PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 500, 6 May 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. J. OiwroU is at Hastinga, the Hon. R. M'Kenzio leaves Waihi for Tauranga to-day,.and-thei Hon. A. T. Ngata is at l'ukotoraki. The Premier and the other Ministers will bo m AVellington to-day. Mr. V, Hally, Conciliation Oommissioner. roturned from Pioton yesterday. The! Hon. T. Manlsonzie is on board tho forry steamer duo at this port from Lyttelton tins morning. ■■.■■■• ... The.Hon.' J. A, Millar honee to ioavo for the south to-morrow in order to complete his tour of.tho railways of.the Dominion. Dr. J. Holliduy Scott, of Dmiodin, who Jins been nbroad on,a holiday trip, returned uy tho Himutaka, whjoh arrived hero from liondoa yesterday. ' .: • :. . ; _ Mr. Edward Collins, a member of tho Londoii County Council, who is at present visiting Now Zealand, investigating economic conditions, intends loaving in a few days for Sydney; on his return voyago to England. Captain England, who commanded th<s Nimrod on tho first journey to tho Antarctic, is at present confined to'his bed in Christeliurch. He intended to loayb for Brk tain by tho Buteshire, but he has had to ■iwstpone the.voyage. ■ -... ■ ■- ... ■ .".

x Thp Hqn., D. Buddo went 'to Poimoreton Worth yostorday by tho midday train, and will return to-day.. Tho Hon; A. W. Hogg visited his home at juasterton yesterday afternoon. It was his mtentionto return to town tjQ-day. ~ Hon- B- M'Keimo (Minister for Pubm ■}■! >? nd 1Iill(ls ) and party will loavo \Yaihi for lauranga this morning, and leave ' Taurnngafox 'J , ©, Puljo tq-mortw. .. r T +° nJh, G J- H -,,P° lo > ' of too' Melbourne Central Methodist Mission, who js>at present in tho Dominion, has been invited to hold a mission at tho Nowtown Mo&odist Church at tho end of Juno. \., Mr, R, .Cprbott a station.holdcr in ' the extremo north of Now Zealand, returned ronv an extended trip to.tho Qd.Country by tho Rimntaka yesterday, His nieo e ; Misa imiraton, accompanied him. Mr. Jas Coatcs, general manngor for the National, Bapk Q f Now Zealand, lti' has been advised by cahlo that tho Hon. W P . ««ovos. late High Commissioner for Now < Zealand, has been appointed to succeed tbo late Mr. Qojin u. Robs on tho board of that A very pleasant funotiou toot pkoo at the Hotel Bristol on Monday eyeing' last, when. ■ Mr. Sid. Davios, late ni(inaa<jr of tho D.S.A., Uifta (street, was farewolled by a number or his friends at a ohampagno supper; Mr. J. Doyle occupied tho cW, and- in a neat speech gave expression tothe' many good qualities of Mr, Davios, and presented him with a travelling bag a? a. token of the high <■:■ esteem he was Hold in bv his Mpnda, W Proposed by Messre.' I«n. don, Marks, \Vhately, and F,'Prasor?B!lbs. ing. 'nMriod ■ VnwS. , Mrt Oliurcli, Moßsre, John Mlor, iunr., JW tnbuted.musical fcm, Mr, Oayjei ] o ft Ton Tuesday for Melbourne, vial Punedm. . Mr. I). W./Downea, a well-known eun-eyor' and mil engmeer and luttorly Town Clerk Hiiiu ' i*? pt his residence, «ullß> jeaterday morning.; Deceased Vase o«r Mnrtan oorrespondont) was : born In lon- ■ don m 1833,, and . camo to Pioton with his Parents m; 1887. f His father was? for wany Wrs, ncsidont Magistrate at l'icton. ShorfJyattcr arriving,.Mr. Downos'wae annointed ' draw;ng f master. if poison. College. yoarfiJuter ho hia fortune at tho Bouthluigton, to take up an appointment in tho Survey Department. After ten . voaw 1 m. vice in this, ho joined the Public Worb Departmontrand,. three years lator, amoved to Bulls, where holme resided sineo Hβ was, for many years, a membor of the Bulls ; Town Board, and School Committee, resigning from the-latter reoontly on account of " ill-health.v-He was: formerly a member of Anglican • Synod, and acted as a lay ■ reader. . In his younger days lio w»s an'en. thnsiastio volunteer, and a member of No. /, I ?ff ! )} r ' k° wer ' Hlltt &s<*■ •Ho was also ' an Oddfollow,; a forester,. and a Freemason. Uβ leaves two sons and ono daughter.