PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2009, 17 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

V : jc.E-B:E(iiT,i Their jkeelleiicies 'the. Earl of Liverpool and 'Lady Liverpool will arrive in. Wellington front the south by 'the Maori this morning. ..Tlio Kijgl.it lion. AV. iF, Massey .is at Nielsen tljis Mvoi'iiiirg, the Hon, l'\ 31; B. Jißßor at Nfi.s.rd'aWahtn., tile lion.. J', Allen at Biiiiedin, the Hoii. W, Eraser at Gore, the Hon. \Y. H. Herries at Han-era., tiie Hon. Dr. Ponm'e at Piingarehu, and tjte other Ministers at Wwllington. Hffli. B. JL Rhodes will arrive hi Wel.lfflg.fcm this morning front (Sliristohiircb. The Hoji.. w . S. Jierries left for Totraiioki yesterday. He stayed at Hawera last night, hut ho goes 'on fo> day to attend the big Maori meeting at ranhnta io-mowew. Mr. H. 0, Ostler will leave Wellington to-morroW oil a three months' ■lidliday in the. Taupe district* lie Will ffiotor to Napier, itud th'e:n<so to Taujjp. At a meeting e>f ■the- Pctoho-Borough ■GoWie.il. last evening i.t was decided, on the motion of the Mayor .(Mr. JY' AV. M'Ewan), -fbat .a IfetW of sympathy lis forwarded to the relatives of. i'tho late Rev. Alexander Thomson.. The- liite minister) said the flayer, haf ..always taken a great interest in the "affairs'of the hprbiigh, and was always chfef mover in aiiy endeavour to ijl* creased educational facilities for the horaiigiii ffir, joint Knee.sliaW, aged 63 years, fate Traniway Traffic Superintendent, .is dead ' (states a. Sydn.cs Press AsKodiatfeii -cablegram')", fie .was educated gt the ■ High School, aiid ■ rep'roseiite'd tlie Jl-aikaj Department at tlio Dunedih Exhibition, of 1689. Mr. .Kiifeflsjiay. • had just entered uj3o.il six mouths' leave of absence prior to l«s Eetirehio.ut from tiro position of Sijipef iij'teiideut of TraMways, Mr. Hugh Latter, the ■newfoappo.iiited headmaster of the AVangsnui 'Collegiate School, is expected to arrive in New Jjoalajid. oh April 1. Mr, I}. Ardell, accountant at the ■Hokitilai Post and Telegraph Office, fa . under orders to transfer- to -Napier - office-; . Mr, W, H, Hewlett, of -Sisbftriift, lias bee-ii appointed "engineer to' the $anga-< ■ wska. TbS-n Boaid, There were "iS'.'ai> plicairts for the :p.ositio,ii.. : . Sir Joseph Ward, left LyftcTton for Wellington by the Maori last evening. On Sunday Mr. A, % Bate received a cablegram from Bournehibhthj England, announcing the d'eat-h there 6i Mr. Edwin Obajles Bitkin, who' was t well foiowij in AVellington.. f ho. de--■ceasbd tfas a i«tive of AuctclaiidY a-bbiit sixty years of age, mi fras a son' -of the late Mi--. C. T. Batkws, for maiiy -yearsto the Treas-UEy :aiid Assist, ant Cbu-tfolle.r-Genc.r'al. .Mir, 1, 0, Ba'tIfin Was artielcd to it-he late Slsssr'S.. ■Bra.ndo.ft an.d -Quiftk, 'barristoTs ■■ani ra-tors of this city,' aiid afterwards on* 'tared the Grbwn 'Law Office, ttherb'W-rpm-aiijod. ii-iitil he. purchased the h'usi.nfiss of Mr. G. Willes.toii, .tobacconist,, on- La-riibtou Quay. -Q.wiiig to -ifidiffeiv u.n.t health, ho reinoyed to Toe-wppinJ'a, Quc'e.ii-s.lßndj ari.oT resided tliero -.for a coii-sidorabio time. Tw:o..or threft 'years ago lib. rcViisitcd ■aiid'''tiieii wipnt Home li'Mt. his wife aiid t'tyo feliil-' ■dreu fa sen and a dauglvter), aiid' jji>t-' . tied at Bburiibmoiltli; Mr., jjafckin Was bile.of the jjibSt ptoffisin'ent -fieju.iiea ny ■ local ftnvi;ng and .yachting eirples until . he wttht into bujii'i.b.ss on. life own . cdnivt. Ifp was biio of the original 'memliers of the Star":Boafiiic.GlUb''and ■ the. Port J?ieho)soM raoh.t Gl.ub> ■ .-Bp n*as .-secretary of the fbrmer ■.eiiifi for' ,a iiiiniTber pf yea.r,% aiid was ■also 'a .suecess&il oarsmaiii '