PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13100, 27 April 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

s* v .,L — »— — ,' '-, Mr Geo. G." Stead was reported to \: '- fee slightly better' last evening. I. 3lr and Mrs E. W/ Roper were at j/' Vandalay, Burma, last month.

:.-'- " "Mr Geo. Armstrong has been re- ; '«-«> ted Mayor of Akaroa. •■ ?'*-" .. .There is no improvement in the con- ~> fl-tion of Mr Joseph ,Petrie, of GreyJ» > Booth, who is seriously ill ia WelJ ;_ lington. J." . Mr J. T. Sinclair has been elected I', 1 president of the Wanganui A. and P. * Association. ? '■". \l_r Sidney Earee, of Masterton, has Jf. accepted an appointment as stage "r ttaaager to the Herbert Flemming *. -Comedy Company. - The members of the Wellington Bar ■.. **D entertain tho judges of the vl". Supreme Court on May 4th. It is in- .-- tended that tlio function shall be a

Wjj ■*' special compliment to Mr Justice Wilfcj* lwass, whose term of office constitutes ft * repord for Australasia. His Honour i - -Das served 33 years, having been ap--1 pointed on March 3rd, 1875. Other 1 Kew Zealand judges who served V, «Bgthy periods were tho late Mr w "justice Richmond, who sat fo.* nearly jl « years, and the late Mr Justice II" * Johnston, who sat for 29. ye its, "I Visitors to Christchurch include Mr 1 J*. Johnson (Weßing-on), Mr S. Campbell (Wellington), Mr and Mis Dudley Edwards (Nebon), Mr S. G. ' „ Raymond (Timaru), Mr H. Lewis (Wel--'nngton), Mr J as. Macfarlane (Hawke't. . ' . Bay), Cfcrptain Yon Grii-ielius (Frank-f?rt©n-Main), Mr E. Norton (Welluigton), Mr W. Black (Wellington), «j* G. Norton (Dannevirke), Mr G. , H- Oatway (Loudon), Mr H. Fried«nder (Ashburton), Mr I. V. de Beer jAshburton), Mr and Mrs S. Mackenzie '- -S lmaxu )> Mr and Mrs . E. Bockaert !! (Kmaru), Mr P. McArdle, Mr W. Reid, L *«■ C. 0. B. Lamb (Wellington), and - G. M. Leech. -. On Friday last the members of th* _ choir of the Church of tlie Good Shep--1 -herd, Phillips-town, assembled in. the room to bid God-speed to their IJ.Wel J .We c__Mr-i___-U_r, Mr Runnicle&v who

is returning to England. The vicar, the Rev. H. E. Ensor, on behalf oi the choir, presented Mr Run-nicies with a travelling rug and silver-_-ounted pipe, as a token of their appreciation of his two years' work with them.

The Kaiapoi Ladies' Croquet Club on Saturday presented Mrs R. Moore, who is leaving cm a visit to England, with a travelling rug and straps. Mrs E. Pan-ham, president, made tho presentation.

Mrs Osborne, wife of the Presby t.rian minister at Now Plymouth, is a sister of Sir Robert Hart, whose retirement as head of the Cbinrae Customs Department was recorded last week.

Lieutenant Humphrey G. Grace, eMcsi? son of the Yen. Archdeacon Grace, of Blenheim, who lj-ilds a commission in tho 21st (P.A.V.0.) Cavalry, with headquarters at Nowshera, near Peshawar (India), received his "baptism of fire" in the recent expedition against the Kakka Khels, conducted by General Willcocks. It is probable that Lieut. Grace will be a member of the force which is being sent against thq Mohmand trib.s. Mr A. L. Muir, editor of the 'Poverty Bay Herald.'"' passed through Cliristchurch on Satur-daj' on his return to Gisborne from the South.

It is stated that Mr C. C. King&tcn, M.P., may shortly send in his resignation as a member of the Commonwealth House of Representatives, en the grounds of ill-health. Mr Kingston represents Adelaide, but has not been -fcell enough to attend the sitting., of the House or take part in Federal politics for come time past.

The retirement of Colonel Walter A. Dunne removes from the active list the last of the survivors of the heroic defence of Rorke's Drift (says the "Natal Mercury"). Colonel Dunne was born in 1853. He joined the old Control Department in 1873, and in 1877 was employed as a junior commissary in th© Kaffir campaign... He served against the Gaika_, Galekas, and the Zulus, and fought behind the moalie bags at Rorke's Drift, and also at Ulundi. He was also engaged against the Boers inside Potchc.stroom, and saw considerable service in Egypt and the Soudan. Ho was transferred to the Army Service Corps in 1885, and has fi._l.--d colonel's appointments on the staff since 1897. The J- M. Johnston testimonial fund, which was a spontaneous tribute from the personal friends of the treasurer. of the Manawatu A. and P. Society, who was sent to Sydney as delegate for that Society, and in the_hopo that his health might bo restored, realised £150 in a few days, chiefly .in the Manawatu and Raugitikei districts.