PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 755, 2 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor is to leavs for Napier and Hastings this morning. Friends of Mr. C. 11. Williams, proprietor of Barrett's Hotel, who is well known in Wellington, will regret to hear that he is at present lying seriously ill. . Tho Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), interviewed at Dunedin, said his health was firmly re-established as a result <■} the operation performed in London by Sir Watson Cheyne, the famous special-, ist. Sir Robert resumes duty on Friday, immediately on arriving at Wellington bv the Mqeraki. Lady Stout returns to the Dominion at the end of the year.—Press Association. The death is announced of Mr. John Curran, in his 98th year. Deceased wa3 the oldest resident of Tokomoiriro, Otago, —Press .Association. Mr. H. W. Shortt, of Messrs. W. F. Bhortt, Ltd., has sufficiently recovered trom a severe attack of influenza to resume business. Mr. Shortt is a candidate for the Eastbourne mayoralty. Mr. E. A. Abbott, architect, of Auck-' land, and formerly of Wellington, was' a passenger by the Hanroto, from Rarotonga, yesterday. Mr. Abbott has been' on a tour to England and tho United States. .Dr. Henry Walker died to-day, in his sixty-fourth _ year, says an Auckland Press Association telegram received last night Dr.- Walker qualified at Glasgow in 1876,.and camo to New Zealand in 1831, in the ship May Queen. He took a keen interest in educational' matters, being at the time of his death a member of the City Schools Committee, and for some years he fought hard for the abolition of home lessons in schools. Hs leaves two sons and two daughters. Colonel Brengle and Ensign Cook, Sal. vation Army officers, who arrived from' San Francisco yesterday, left in th« evening for LytteUp*. Messrs. W. H. and A. G. Ballinger, sons of Mr. Thomas Ballinger, returned to ._ Wellington yesterday, :. after having visited the Home Land and America; Mr. W. H. Ballinger has been in England for, three years pursuing his studies in electrical engineering. . . Mr. Cyril F. • Wainwright, special commissioner for the journal "Syren and Shipping," left London on January U by the P. 'and O. liner Madhura on a tour of the world. Mr. Wainwright proceeds first to the East, then to Australia, and New Zealand. Ho returns Home via South America. Mr. P. Duffy, fruit merchant of San Francisco, -arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Hauroto on! his way to Sydney. ■ Mr. .George Aitken, farmer ■ and stock dealer, at Musselburgh, Scotland, of which town he was' a councillor,-, who died recently, aged 70, while on a'pleasure voyage to New Zealand, leaving con-' siderable property, inserted a curious prey. I vision in his will. He: states that his. I trustees, who include the provost and town clerk of Musselburgh, shall remova some house property at a street cornel in the town and erect an - artistic equestrian bronze statue of himself in an ornamental plot to be there constructed. No cost is to be spared in carrying out. the scheme, and provision is made for the upkeep of the plot and statue for all time. This is in commemoration of his ' family connection with,the town for centuries, he being the last male, and also of his having acted as "town champion" at the riding of the; town's marches. Mr, E. E. Potter, merchant, of ■ Sail'' Francisco, arrived here by the Hauroto yesterday on a health trip. He goes to Sydney and returns to San Francisco via the Islands and Honolulu.. Mr. Alexander Crow will leave on April 7 on a visit to Great Britain. He will probably be absent till the end of On. year. Mr. Thomas Rogers, of Rangitikei line, celebrated his . seventieth birthdaj' yesterday, ft is stated that he was the first white child born in the Wellington province, this event taking place on February 28, 1840, at Hutt, in which district he resided for about 35 years. Mr. Joseph Donovan, one of the oldest of the Wanganui military settlers, and formerly of the 57th Regiment, died yes terday. morning. He served in'the Cri mean, Indian, and New Zealand wars.