PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Colonel Bayley, late Commandant o( the South Australian Forces, is dead. Mr J. Hollons, formerly secretary of the Kaitangata Miners’ Union, has been appointed an inspector under the Factories Act at Palmerston North. Father Gillan was on Thursday night presented with an illuminated address by the members of St. Benedict’s (Auckland) Church Committee. Bishop Lenxhan made tho presentation, and announced the appointment of Father Gillan to the position of vicar-general. Mr Gilbert Dine, who studied medicine at the Dunedin Medical School, has qualified for his profession in London. After visiting New Zealand he probably takes np a position at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Mr and Mrs Henry Wise arrived home by the Warrimoo to-day. after a sojourn of two years in the Old Country. Tho Hon. George M’Lean continues to make satisfactory progress. By tho death of the widow of the laic Mi James Martin the Adelaide Hospital benefits to the extent of £95,000 and tho Children’s Hospital to the extent of £47,000. Of tho Rev. E. G. Gange, F.R.A.S., who is to preach and lecture in the Hanover street Baptist Chruch during the first week in January, a Victorian contemporary says:—“Mr Gauge has. throughout his life, been in clos? contact with the throbbing life of the Empire. His ministry, has supplied exceptional opportunities of studying the burning social and political questions of the hour, of sifting facts, gauging currents, and reaching sound and balanced judgments. He kno vs faces and places which have mode history during the last fifty years. His vision is Imperial. Ho knows Great Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groat’s. He lias crossed the Atlantic eight times, and preached and lectured in the chief cities of America and Canada. He lias toured India, and_ explored the Continent of Europe; his mind is of the practical tvpe. His studies have been questions that appeal to men’s business and bosoms He is essentially a man of affairs. As a member of school hoards, boards of guardians, college committees, political organisations, and social reform associations he has touched life, on all its diverse sides. Moreover, while he has formed definite opinions on social, educational, and religious questions, he is level-headed, and th< spice of Att'c salt in his constitution Inn saved him from the blunders of the extra ""’the I fen W. P. Reeves (High Cnmmi« sinner) and Mr G. Ilogben Hnpectoc Gcneral) will represent New Zealand at the Imperial Conference on Education to he held in England in May next. The staff and employees of the Dunedin Gasworks made a presentation oi a gold albert to Mr George Henley this morning, on tho occasion of his severing his connection with the gasworks to take up «fie position of pas engineer at Feilding. Mr Hunperford. tho pcs engineer, made trie presentation.