PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1910, 19 November 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Major Potior, of tho District Hoadquartors Staff, Palnierston North, arrived in Wellington by tho Auckland express yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. J. Hammond, tho aviator, left Wellington on a visit to relatives at Marion by yesterday's midday express. Mr. H. L. Heron, General Manager of tho Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited, is paying a visit to tho Dominion. The- bank recently opened branches n-t Wellington, Auckland, and Christ-church, and Mr. Boron if pleased with tho future proßpect*. He has gone on to Auckland, and expects to return to Wellington next week, prior to his return to Australia. Mr. Alfred Dillon, ox*M.P. Iqr Hawkc's Bay, is reported to be seri* otisly ill. Tnufa- Hero Lata, a Eijia.n princess, formerly a pupil of the Wanganui College, and tho heroine of an AucklahdFijian romance-, diod at To Waikato Sanatorium a few days ago, at the. agu of 21 years. Mr. James (Wilson, of the Government Survey Department, is at present in a private hospital in Clirifetc'lvu.reli, recovering from a, dangerous illness. Mr. Wilson was awarded tlio New Zealand war medal for M$ exceedingly plucky wa-rk as a seven-year-old schoolboy in succouring; his mother after she had been wounded in the. massacre at- Poverty Bay. Mr. M. Rudd, assistant manager of ,the Union Company- s branch at Auckland, has returned from Sydney, where he has for the last four months been relieving Mr, 15. Crawford,, manager of the Canadian-Australasian line. . Mr. John Baillie, who Was commissioned to obtain a collection of pictures in England for the Auckland Exhibition, lias reached the northern •' city. His pictures preceded him in three consignments, and he will loso as little time as possible arranging tho collection* At a special meeting of tho Pahiatua ■ Borough Council on Monday night (says . a Preis Association message), Mr. J. D. 0. Crowe, son of the lato Mayor, . who has been a councillor for several terms, was unanimously elected Mayor for tho remainder of tho late Mayor's term. '

Mrs. Anderson., an old Gore pioneer, aged SB years, died on Monday night, She arrived in Victoria in 1852 and New in. 1872,- settling at Lawrence. Ma.iried twice, she leave's two daughters and one son by her first husband. Tho daughters are Mrs, J. H. Smith (Gore) and Mrs. Houlihan (East Gore), and the son Mr, George Bayiies, of''AUck* land. Mr. G. Lftureitson, MJ?. for Lytteltou, who has been confined to bed for tho past Week, was at a.late hom last night lying in an exceedingly critical ■condition at his lodgings in Jjobsdji Street. Dr, Mason,, who had been attending Mr. Laurenson, yesterday called in Dr.' Collins in consultation, • T)t. A. S. Woblraann, Government balneologist sfc'llotorua, accompanied 'by his wife aiid family, returned to Auckland on Sunday by tlio Mahefto from Sydney. Dr. WoWiiranii has been travailing in Europe ■during the. last year, pajring visits to all tho principal Continental spas. As a result, he will havo several important recommendations to make to the Government, in. order to bring the balneologist outfit at" Rotoxufl up to dato, and make it equal to that of any other spa. Dr. Wohltnann has also beeu studying tho radio-aativity properties of various waters* > Mr. George Ball, Who for five years has been a member of tlio New Plymouth Staff of tha Lands Transfer Office, left onMonday. for'D-onedini whither.ho has been transfoireß an .promotion,, Before his departure he was presented l by his fellow-officers with a token of th,ei'l\ esteern. Tho death is announced of an old Go:ro identity, M.f. Join M'Gill, aged 77 , years, who arrived in tho colony in; 1878. 3?or several years ho was a Bhep' herd At Knapdale, .and took M;p a farm ; at Waikaka in 1884. Ho retired two yeajs ago, and had heen in. failing health for some time. He died yoster-, day of heart fnihrre. A widow, four sens, and one.daughter survive him..