PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13859, 19 September 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

.4.1k. -McKENZiEi of the Rosamond, "has been appointed chief officer on the Waipori.

Captain Jas. Dawson, late of the s.s. Kaiapoi, arrived from the South yesterday by the Takapuna.

Mr. G. G. Robertson lias joined the s.s. Takapuna as chief oilieer, vice Mr. Foster, 'who is ashore- on holiday leave.

' Dr. Mason, chief health officer, is paying an official visit to Cambridge and other places iu the Auckland district.

It is generally accepted in well-informed circles (says the Wellington Post) that the Hon. W. 'Ball-Jones will succeed Mr. W. P Reeves as High Commissioner, and that the Hon. Charles Mills will, after the general election, be appointed to the Legislative Council.

I/Tr. H. Linley Richardson, of Wollingfou, has been engaged for some time on a number of important illustrations to be reproduced in photogravure, for an edition dc luxe of George Eliot's* works, upon a commission from a well-known firm of publishers in Boston, U.S.A.

The Rev. David Russell, a. prominent South African men's speaker, who has been conducting most, successful missions for men in England and the United States, will arrive- in New Zealand at the end of October to hold a month's mission under tho auspices of tho Y.M.C.

Cardinal Moran celebrated his 78th birthday on Wednesday. He also entered on the 25th year of "his work in New South Wales on Tuesday. He is a native of Co'unty Callow, Ireland, and was ordained in 1853 by special dispensation as to age. He was for some time private secretary .to his uncle, Cardinal Cullen, the first Irish Cardinal.

Mrs. Jane Emily Brown, who died at Auckland recently, left close, on £1000 for " the benefit of the cottage hospital at Otaki, and to be applied by the trustees of the 'institution in such manner that it may bo a lasting memento of my dear friend Mrs. Emily MeWilliam, and of her work in connection with the institution." ■Mrs. Brown was the widow of • the late Mr. John E. Brown, at one time a member of tho House of Representatives.