PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13726, 16 April 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

f Mr. B. \ Btjttle went South by the Rotoiti "yesterday. ■■■■■ .Archdeacon Cole left on his return to New Plymouth yesterday by the West Coast steamer. Or. Mason, Chief; Health Officer, who arrived from Rotorua yesterday evening, leaves for Wellington to-day. Mr. J. J. Walklato, general manager of the Auckland Electric Tramways Company, Limit, d. has returned from Rotorua. Captain '!.'. Pi'.rnall, of Onchimga, accompanied by the Rev. H. and Mrs. Dewsbury, went South yesterday by the Rotoiti. Messrs. G. J. Garland and A. B. Harris have beer- appointed the Auckland Education Board's commissioners of education reserve?, i Mr. -1 11. C. Bond, assistant-traffic manager for the Union. Steam Ship Company at Duneiiin. is at present on a visit to Auckland. Captain W. Bark, who had been laid up for sonic weeks owing to a badly scalded lcj, resumed control of the s.s. Wuitangi yutUxday. Colonel Tuson arrived from Wellington yesterday by the Rotoiti, and will represent i l '*' Defence Council at the Easter ;nan<i.i!\ res. •>,;.,; Jones, of the British army, who li«„ J.. .: spending a holiday visit in New Zfc.;i i.d, lett tor the Eastern Pacific by the Mir.ipoiiri yesterday. U; Rev. L. L. Cubitt and Mr. L. A. Can uii Have been appointed by the Auckland Education Board as governors to the YVha igrtroi High School. '! Ik estate of the late Mr. .1. C. Rentington, general manager of the Mutual Lite As■ iciatiuii. Sydney, has been sworn for probate purposes at £6863. The Commissioner of Crown Lauds {Air. J, Mackenzie), who has been on y brief visit to Wellington, returns to Auckland, v.';< Oiithunga, this morning Mr. and Mrs. John Gane and Miss Gane, of London, who have been spending several months in New Zealand, left by the Talune vest.udav, en route to Vancouver and England. ' Mi. Cyril Corliss, sou of Mr. P. C. Corliss, of the Stamps Department, Dunedin, lias been appointed 14th engineer on the record-breaker Mauretania, the greatest' leviathan afloat. She carries in all 26 engineers. . In a recent reference to Dr. Hocken's visit to Opononi, Hokianga, the age of Mr. John "Webster, the venerable patriarch of the district, was ei oneously given as 99 yean.;. Mr. Webster was born on June 30, 1818; and hat therefore not yet entered on his &Gfch year.

;. The Rev. R. H. K.nowies-K.empton, who has accepted the charge of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle, was tendered a welcome social in the church Sunday-schoolroom last evening, when several addresses of welcome v. ere given, including one by the Rev. J. A. Luxiord, on behalf of 'the Auckland Ministers' Association.

'I he following officers of the Agricultural Department have been notified that they will be,retired on superannuation on June 30.-—-Stock Inspectors Moore (Blenheim), ITilkrtbn (Ashburton), Raymond (Bluff), A. Mills (Wellington, J. E. Thomson (Dunedin), and H. Ross, dairy inspector (Palmerston North);

The marriage of.Captain R. G. England, R.N.R., and Miss Jessie Turner, daughter of the late Mr. C. W. Turner, was celebrated last week at Merivale, near Christchurch. The Rev. 0. H. Goseett, vicar of the parish, officiated. When the happypair left for their honeymoon their carriage wasMrawn for the first* stage of the journey by the petty officers and men of the Ninirod.; •- : "'. ■-"'.

.-Mrs. J. S. Bond, the Mayoress of Hamilton, was presented With a silver cradle yesterday, in celebration of the birth of a daughter during her husband's term of office.' Mr. Allen Bell made the presentation, to which Mrs. Bond responded. She also asked the Council to receive, on behalf of her little daughter, a Mayoral chair, in commemoration of her birth during kit father's term of office. Mr. Bell, on behalf of the borough, accepted the gift with thanks. The chair bore the following inscription on a silver plate: "Presented to the Hamilton Borough Council, by Ellen Sarah Hamilton Bond, 1908."