PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13466, 5 July 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Press Association representative who accompanied his Excellency the Governor on the trip to tho Cook Islands, writing from Raratonga under date of June 24th, says that after a most pleasant trip H.M.S. Challenger, with Lord Plunket on board, arrived at Rarotonga early in the morning, and dropped anchor off Avarua.

The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Railways, arrived from Dunedin by the second express on Saturday, and left the samo evening for Wellington. Mr Millar's committee in Dunedin, intend entertaining him at a social in September.

Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., left for the South on Saturday to open the Police Commission at Invercargill.

Mr Justice Denniston left for Wellington by the Maori- on Saturday ni^ht. Dr. Levinge, Mr G. Jameson, Mr Scobie McKenzie, Mr G. H. Scales, and Mr W. F. M, Buckley left for Wellington by the Maori on Saturday night. The Hon. H. F. Wigram, M.L.C., arrived from Wellington on Saturday morning

Major Lascelles and Mr Rose Jaggar arrived from Wellington on Saturday morning. Mr Geo. Gould left on Saturday tor the North Island, en route to England. Ho will journey via Vancouver, and hopes to return to Christchurch not later than January next.

Visitors to town include: —Mr G. H. {Jhapman and Mr G. Harding (Wellington).

Messrs A. George (Wellington), J. Davis (Sydney), H. H. Porton (Wellington), and A. A. Fairbairn (Dunedin) arrived in town on Saturday. Cr. Ross, of the Woolston Borough Council, has resigned. Mr W. R. Haselden, late District Court Judge, has been appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate, and Chairman of the Licensing Committees of Egmont, Stratford, and Patea. Mr Haselden was born in England in 1549, and cam© to New Zealand in 1860. He entered the Civil Service in 1866, and was admitted' a barrister in 1872. As Crown Prosecutor at Westport he became well known on the West Coast. Leaving there in 1889, he took up his residence in Wellington, and practised there until 1897, when he -was appointed Stipend diary Magistrate, in whichposition he acted in Wellington and Christchurch. He was appointed a District Judge in 1906, and only retired from the position on the abolition of the District Court a few weeks ago. On Friday night Mr and Mrs Parsons were entertained at a social at Burnham, and were the recipients of several presentations. Mr Parsons, late station master at Burnham, has been transferred to Waipara.