiddick's long and honourable career, mentioning that he had been twenty-nine years on the staff of the Terrace Gaol.