PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13647, 15 January 1908, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Du. MeDoPGAtiii -was a- passenger to Gisborne by the Victoria last evening. \i Mr. S. Coldicutt was a passenger for Sydney by the Zealand™ on Monday. •Mr.. J. B. Govt, of Opotiki, will contest the Bay of Plenty teat in'the Opposition interest, at the coming general elections. -...-Countess Trafalgar, wife of Viscount Merlon, of Trafalgar, eldest son of Karl Nelson, is at present on a visit to New Zealand. , Sit George Clifford, the chairman of the New Zealand Racing Conference, was a passenger from the South by the Rnrawa yesterday. ' Captains C. F. Post (Tutanekai) and J. Rollout, (Hinemoa) have been appointed inspectors of *ea fishing, under the Sea Fisheries Act. Mr. H. C. Wateriield, private secretary to. His Excellency the Governor (Lord Plunket), unite up from the South by the Raraw.i yesterday. Mr. W. Dinnie, Commissioner of Police, who broke one of his legs some weeks ago on. the Kelbimie (Wellington) bowling resumed his duties on Monday. Sir John Madden (Chief Justice of Victoria). Miss Ruby Madden, and Colonel Campbell, are visiting Rotorun, having made the journey from Wellington by the Main Trunk line Mr. C. S. Pantoit, of the editorial staff nf the Australian Star and Sunday Times, Sydney, lias arrived in Auckland on a health trip, and intends spending a fortnight at Rotorua. Mr. F. Bull, receiver of land revenue at Napier, is to rati re honi office on compensation, ns from April 1 next. Mr. T. K. Shirley, of the Napier post office, is also to go on the retired list. At a meeting of the Devonport Borough Council last night. Mr. James Wilson, assistant town clerk to the Mount Eden Borough Council, mis appointed to a similar position at Devonport. There were 26 other applicants for the position. An election to fill a vacancy on the j Senate of the New Zealand University, I caused by the resignation of Dr. Mac- I laurin, has.resulted in the return of Pro- ! feasor von Haast. Professor von Haast i secured 143 votes against 49 given for Pro- j lessor Kasterfield. I At the annual meeting of the Auckland J Fire Underwriters' Association, held yes- ! terday, Mr. Walter Pavitt, manager of the i Royal Insurance Company, was elected ; chairman, and Mr. Horace Walker, mana- I gei - of the Commercial Union Assurance Company, vice-chairman for the ensuing 12 j months.* r Mr. J. Edward Sykes, the well-known, i Sydney pianist and organist, is at present i on a visit to Auckland. Mr. Sykes has | been specially ' . engaged to accompany j Madame Clara Butt on the organ in the I Wellington Town Hall, and he will 'pro-J bably also act in a similar capacity at j Christchurch and Duhedin. '

The 'Mayor of Auckland (Mr. A. M. Myers; who recently injured one of his Tegs whilst playing tennis, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. Though not yet able to get about, he is able to transact private and public business at his residence, where he presided over a meeting of the Finance Committee of the City Council yesterday.

i "Dr Lowe (of Wellington), who is leaving j Now Zealand shortly, and who is conse- j quently -relinquishing the editorship of the'! New Zealand Dental Journal, has been pro- j sented l-y the members of the Dental Association with a suitably inscribed silver J inlcetand and a pen, with a greenstone ; handle, as , a mark of their appreciation of ! the manner in which he has carried out; his duties in this capacity. j

The employees of the: General' Post Of'fice and Telegraph : Department throughout the Dominion have shown their regard for the Tate Mr. The*?. Hose, formerly assist-'ant-secretary and inspector by "erecting over his grave at Karon a handsome memorial monument in gray Aberdeen granite. Funds. have also been subscribed for a monument to the memory of the late Mr. Gray, Secretory to the Post and Telegraph Department.

'On the 12th ins't. there passed away at "Thornwood,'' Mount Roskill, an. "old colonist in the person of Mr. William 'Sllattock; Jones, aged 63, who for many years was well known as a saddler in Auckland. Mr. Jones arrived in Auckland with his parents by the ship Komulcs~on October' 22, 1862, and after spending several years on a bush farm at what is J now Brooklyn, on the Manukau Harbour, he commenwd business as a saddler in Queen-street in 1871, continuing there until a few years ago, when illhealth compelled him to retire from active work. . --..■•- - . -