PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 825, 25 May 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

d The Hon. T. Mackenzie (Minister for i- Agriculture) is attending tbo annual cont ferenco of the Wellington Provincial Disa trict Farmers' Union at Marton. The Hon. D. Buddo (Minister' for Inr ternal Affairs) returned last night from 11 New Plymouth, whore he acted as MinI" ister in attendance on his Excellency the ;' Governor. j 11 The Hon. J. A. Millar (Minister for o Hallways) lea res for Duntdin to-night, as i Minister in attendance upon his Escel- ■- loncy tho Governor. Upon Ms return to y- Wellington next Wednesday, ho will visit , Auckland and Wanganui. e Tho Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for 0 Education, leaves for Auckland to-mor-row, on a visit whicli will probably last ; a week, r Mr. J. A. Button, chief postmaster in 0 Wellington sinco 1903, has retired after 16 e years in the postal service. He joined - the service in ISG-1, after having served t five years in the Telegraph Department i of Victoria as an operator. Ho had-been i stationed at Pa tea, Timaru, Oaiharu, and - other towns in the Dominion before being a appointed postmaster here. For some time past Mr. Hiitton's health lias been B unsatisfactory. So far no one has been s appointed to the vacancy. J Mr. Donald Buchanan, brother of Mr. • W. C. Buchanan, M.P., died at Hawera , on Friday evening, aged 79 years. Mr. 1 Buchanan was ono of the oldest of Hawera's settlors,-his residence dating back > to about IS7U-7 (says the "Hawera Star"). 1 But he had had long colonial experience before that. He came out to Victoria J from Scotland in 1851, aud was engaged 5 there for a considerable timo in the western district, where in those days Neil > Black, the Robertsons, and others on ( large stations were commencing to build > up great Shorthorn herds, from which • largely the stock of the Commonwealth, • ami in « lesser degree that of New Zealand, havo drawn their characteristics of ' size and quality. Mr. Buchanan suc- > ceeded so well and was so good a man . with cattle that before long ho was given \ charge of one of these great runs. in [ lSGfi he visited New Zealand for a time, , but returned. Ten years afterwards lie came to New Zealand permanently, and ni'ler a short stay in the Wairarapa ; came to Tnranaki. Hero ho tool; up ono i of tho old Nntivo leasts. He leaves a widow and two daughters aud two sons; ; Mr. J. W. Buchanan and Mr. Donald Buchanan, of Mastertoo.

Mr. M. Myers went north yesterday to represent the Wailii Gold-mining Company at the Ohinemuri Silting Commission, whose sittings are about to commence at Paeroa. Mr. V. Moore, of Arc- Street, Wellington, leaves for Sydney by tho Warrimoo on Friday en route for Durban. Messrs. W. Dalton and J. A. Belk, of Feilding, leave for England, via Tahiti aud America, by the Mokoia on May 27. Mr. James Cowan, until recently journalist attached to the Tourist .Department, has been appointed sub-editor of the "Free Lance, vice Mr. Glanville Hicks, who is to edit and manage the "Eotorua Times." The Hon. E. Richardson, C.M.G., is about to retire from the position' of . manager and secretary of the Wellington Patent Slip Company. The secretarial duties will for the future bo carried out by Mr. T. 11. Tripe, accountant to tho Union Company in Wellington. Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P., has returned from a visit to "Wanganui and Palmerston North. The friends of Mr. Robert Leth, an. amateur comic singer (who has been laid , up with an attack of pneumonia), are ta tender him a benefit at St. Peter's Hall, on Friday next. An attractive' programma has been arranged under the di- , rcction of Mr. M. Hankins. Mr. J. G. Beswick, postmaster at To Aroha, has been transferred to Picton I vice Mr. Lecoq, who has been appointed . to tako charge at "Waimate (Canterbury), . Mr. Holieywood, postmaster at Russell, , is being transferred to Te Aroha, and _ Mr. Hunt, in charge at Mongonui, is to be transferred to Methven. 1 Mr. Stuart Kichardson, electrical en--5 gineor to the City Council, has gone on - holiday to Nelson. . A social gathering was. hold at the Windsor Hotel last evening by the head r office staff of the Tramways and Electrio j Lighting Department of tho City Council, to bid farewell to Mr. A. J. Geary, chief clerk, who is leaving to take the posil tion of town clerk at Feilding. Mr. M. - Cable, who presided, referred to tho good. ■ work and estimable qualities of , Mr. ' Geary, who, he said, would be much 5 missed by the department. -Mr. Geary'? - health was drank with musical honours, • and he replied appropriately. i ■ ■ ..