PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 16, 18 July 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

_ #— ,—, — ' Mr. T. Ballinger returned with Mrs. Ballingar from England, via Sydney to-day. Mr. E. Clifton, Chief Inspsctor of Stock fcrvthe -colony, will return from Auckland to-night Mr. Cecil Jones, who has been appointed secretary of the Hobirt Young Men's Christian Association, leaves fo? Tasmania by the Warriaioo this evening. Sir James Mills, managing director or the Union Company, received tho honour of knighthood at the hands of his Majesty" the King on Monday afternoon. Mr. James .Ames, city valuer, who has been seriously ill of late, is now making a good recovery. He contemplates making a visit to Australia, on a healthrecruiting trip. Lieut. E. L, Lyon, of the Eighteenth Hussars, arrived by the Warrimoo from England this morning to take up his duties as second A.D.C. to his Excellency the Governoi. Dr. Makgill, Government Bacteriologist, who hss been visiting Christchurch, will return to-morrow. Dr. Frengley, District Heikh Officer, who ha 3 been in the Wairarapa district, came back last night. Mr. H. M. Bannehr, a prominent member o£ the Wellington branch of the Navy League, is about to take up his residence in Christtburch. Mr. Bannehr, senr., who has been editor of the Nelson Colonist for many years, is aleo leaving for the Cathedral City. According to a Waimate Press Association telegram, Mr. Charles Dash, a local applicant, was last evening appointed town chrk there. There were 44 applicants from all parts 'of the colony. Charles Toweraker, has been appointed secondary assistant in the Waimabe- District High School. Mr. George Leslie, a very old settler in the Wellington district, died suddenly at his residence in Vivian-street yesterday afternoon. The deceased arrived in Wellington in tho early day*, and was for some years in the- service of the late Hon. W. B. Rhodes. He was about seventy years of ago, and had been ill for some time, but 1 felt much better this week, so that tho news of his sudden demise came as a painful shock. A bafrh of fifty-seven Justices of the Peace hos been appointed, including the folldwing -. — J. Baillie, Carterton ; R. Barton, Pirinoa, Feath:r^ton ; E. P. Blake, Wavsrley ; G. i- . Bremer, Whcnuakura, Patea; J. Carolan, Pongaroa; J. Coyle, Pohi.ngina; A. Coyne, Makahu, Hawera; D. Cumming, Wellington; G. G. Dall, Wellington; J. Hart, Carterton ; C- A. Larcombe, Patea ; H. Mu> cott, Weber; A. Poart, Pohangina; J. H. Vincent Ashui?t. Amongst the Ust of succcr.siul candidate* at the medical examinations of the London Univsrsitv wa3 M 133 Mary Bhlr, d-iucjhter of the Intc Mr. W. N. Blair. Mws Blair, according to private ad', vv, j'J.~t received in Wellington, ha 3 ne-v p^-ed tho examinations of Bachelor of Modl'iio and Bachelor of Science at the university. Five days nflor qui'!f3'i.ig she was appointed resident rncc)'>al officer of tho rrtiternity department cf tho now hospital for women, Kir-ton-road, London* We:-!, Centre. Mi- 3 Blair was a student of both the Victoria College, Wellington, and the AnddaiKl Collage. Sho went to London a(t«v takinsr her Bachelor of Science d-v-us in New Zealand. Mrs, Brogr.ii, who nivivcd in Wellington on tlio ifil June. IS4I, in tho Lord ■William B":!tin?k, \W3 burip'l in the !>Tou' t street Cemetery yc-sLcrJay. Mrs. I'ro^.m. who w:>s prctlcce.i.-cd by her bufibur.fl (Quartermaster-Sergeant Bioqun, of liie 99i.1i Regiment) iby ir/enly-eight yeaix, ruu^cd <Uiing tli" whole of her iiic in ilio V.VH'ricjto:) district, with tho exertion of hw> rea'3, din; ing tho period her husband was quartrved in New South V/~. 1-s. Her father, tho tatc Mr. John L')Mr>, wns one of the original eeltlcru in Oolhn's Vallcr. Mr*. Brog'tn had a keen memory of the trial* and troub'.ey of life m the Ilutt Valley chirirg the early days, and of it« danger- during tiio Maori raids. She had ben uilicg for come lime, and her death was not unexpected. Mrs. Urogaii was 76 years of ni'o and she is survived by (ivo hor.s, three daughters and thirty-six grandcblldren.