PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11684, 20 June 1901, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dn. G. B. Sweet has been gazetted health officer for the port of Whangarei. Mr. J. Somerville. architect to the Dunedin Education Board, has resigned, after "holding his position for a-quarter ot a century. Lieut. T. Herd, of the Wellington Garrison Band, has been appointed judge for the band contest' to be held at Ballard. Victoria, in October next. Messrs. Donald Alexander Sutherland, John Rowe, and Samuel Bradley, of Onehungii. were sworn in as justices of the peace on Tuesday, before His Honor Mr. Justice Conolly. Mr. A. E. Gibbs, secretary of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society at Wellington, who has been laid up tor some weeks past with a painful interna! complaint, is about to leave Wellington on a, six months' trip to the old Country. Mr. Joseph Ross, providore at the Permanent Militia Barracks, at Wellington, has resigned his position, and lias been presented by the mess with a memento of their esteem. ' Mr. Boss. who. on account of indifferent health, has been advised to take to the sea. has joined the s.s. Dingidee. Mr. Henry Alternate Grainger, the -Adelaide M.P. who has been appointed StateAgent for South Australia in London, furnishes another instance of journalism being the ladder of a successful politician. A native of Cumberland, he went to school at Rugby; dabbled in journalism, and became a member of the London Stock Exchange. In Australia Mr. Grainger followed journalism as a profession, which he some years ago relinquished for mining and politics. Mr. Grainger is considered the best menial arithmetician in Australia, and is known as the " Lightning-calculator" and. "'academical financier.". On Tuesday evening the employees of the maintenance department oi the Auckland branch of the railways entertained Mr. McKay, bridge inspector for the cbsi-ricl. at a farewell social at the Newmarket Hotel. Mr. John O'Lachlan was in the chair, and during the evening several songs and recitations were contributed by those present, and the usual toasts were given, including that of the guest, who was most warmly spoken of. Mr. McKay, who is returning to his old post at Timani, was presented ■with a handsome marble clock, as a token of the esteem in which he is held by his fellow employees.

THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDi.v, Wednesday. 'At the inquest on John Rhodes, who was killed on the railway at the cattle yards, a verdict was returned of accidental death, no blame being attached to anyone. The men working on the line, of whom deceased ■was one, were sheltering from the wind on the lee side of a. tank, while waiting for the train. Tbey crossed the line to the platform as the train was approaching. Two got over safelv, but the deceased was struck by the cowcatcher and dragged along. Deceased was 34 years of age, married, and leaves one child. Wade's Worm Figs a.re most effective and not unpleasant: children thrive after taking them. Price, Is. DON'T T OOK OLD. Witii advancing years greyness increases. Stop this with Lockybb's Sulphub Kami RsaTOiiXUa which darkens to the formei colour end preserves the appearance. Lock yer's, the English Hair Restorer, keeps ot ravages of time, by darkening tha grey streak*, also causing growth of Hair.