PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1334, 11 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie is at Hanmer. The other Ministers aro in town. Mr. John Duthio returned from Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday. Mr. Alexander Macintosh, manager of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., returned from London via Sydney by Iho Moeraki yesterday. Mr. M. Myers, of the legal firm of Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers, who has been in England on a pleasure trip, during which he also found time to attend to certain business matters for his firm, returned to Wellington by Ihe Moeraki yesterday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Myors. Mr. H. A. Smith, formerly of the accountants' branch of the General Post Office, was a passenger by the. Moeraki from Sydney yesterday. Mr. Smith left the service in 1901 to join tho Postal Department in Johannesburg. Ho is at pVoeent on rix months' holiday leave and travelled to New Zealand by way of Mauritius, East Africa, Ceylon, Straits Settlement and Australia. Before lenving New Zealand he will go to Auckland to visit relatives. 'The Rev. J. A. 'Jacobs, late vicar and archdeacon of Wauganui, was instituted Inst night by Bishop Julius to the position of the vicar of Timani, in succession to Archdeacon Harper, who had been vicar for 3G years. There was a crowded congregation. The Bishop, in his sermon, urged the congregation to assist their new vicar in every possible way.—Press Association., Mr. George Cruickshank, who died recently at Shag Valley, Otago, at the age of 71 years, came to New Zealand from Australia in 1863, and after working at the Dunstan diggings, settled at Shag Valley. In 1881 , lie was appointed road engineer for the Waihemo County, and retained that position till April, Iflio. His daughters (the eldest being twins) are, Dr. Margaret Cruickshank, of Waimate, and Aliss Christina Cruickshank, principal of Wnngamii College, whn«o education careers were remarkable; Mrs. Philii)?. wife of Dr. Philips, of Kumava; Mrs. John Steel, Xganarn; and Sister Isabel Cruickshank, lute of Dunedin Hospital. Mr. J. W. Macdonald, solicitor to the Public Trust Oflloo, i> oi> ii holiday visit to Xclfioxii

.Air. ("100. I'omviek. managing director of Hie "Otagn Daily Times" ami "Witness" Company, pastil through Wellington yesterday on his way north. Mr. '1 , . ]|. Shah, secretary translator to tho Imperial Chinese Consulate in New Zealand, has )x>on granted leave of absence iu onler to visit his family at ■Shanghai. Mr. Shall; who has spent threo years in New Zealand, came to this eonniry from London, where ho was attached to the Chinese Legation. Ho was in tho United States for two year?, during which ho was secretary to tho Chinese Government representative to tho Saint Louis Exposition in 1901. Wliiln in the State ho was also Shantung provincial representative at the Portland (Oregon) Exhibition. Mr. Shah has niadu ninny friends whilo in Now Zealand, who will regret his sudden departure. H is probable that on tho expiration of his lean , Mr. Shah I'who was for a time Acting-Consul in New Zealand) will bn offered fioinc other Consular post, as ho is anxious to see more of tiie world and to gain further experience of Western people and manners. Mr. Maclnre, Commissioner of Crown Lands in Westland, has been transferred to Southland. It is understood that Sir. llasaixl, chief draughtsman in the Christchurch office, will fill tho vacancy in Wostland, and that Mr. Thompson, chief draughtsman in Westland, will succeed Jlr. Hasard in Cliristchurch.