PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 315, 30 September 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

0 The Rev. T. G, Hammond, of Patea, is " in town. i, . Field-Marshall Earl. Roberts attains his 3 seventy-sixth year to-day. t Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fishe cries, has returned from the North. ' • Sir. 0. Holdsworth, general manager of I-' the 11 -Union Steam I Shiy r Cbmp'afly, left Dun-' . edin for Wellington yesterday morning. Mr. J. G. W. Aitken, M.H.R., who has' s been incapacitated by a sharp attack of luin- . bago, is recovering, but is yet far from well. ~ Mr. C; W. Kent, for many years account- ' ant for Messrs. John Reid and Sons, ,of J Dunedin, has been appointed Town Clerk of • Oamaru. I' 'Mr. W., R. Davidson, who has been a ■ draughtsman at the Wanganui railway en- ! gincors' office for some time,"has been pro- > moted to the position of assistant engineer. Dr. Jamieson, of Collingwood, has acquired :' Dr.' Bartlett's practico in Eketahuna. Dr. ' Bartlett intends practising his profession in Sydney, and will leave for that place shortly . after Dr. Jamieson's arrival in Eketahuna. . Dr. Pomare, Health Officer to tho Maoris, ! left for Lyttelton last night on .Depart-' ■' mental business. Ho will return in time to 1 leave for Melbourne on Friday, with Dr. • Mason, to attend the Australasian Medical Congress. i ' Sir. Geo. A. Troup, architect to the Government Railway Department, who has been on a health trip to the Old Country, is returning byway of America. Ho is due back in New Zealand • about the middle of next month. On retiring from the position' of publisher of the "Otago Daily Times," after 30 years' continual employment, Sir. R. N. Adams was presented with a handsome chequo by the directors, and received a purse of sovereigns from his fellow employees. Mr. T. Larchin, who recently retired from the position of chief clerk in the head office of the Customs Department, was yesterday presented with some pieces "of plato by the officers of the Department, lie presentation was made by Mr. W. T. Glasgow, Secretary for Customs. The Rev. J. Mackenzie, of Christchurch, Rev. G. H.-Jupp, Presbyterian Young Peoples' travelling secretary, and Rev. J. J. Oairney (Waikouaiti) arrived in Wellington yesterday to attend a committee meeting which was held last evening in connection with the Assembly. Mr. Mackenzie returns homo to-day. > On Thursday morning last Mr. E. Herring, of Papanui, but who resided in the Ashburton County for many years as the owner of : the , Alford Estate, received a cablo mes-, sage frotn Homo from his son, Mr. T. P. ' Herring, intimating that he had been appointed to the Chair of Physiology at St. Andrew's University. Tho university is one of the oldest in Great Britain, having been : founded in 1410. ' Tho death is recorded at Duvauchelle, near Akaroa, of Mrs. Lucieu Libeau, one of the ' vory few surviving French immigrants,, who [ came out to Akaroa. in 1840. .She left With her parents, M. and Mmc. Gendrojt, and in ■ 1854 married M. Libeau, who was a fellow- i passenger with her in the Comte de Paris 14 ; - ; years before. The Taranaki Street school-room was well , filled yesterday afternoon, when a welcome , was given to the Rev. W. E. Bromilow and Mrs. Bromilow, lato of New Guinea. The Rev. W. G.' "Williams presided, and a large number of Methodist minister's were present. The Rov. W. J. Williams and the Rev. S. J. Serpell welcomed the visitors, who gave in roply an interesting account of their work in New Guinea. , • Tho Rev. C. Maclaverty, formerly curate of St. Peter's Church, who left for England some months ago on holiday, will not return to New Zealand. His relatives, from whom lie had been absent for fifteen years, have i persuaded him to make his homo m England, . and ho lias acceptcd the curacy of St. 1 Hilda's, Darlington, in succession to the 1 Rev. Craig Cruickshank, who was chosen by £ tho Bishop of Auckland for homo missionary t work in that diocese. c Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seymour, who are ' leaving Nelson for tho Lower Hutt, wcro * oiitovtaincd by tho parishionors of St. Mary's Church, Nelson, on Saturday' evening. Tho Rev. Father Clancy presided, and stated that they had mot to congratulate Mr. Scy- a mour on his promotion to the position of f postmaster at the Lower Hutt, and to say good-bye to him, Mrs. Seymour and their family. He rcforred to tho many sorvices ? Mr. Soymour had rendered to St. Mary's o Church, having repeatedly acted as hon. ® secretary to bazaars, presentations, etc., 0 and concluded by asking him to accept a t silver tea and coffoo service from tho par- u Uhlouots aa a tokcu of {Jiwr warm aiteom. fi