PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 15 September 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) is expected to reach Wellington from Jlasterton to-morrow evening.

A requisition asking tho Hon. T. Mackenzie to stand for the Chalmers seat is being circulated in the Brighton end of the electorate.—Press Association. At yesterday's meeting of the Hospital Committee of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Beard it was decided that the services rendered to the board by the late Mr. W. 11. Quick be placed on record, and that a letter of condolence lxj sent to his widow and family. Mr. E. C. Kirk, chairman, moved the motion. Dr. Thaclcer will in all probability bo a candidate for Christchurch Bast at tho coming, elections. Mr. C. A. Briges, manager for E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd., left by the Manuka yesterday on a trip to Australia. Ho was accompanied by his daughters. v The death lias occurred at Onehunga of Mr. Thomas Holland, aged 101 years. Mr. Holland, who was born at Easton-on-the-Hill, Northamptonshire, arrived in Auckland in 1554. Shortly after landing Mr. Holland, who was a fajmer, went to Waiuku, and there for nearly fifty years ho was foreman on the Underwood Estate. He was stationed at the Waiuku township throughout' the Maori war as a volunteer under Major Speedy. Every day it was necessary to send dispatches to Drury, and for months Mr. Holland braved the dangers of intervening country, and was successful in carrying the papers to their destination.—Press Association. Mr. W. J. Dickie, of Lyndhurst, has definitely announced his intention of contesting the Selwyn ssat in tho Government interest against tho sitting'member, Mr. C. A. C. Hardy. Mr. Dickie is chairman of the Mount Hutt Road Board. He entered tho lists against Mr. Hardy at the last election, but he withdrew from the contest before polling day on the ground of ill-health. \ Mr. C. S. Lan Chu, tha newlyappointed Chinese Consul for New Zealand, will arrive in Wellington from' Sydney on Wednesday next. Mr. Lan Cnu is a well-educated and muchtravelled native of Shantung, and speaks Cantonese, tho language of most of tho Chinese located in New Zealand. Passengers from America by the Aorangi yesterday included Mr. W. I. Lovelock, of Palmerston North; also the Itev. Fathers Quinn and Trcasy, of Sydney, who are returning from a trip to America. ■ Colonel Bridges, commanding tho Australian Hoyal Military College, has informed Major-GencralGodley that he has promoted N. I. K. Jennings, ono of tho ten cadets sent by New Zealand to the Australian Military College for training, as a cadet non-commissioned officer. ■ M. Eugeno Ossipoff, who left Wellington for San Francisco in July, returned by tho Aorangi yesterday, en route to Sydney. He has secured a good engagement in America, and will probably leave for America again next month. Mr. C. Tanner, son of Mr. C. W. Tanner, has passed his examination at Woolwich, being thirteenth on the list, and first amongst those who presented themselves from Bedford College. He was an old Wellington College boy.