PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor, lord Islington, arrived at Dunedin from Invercargill last night. He will proceed north by the second express to-day.—Press Association. Sir Joseph Ward is expected to return to Wellington on Thursday next. Cabinet meetings will be deferred until after that .date. The Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford, IIP.), who has been spending a vacation in the north, returns-to Wellington to-mor-row evening. The Anglican Bishop of Manchester writes to the "Church Times" as follows:—My attention has been called to the notice which appeared in your , columns of the appointment of Bishop Sfeligan as Diocesan Missioner in this diocese. The notice should havo been subject to this qualification—that "Bishop Neligan, While desirous of accepting the post, could'not definitely accept it until lie had consulted his medical advisers in London, having been compelled on medical orders to resign from tho Bishopric of Auckland. The appointment therefore cannot be completo until -tho Bishop of Manchester has received the opinion of Bishop Neligan's mcdical advisers." The Rev. T. M'Caw, of Lower Hutt, was a passenger to the .South Island by tho Maori last night. He is on a visit to his mother, an aged lady who resides near Milton, and who may not live until her son arrives at her bedside. Ou the occasion of his retirement from t-h2 public service, Mr. AI. J. Kilgour, Assistant Land Registrar, was yesterday the recipient of a handsome presentation from Iho members of tho.Land and Deeds Registry Office. In tho unavoidable absence of Mr. Baniford, Registrar-Cieueral nf Land, Mr. Burke, Assistant Land Registrar, made the presentation, and in a very appropriate speech wished tho recipient many years of well-earned rest. Mr. .T. M. Batham, late Registrar-General of Land, who had been associated with Mr. lulgour for over 30 years, was present, and boro testimony to Mr. lulgour's long. ami faithful service. Mr. Kilgour, in reply, related some interesting and amusini rominiscences of his -It years in the Civil Service. Joining the Audit Oliice in tho year 180", "and afterwards the office of the Registrar-General under Mr. Dommett, which was then located in an old wooden building on tho site of tho present Hotel Cecil, he eventually saw tho introduction of tho land transfer system under Mr. J. E. Smith, tho lirst District Laiul Registrar, and the graduil growth of that system in tho various land transfer office's of the Dominion, resulting, in tho intiieato deeds system l.eing rapidly displaced.