PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13488, 15 May 1907, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

'~..; - m ' i '■ • J.-;,''r. ■ , S:f3t>i,:£':■„,[;;:;,*'.*• iw , .W : ::."';.^V, , '« i , ; v;', ;..;;».■,■»•».;.•,,. ? .;,vv.v:,.--', ■; ■•.■■.•.;, Ms. W. A. Bovcher, Government pomo- ;:/ Jogist, left for the. South; by the Karawa • ; yesterday. , *' '''*', •Dr. Smith, of- Dunedin, leaves by the Talun© to-day for Suva, to join the Aorangi for Vancouver. ' -Mr. W. Meddings, inspector of. telegraphs, left* for the South yesterday by the Takapuna. •Miv A. B. Donald is a passenger to Fiji ; by the Talune to-day. ' He will go on to ;!•■ . .Vancouver by the Aorangi. •Captain Hemming, late of the R.M.s. Miowera, leaves.for. Fiji by the Talune to-; day, en route for Vancouver. </;. ;!:.'■. .The Revs. Clune and Lowham, of theßedemptorist Fathers, were passengers; for . New Plymouth 'yesterday by the Rarawa. Mr. Johnson, manager of the; Vancouver Sugar Company, and Mrs. Johnson, .; leave by . the Talune for Suva to-day, en ; route • to' Vancouver. ■ '. Messrs. , Barnard and J. C. Macky, directors of the! Maharahara Copper Company, > left yesterday by the, Rarawa for the purpose__of inspecting the mine. , , ;/'"•/■ i«Sir ;E. Lechmere, Colonel the Hon. R. ■ T. Lawley, and Captain Leighton, are pas- ' sengers by the Talune to Fiji to-day, to , join the Aorangi for Vancouver. '«..-' ———, t Miss Eleanor Brown, matron of Naseby " / Hospital, has (states a Press Association telegram) been appointed sub-matron of St. Helens Maternity Hospital at "Wellington. • Messrs. J. Wallace,; Oaks, Tiuda, Dalton, Sinclair, Fox, Woodward, Johnston, Siddell, White, Turvey,- Barber, Reid, and J. Coozabe,; .of/ the Exhibition orchestra, returned South yesterday by the Rarawa. -The, Hon. Jas. McGowan (Minister for „, Mines and Justice) and the Hon. J. A.! //Millar (Minister for Labour/ and Marine), /accompanied' by their private secretaries . (Messrs. F. D. ; Thompson and "Matthews), .' left New Plymouth yesterday by the Rarawa... . . * ' . ■ Sister P. Wheeler,- who has resigned her' "~ position, after eight years' service, at the Auckland Hospital, m order 'lo practise her profession in a private capacity, was, prior to her departure, presented "by the nursing staff with a set of gold links!and; ' studs, suitably inscribed. " The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) has so fully recovered from his recent , illness (says a Press Association telegram) that he intends' taking up the public work of the Native Lands Commission immediately. His Honor will; leave/Wellington by train this morning for Napier, thence for Gisborne, through the King; Country, and on to; Auckland. Mr. Ngata, another member, of .'the'' Commission, will meet * Sir/ Robert at, Gisborne. ,An informal meeting of .the employees i _of ; Messrs.' R. and W. Hellaby, Limited,; i was Held yesterday, to bid good-bye and God-/ speed to Mr. Goodwin, one of the directors of the company, who is leaving on a visit ■■■.'.•■ to the Old Country. Advantage was taken ] :. of this to present to Mr. Goodwin a travelling case, as a, mark of esteem. The presentation was made by Mr. D. B. Stewart, and Mr. Goodwin suitably responded. Mr.; Goodwin, accompanied by Mrs. Goodwin, leave by the. Talune to-day, lto join the AOrahgi-at Fiji for Vancouver. An old identity, Mr. William Miller, died on. Saturday (writes our Taupiri ,cdrrespordent). .'Deceased,* who had for some years ■been an invalid, had reached the age of 81 ; years. ' Mr. Miller, was a native of North-, • cUrry, a \illage-in~ Somerset (England). " At the age of 27 lie' entered the Imperial Army, * and ■ saw in all'twelve years' service. ■ He landed in Australia in 1854, and after spending five years-in Tasmania and New South; Wales "arrived in Taxanaki in the troublous "times of the Maori war.. Mr. Miller, along with.his regiment;(the 12th Infantry), was,; in many sharp engagements,; and he was present > at * the ' famous fight ■ at Rangiriri. On his discharge deceased, settled in the .Waikalo," where he remained till tfcvtitne , of his death. '; He was in receipt of an Imperial'pension. He 1 leaves a widow, four sons and five- daughters, and ] height grand-: children. -A largo; number of people r at- ' tended the"' funeral, at which the vicar; of ' the parish* the Rev. A. J.' Beck, officiated.