PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 136, 9 June 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr. J. M. Mason, late Chief Health Offl. cer, leaves ior London, -with, his family by the Tainui on June 17. The funeral of the late Mrs. G. P. Donnelly will take place at Oinahu cemetery, near Hastings, this afternoon. The Rev. A. S. Wilson, of Wanganui, is at present in Auckland, having arrived by the Main Trunk train yesterday. Mr. C. Atkinson, of Christchurch, arrived at the Grand Hotel this morning, having come North by the Main Tninlt train. Mr. Kenneth Harre, of the Wellington mail-room staff of the Post Office, and Mr. W, E. Bailiffe, of the parcels branch in the same town, have both been transferred to Auckland. Sergeant Gough, of the Christchurch police force, who was recently prom.oted % and was previously stationed at Winton, died yesterday after a brief illness, aged, I 47. Deceased leaves a wife and three children. The South. Canterbury Education Board, yesterday took a definite step in regard to aa agricultural instructor, resolving to offer the post of instructor to Dr. HiiiI gendorf, now of Lincoln College, at a, I salary of £400 per year. Inspector Snowball, of the Dunedin I City Council 6taff, is to be granted six j I'ionths' leave of absence, in order to visit America, Great Britain, and the 1 Continent, before the city corporation make improvements, which the Government insist on being carried out at the abattoirs. j Mr. G. V. Shannon, who recently re~ i tired from the position of Chief Customs expert after 21 years' service, waa i presented, yesterday by Mr. R. Carter i (Secretary of Customs), on behalf of officers oi the Department throughout the Dominion, with an illuminated ad- ! dress for himself, and a silver tea-ser-j vice for Mrs. Shannon. Professor Friesland (of Bremen) and. hie son (Mx. G. Friesland, German j Consul afc Hongkong), who have been lon a tour through New Zealand, arrived at the Grand Hotel from Rotorua last evening. They are proceeding by I the Navua to-day to Fiji, en route foe Germany, via America. Mr. F. Jelley (chief officer of. the Warrinioo) has resigned from the Union Company's service to become chief stevedore at Wellington for the New Zealand Snipping Company. Mr. J. J. Hughes, late of the turbine steamer Loongana, is accompanying the Warrimoo to aesume the position of chief officer when Mr. Jelley comes ashore at Wellington on Friday next. Between 200 and 300 of the constituents of Mr. |A. E, Glover, MJ?., gathered at the railway station last evening to bid him farewell on the occasion of his departure for Welling- ' ton to take up his Parliamentary duties. A bouquet wae presented to i Mrs. Glov.er, congratulatory addresses ■ I being then delivered by a number of ' Mr. Glover's supporters on the subject • of his election, and ex-pressing warm 1 ! wishes for <hio success in his new sphere. I' Mr. W. E. Cayley Alexander then pre- ; [ sented Mr. Glover with a testimonial I . signed by over 1,500 people, and a gold i j watch and chain. Mr. Glover made a ■ suitable speech in reply, and wae then i carried shoulder-high to the carriage, i 1 .