PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13740, 23 May 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr H. D. Bell, X.C... is making isfaotory progree* towards recovers from his recent illness. '■'Mμ Dr. H. Cheeson, who has been'r«K;|| dent mediear officer at tie Springs Sanatorium for the pasthas accepted the appointment of medv;'.ffl cal aijd health officer of the Cook •*§"■ lands. Ho will leave for the lelaffljjfc'i shortly. " ~ij§H| Tho Rev. H. A. Kennedy, one of t«>s| forerunners of the Anglican Genert|y| Mission, who hae completed his P re tory tour of New Zealand, lington for England by the Atlwiuc , ofel Thursday. ' » 5?1 The Rev. "W. Soorgie, of has declined a unanimous call to eraton North. ' tftiii«*'ffi According to renort (says the Jington ,"Dominion r ') there will nominees for the rosition of of Committees of the House of ecntatives, which is to be Mr Wilford. The names are:—Sir William Steward, Mr T.'Bgga Davey, and >Ir v W. Jennings. • **JI3J9 not known which candidate will the sunrx)rt of the Government.- >J||§§i The emplpyeee of A. T/yree Ltd., met on Saturday presented Mr C. AY. *2mM house manager, with sn veying their best wishes for bis * a ?Sf|B|

V • „.,. nnd prosperity and express**f P S apWiation ot his unfailing Kds to the ataff. MissC. Lowe returned from England "VffX-ial Jjathrrin? held in the ~.ruw Hail on Wednesday even■\\inchmorft l of *&nte of the district, presented Miss i, M Smith with n ijurse «f sovereigns in" thp occasion of her leaving tho "here i<: r> had boen in sole ■!wU? for throe years, to take tm a Son on th* tending staff of the g Pa "a Dirtrirt UiLT.h School. ' \monc t.!'* , arrivals in town are :—Mr r'ljVsh' ,N,o ''"' r " , •*'' C-ha/lcs Gordon (Glasgow)/ and Mr I- Stephens '^T.j,,'Captain Lambert from pas.'en- .,, oil .«*». Arahtira, in memory of flalt-y , - Comet, May 10th. 1910.' , ' reads . n 'i"i;.'riutifiti on » I'ipo , nresented to r*-! , *'i:i LamtKTt by Mr J. Colvin, M.P.. atSvclliii-'"" '>» Saturday, on behalf of passpiiiifrs. mostly Wostport resi-(ic-ni*. who 7.<tc mi tho S:tc-amer during the trir> from Nelson to Wellington on ■Thursday ni_'lit. Mr 1.. W. son of Mrs H. Rlundt-'l, of Wellington, and Mr q W. Trin-ham. left Wellington on FrKi'ay for t!-e Straits 5-pitlcn.onts mi a holiday trip. -They al*o intend to nnouire into the prosliecU of the rubbt-r trade. Mr G. Craig ha-s been ajipointrd chief olerk of tho Customs Department in to Mr \V. li. Montgomery. Mr has born connecte<l with the Ileparjmc'jt .-inrc 1801, when he entered tho service n> a endet in Timani. and the following year wan transferred in Christchurch. where ho remained until his appointment to the head office in 1891. Throe years later he was transferred to Dunodin as Landing Waiter, in which can.'icity he returned to Wellinttton. Tic was given charge of the. >audit brnnch at tho head office in IDD7, and now he assumes the duties of chief clerkAt khc Napier Cathedral yesterday, tbo /lev. H. H. Robjohns w.i-s ordained liriwt, and Messrs R. J. CVmtes and H. Collier were ordained deacons.

NiirsK* Fletcher, who was one of the nurses in attendance on tiie late King at Biarritz and in durintc tho jllncfs which jyoved fatal to him, is, says tlie "WniiKanui Herald." a native of New Zealand. Her father was the Rev. Mr Fletcher, who was, in the early days, engaged in missionary work in tho Auckland district. After leaving Nen' Zealand Miss Fletcher lived in Sydney for some years, and from there went, to the Old Country.

Mr G. M. Thomson. M.P., joins the i/lim-aroa at the Bluff to-day to proceed io Melbourne on .wivate business. He will return to New Zealand on Juno 21st.