PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 115, 13 May 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr James Mackenzie, .SurveyorGenerii.l, left for Melbourne by tho Warrimoo en Friday to- attend, a conference of Svuveycrs-General of Australasia. Mr J. J Corry, Mayor ot Blenheim, left on Saturday for . Gisborne. Be Aviil be away: about a week, and will be absent from the meeting of the Borough Council on Friday. Mr Charles Schilsky, who ha,-; beeii, appointedl examiner for the CJollege' for Canada,. New Zealand, and Tasmania, 'will' arrive- in Auckland by the ■Vancouver, steamer on July 30. ■ A LQndon cablegram nnnouncos the doafch 'of Sir George White, Liberal inbmber for North-west Nprfoik, in the House of Commons. . He;represonted that constituency in the Parliaments of 1900,. 1006, and 1910. Mr E. Dodds, who was chief mate of the river! steamer Blenheim, and has served on other coastal steamers, '■ Jias ■' been appointed lay.wJiariihger v .by, 'tne} Union" sSfceamship- :€bmp.iEEny, and ;|xpl^} be located : a.% ' :.v *:' 'Lieut^Golonel ■£.. Fisher^ .firificc^ "iecvetary:- oh^thp .■■Tf.i-rit'qrial;. heac^ q\ii)He.rs'llii Bas :been.y ap>; •■pointear>tor; : Jhe.vpproibtt,e'T^^^li"iei'^Jv';tary" of Army, afeirft in^ New Zealand: Lieut.-Cdlonel'.Fisher: is u-.n officer of. 27 years' service In the Army, ami joined in Invercargill. Mr J. A. Hitching has been appointed, caretaker of the Omaka Cemetery,-victi.Mr W. Hay, who''has rotired from the position alter a period of service extending over 22 years. There were three- applicants for the position. Mr Kitching had been assistant to Mr Hay for the last two or three years. The London''correspondent of the. 1 Wellington Post states that "it is ofli (cially gazetted that the King iips been plea tied to approve of tlje retcjition of tho title of "Honorable" by Sir John Fmdlay, K.C., Uj.it, K.C.M.G., who, has served for more thii.il thre years -as a member of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand. Mr T:.M:. Wili'ord, M.P., who i» in KngLind, is interesting himself". *h th« cjiae of Captain Atwood', of tho' lost Elingamite. Mr Wilford has _&'.t into communication with Lor.l Muskerry and with the Merchant Service Guild, and is to have a.n interview v/ith' Mr Buxton, President of the Board of ■ Trade. It is thought that, as Captain Atwood's trouhlo was.«inseid by- hi-i reliance on ach-^H issued and ce'rtinod to by the Admiralty, he should get ' some cop.siderivtion or redress in that direction.