MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1217, 28 June 1895, Page 18

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

Professor's Huxley's health is in a critical state.

Yesterday week being the anniversary of the Queen's ascension to the throne the warships Ringarooma and Pylades were decorated with bunting, and a salute was fired from the former vessel at noon. The Royal Standard was also flown from Government House.

The appointment of Major Sir A. P. Douglas as Under-Secretary for Defence is gazetted.

The City Council have appointed Councillor Myers a member of the Charitable Aid Board in place of the late Councillor Petherick.

A large number Of the personal friends and political supporters of Mr J. Duthie, M.H.R., together with the members of his family, assembled at the Manawatu Railway Station on Friday to bid him welcome after his five months' absence from the Colony. Sir Robert Stout, the senior member for the city, was also present, but the Opposition were not represented. Messrs Gale, Murdoch, Harcourt and other wellknown citizens were* at the station. Mr Duthie received a very hearty welcome, and had to undergo a considerable amount of handshaking, Jupp's band meanwhile playing "Home, Sweet Home." As the party moved up the' platform the band played "See the Conquering Hero," after which Mr J. G. W. Aitken, on behalf of the committee, briefly welcomed Mr Duthie back to his constituency. Mr Duthie, in .reply, said he had never felt better and stronger in his life, and he had had a most pleasant trip. He was gratified to find in England and America many signs of a revival of prosperity. - In London frozen meat, for example, was better, and he had found that New York was never so busy as at the present time. He hoped that j the wave of prosperity would before long i reach New Zealand, and he would do all j he could to assist in bringing about such j an improved state of things.

The will of the late Mr G. C. Hawker, M.L.A., Adelaide, has been proved at under .£305,000.

The Prince of Wales will review the Italian and British, fleets at Spithead on 13th July.

The friends of the late Cosmo Newbery are to erect a memorial to. him.

A prominent local athlete, Mr H. G. Anderson, who has been in the service of Messrs Levin and Co. for several years, is about to leave for Napier, having received an important position in the Napier branch of Messrs Dalgety and Co.'s business.

: Our London correspondent writes on May 18th :—" Mr F. Allen, of Wellington, who arrived Home recentjy ■; in the Rome, will return to the Colony by way of America when the business of the Commercial Union Assurance Company which brought him to the Old. Country has been settled. As supervisor of examinations in New Zealand for the Institute of Actuaries, ■« Mr Allen is endeavouring to get the cable agencies to telegraph names of the successful colonial competitors as news items, but I fear that the agencies will be hard to convince that this should be done. To my thinking the fact that Mr Jones, of Wellington, Mr Brown, of Hokitika, and Mr Robinson, of Nelson; have passed the Institute examinations is a news item better worth cabling than the fact that Her "Majesty has returned to London from Balmoral or the Continent. But this is a «mere opinion." > '.

Mr Nat Nathan, who is now in D r Fitzgerald's private hospital in Melbourne, undergoing treatment for cancer, is, we learn, slightly better. Unfortunately, however, very little hope is entertained of his ultimate recovery.

The Hinemoa left for Westporfc at 10 • o'clock on Monday. She will probably call at the Brothers en route. From Westport the Hinemoa goes to Onehunga to bring '■the Hon Mr Ward to Wellington.

Dr Mackin, of Wellington (writes our London correspondent under date May 18th), looked in at the New Zealand Press Agency on Thursday, fresh from Brussels, where he had just captured "with distinction" the degree of M.D. The doctor came Home last :August, and spent the winter studying in Edinburgh, where he in due course took the inevitable Fellowship of the E.C.S: He was also elected a member of the British Medical Association and a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh. Dr Mackin is now holidaymaking in Ireland, where he has a small estate, and from there means to do the Lakes of Killarney. During the latter part of June and July Dr Mackin means to study the eyewear and throat at the Lon-. don hospitals, and he will return to the Colony by a Shaw-Savill boat in August.

Sir James Hector, we regret to hear, has been confined to his bed with a severe cold.

Captain Eamsay, late chief officer of the Corinna, is in command of the Brunner, while Messrs Bergquist, Tulloch and Isaacs, formerly second officer, third officer arid purser of the Corinna, have been transferred to the Brunner. Messrs Bergquist and Tulloch have each been promoted a step. Captain Bernech, late of the Flora, is in command of the Corinna, and Mr Sadler, purser of the Flora, has been transferred to the Corinna. Mr Farmar, chief officer of the Flora, is bringing the vessel up from the South, and will ultimately be relieved by Captain Waller, of the Eotomahana, Mr Farmar resuming his position as chief officer of the Flora. Mr Spence, at

present chief officer of the Rotomahana, will take her on to Dunedin. Mr Tubby, late purser of the Tarawera, has been transferred to the Flora, and Mr W. H. Bourne, at present purser of the Rotomahana, will join the Tarawera in a similar capacity at Dunedin.

Owing to indisposition Mr J. R. Blair, chairman of the Education Board, was absent from Wednesday's meeting of the Board, and his place was filled by the Rev J. Paterson.

The Hon W. P. Reeves and Mr E. Tregear have presented a number of books to the library of the school at the State farm at Levin.

Mr E. Tregear has presented the school at the Levin State Farm with a magic lantern, which is to be used in connection with the studies at the school. Magic lanterns are now in use at several of the local schools.

Mr Drummond has received the appointment of teacher at the Park Vale School.