PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 595, 25 August 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

i 0 . Tho Acting-Prime Minister > (tho Hon. J > parrqll), who has been oil a visit to Gisboilie, is expected'to roturn to Wellington thiJ i morning. , , , The, Rep. B. Hutspn, of FprdeH,, is in town Tho Hon. G. Fpwlds (Ministef K for SfoW , ' tion) returned to Wellington from Auckland j ?t»Mot> t ' , , , , , / i jTM Bon. J. A; Millar (Minister for .Rut *ajs) intends tfi remain m Wellington eoni i j tinhously Until Parliament meets. ' i Ü bJt P ,' T'Pke, M.P.! is at present on >■ ' *"*!*»-welewoag, add is due back 1 this <, ! evening. -, i !' xrs w As ?°P iot ?Pn message states that i X;, -.. l i"S? 73* last wernng re-elected sflSirms?) of. j;he Wanganui Education Board. J *& .& Y6- Coleridge, architect, Is at present confined to his home through illness ■ J l, lw r PfotaWy he some days before he is ' able to be about again. ~ ' ' ' " ' w 11 ?' Forsyth Johnston, manager of Messrs. Btisepo ahd Co.'s "Invercafgill j branch, arnr<w from the, south by the Maori 1 v |his morning. ' ' j Staff-Captain Oraffles, Provincial' Seer* ' ' i ?Ip fe!' iv4lM £PJ\ ls tepeoted back ' ' kSui.? .*?„ Thnisda y- and Colonel , Knight, Provincial Commander, on Saturday. 1 <i!PP H< % ?' Bud^o ' Minister for Internal ' i !l IM i'- 7'!' lea v? Saturday for the Auck- ■ *iftd district, where a considerable amount ' Acttonb bu s'neM awaits transThe Son, T Mackenzie, Minister for Aeri- . culture, kayes on Thursday or Friday for , Wanganui During a brief stay there, he , win attend tho annual banquet under tho i .auspices of tho local Caledonian Society, (and deal frith seyeral local matters, fle will ' ,return to Wellington either on Saturday or ' On Monday. ft member of, the choir, wa,s made tho resident pf a presentation m token of the Mteem in which he is held. Mr Amodw, , who has been transferred to Chnstehurch nf hi - B B ° ? ? * Um] ori Mtm W • • Mr. Herbert Hill, an pld resident of Wellington, who came out from the Old Couni try in the ship Alma, in 1857, died' at his fesidonce, Hargreaves Street, at 7. a.m. \os*™ay. after a four months' illness Mr dill, who was 62 years of age, succepded his / atnar as a bnpk and drain-pipa nwnufaci nf?' a J" 131 ?,. 9 . 3 ' be " as beea connected vjith U nisMife. His wife some 16 years ago. i ■ i m m y ' cons i? ts of hvo- spns, Mentis. .amuol, Ihomas, Gcorgq, Herbert, and Ed- ?™? Hil, and six daughters, mpluding Mrs. i ieg. Scott and Mrs. Arthur L. Johnson. 'A very pleasing function took place at the lissions to Seamen last evening, when Mr '• k fi ur scss, a Talked helper of the Mis--04 for six jears, wa* t«ncfwtd a farewell jcial. Notwithstanding the short notice of le appointment of Mr. r Burgess to tho pqsito of lay reador for thd phufpl( of Engad m tho Wajtotara district, some thirty arkors were present. " iMr'.-James Moord, ie missionor, 'spoke in eulogistm terms of Jo services rendered by Mr: Burgess,' and tosentations were made by Miss Dement i id Air. J. -S. Cummings on behalf of the loir, club, and" congregation of tho Mis- ', onti to Snamen. Mr. Burgess thanked those .esent for the hearty semj-off giyen him. v ilr E. Bamford, the new RegistrarOuoral of Lands, has just lecoived an illurii.itcd address fiom the Ipgal fraternity of AMand, com lied ui the folkming terms.— / 1 M«in Bamford, t.q„ Regi a t l ar-General < T^ K h ? lr ~ ll,e "'"wbers of the Auckm Di3tltcl Lalv SetifU heartily congitul.ite jou ml your apponitmiMil to the <Ji|i. of Regwlrftr-Ueriprlil of Lands, and on tHevf oi your dcpnrluie foi Wellington to , the HntiPß of thnt lmpottnnt office , dcie to give" fpnlml ciprcsinn to their reroiih'ui of youi high piofessional and uffi- / ci<( qii->liilo itipiifi In (|ie Inntj period durjou navo occupied the position of 1 Dij-jrt Lnn/1 Jlptrihtrai at Auclilnnd, jour sra.-i'-j to tho Gotpinmcnt haic been "perfoijfd with conspicuous ability, and-yonr «i.«is dpvnlloit to tb6 public interests hrts mijilblj hcqn prcninpanipr] by the utmost coiloiy mid eoniidwntion to lpgal praotitio'n As n &qnnd lawyer aqd pqnvcyaneer, fln/ns ono having a soun,d knpwledgo of the diilult subject pertaining to Native lands, wetcgard you as aji officer of exceptjonal / vak) to the State. Thq legal profession whs most sincerely regretting your dopartui from Auckland, feel that such qnalificatiw sa your? are entitled to and will find an , cnfely appropriate field in tho high office to wnh you have been promoted. Wishing yoihealtb, prosperity] and happiness in your noiiphere of work, we are—{then fqlfow aaes of members of th« Law Society). i i i