PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11279, 21 May 1902, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

<m* ' The Hon, W. Hall-Jones, Minister for Public Works, was engaged in Departmental work all The Minister left for Wellington by last night's j steamer. The Hon. J. Carroll, accompanied by the offici__* of tihe Native Land Court, and Dr. Pomare, arrived at Huntly from Auckland yesterday. Sir George C___o_d left for the South yesterday morning. Mr James Mill, was a passenger for Dunedin by yesterday's express. Mr G. L. Denniston, Mrs Cecil Perry; Lieutenant M. Paget, Mr Geo. 'Jameson, •Mr C. Morris,' Mr and Mra Dauby, Mr T. Williams, Mr G. LiUico, Mr W." Hervey (Fairlie), Mrs Stevens, and Mr H. Wynne were passengers for the South yesterday __orhing by tha express. Mr J. Graham, M.H.R., arrived by tbe <__pres3 last night, . and went North by steamer. Captain Strangi went South, yesterday.Mr J. Spencer, Mr C. Mc_l__fter, and Mr W. J. Hogg, reached town by the express last night. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Acting -Minister for Defence, visited' the weekly parade of the Sydenham Rifles, under Captain G. J. Smith, M.H.R., lost night. The drill took place in the company's mew orderly room, which faces Colombo street. There were 49 on parade, beside- Surgeon-Captain Anderson, a_t_ched to the corps. After the men haiL-been put through some dri_l the Minister' _ompl_t___t_d them' on their efficiency, and expressed, has pleasure at seeing them possessed _£____. a fine orderly room. Mr T/W. Mac Lean (Dunedin), Mies Far-quarson-(Dunedin), Mr W. Grant (Timaru), Mr F. Bullock (____b_rto_), Mr G. D. Greenwood (Amberley), Mr F. W. Woodroffe (Melbourne), Mr J. Nicol (Melbourne). M_ : :W. Miller (Pahiatua), .Mr S. J. Furniss, Mr C. Rigg, and Mr Loeb arrived in town y __terd!a_r., •-* Captain Tucker, who came with the.returning Sixth Contingent, intends going, baok to South Africa to join the Tenth iv about a fortnight. •At a meeting of the Lytteuton Borough School Conunirtee on Monday night, it was resolved to recommend Mr Evans, of the Normal School, for the position of second • master. Mr T. W. Waite (traffic manager), and Mr E. Macandrew (district engineer), ar-' rived' in town by last night's express. - _._M__gp.ctor O'Dwyer, of the police force; passed through C______chur_h last night en route for Wanganui. Sir Joseph Ward was l entertained at a banquet at Sed donvflle yesterday. Mx S. J. Furness (editor and proprietor - Marlborough ••Express''J, with Mrs Furness, are paying a short visit to Chri-tchurch. . Mrs G, L. Deiyrst-in, and-Miss Dennis-, ton left for Wellington, en route for Auckland, lost evening. . Captain McDougall went North by steamer last night. Mr Walter Chapman has been elected a member of the West Eyreton Road Board in plance of Mr John A<____el r who has been chairman of the Board for over twenty-one years. Mr W. Miller arrived in C3___*t__i__r__ from tbe North". yesterday morning. The steamers at Lyttelton were gay with brnting yesterday in honour of the marriage j>f Miss Annie Troeller, of Ohio, U.S.A., to. Mr Joseph McLean, second enginieer of-the Mokoia. The wedding took place _tt__>__r,_se of Captain McLean, father of the bridegroom, and the Rev. A. H. Treadwell officiated. The Yen. Archdeacon Calder leaves Auckland to-day at the request of the Primate, on a short visit to Fiji, to make enquiries regarding the position of the Angli<_in Island Missions. The Archdtacon will probably be absent from Auckland about three weeks. As a result of the regulation requiring certain officials over the age of sixty-five years to be retired from the public service Mr Hall, the registrar of births, deaths! and marriages at Dunedin, is to be retired. Mr H. Maxwell, the present inspector of factories, will succeed Mr Hall, and Mr Lindsay, now inspector at Invercargill, fills tbe vacancy in the Dunedin office of the Department of Labour. ' , On April Bth, writes bur London correspondent, a wedding of New Zealand interest was _ol__m___ed at Both. Tbe bridegroom was Mr Arthur Granville Hume, fourth son of Colonel Arthur Hume (late 79th Cameron Highlanders), of New Zealand, and the bride was Miss Amy Charlotte Rogers, eldest surviving daughter of Mrs Rogers, of 46 Sydney Buildings, Bath. The marriage took place at Widcombs Old Church, Both. Dr. and Mrs Hockeu, of Dunedin, with their two. daughters, and Miss Baker, a friend, arrived in London early in April after a most varied and interesting journey of no less than eight months' duration from Dunedin. A large part of that time they spent in Japan and in Egypt.