PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■ ViCE-Rr.OA.ti.. His Excellency tho Governor; the Earl of .Liverpool, has accepted tho position of presiderij; of tks Wellington' Centre of tho St. John Ambulance Association. On Saturday next tlio Hon. P. M. B. Fisher will leave for Auckland, whero ha will spend tomo days in transacting, Marino Department business. He will also visit. Kaipara Harbour, to look into -requirements' m regard to wharves and lighting. | Before leaviug tho Bluff for Australia on March 2-i, Mr. Fisher will spend a couple of days in Dunedin.

The Ifon. W. Fraser is at Queenstown, tho .Hoit R. 11. Rhodes at Tiinanl, oihd tho Hon. Dr. I'omaro at Wanganui. Tho other Cabinet Ministers aro in town. Tlio Hon. J. 13. Jenltinson and Mrs. Jenkinson returned from Napier to-Wel-lington on Friday, last. The, death occurred yesterday, at his resideiico, 91 Brougham Street/ of Mr. David John Kenny, lato lesseo of the White Swan Hotel, and who was at different times lessee of the Albion and Albert Hotels. Wellington, tlio Albion Hotel, Lytteltun, and tho Railway Hotel. Hastings. Tho deceased, who was well known throughout ; tho district as gonial host, and obliging friend, was Iwrn in Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland, in 184-1, and'came out to Victoria with tho gold rush in 18G5. Ho worked for a tlmo on tho Ballnrat goldfields. Three years later ho camo to Ilokitika, and after a,brief experience there became a publioin, and remained in business up till November last, whisn he sold out from the White Swan Hotel, in Cuba Street. Mr. Kenny had bsen ' in poor health for the past .twelve months, and his death, was not unexpected. He leaves one son (Mr. . David Kenny, , the talented musician) and 0110 daughter (Mrs. Hcrrman. Lewis). .