PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12282, 28 May 1903, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb. H. J. Gkeenslade, of the Waikato, -will lie a candidate for a seat on the Auckland Education Board at the forthcoming election. Mr. A. Caselberg, manager of the Eketabuna and Pahiatua branches of the Wairarapa Fanners' Co-operative Association, is to leave by the Gothic on a trip to the Old Country. _ ■ It is stated that Lieutenant- H. B. Browne, cavalry instructor, will shortly leave Canterburv to take up his residence in Wellington, which will in future be his headquarters for the colonv. The Rev. W. Gillies, formerly of Timaru, arrived from Wellington yesterday by the Rotoiti, and leaves for Tauranga to-morrow to take up his duties in the Presbyterian Church m that town. Lieutenant-Commander Minett, of the United State, gunboat Wheeling. and Captain Noel, of H.M.s. Wallaroo, paid official visits to the Mayor of Auckland at the City Council Chambers yesterday morning. Mr. Palleson. a member of the Daunevirke postal staff, who has resigned from the service to go into business in the South Island, has been presented with a handsome travelling bap by the members of the staff at Daunevirke. Mr. Hector Stewart, M.C.E., F.C.S. (London), formerly manager North Lyell, Tasmania, has obtained a position in the Transvaal as general manager of Knight's Rietersburg Gold Mining Company, Limited. Mr. Stewart is a graduate of Melbourne Uni.versitv. Mr." George T. Shilton, of Greyinouth, has been elected a member of the French Academy of Inventors. Mr. Shilton's most widely-known invention is the single detachable link chain, now in universal use on reapers and binders, and almost every description of light machinery. Mr. George Adams, of x'atea, son of Mr. William Adams, of that town, won the medal for practical anatomy at the Edinburgh University, heading the list of successful students, and obtaining the first-class honours certificate. . In zoology he came fourth, and gained second-class honours. The Veu. Archdeacon Calder has notified the secretary of St. Peter's vestry, Hamilton, that His Lordship Bishop Xeligan has appointed the Rev. Mr. Radcliffe, vicar of Shorgham, to the charge of St. Peter's parish.'* The rev. gentleman was educated at Eton, Oxford, and his wife is the daughter of Sir E. T. Henderson, and a niece of Mr. D. B. Hindle, who at one time resided on the Waipa River. Mr. Radcliffe will not be able to take up the duties till August. Mr. J. H. Woodhouse. station master at Thames, was on Saturday evening presented by the local railway staff with a set of table j cutlery, in connection with his approaching ! marriage. Mr. Bell, of the Shortlaiul : station, presented the gift on behalf of the 1 staff, and in doing so referred to the extreme ' good feeling and amity which marked all re- ' lotions between the recipient and his subordinates. Mr. Woodhouse responded in a few appropriate remarks, after which the health and happiness of Mr. Woodhouse and his future comrade in life was toasted in bumpers. .Mr. Burling, a resident of youth Wairarapa (says the Wairarapa Daily Times), was born at- Stratford, in Essex. England, in 1800, and is therefore nearly 10-1 years old. He came to New Zealand 'in 1840. in the ship Cid London. His eldest son is 78 years of age, and his youngest son 61, his eldest grand-daughter 50, eldest grandson 48. great grand-daughter 32, and the great great grandchild 17. Mr. Burling retains all his faculties, walks about as vigorously as ever, and only recently asked a friend if'he would rend him a dog and a gun for the first of the season. He has 35C living descendants. Mr. J. Brown, the Paeroa postmaster, after a faithful 11 years' service to his Department and to the public of Ohinemuri, has received intimation (writes om Paeroa correspondent) that ht- has been transferred to Kaiapoi. Mr. Brown has taken a deep interest in all matters affecting the welfare of the town. He was chairmarj of the local School Committee, and was also connected with the late Paeroa Brass Band, with the Paeroa Choral Society, and with tnt Ohinemuri Agricultural Show, and, gfinerallj speaking, his loss to the district. will be severely felt. He leaves in about a fortnights time. Mr. A lgie, who has been appointed postmaste,- here, is an ardent volunteer, and proceeded as an officer with one of the contingents that went to South Africa.