PERSONAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 12, 15 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr P. L. Brady (Hannah and Co.) returned from Wellington last night. Archdeacon Averill will proceed to Napier this evening. He will he consecrated Bishop of ATaiapu at the Napier Cathedral to-morrow. Mr Burtenshaw, who has hcen in the employ of iir G. AY. AY right for some years, left Dannevirke to-day to take up a position in his profession in AYanganui. Mr AY. Dance, who is one of the original settlers in the Umutaoroa block has disposed of his farm, through Messrs Campbell Thomson and Co. to Mr Cole who hails from the Nelson district. Mr Dance has now been a resident of Umutaoroa for the past 20 years, having taken up his farm Avhen it was in standing bush, and lias always been recognised as one of that district's most sterling settlers. Mr Dance's future movements are not yet definitely settled, but we feel sure the settlers with whom he has been neighbors for so many years will genuinely regret his departure from their midst. Bishop Mules, of Nelson, was a passenger by last evening's express train to Napier, where he will take part in the consecration of Archdeacon Averill as Bishop of AYaiapu tomorrow.

Mr Berkeley, advance agent for Mr J. C. AYilliamson's Comic Opera Company, passed through Dannevirke last evening. He states he is not bringing the company here for want of proper stage accommodation. Mr J. P. Thompson, of Napier, returned home last evening from AYellington, where he has been taking part in the bowling tournament. Police Inspector O'Dwyer returned to Napier from AYoodville last evening. Lady Anne Maria Dibbs, relict of the late Sir George Dibbs, passed away at her residence, Kuroki, Suth-erland-road, Chatswood, Sydney, recently, after a short illness". i

The Revs. Ramsay, Gunn (Waipawa), Asher and Tait (Napier), and Whyte (Havelock) proceeded to Maraekakaho for the purpose of conducting the induction of the Rev. Mr Claterwood, who has been appointed to take charge of Maraekakaho parish.

The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Railways, will leave on a trip to Australia on March 18. He will visit Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. One of the objects of his trip is to enquire into the railway methods in the various States. He expects to be absent about a month.

His Excellency Dr Solf, the Governor of German Samoa, and Mrs Solf, are at present in Wellington. Canon Pollock, an Anglican cleric bound for New Zealand, who reached Sydney a few days ago aboard the It.M.S. Orvieto from London, said in the course of an interview that the Anglican Church was now largely interesting itself in evangelical work. He was acting as forerunner for the General Mission consisting of fifteen clergymen who will shortly travel out for special evangelical work in New Zealand and possibly Australia. The Hon. Dr Fin-dlay, AttorneyGeneral and Minister of Justice, and Mrs Fiudlay, arrived at Christchurch from Wellington on Tuesday, and left by the mid-day express for Timaim, en route with a private party to Moimt Cook. The Minister expects to pass through Christchurch on his way north on the 22nd inst. On Wednesday the Wanganui Hospital Board considered eight applications for the position of house surgeon, vice Dr Miller, resigned, and eventually selected Dr J. Reid, of Mongonui, North Auckland. Dr Reid had a most distinguished career at Aberdeen tlniversity, and was medallist in his year in surgery,' also taking his degrees of M.A., M.8., Ch. B. He was for some time assistant professor of physiology at Marischal Co11oge ; Aberdeen. He has been in New Zealand for five years, and has had hospital, sanatorium, and asylum experience. In November last, Dr Reid had the misforttme to lose his wife, who died at Mongonui. It is for that reason that Dr Reid decided to leave Mongonui. Mr Edward William Pasley passed away at Nelson on Friday evening, alter an illness extending over several months. Mr Pasley was born in the Bengal Presidency, India, in 1836, being the third son of Colonel G. J. Pasley, of the 49th Foot. Mr Pasley was educated at Bath, England, "and in 1851 came to New Zealand in the ship Maori, landing at Nelson. For four years he remained with his'uncle, who was farming, and afterwards took up sheepfarming in the Wairau district till 1863. The following vear he joined the Customs Department at Nelson as a junior clerk, and worked himself up to the position of landing waiter at that port. In 1876 he received the appointment of Collector of Customs at Blenheim ,and was transferred, to Gisborne in December, 1894. He retired from the service in 1901, after a term of about forty years, and removed to Nelson.