PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14000, 4 March 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mb. John- Heslop, a member of * the Tara- | tiaki Land Board, is at: present, in Auck-

land; p$

• Captain G. Holford, accompanied by his wife and daughter, left for the South by the Takapuna yesterday.

Inspector Cullen returned last evening from an official trip to Cambridge . and other Waikato stations and Te Kuril.

A Press Association cable from Sydney announces the death of Captain Hixson, late president of the Marine Board, at the age of 76. •■'••;■

Mr. W. D. S. Macdonald was yesterday elected chairman of the new Waikohu County Council (telegraphs our Gisborne correspondent).

Mr. Robert McNab, ex-Minister for Lands, who has been busily engaged in his literary research work in Wellington since the beginning of the year, is paying a short visit to his home at Knapdale, Southland.

Mr. W. Eraser, M.P. for Wakatipu, was entertained at Waikaka yesterday save a Gore Press Association message), and presented with a purse of sovereigns in recognition of his strenuous advocacy of the completion of the Gore-Waikaka railway. . s

The Rev. 1. B. Redgrave, who until lately has been a student at Canterbury College, Christchurch, and is now curate of St. Luke's Church, in that city, has been notified that he has obtained his M.A. degree with second-class honours. Mr .Redgrave is the second son of Mr. A. J. Redgrave, of the Crown Lands Office, Auckland.

Mr. Darnell-Smith, assistant director the Auckland Technical College, has resigned his position, having accepted one at a higher salary as assistant micro-bio-logist to the New South Wales Bureau of Micro-biology. The Education Board yesterday passed a "resolution in appreciation of Mr. Darnell-Smith's services in Auckland. ;, ' ' '-v.

The Rev. J. H. Mackenzie was inducted into the pastorate of the Congregational Church. Onehur.ga. yesterday afternoon, when the Rev. W. Day presided. The sermon was preached by the lie v. H. Steele Craik, while appropriate hymns were rendered by the choir. Another service was held at 7.30 p.m., when, in addition to the new pastor, several of the local clergy /were present. Mr. Mackenzie was warmly welcomed to the new scene of his spiritual labours. ! { "

Reference to. the death of Mr. Keith Cape Williamson,' one of the victims of the Penguin disaster, was made at yesterday's meeting of the North '■}'. Canterbury/Education Board, and sympathy was expressed, j with his relatives. : ' Mr. ;: Williamson was formerly a scholar and. teacher under the Board. T The Board also expressed its sympathy with Mr. Alfred Maxwell, - headmaster of the Taitapu school, and family at the loss of his sister by the same disaster.

The Rev. Joseph Beale, who has been elected • president of the New!! South Wales Methodist Conference, is one of a number ;i' ;/ of prominent Methodist ministers turned '"■"" out by!., the Kiama Sunday-school, among whom may :be .mentioned- his! brother (the Rev. W. *H. Beale), the Rev. J. E. Carrut hers, the Revs. William, John, and Benjamin Dinning, the Rev. R. East, and the 'V:! Rev. J. A. Somerville. Mr. Beale entered ■■'■'•'; the ministry in 1875, and; has , spent the ■•A bulk of his.time in country circuits.