PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 487, 21 April 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho'Hpn. Dr. Pindlay is at Dannevirko on routo for Napier,; tho Hon. D. Buddo is oxpoctod hero to-day, . aud ■ the Hon. A. T. Ngata is at H-untly. Tlio Prime Minister and tlio rost of his colleagues are in Wellington, ' ' '

' Tlio Hon. J. Carroll returned from tho Waikato by th<> Main Trunk through, express, yes'torday. '; , : ,-j '■ -

■\ Tho Hon. D. Buddo, "Minister for Public Health, is oxpwtod back from Canterbury this morning. '' ......... .- - "

Mr. T. N., Brodrick, has succoedod Mr. Trent as Commissioner of .Crown Lands la Hawko's Bay.' . -■ ,

A Dunodin - Press Association , telegram states that; John, M'Farliuie, Mayor of Tnpa< nui, ,diod suddefily yesterday, afternoon, presumably from heart disease. -

-Tho Hon. A. Wi Hogg, Minister for -Rojids ,and": Bridges,-, hopes »to; start libeforo ithd! fetid of trio week on a -trip to tho Tauranga and Wailii .districts. , -,-

■ ■ Mr, E; EL ; Wilniot, for somo time past Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown lands at 'Invercargillj' will shortly remove to Dtinodin as tlio successor to Mr. ; D. BaVron.

Tlio.; Hon.. I}r.| FjndJay,' Minister for • Justice, lefi? for i Dannevirko by yesterday's express. * Ho will' pnocoed. to Napior, and expects, to return to Wellington at the end of the week. ■ ... ; , .'Mr: AV.' Smart, suporintondent onginoor for .the ; Union Steam. Ship Company, who is loav" ing for England to-morrow by tho Corinthio,. wm bo entertained, by the Institutoof Marina Engineers at its rooms to-morrow morning. ■. Mr. J. H. Fowler, Government'* audit inspector. for tlio Auckland South district, has been transferred to; Nclbou. \ His cucoessoa 1 is .Mr! H; Wylie, of tlio head office, who takes up the work in Auokland' early this week. Our Napier. correspondent telegraphs ; that Dr, or Hospitak, who has beon on visit to Napier, left, for.. Welluigton by the mail train yesterday mom*; ing.!. Ho gOM on to Dunedin, wjiere ho is duo to arrive on Friday next. .At a meeting of tho Otago 'Education Board last night (states a Press Association telegram) Dr. J. R. Don,' lato rector of Waitaki Boys' High School, was appointed inspector in .succession to Mr. Fitzgerald, who retired last month. * Tho Ministelr for Education (Hon,.. .G. Fowlds) leaves for tho south to-night, Ho will open additions to tho Timaru 'iWuiiCul School to-morrow,' and'present'certificate's to the, successful students of the first-aid classes held at the school. ;.- .-'The "Waiiganui Chronicle" states that Mr, T; C.' Webb, r at present organist-at St, Thomas's, Wellington, has -.- been ■ appointed - organist and choirmaster at Christ.; Church, Wanganui, ( alld'willj tako up . His ,duties shortly., ';'

At the Bellevue, Hotel, Lower Hutt, on Monday evening, members of tho Hutt Valley Horticultural Society -en tertained • their president, Mr. G. A. Chapman, s and .presented him with, a/silver-monntod carc| case. Mr. Chapman is loaving shortly for a trip round tho world. , -. •'

Mr. James Moore, of tlio Missions to Seamou, has received n letter from the; Dundee relatives of John, M'Call, who is said to nav« been drowned in tho wreck of tho' Peaiguin/ .They fool sure that ho is alive, and Mr.Mooro would bo obliged . if. anyone with a knowlodgo' of M'Call's whereabouts would communicato with lilrn. . .

Advice from tho Modical Department of tho Admiralty, London; states tlmt m accord-. anc3 with tlio bequest of tho late Sir Gilbort Blano,. the gold medal founded by him foi distinguished professional zeal and / abilitj has been awarded'to Staff-Surgeon A; W.' B. Livesay, M.8., R.N.',- H.M.S. Bonavoaituro, Dr. Livesay, who: was awarded tho Royal Humane Societies' bronze medal in 1885 for oonspieuous gallantry in lifo saving, is-' a; brother Of Mr. C. E. B. Livesay, architect, of Wellington. • : .

Mr. 6. Gyton, who has boon omployed. ia tho Government Printing Office for; tho past twenty-fivo yoars,' and has now been granted six months' loavo, was, on Monday •presented by ; the t stafi: with two handsome travelling nigs, prior to his departure by the Corinthic to-morrow. Mr. Mackay, Government Printer, mado the presentation;, and in proposing Mr. Gyton's' health, wished him a pleasant voyage, and safo return. Mr. Gyton, who is accompanied by Mrs. Gyton, is visiting England and Europe.

One of tho oldest settlors on, t!io; coast passed away on' Monday morning (says tho ."Wangamu- Herald"), when Mr. Jas. Hall, who for tho past few years , has resided ill Wanganui, died after a short illness. Tli» late Mr. • Ball landed in Knkaramea ovg forty yoars ago, and was the first white mai to buy land and settle on it in thoPutci district:. Ho served tlircrtish botli Maori .wars,* and was presented by the Now Zealand Government-with a revolver for conspicuous bravery jiv action.<■ Tho; station and settle, mont at Ball; Road wero named after. the deceased gentleman, and that was for many years tlw eceiio of his labours, hisfarioboina ono of tho best known in tho district. tWmc few yoars back Sir. Ball retired from' aotivo life. and;, as above stated, camo . to' liv<v in Wangaiiuii The lata Mr. Ball leaves a widow, four eons, and two daughters.