PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10035, 23 January 1896, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

ft is understood that when Mr. George Hutchison withdrew from the Midland Arbitration case he received a cheque for £1300.

Mr. Charles Hinton, son of the Rer. J. T. Binton, has been promoted to the position of first assistant in the Magistrate's Court* at Christchurch.

We understand that Professor Tubbs has telegraphed to friends in Auckland stating that he lias quite recovered. He may be expected here soon. Mr. Carwell Cook, choirmaster of the Wades town Church, Wellington, has been presented with a silver pencil case in recognition of bis services during the past year. Owing to continued ill-health, Pilot Lowe, of Nelson, is to be retired on compensation. Mr. Cox, formerly of the Union Company's service, who has been acting in his place for some time, is to permanently fill the

vacancy. Mr. W. E. Woods, sub-manager of the Gear Meat Company, is retiring from its service, after a connection extending over the past- 12 years. He joined it a year after lb was launched, and has been identified with it ever since. In fact Mr. Woods may be said to have assisted at the birth of the frozen meat industry. He was a member of the old Wellington firm of Woods, Crosbie, and Co., which killed the first hundred bullocks that were frozen and shipped upon the Lady Jocelyn.