PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1149, 9 June 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

To-day all Cabinet Minislers with the exception of the 11011. D. Buddo will bo in Wellington. The Hon. R. M'Kenzie, Minister for Public Works, spent the whole of yesterday attending to Departmental work in Christchurch. Ho left for Wellington last evening. A Gazelle notica announces that Mr. 11. H. Ostler, Crown Prosecutor, AVellinglon, has been appointed Crown Prosecutor for Karotonga. Mr. Ostler is proceeding with Sir Robert Stout to eonduct the case for the Crown in tlio charge of murder against a liarotongan resident. Mr. H.. A. Robertson, of the local stall' of the Hank of New South Wales, has been notified of his transfer to Auckland, and will leave by (he Main Trunk line to-morrow morning to take up his new duties. Tho Mayor (.Mr. T. M. Wilford) was operated on yesterday morning for appendicitis. The operation was quite successful, and Mr. Wilford is doing as well as can be expected tinder the circumstances. The surgeons in attendance wero Drs. Collins, Ewart, and Mathew Holmes. The operation took place in a private hospital in Davis Street. Mr. J. Craigie, M.l'„ Timaru, was in Wellington yesterday 011 public business. Mr. T. S. Weston, Crown Prosecutor at New Plymouth, completed fifty years of active praclico of his profession on Tuesday. He was admitted to the Bar on Juno 7, ISGI, and has practised his profession in Auckland, Christchurch, and New Plyfiiouth. For some time he acted as District Judge af Napier and on the \\ est Coast. Sergeant Harvey, formerly of Auckland, has joined the local police force in place of Sergeant Kelly, now in cliargo 0. the training depot at Wellington feont h. • Mr. 1. S. I'ester, for several years senior inspector of the North Canterbury Jiducation Board, has been appointed chief inspector of the board.-Press Association. llio following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the Marriage Act are published in last evening's Gazette:—Presbyterian Church of Now Zealand, tho Rev. Henry Braddoek; Methodist Church of Australasia in New Zealand, Mr. Frederick William Trebv; Church of Christ, Mr. Albert James Saunders. Messrs. Hector Ross. (Paraparaunni), James Scott (Fealherston), and Sidney Stent (lvarewarewa) have been appointed officers under the Fisheries Act, 1908. Mr. "Walter E. Barber, Foxton, is gazetted the Government representative on the Poxton Harbour Board. Tho following appointments aro anliouiMd:—Constable .J. J. O'Grady, to bo clerk of the Magistrate's Court 'at Geraldine; Sergeant Wallace A. Brookes, to be clerk of the Court at Cainpbelltown; Constable P. J. M'Carthy, clerk of the Court at Cambridge; Mr. W. S. Jones, clerk of tho Magistrate's Court at Auckland; and Sergeant P. M'Grath, to be police gaoler at Oamaru.