PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXII, Issue 13628, 23 December 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL.

His Honor Mr Justice Denniston, who uas been muUposed lately, ana felt Mi*, strain ot tlw oeudon-Xayior action -that was concluued on VVedi.esday, went to Un. j.iiioaes Convalescent Home yesterday aiternoQii, ana Will remain there lor souk Ua.ys, taking a tuoroug.i rest. Tho Hon E. Richardson arrived from ivelnngc-ou by trie 5..-s. Atararoa yoswrui*, iiioir-ing. The pasoengers from Hanmer yesterday included Mi ana Mrs £i. Jones ana Mr »v. jivooinfioxi. Mr J. Walkr (Dunedin)j Mr.K. Williams (Chnsicuurcu), Mrs VV. Williams and Miss wiUiamo (Cnrktcuurch),. ano Mr id. Forbes (Wellington) wero paeaevngx=ro to Hanmer yestciuay.. Mr J. W. Alaeuonalu, of the Magistrate's Court stall, Wellington, and ioruicriy oi Ciu'iistCiiurcn, ii&<, received notice inat he has pamed the solicitor's rinai extitiiuiauon. i\ir i'diicdonaid s success u iiutevvorthy, beoauiie he sat for all six suujects at one examination. He secured tue nignest general average ot any candidate inisi \ear. The Rigiio Hon R. J. Scddon, ivith Mm Seddon, Mra Miss Seadon and captain Seddun, leit 'for Wellington by the s.s. Mararoa laat evening. Mr and Mrs F. M. Wadace were jfers by tho s.s. Mararoa, which leit Lyttelton yesterday evening. Captain Hume left ior Wellington by the s.s. Ma-rai'oa vtcterday. J Mr and "Mrs F. 11.' Lysaght, M-t«sts P H. Muter (Wellington), Bothine (Wellington), Hamilton (Londonji W. S. Austin (t-heyniDutu), R. Haiiey (Wellington), l i Bernstein (Dunedin) and Mrs Batclielor (Dunedin) aio among the visitors to town. Mr A. E. Cohen, of the Dunedin " Star " was a paeoenger for the south by yeiSUH'-' day'a first express. _ Mr Marcxie Mark's, chief of the ''Hansard " statii, left ior Tiuiaru by the firs-. express yesterday morning. Mr D. Cameron, of the "Hansard" statl, left for Dunedin yeeterday. Mr D. E. Xh-eomin, of Dunedin, left for the-south ye.sterday. Mr and Mrs Mark Davis (Dunedin) and Mr R. L. Orbell arrived in town by the second express train yesterday. Mr Ray Strange, who will leave Christchurch for Sydney to-day, was entertained last evening Iby tho Midland Cricket Club at a smoke concert. Mr Strange was p:esonted with a dressing-case, and several members of the club expressed their regret at his departure, eulogising his services to the club and to Canterbury on the cricket field. Mr William Hutchison, who was for eome time sporting editor of th/; "Canterbury , Times," and afterwards went to South Africa with one'of the early Contingents, has joined the literary staff of the "Transvaal Leader."