PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9579, 27 August 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The North Otago Employers' Association has nominated Mr Scott for a seat on the Arbitration Court. Re®. A. T. Thompson, of Mast rton, left on Wednesday afternoon oil a visit t? Dunedin. He would occupy the pulpit in Knox Church there during the next two Sunday?. A marriage which created considerable interest took place in Wan'^Hganui on Thursday. John D. Todd, of Waipukurau, eon of Mr W. Todd, of Wanganui, was married to Miss Katie Barton, eldest daughter of Mr C. A. Barton, clerk of the court at Wanganui.

Inspector Ewen MacDunell, who joined the police force in Dunedin in 1875, and was promoted to the rank of aub-inspector in 1899, and inspector in 1900, died at Petone on .-Wednesday night. He had retired JDfora the service on December 31st . !a*t. > -M/ E. L. Burgess, barrister, of Wellington, who is relinquishing his practice to take up work for the l&urch of ; England; has recieved tils license from Bishop Wallis, appointing hira to a lay readership in tiro parochial district of Aramoho J aii^'Waitotara. Mr Burgess will !eave Wellington for his new sphere of duties this morning. Mr S„ Carroll, the secretary uf the Wellington Chamber of commerce, intends to visit Australia next month, and will be in Sydney during the congress of chambers of commerce of the Empire, though not as a delegate. He will also go on to Melbourne. It is his intention to leave Wellington on September 10th, with Messrs H* C. Tewsley and J. G. Harkness, Wellington's delegates#© the congress, and to be away fpr about three we'eks. The late Captain G. F. Day, who died at Christchurch, on Tuesday, was cioselv associated with the early history of Canterbury and Wellington. He born at Maidstone, JSlebt, in 1828, and arrived with his parents P; in Wellington in 1841. Their memory is perpetuated in the name of Day's ■ Bay, where they settled. The lad adapted a seafaring life, which brought him into touch with the com- ' mercial life of Canterbury, when all trade with outside places depended on sailing vessels. About 1846 he became owner ot the schooner Flirt, abd began to trade between Wellington and the Marlborough Sounds and Foxton. For some years Captain Day traded between Sumner and Lyttelten, land round the bays of Bank's When settlement began Kaiapoi* he took the first cargo up the Waimakariri to the township. Later on* he opened the Kaiapoi Hotel, and conducted it for some years, being then appointed pilot at Kaiapoi. He held that position Until about twelve years ago. tit?.'.' i • i .