PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 292, 3 September 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Ecv. R. J. Porter, of Oaraaru, wil occupy St. John's pulpit during this month. Colonel and Mrs. Chaytor left for Picton, en route to Blenheim, by the Penguin yesterday. • Mr. P. D. Leslie was elected a member of the Chamber of Commerce at yesterday's meeting of tho Council. Mr. D. A. Aitken, of the Union Company's staff, loft for headquarters at Dunedin by the Maori last night. Mr. F. T. Wimble, of the. well-known printing and type-founding firm, is paying a business visit to Wellington. Mr. W. Scott, _ secretary of the Otago Employers' Association, returns south on Friday or Saturday evening. 'Mr. Bert Doyle, representative in New Zealand for Mr. J. C. Williamson, returned from a visit to. Melbourne and Sydnoy yesterday. Messrs. Geo. Laurenson, M.P., and Orton Stevons are amongst .the passengers arriving from tho South by the Wimmera this morning.'. ■Mr. J. Porteous, assistant inspector of Native schools, has returned from inspecting schools in the Gisborne and Tauranga districts. Mrs. W. B. Tripe, of Upper l Willis Street, and her two sons, Messrs. D. and W. Tripe, returned from a'visit to' Australia by the Moeraki yesterday.. Mr. Charles Saunders and Miss Clara Robson are to re-appear at the Town Hall under an arrangement with the Wellington Choral Society on September 16 and 18; Messrs. Bethune and Ilunter, who have acted as Lloyds agents since the foundation of Wellington, have resigned the appointment, and aro now only acting until their successors are appointed. ' . : Our Dunedin correspondent states ■ that Mr. C. C. Graham, S.M., will retire from active service as a stipendiary „magistrate to-day. For the last twenty years lie has held this office, and for twenty years before that ho was a J.P. A Press. Association message from Hamilton states that Mr. R. John Paull, proprietor of tho "Waikato Times," and formerly of tho "Lyttelton Times" staff, died from heart failure yesterday morning, after a .short illness. ' . Mr. A. E. Mabin, manager of Messrs. Levin and Co.'s wool and hemp, department, accompanied by Mrs. Mabin, returned from a holiday trip to New South Wales and Queonßlaud by the Moeraki yesterday morning. . . '

Mr. 6. J. Roberts, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Westlana, was stated by the Greymouth "Argus" of last Friday to be on his way to Wellington in connection with the proposed purchase of Inchbonnio, tha estate of the late Mr, Bruce, Mr. R. W. Kane, local manager of the Bank of New Zealand, and Mrs. Kane, who have been on a trip to the South Seas, arrived back, via Sydney, bytheMoeraki yesterday. They were accompanied from Sydney by Miss Kane, who has been on a visit to the Old Country. The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, whose recovery of health has been slow, lias provisionally accepted an invitation to revisit New Zealand and conduct a series of evangelistic' services during the winter (states the "Christian World"). Mr. Spurgeon expects to reach Australia ill September, and to rest'for a time. Mr. E. Trevor Hill, of Auckland, returned to New Zealand by the Tongariro last week from London, after an extensive tour of tho United Kingdom and the Continent, where he made extensive studies in- electfrieal engineering, taking as a special subject electrio cranes. Mr. Hill left for Auckland yesterday morning, where ho intends resuming his vocation. Mr. Cecil Willis, son of Mr. A. J. Willis, of. Joknson'ville, will arrive in Wellington by the Kaipara from London to-morrow. Ho is on the cngin<M'oom staff.of.that steamer, and has,been oil• ■a'n : iextended tour of tho world, having left Wellington by the tramp steamer Bucentaur some two years ago. While in London Mr. .Willis, was successful in obtaining his first-class ijiarine engineer's certificate. He- served his apprenticeship with Co.blo and Co. of this city.

Mr. Chas. Seagar, of Silverstream; well known in local shipping circles, is still'incapacitated by tlie . fall from his y'g cn returning to his home from the' Silverstream Railway Station on Saturday last. Mr. Seagar and others wero thrown to tho loadway as tbo rosult -of the horse they were driving becoming frightened by the noise ofpassing ' motor-car, and thus overbalancing the vehicle they were in; which, after bring lightened of' its load, ended its journey at the nearest telegraph pole, the pony continuing its mad career with the remaining gear to the stable'yards some distance beyond.