PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 262, 29 July 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector" of Fish, cries, returned to Wellington by the Mara. 10a iioin Lyttelton. yesterday.

Dr. Holmes, of Kelburne, has been apI'fn'ff f ''onorary pathologist on the medical otnft of the Wellington Hospital.

Dr. Mason, Chief Health -Officer, who it paying departmental visits to Christchurck Friday ' " lne^'n ' : 18 ex Pe'ot«l back on • A " ,0I 1? those ordained to deacon's orders W P w-M :k recently'was Mr. w v !/ an } s ' i lof Canterbury Colbrnta /ealan .d»-aud Ridley Hall, Cam. Senior-Lieutenant Percy. Brandon, of tha Mounted llifles, has resigned his position with that corps to take up the duties of Adjutant to tho Second Regimenf/ Wellington Mounted Rifle Volunteers. Lieutenant a commission as 13 1907 1U 111 ° HGretallngas since February . Dr. .M'Evedy, vice-captain of tho British iootball team, has- decided riot to return Homo at tho conclusion'-of tho tour of Australia/ -He will .commence the praotice of Ins'profession;.in the North Island. Dr. ArEvedy was horn at Soiithbridge, Canter--ulT> ?,'^i,5 vas educated at St. Patrick's College, Wellington. He took his medical course at Guy's Hospital,: London. Mr. W. -Bateson, : M.A., F.R.S;, Fellow and Steward of .St. John's, has been elected Professor of Biology at Cambridge University. Mr. Bateson, who is well known as the,promoter of women's degrees (for which the poll of 1897 resulted as follows—non- . placet 1713, placet 662), was the son'of,the late Master of .St. John's, and Was educated at llugby. He took First Class Honours in bot-n parts of the Natural Science Tripos in 18S2 and 1883; he was Balfour Student from 1887 to 1890.. Mr.: E. J. Jackett, the brilliant full-back in tlib. British football team, ■ has accepted a position in the New Zealand Tourist Department. . .It is understood- that will take up his duties immediately after the conclusion of tho" tour in Australia. Mr. Jackott, who is a native of Cornwall, represented his county -.oh .the football field from, 1898 until 1908, with the. exception of;tha year 1001; and ho has played for England oh no fewer, than ten ocoasions: .He has also held the cycling championship of Cornwall since 1898. : '. , . • • Mr. W. F. Slack, who died at Palmerston North pll Sunday, did much valuable .work in cotihCctioii .with local government in South Canterbury. An a young man lie held a com- ■ lnissioii ill tho 4th Lalicasliii'e Light Infantry, but in 1858 ho dame out to Now Zealand and settled iii the Mackohzio qoiintrj', where ho had .a; shobp\ run. y Subsequently, he settleddewn 'at Woodside. > about. sqveii miles i from Geraldine, whero lib .lived for 27 years, leaving eventually •'to' go to . Palmerston North. Mi'. Slack ;.ttas one'of the. first members of the Board of Works,at Tiniaru, of the South Canterbury Education Board,* ahd for many, years a member and chairman of . the Geral-, dine Road Board. He was -a successful breeder of Roinney sheep and draught' horses, and Avon many prizes at the Timaru shows; His sons are tho .-well-known;.breeders of purebred', stock. Victoria is happy in the new Governor • whom . she will receive from ■ Scotland., At the dinner given at the Scottish Liberal Club in Edinburgh on the occasion of his appointnient, \the. genoral, respect felt by Scotsmen for"Sir. Thomas .Gibson-CarmichaelWas;very well oxpresscd both by the Master of Elibank and Lord. Rosebery.The former, who was unable to-be.: present, wrote, "AVo are lending Australia one of . our best, an able , and accomplished Scottish gentleman.'. 1 Lord Rosebery; avowed tho hope vtliat' tho llonio Country was lending; him to Australia for. a very short , period - indeed, and summed up the .personal feeling of those who know Sir Thomas in tho remark, ''Ho 1 lias tho geniuj of friendship , as ho Jlias: the genius: of ; art judgment" ' Lord Rosebery. warmly.; cq'mnlondc'dtho' new Governor to tile Caledonian Club in Melbourne, "of which,ho said, "I am at lehst''an''honorarJ''' l 'rriember, and to which I have left a recollection in 'a lovinf cup, Which 'I trust ■he ..will .frequently' draii ill toasts to tho Mother Country."