PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13762, 29 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. i CiiAWfonn t went South by the ,:': ■' Karawa yesterday. - ; '~'-'-"-■ :■'" -. -. -- ■> ■ ■ , Captain .Hennah left by the Rarawa " ; . yesterday for the South, ■'.'. Mr. Doorley is now chief officer of the ;'=. Waikare, vice* Mr. Norton, who is on sick •leave. . . . • : • Mr." R. Sceats, of Watkworth, leaves for Sydney by tho Victoria on Monday, en ,; route for Europe. ■ Lady Mills, who was to have left Welling- ' ' ton bv the lonic for England, has now decided 'to go by way of tho Vancouver route. ' The death is announced of Mr. W. S. Laurie, a, well-known merchant, of Auck- , land. Mr. Laurie had been closely connected with the trade interests of Auckland ; for many years past. ~. > " . Mr H. R. Roberts, the New Zealand ':comedian, who, is revisiting the country, after an absence of nine years, was tendered a reception at. the Grand Hotel. ""-•.■ Wellington, yesterday, which was attend- :'-;': ed by members of tlie Julius Knight and Rickards' Companies, and many local resi- -.'-. -'dents. , Mr. R. Reyburn, who has left on a visit to Scotland, after a residence of 50 '■ . years in Whangarei (telegraphs our cor- i respondent), was presented at the Council I : Chambers. yesterday with a rug and a travelling bag suitably inscribed. The Mayor presided, and' several eulogistic spaec-hes were made." Mr. Roy bum expects to be -absent for about six months. • The death is announced of Mrs., Jane . Brooking, an old resident of Plymouth/at the age of 78. Deceased arrived'in New Plymouth in 1855, and with hei' late husband, was one of the original $*■:■■■■■ settlers on the Frankley Road. Three • children survive— T; P. Brooking and Mrs. W. F. Brooking, of New Plymouth; and Mrs. .William • Taylor, of ' Mangere, Auckland. ,■,...-....■■ ,• The new Commissioner of* Crown'- Lands (Mr. James Mackenzie, late of Auckland) was welcomed by Mr. A. Reece, on. behalf '. ' ': of t tho members of the Wellington Board ' yesterday (telegraphs our Wellington correspondent). Mr. Mackenzie" came originally .■•-..-to -Wellington as- junior Held surveyor in 1872* and*went through' the usual hard and , , rough life,of field Work. , About the beginning of 1880 he entered the Wellington ■ * nflic'i as chief draughtsman, and remained there for some 26 years, when he was removed to Taranaki as commissioner, and aFt<-Iwards to Auckland in "a similar- ca-' ■ ■- . pacify.- ' '<■' ■ ' -.-..-■ ' J, Mr. J.- W. Brindley, general manager of t he-State Fire Insurance .Department, j will . ' . retire at the end of this month (telegraphs | our Wellington c6rrespond«nt). Speaking to 1 . a press representative he said that the strain . of "Working up ' the business against long ■'.'■'"' ' odds to its present' flourishing condition had begun to tell on his health, and his doctor had advised him to take * lengthened rest, Mr. Brindley was originally accountant m ■ the Victorian Insurance Company at .Melbourne in 1874. Two years afterwards he 1 was a branch manager, and seven months *■ ' : biter he reached the position of - general - .. manager for Victoria, at the age of 23, being ' the Toungest superintendent- on the records. He"'held that position till 1898, when he retired voluntarily. -He then-went into business in Sydney,' but sold up and took up his* present appointment, in April, 1904.