PERSONAL MATTERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 9 April 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The new Administrator of the Northern Territory -(Professor Gilrnth) was farewelhd at a dinner in Melbourne on the 26th March bv an enthusiastic band of Mew Zeaianders. Mrs. Henry wife of Dr. J. D. A. Hci;ry. the well-known evangelist, who visited .Nelson recently, is renorted to be seriously ill at iLos Angeles, Califorira. The London corespondent of the Chri.stchurch "Press," writing under date 23rd February, says that among the recent. callers at the High Commissioner's OHice wad Colonel \V. Aitchison Smith (Nelson). The Hon. A. M. Myers has resigned his position as a director of tile New Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd.. on account of the claims made upon his time by Ai inistcrial duties. Sir Joseph Ward will leave Wellington towards the end of the week for the South, en route to Melbourne on a. holiday trip. He will be absent from the Dominion for about three weeks. Sergt. Win. Gilbert, Dunedin, has retired on superannuation after 44 years' serviie. J/uring his lengthy period of service Sergt. Gilbert was never hurt, and he had never paid a. penny fine for breach of regulations. The Rev. .1. Lewis, who for the last three years has occupied the pulpit of St.. John's Methodist Church, left this morning for Petone, to take over his new charge. Mr D. M'Laren, ex-M.P., has definite, lv announced that he will contest the Wellington city Mayoralty at the forthcoming election. Mr. T. Cullen, Collector of Customs, is at present at, Auckland on holiday ltave. Mr. Paul, of the Wellington office, is relieving Mr. Cullen. r> V -' The/injuries sustained by Air. F. Harford while: extinguishing a fire on a, motor-boat at the Croixelles on Friday morning are more serious than at first thought. "The whole of his face was scorched, and his hands and forearms I were also severely blistered. Mr. Harford was removed to a private hospital this afternoon, and it is expected to be quite three 1 weeks before he will be about a'.jain.