PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. A. M. Myers, Minister of Customs and Munitions, jvill return to Wellington from Auckland by this afternoon's express. j Tho Rt. Hon. Alfred Deakin, some time Prime Minister of tho Commonwealth, loft for Sydney by the Riverina yesterday. Ho came to New Zealand, via Auckland, at the beginning of the week, intending to spend a holiday hero, i but he wasi summoned homo hurriedly, and so caught the Riverina here. Ho arrived in Wellington yesterday morning, and the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. G. W. Russell) spent part of the day with him.

Dr. Paterson, a Presbyterian medical missionary in China, has cabled to ! tho Foreign Missions Committee applying for leavo to enlist for military service. This lias been granted. Dr. John Kirk is tho only one out of six inodical missionaries now left in tho field. '

A Press Association telegram from Timaru states that tho death occurred yesterday of Mr. Joseph Sealy in his seventieth year. Tho .late Mr. Sealy was a native of Ireland, and went to Canterbury in 1868. After living for some time in- Christchurch he went into business in Ashburton, and was Mayor for two or three terms im tho later seventies. After some ( years' farming he returned ten years ago to Timaru. He was appointed a member of the Land Board in 1900, and after the change in the law, was clected by the Crown tenants, and has since continuously sat as tho tenants' representative.' He was re-elected only recently. Mr. Sealy leaves oue son and two daughters. Major Nicholas Dodds, Now Zealand Garrison Artillery, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Officers' Decoration, in (recognition of twenty years' service in commissioned' rank. Mr. Charles Todd, formerly of Wellington, who has been on the literary staff of the "Sydney Daily Telegraph" for sovoral yoars, lias accepted an. appointment on the Melbourne "Age" staff. He received a presentation from the "Telegraph" staff before leaving.

Miss Evelyn May Raplej- lias been appointed Registrar of Births and Deaths for Wellington North. Mr. William N. Woods, - auctioneer for Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., at Gore, died on Sunday from pneumonia. Deceased, who was born and educated at Milton, had been in Mossrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co.'s employ for 15 years. The Advisory Board of tho New Zealand Employers' Federation, at its meeting yesterday, decidcd that tho annual meeting of. tbe federation should bo held in Wellington on Wednesday, September 27. Tlio Rev. William Spenee, of West Taieri, Otago, intends to take up liis residenco in Sydney at tho eiid of the present month. Tho Rev. James IT. M'Kenzie has forwarded his resignation to tho Nelson Presbytery. It -will take clfect as from November 30. Mr.. W. J. Guerin, president of t.he Now Zealand Institute of who has been in Bowen Street, Hospital for several months, was able to proceed to his homo yesterday. Tho Tivoli Follies Company, which has! just completed a successful .tour of Now Zealand, left_ for Sydney by the Rivcrina last evening. The members of tho Bolgian Band, M. Jacques 80l (tenor), Mr. Frank Greene (baritone), and Miss Ella Caspers, remain in New Zealand to undertake a provincial tour, still under the management of Mr. Hugh D. M'lntosh. Mr. Harold Bowden, late advance representative for the Tivoli Follies, remains in New Zealand to act in a similar capacity for J. and N. Tait's "Peg o' My Heart" Company.