PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 62, 6 December 1919, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

. Vice-Rkgai,. iris Ewllene.y the Governor-General niul parti arrivo'd at tlic Bluff by tlio Tiilan?kaYe ; .terday afternoon, and came on in Imrcargill. Later a pnjjlio reception \U accorded the party at tlio railwiij alirm by tlio Mayor. Tlio Govermr oceived an address from tlio city. Irlhe evening n civic welcome was giwat Iho Town Hall. The parly leave lh. morning for Queenstown.— Press An. '

A. Pis Association message from Suva strjs lliat Councillor Scott, K.C., has heel unanimously re-elected Mayor of Suva '■ a fifth term.

The C'ef Justice (Sir Pobert Stout) left for ew Plymouth this morning to preside a. the sittings of the Supreme. Court the.'

Mr. Jnsie ITosking, who retnrnrd from Blenheim n Thursday, leaves for Auckland 10-daby the Main Trunk express.

Sir Edwards is expected to return to Wlingtnn this evening.

Mr. Ti. I Watson, barrister nn<l soheitor. of .'el'.iuglon, and son of Mr. William Alison,' of Wellington Terrace, has been anointed a Stipendiary Magistrate. MrWatson, who is well known in "Welling"!!,' wars in partnership with Mr. V. H.fe'cdith (now of Auckland), when the ar broke out. He immedinte'.v enlist).'and went, to Samoa with tli" New SalJiid Expeditionary Force. Snb e en.ii'"nti his legal attainments were Wcrfi nilvntaiy of by tlie Commissioner (Colonel R.' Logan), and ho becanw Crown Proentor and Acting-Judge, a Dositio'i he -etnincd up till two years ago, when lireturned to Wellington..Ho snVequenllyvrote and published a suc« chief and mre-ting history of Samoa, which is Hnauly work of the kind extant.

The R"*. -ulier Bari'M is returning to New JCenlad jiffrr service in France i.s a chap'-ii Father Barra is well known in Welngton, and in many parts «? New Zealal.

Mr. .Tohn S>im;;. who died at hi 3 home at Glenslc Mn*torton. on Thursf'av night, w sixty-four vear« of age. He was bora a Tiipuriipuru, Gladstone, aid vns a sorot the late Mr. James Sl'an<r. one o':"ne pioneers of ihe district. Beside* ijnf n prominent breeder mid iu'b;<. of .Sor'horn catfb\ lie was a member of I'n eimmittee of the Mas-t...'l-n ..\?ri'.'ul!cht fl-ul Peroral • Association, and ha' lengthy service on local bod's. He loa v e' a widow, }•<•« sons, and tVcc daughters. One ( .fl>ia ions. Ciiniii Strang, was killed while on active ;evice.

Tl"» Prime Miiscr (Hip Tlislit Hon. W. T'. Mmsscv) anus in Wel'iimton from the south this iwiim*, and leave.? for Auckland again a nidday.

As mi amiwfialo] of (hp forvicos rendered to Hip torn of Mnsterton liy tli9 formp" Mayr n'i Mayoress (Mr." and Mrs. P. M. Coradic). a number of citizens sathorcdin (ho Town Hall on Thursday nirrlit ad presented (hem with, a «ii'id ?ilv»v (pa n-vico. "Rothcrham half liunfinvr 80l' 1 . » - nlii. and an allium ennlaiiii'i'r an illnnnalod address. Mrs. Cnr"di"e nvis iilstpipsptilol widi a iv lH . riupf of vo="s am svpet nras. Several c«pf.kpr= testified i tu'o<rislie speeches to flip irnod services hat had been rendered in Ma«lcr'en 1.->- "v. and. Mrs. Orndinp. Tn reply. Mr. fonlinp said that (hp pre-jsn-'ts wnu'd nl"-a- .sprve tn rcnv'ml his •rife iiihl liinself f (lip appreciation of a kindly people.

V~-|.p P .lnv !ho few of Polmprston Xorfh 'Mr. .T. A >'.iOi. M.P \, ncroinpanicd by Mplville. ofßror conime"din« the Wpl!«<;hn im!Uarv district. pn"id iii-on Mrs. Heard, and on ]«-'nlf o r "■" nu'-i-i-'lips presented hpr with a Mililnrv Uelal n-v-rdpd lo lior lute hiichanil. wluws frilled In- a sniper pI: Driven., Wood Onloi.pl Melville remarked . I.hat only tin depora(i"ns wern ai'-avded anmn 2 Mih» six hundred men -lm.,i ],„ 1,..cl undi- >is command a( the IVIle nf Mpisipo. The ln(:p Sergeant ' r -i-i-d had sni-vpdinil'T him end was a. yeal'ins anil hravt sWdior. He (rusted <hi\f 'he medal wold, llwavs he Irpasnred In- Ihe son. .vK<«eVW ] m \ ] c f(. a | )r j[. liant record liidiin-Tiiiii.

Mr. Tionaid Mnrirm. chief clerk of I lie, Christehu/'ch iaie Fire Oilice. lias hppii'i Iriiiisfpi'fPil 'H'almerstoii North as' lii l a'hch"h'aimg'c'.'(f lhc North Wislliiuiton branch.