PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

.'•Sir Joseph Ward, and tho Hon. T. Mackenzie are, at Christchurch, • tho Hon.. G. Fowlds is at Dunodin, the Hon. A. W. Hogg is at Tauranga, the Hon. A. T. Ngata is at Otalri, and tho other Ministers are in. VWcl-' lingfam. : ... ■• • •" Mr. T. Y. Seddon, M.P;, arrived from the West Coast yesterday, .and will remain 'for some .time, in Wellington. Mr. Monaghan, who won a scholarship at tlie Karori School in 1901, is leaving ' the teaching staff of that school to take up an, nppointment on tho staff of the' Wellington College. . ,- ; Mrs! Albert Goldio (nee Miss '. Dulcio Deamer),'of Featlierston', who is a well-known .contributor' to the Australian press, is returning; from India next month, on a visit to ber parents, Dr. and Mrs. Deamer. • Mr. Baniford, lately District Land Registrar at Auckland, who has been appointed Registrar-General of Lands and District , Land • Registrar for the Wellington district, has taken up his duties at the Laaid Transfer Office, Wellington.: ; • Mr. E. W. Kane, of tho Parliamentary .staff, 4 whorecently • underwent two. operations, and who has been confined to a private 'hospital for some weeks; is on tho mend, and is now at homo again. , ; Sir Joseph Ward, and tho Hon. (T. Mackenzie left for the south by, tho Maori last night. The-Prime Minister will spend to-day in Christchurch, attending to public business,. • Mr. Pauling, late Examiner of Titles of tho Land Transfer Department, Wellington, has been appointed District Land Registrar at Napier. 'On the eve of his departure ho -was presented by Mr. ICilgour, on behalf of .the staff of tho local' office, with an: address and a silver match-box as a mark of their esteem and regard. : ' . w.; Mr. T. A. Cushen, Mayor of South Inyercargill, died, yesterday morning from, pneumonia; after a week's illness. Ho was a oandidate for re-election on Wednesday nest-, Deceased, who carried on business 'as. a painter and paperhangor,'.was aged 49 years. He leaves a widpw and a family of thirteen. —Press Association. ... Eulogistic reference was made by - the retiring committeo in connection with tlie Nowtown District Higli School Inst night' to tho servicos rendered by Mr. F. P. Wilson, lirst* assistant, who has resigned tp take, up a university position. "Whilst congratulating him upon his appointment," addsd th 6 committee, ''we feel that the school loses a most efficient and popular master."\ •_ ~ ' A 'Press Association message from tho Thames states that the death lias occurred thero of Mr. Geo. S. Clark, a ■ well-known mine manager. Ho landed at Dunediu in 1807,. and a few years later journeyed to the Thames, where he was manager of several claims. "He was a. manager of the Prince Imperial, when a big patch of 150,0000z. of gold was secured; Deceased, who was associated with several local bodies, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1848. •