PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. D. Buddo, MiH.R., returned from tha South yesterday. ■ ■ Mr. 0. T. Scoringe has been appointed ranger for the Borough of Eastbourne. Mr. i'. E. Donne, of tho Tourist Department, returned from Rotorua on Saturday ovening. Word was received,,by cable v on Saturday that Mr. Duncan Stout, aon of Sir Robert Stout, who is studyitig at Guy's Hospital,' London, had passed the primary examination for the Fellowship of, the Roy a) College of Surgeons. This is a considerable achievement, as it is only three months, since Mr. Stout passed his intermediate examination. It is said that a candidate rarely passes the present examination at the. first attempt, aa Mr. Stout has done. '' ; ' '

Only one nomination wag received for; the vacancy in the Lower Hutt Borough Council, oauscd by the resignation of Councillor Groig, that of Mr. M. dV Hodgins, but as that gentleman is. barred ' from ' occupying such a position owing to_his being an officer of tho Counoil, it has'teen found necessary to hold an eleotion to fill the vaoanoy ou Wednesday, December. 4. '~,• /

Mrs. Alfred Jlcek/whoreturned,from Australia on Friday last, has'boon spending the winter at Pymblo, a subiirb of Sydney, and has been undergoing a courso of treatment at tho hands of a specialist int chest complaints. Tho treatment has "been highly bonefioinl, and Mrs. Meek, has been ablq to orijoy the sights of Sydney, as woll as to " tako in ""'tho Melbourne Curl on tho way homo. Mr. "Hoy' 1 Widdop, - brother of Mr. J. Widdop, of Wellington, \\ho has been away from New Zealand', for .; over/nino years, returned to Wellington..this week. Mr. Widdop joined the British'A r:ny wbon at Homo/ and has since, served-nt Gibraltar and in India, Mr, Widdop will bo remembered a* U\ft possessor,of a cultured baritone voice, and should pwvo a welcome addition to Wellington's scroll of vocalists.

A Dwvedin Press Associatidn telegram *UWK U\al at ft meeting'of the Patients : and WiftWrV* Aid Society lis't night, Mr t J. A. TfWMuw, who has 'been" engaged as tho asient for thirty years, 1 was'profrM\lo.l with a purse containing 532 sovowi&uis, The presentation was made by Mr. ittaliee Williams, who referred, ii; 'tonus of the higlnvst praise to the-.faithful, manner m which the recipient had dtyotcd' himself U) the work of tha Sooioty, w.bjch he,termed the work of his life. Mr. Torrance is! now retiring after having engaged'.,, in mission work in tlio cifcv for forty years, .-.'^