PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 12523, 6 June 1905, Page 4

PERSONAL

Major? Gumming represents the Solvation Army at next week's conference at Melbourne between @eneral Booth and the chief officers of the Army in Australia and New Zealand.. / Professor E.' Rutherford, of M'Gill University, was a passenger by tho Sierra, which arrived at Auckland from San Francisco, last evening. The Rev. J. G. Woolley, th» well-known temperance advocate, wag a passenger by the same steamer. The Corporation employees met on Saturday evening, arid presented Mr O'Connor with a secretarial writing table as a mark of ths estaem fn •which/ he |s held by hie Hf pssey, who acted as chieL spokesman, jeferad' to the many good actions that' Mr Q/Gonnpr had done on behalf pt tis einpkiyees during thq three years ho had their committee. The following has reference to one of the best-known men sb°u| in the pixtje3 and savPßlw? **?" Poor/ old Ned Devine 'fthe, Tree Ned' of the gofld old 4 a ye when )je, ■' jlpppy* Bradley, and Jag. Redfefim fcopled Cobb's coaches to' and irom the gold djffgippts) has met wijih his first serious ■ ■accidei:t new that he js qv#- seventy; of age. 4nd is oonnect«d—more's the £ity of v " &f-

with, the BallatatßenerpJent Asylum. H« vrw driving a ths Committee of that s horse shied, and' the veteran whip, losing his seat, fell heavily, sustaining oonounpn of the spine. On j&nftyaL to the Vylum. hospital hia conation, was ioTOd to be very serious. His only other qua*, nap whilg driving occurred nearly half a century ago (to be exact,, in 1866) when t a six-in-hand down \ho steep hfU at Runinyqng; then, be escaped scathless. ,? During his poaching career, "Cabbage Tree dnyen over 100,0q0 miles pn the roads ol Australia and this 'colony. ' Quite recently he figured prominently in the Police Larmval at Melbourne A committee of the North Canterpurr Charitable Aid Board, who have just paid y visit to Invercareill t 0 study" the'administration and workings of the Southland Board, returned to punedin yesterday, Ik* , it is not intended to make the conclusions * arrived at public until the Committee's report has been placed before the Nprlh Canterbury Eoard. The. members of the Committee are Mesdnmes Black and Wells Messrs Hprris, ( Horrell, and Radcli'ffe, and Mr T. C. Norris 1 (secretary). Owing to an unsatisfactory cable regarding the health of Lady the Governor of New South Wales leaves Sydney for England to-day. He expects to be absent three or four months. M. Bertrand Nogaro, who is touring the colonies on behalf of the Paris Dm- ; versity, to obtain information on economic and social conditions in Australasia, will in due season visit the principal centres in New Zealand. Mr Leslie H. Reynolds has been appointed' engineer to the. Wanganui Harbor Board, where extensive worksore to be undertaken