Personal Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3510, 15 April 1905, Page 2

Personal Items.

Staff Sergeant-Major Peacock inspected the local Defence Cadet Corps last evening, Two o'd settlers of Foxton, Messrs D. Whibley and J. Turner, left this week oil a visit to the Old Country. The of .Mr Thomas H. Robinson as a member of the Wellington Land Board is gazetted. News Ims been received in Auckland of the deal h in London of Mr Lawrence D. Nathan, a well-known merchant, head of the firm of L. D. Nathan and Co.

It 13 slated that Detective Mcllveney, whose able detective work in Southland has made him highly esteemed by the law abiding section ot the community, intends resigning from the force shortly; Mr Loie, Chinese tdissioner of the Presbyterian Church for Wellington and the West Coast, will visit Foxton next week; and will give an address on Chinese mission work on Thursday evening..

Bro. Fox, of the Anglican Church, who has been stationed in Foxton for soma months; leaves for the Palmerston North hospital this afternoon to undergo a course of treatment in that institution, Mr Loiiisson. of the local Post and Telegraph Office staff, who has been stationed here tor the past eighteen months, left yesterday for Dannevirke, on transfer. His place is taken hers by Mr .Mannering; late of the Masterton office.

Mr SiiriSj Government orohardist, paid a visit to Foxion yesterday. He was greatly impressed with what he saw of fruit grdwn here; and in fact is credited with expressing the opinion that some varieties were finer than any he had seen in California,

Mr Seddon on Thursday morning addressed the schooLchildren at the Shannon State School. He afterwards left by the express for Turakina to open the school for Maori giris. Next Wednesday Mr Seddon will probably visit Pahiatua, giving an address there in the evening. The Dunedin Liedertafel on Thurs day sent a Sable message to London, congratulating Miss Ada Crossley on the occasion of her marriage to Dr Miiecke. The Premier (Mr Seddon) has received a cablegram __from the fanloils contralto as follows “ Affectionate greetings New Zealand.—Ada (Crossley) Muecke.”