PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2172, 10 June 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. *H. Herrics is at Te Aroha, the Hon. R. H. Rhodes at Christchureli, and- the Hon. Dr. Pomaro at Rarotonga. The other Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington. Mr. J. Craigie,-'M.P. for Timaru, and , Colonel HayhurSt, Reform candidate for Tcmuka, 'arrived from the south yesterday morning.' At the monthly meeting of the Hutt County Council yesterday, a resolution of condolence with tho relatives of tho late Mr. Orton Stevens, who lost his life in tho riccnt Main Trunk railway 'disaster, was passed:' Mpssrs. W.' C. Hewitt and H. J. Ferguson, of Napier, woro yesterday ad-, mitted a3 barristers of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Hosking. '' Mr. 'riofeertf'Buncan', ? diiiof- '.Sfurvoyor of ..Ships for New Zealand, who lias been!-app.ointcd a ; member ,of the Flax , Commission,*- left last evening by the Maori with the other of the , Commission to beg l n their investigations in'the South Island. ' 'Mr. M. J. Bloomfield, manager of Miss Ellen Terry's ;tour, is at present in Wellington. Mr. Bloomfield leaves for the north to-day. to attend to the opening of tho season ill Auckland, : and will return to Wellington on Saturday. ■The Rev. N. Robertshawe, curate of St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Hastings," is leaving for England at the end of tho month. Mr. H. B. Cordery, of the Customs Department-, at Christchurch, who was the' principal witness in. the recent Customs; fraud cases, was obliged to, ask for leave of absence at the close of the trials, owing to a threatened breakdown. The Department has 'now granted him'six months' leave, in recognition of his special services, and he will . leave for England to-morrow.

■ Lieutenant W- B. P. Thring, of the ■Royal New Zealand Artillery, has been appointed' adjutant to_ the Wellington Garrison ' Artillery Division, vice Lieutenant J. M. Richmond, now staff officer to' the General Officer Commanding tho New. Zealand Forces. ' Mr. A. A.. Paape, Reform Party organiser, is at present' spending a few days in Auckland. Mr. and Mrs.. J. Farrelly, of Hastings,. leave for America by the Tahiti, which sails from Wellington on Juno 19. » ; . . A Press Association message from .Hastings states that the death oct furred_at Otane, yesterday, of Mr'. William White, ■sheopfarmer, aged 74 years. Deceased arrived ,in tho Dominion in 1859, and took up farming at Selwyn. Ho,- was' a member of tho Canterbury Provincial Council, and subsequently removed to Hawkes Bay, where ho resided ever since. Ho took a keen intorcst in local politics, and was a' member of numerous local bodios. Mr. - White leaves eight sons and two daughters.. Mr. J. W. Henderson, who is a member of the Karori Borough Council, was some little time ago granted four months' leavo of absence from the council, and last night the council extended tho term one month. Mr. Henderson wrote "his - request for this extra leave from tho Salomon Inlands. Ho said that he had been through the Now Hebrides, the Banks, Santa Cruz, and tho Reef Groups," and h'a<l visited Tikopea and the Swallow Islands, which, ho adds, aro visited only by tho Melanesian Mission ship.