PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mataura Ensign, 29 November 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Ai ;ho annual meeting of the TuaI*. kt County Council Mr Ceo. Howiu, oi Hcriot, was elected chairman. 1 i'iii- death is announced (stai.es a Ixind.'.ii Press Association cable) of Mr Irvine B. Dudley, Ambassador to Brazil, i o!!i heart, failure. .V,' -Justice (iranth.im. who is 76 years ol age, is in a critical condition of In ;<r hj, suffering from pneumonia (states a i.eudon Pr*.-ss Association cable). ii"V. Adam Begg, who for several ' jvmis was Presbyterian minister at'Papaim: and during the las;, five years has

b .••> stationed at Rakaia. has accepted : a call to Waianawa. ; .--ii- John Kirk, the well-known | ! philanthropist and whose connection ■v. irh tho Bagged School Prion of Lon- ! .''••!! lias made his name a household one ii ;i.' shuns of London, arrived at In- '' \ ;i-:-".)v?\Vt on rron.'hn - . Sir .John give a-; aL'ivss on Tuesday at Invercargill '■•>•• ihe work- of tho union. He left : :\ >'Jand early in June and since that ■ !:' • !::■;; visited the various States in ''III' < omonwealth. In his travels he : h..'i seen great opportunities for set- •.'!'"■■:. tho land and aveinns for increasii-! ps-pulatlon, and on liis n turn would . b>. :•.',!,■ ir> imprce.s rarents in the Old ■ i.-:i,-i of the possibilities in the New V\;M. Tlie mission to the poor and .•>.'-■ -tarved children of London was a is-. i':--:;'iil on? and was entitled to the as-j.-Ulai.co <:f the charitably disposed.