PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 548, 1 July 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All tho Ministers of the . Crown will m Wellington to-day excent thq Hon. J> A. ■'*' Millar, who is at Dunedin.■ 1 ( i The Hon. R. M'Kenr.ie loavos ( on Saturday ' on a week's visit to Nelson. v] . Mr. A. H. Goo, of tho West's Pictures Pro- <i prietary, arrived from Sydney, by the Manuka yesterday.' . 1 -v Mr. W. M'lCee, of the Cambridge Post Office, luvs been appointed postmaster' at' Whalcatano in sucoeEsion to A. 0. Norris, -Ki- ' . oently sentenced for ombessrlmg publio wonoyv , Tlio Hon'.'- G.- Fowlds (Minister for Educa- t tion) proceeded ,yesterday to Waikaunn; where ho opened a now school. Durilis tho ' - Course: of his visit, ho 1 was entertained at lunoh- at Mahara House;:- Ho returned to : •Wellington m tho evening. ■ ■' Included in the list of passengers from Syd« noy by the Manuka yesterday were Messrs, H. Rudd (mauacor for tlio Union B.S. Com-. pany at Now Plymouth), Q, P. Pearco (of - Lovin and C0,),,G.. Ghevannos, juin (of Waiigaiuu), and 0. Andrews "(Director of Educu- ' tion in Western Australia). » Mr.'Fred. Dight.'w-ho some years ago'wan a member of the local staff of Messrs. Sa> t;good, Son, and Ewcn, has boon appointed " : solo representative - in' New;, fealahd' for tho Mamifacturers 1 Agency,' Limited,, of Melbourne and Sydney. Mr.-Dight arrived from' the sojith yesterday,' and will return to Christchurch this Evening. , I. A Napier, Press Association telegram states : I that Mr. ; J, H.. Sheath, Chief 'Postmaster at 11 Napier,, who has now finally, retired'' from 1 .tho.. Govornmont: Service at; his hwn'request on peniion, . was presented yesterday by the i staff of tlio Chief Post. OfBco; with '• a shield containing the photographs' of : all ' its members. , ' t . : • Cable news was received from Sydney at ■ 5 p.m. yesterday, per Press Association, of 1 - the death at, Bournemouth, England, of Mr.- ' Thomas Hudson, formerly ' a ■ well-known theatrical manager . ]n :i - Australia, So mo twenty years ago or more Mr. Hudson was • <, actively interested.: in. catering for\lovers of vaudeville in tho colonias, and l was.. -well < known, in New. Zealand ,as tho proprietor: of . r Hudson's Surpriso Party, a bliow. run on >tho - I lines of tho lliokards entertainments in Syd* noy and Melbourne;,. Mr. ■ Hudson himself wasjat onovtime. a. popular comedian and end-m'ou, as many old playgoore. will re-; member. .During, tlio. later years of. his . i caroor as a manager he spent a good deal of * >timo -.in .tourmg>.Uid\i\,, tho. Strait Settle* ••• • nients, and. China with companies, organised . .ifl;' ;; >:{ : '' . During tJicar flying visit to Watkanae yesterday, tli& Hon. ■G. Fowlds -and party called : * upon ;Mr. rH. "Burling, t. who, ib; noiv in:- his llOth-yoar. ,-Mr . .ijjurllllg was ■. found >tor bo suQenng from., a slight, oold whiehiho con-.^ 1 tracted some days when he went/ down to tho township to kick off in a foot- ■' ball match. AVithout assistance, -Mr. Bu>> " ling, who u' remarkably wellpreserved, waVlteA into tho room whoro ttic party haa < : assembled. In roplv to the customary oueetion,'ho romaikoa," amid laughter: "0)i, 1 am not so bad Jor a ypungst<jr (" Mr. Burling narrated several, inciafents, .which. went • to show tho hardships which' settlers suffered wiien he to New Zoaland ovor 65 • years Mr.: Burling is.-, partially blihd'owinri; priiicipally to am ac-. '. cident whifch .befoTliliini a. good many yeaiis ago.:- CTmu inqu'irjv lieen made; as to ■ whetherliishoai'ing was failing. • ho. jaoubrly . rGmarked; "Oh, l ean hear all right." : You knovvA it just depends!what It is about." As te. Burlmg. aha his 1 fatoly havo-been Mn« < • • able to' secure a copy of his birth certificate, - '• ; Mr. Fowlds suggested that'tho information desired niight be contained in tho -entry of bis cei'tificate of niarfiige, which took placo : at Bow Street. London, oigllty-two yoare ago. . Before tlio' pirtv :left, Mr; ■ Burling \ ■ cam©, out on. to the verahdah, where 'ho arttl. .. the 'othofs' r were'..pfcotdgraphed: in .a group i: by Jtr. Fowlds Kiold, M.P. :-it.