PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 977, 18 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

e ■.'■'■ r The Hon. Sir Maurice O'Rorke took his. seat in'the Legislative Council yesl- terday afternoon, atter being duly.sworn ie in. • i° Mr. J. O'Shea, City Solicitor, was j last ■ evening granted leave of absence to l visit Australia. .Mr. O'Shea expects to j. leave ■Wellington about December 16. n The late Mr. J. F. AVilliams, who died r " in the' Wellington Hospital on Tuesday >'• last, was a swimming enthusiast, and one it ,of the original comtnitteemen of the Swifts IS Club, of which he was subsequently f- elected a lifo member. Hβ also acted it as treasurer and secretary of the club at .different tim«s. The club has forwarded a wreath to be placed on deccased's grave. iw Dr. Harriss will not be able to acis company the famous Sheffield Choir to America, as he has undertaken to con- „ duct • tho opening performance at ' the • ° Pngeant of "England Festival on May 13 " next. That performance takes place in j the afternoon, and the sanio night Dr. ' Harriss is to leave London for Auckland. j. Dr. Leo. P. Haywood, son of Mr. ArjS thur Haywood, of Blenheim, who has \ been studying dentistry in Pennsylvania, re and at the Royal Dental Hospital, Lon0. don, returned to New Zealand by the' m Moeraki on Wednesday. *• Major Jackson Keddell, ex-Stipendiary 10 Magistrate at Oamani, died suddenly yosro terday morning, aged 79., Deceased set}s tied in Otago iu 1862, and in the early I 1" days of settlement was coroner on the ty , goidfiolds. Dunns the Maori. War he ." sewed in tho military forces under Gen--10 oral Sir Duncan Cameron in the Waikato campaign, obtaining the rank of major. as Subsequently ho was appointed Stipend'cf inry. Magistrate and Warden at Thames in gol'diield, and afterwards served in a. similar capacity at Coromnndcl, Greymouth, Central Otago, and Oamaru. He 5 P was a past master of the Masonic order. t' m —Press Association. At the Petono Bowling Club's pavilion last evening, Messrs. H. Palmer and A. ly Coles, who have just returned from a 'o , trip to Great Britain, were entertained , at. a smoke concert, and a pleasant time "' was spent with speech, song, and story. xl Captain M'Arthur, accompanied by Mr. lio Dale, of Sydney, and Mr. Williams" were et naESengers to Nelson and Golden Bay .tv the Niliau lost eveninj.