PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13709, 27 March 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

M«. W. D. Lysnar has decided to contest ■ the Mayoralty of Gisborne. Messrs Dugald McPherson and ■0. S. Owen' will represent New Zealand at the • ■Joinmcrcial Travellers' Association Confei- / nice, to be held in Brisbane at Easter. / Air* Graham Joyce, who has had charge if "the Port Albert telephone ami post office or some tine, has resigned. Mrs. Joyce ntends to proceed to England by the Kunutoka early next month. The death is announced by a Press Association cable from London of Lady Tozer, wife of the Agent-General for Queensland. Lady Tozer, who was Sir Horace's second wife, was Miss Louisa Lord, the image taking place in 1880. The death occurred last evening, at the Rcdemptorist Monastery, Wellington, of the Rev. Stephen Pidgeon, a. well-known member of the order. Father Pidgeon was born in Dublin, and had reached the age of 56 years. He came to Wellington from Ballarat three years ago. Mr. ,1 air.es Melville, for many years secretary of I lie Rotorua Motor Coaching Company! wits seized with aneurism at Waiotapu i tew days since, and expired at his residence, "The Bungalow," on Wednesday I evening. Mr. Melville was much respected j locally, and by the visitors to the Grand j Hotel, whose 'trips he supervised for so many years. Mr. G. G. Blandford, who has acted as | postmaster at Devonport for 18 years, has I also three sous in the postal service, two j of them being at Devonport. Sir Joseph \ Ward stated yesterday that if the legal posi- j tion allowed* it lie was hopeful that the | country would be able to provide a pension j for Mr. Blandford, sen., in recognition of the valuable work he had done. Professor Macmillan Brown will leave j Christchurch in a few weeks on a visit to j "' -i Japan and China, where he will study the | : ■ conditions of the people, and the relation- j ship those nations are likely to have in the j future with Australasia. His studies will i bear mainly on the probable future history of the Eastern and Western races, but j f ethnological subjects will also be. consid- j ered. On his coming visit he will go first j -' to Japan, and then probably to Manchuria j ; " a.nd the Northern and coastal provinces of China. He may visit the interior of China later on. Canon Nelson, who recently resigned the charge of St. Paul's, Church, Symonds- (■■" "street, on being appointed "registrar of the ./ Auckland University, was tendered a : farewell social in St. "Paul's schoolroom last i evening. There was a. large attendance. i The Yen. Archdeacon Calder occupied the chair, and there were several other representatives of the clergy present. On behalf of the past and present parishioners, , Mr. Whitley, churchwarden, presented Canon Nelson with a purse containing 250 sovereigns and an illuminated address. He referred in eulogistic terms, as also did the 'chairman and other speakers, to Canon Nelson's work m the church, which extended over a period of 38 years. Canon Nelson j feelingly responded. A musical programme j was carried out- during the evening. s » Prior to the commencement of the pro- ■■■•:•. ceedings at the Birkenhead Borough Conni cil last night, Mr. H. P. Taylor said the ::■■".'■ unavoidable absence of the ■ Mayor in the , Waikato gave the members of the Council an excellent opportunity of considering the question of the Mayoralty for the ensuing year. Mr. Taylor referred* to the many works commenced during the term of■• of- j fice of Mr. Alex. Keyes, the present Mayor, and which were now in course of j construction or completion, and he thought j it was highly desirable, in the interests of \ the borough, that Mr. Keyes should hold j office for another- term. He moved that i the members of the Council ask Mr. Keyes r to continue in the office of Mayor for another i --;:-' year., Mr. E. G. Skeatea seconded, and ; ■1 the-chairman (Mr. J. G. ; Kay) and Mr. I Win, Wallace.heartily endorsed the re-. j , marks of Mr. Taylor. The resolution was I ■ ■ carried unanimously, and Messrs. Taylor, j Skeates, '.and Wallace, with the town clerk . (Mr. A. L. White) were appointed to' con-.' rcy the resolution to Mr. Keyes. , A large and representative gathering as- ,."■ ■ / sembled at the opening of the Thames .Court yesterday "morning, for the purpose of bidding farewell to Mr. K. S. Bush, magistrate -and Warden, who is: retiring from the Bench after 40 years' service. The legal profession --of*, the peninsula was fully represented, with the justices of the peace. Court officials, and police department. Mr. Clendon, for the. Bar, eulogised Mr. Bush; 'for the courtesy invariably shown towards the j profession, and referred to the cordial relations which had always existed between : . the members of .the Bar and the magis-, trate and Warden of the goldfields. The speaker concluded by presenting Mr. Bush ; with a handsome travelling trunk and fittings. Mr. W. McCullough, senior justice, also spoke for the justices of the peace. Inspector Kiely, on behalf of the police, referred to the splendid service rendered to the' State by Mr. Bush, In reply. Mr. Bush expressed himself as ■ highly gratified at, the various expressions of goodwill from those with whom he had been so intimately connected in his capa- :■'."■'-.■ city of Warden for so many years.