PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12509, 23 May 1906, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

I The Hon. 0. H. Mills, Minister for ■ Customs, was booked to leave Wellington for Lyttelton by the Tarawera last night. It- is understood that Mr Mills will not mako a stay in Ghristchurch, as he is due at Invercargill .to-morrow.. I Dj;. Tddd, Dr. Don, Captain Robinson, Mp Mcc, Mr Keddell, Mr Henrys, .Mr Madduon, Mr Larnach, Mr Buddie, Mrs P. Herman, and Miss Herman arrived from Wellington by the ;Uararoa yesterday. ! Mr J. It. Gordon (Haylands), Mr G. Rutherford' (Dalethorpe), Mr. R. Bluuden (Bennetts), Mr Ji. McLean (Mount Hutt), Mr C. A. Richardson (Dunedin), Mr P. B. Thomson (Wellington), Mr J. E. Taylor (Wellington), and Mr J. W. Williams (Wellington) arrived in town yesterday. Mr Max. Pago (New York) was a recent caller at the local Tourist Office. Mr H. Mcc, Mr Le Cren, Mr Hallenstein, and Mr Skevington, left for Wellington by the M.araroa last night. Tho appointments of Messrs J. Ward, H. CuUrti, T. Bullcck, D. McKeridry, | R. Alcorn, and D. Cochrane as trustees of tba Asbbu'itoaii Cemetery, have been revoked by on Order-iiv-Counoil. Mrs W. S. Bean, Mrs R/ W. AndersoJi, and Mis C. Morriß have boon appointed 'honorary visiters for the Deaf Mutes' Institute at Sumner. In the rec.n-t class examinations held in Edinburgh, Miss Gertrude M. Smith, daughter of Mr W. Smith, of Christchurch, obtained first-class honoura in both systematic on atomy and in surgery, and fi;cond-cla<?s honoura in physiology and in practical ainatomy. She was awarded the iecond prize in junior surgery. Her brother, M r T. C. Smith, aisj passed the first professional examination. Both were students of Canterbury Coiiego, and M ss Smith was twelve months at the Otago University. Ml s Alma Wells, second daughter of Mr H. Wells, Iwa_p.ssed her final examination at the Leipsic Conservatorium. Miss Wells played Mendelssoha's G Miuior Pianoforte Concerto, and obtained mot favourable criticism. Mr Luke Ccleman, of Marshlands, who Is leaving this week for a trip to England, was on Monday night•ente.rtai ed by his friends and neighbours, and presented with a rug and a- watch and chain. At Ashburton on Monday night an illuminated address was presented to Mr John Bell, who, after a residence of thirty years in Ashburton County, has bought a farm at Flaxbourne. At a re-union of the members of |he Ra gicra iPire Brigade, the Major presented Mrs Smith, wife of Superintendent J. Smith, with, a gold-mounted greenstone brooch,* in appreciation oi the assistance she had given to the brigade. Mr W. Gray, secretary of the Post Office, writing from Venice to a friend Ln Wellington, says he is quite restored to health. Mr R. R. Martin, of Auckland, has been appointed organi er of tho Reform League, the political o>:gansation foundid by Mr \V. F. Macsc-y and other Opposition member*. Dr. Ewart, chief medical officer at tho Wellington Hospital, is laid a6ida witfh pneumonia. Dr. Fergus is acting for him.