PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 21

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Lady Onslow and party have arrived back in Christchurch after a visit to the Southern lakes and Dunedin. Mr J. S. S. Medley, land agent, lias been elected chairman of the Conciliation Board for the Taranaki Industrial District. Messrs J. W. Joynt and Edward Tregear have been appointed members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. Captain Hutton, F.R.S., president of the New Zealand Institute, is to pay a visit to England during the pro eax year. He will be absent from the colony about six months. Mr “Smiier’’ Hales, journalist, war correspondent, and author, is lecturing on tire war in the East in Australia. At latest he was packing the Town Hail at Adelaide, where lie was at one time a reporter. Dr F. Bennett, of New Plymouth, who lias been appointed medical officer at the Blenheim Hospital, is a graduate of Glasgow 'University, and for two years was assistant surgeon to Sir W. Mac Ewen, of Glasgow. Mr F. E. Brittain, of Dunedin, has been promoted to the secretaryship of the Mutual Life Association of Australasia in South Australia. Prior to hia departure for Adelaide on Thursday, ha was entertained and presented with a number of valuable tokens of esteem. Professor Fu-sakichi Omori, who was nominated by the Wellington Philosophical Society for honorary membership to the New Zealand Institute at the annual meeting held on Thursday, is professor in the Faculty of Science in. the Imperial University of Tokio, Japan. He is director of the Seismological Institute of Japan, is general secretary of the Earthquake Investigation Conir mittee, and is a member of the Commission Permanente of the International Seismological Association. The Wellington branch of the New Zealand Accountants and Auditors’ Association has appointed Messrs A. S. Biss and J. H. Barker as delegates to attend a conference to be held in Auckland on February 21st. The meeting at which the appointments were made afforded members an opportunity to meet and discuss matters of interest with the Registrar, Air J. H. Macki©, of Auckland, at present on a visit to this city.

The sudden death of Mr W. York, of Wanganui, on Thursday afternoon, is announced in the local papers. Th© deceased, who was educated for th© church, was a prominent member of St. Paul’s Church and Sunday school at Wanganui, being at the time of his death one of the church vestry, and secretary of the school. He occasionally occupied the pulpit at St. Paul’s and St. Andrew’s Churches. He leaves a young wife.

Among those persons booked to leav© for England in March are Mr and Mrs James Lockie and Miss Lockie, Captain Romeril (formerly of the Kahu. and. Torca) and Mrs Romeril; Mr W. Haybittle, of Feilding; Air S. Sal-ek, of Wellington ; Air and Mrs H. J. Thompson, of Dixon street; Aliss A. Daly, of Wellington; and Mr Beale (of Messrs Thompson Bros.’ staff). Th© whole ox these leave Wellington by the Wimmera on Alarch 4th for Sydney, to connect there with different Home steamers leaving for London about that date. Air George Leslie, hairdresser and tobacconist, of Oamaru, who was burned to death in a fire that demolished his premises on the 7th inst., was a brother of Mr T. W. Leslie, custodian of th© Wellington Town Hall buildings. The deceased was a member of th© O'amaru hand when it won the championship of New Zealand, and won the baritone (instrumental) solo competition at th© South Seas Exhibition. He was greatly interested in racing and coursing, and at one time owned the racehorses Vagabond and Tony, and several prize greyhounds.

The following’ hospital nurses passed the December examination for the registration of nurses. The names are arranged in order of meritE. Lucas, Wellington; B. Nurse, Wellington; E. Low, Wellington; J. Aitken, Thames, and E. Shanks, Riverton, equal; C. E. Macbeth, Wellington; C. M. Bird, Riverton; F. E. Dewar, Auckland; A. Iveddie, Tim am ; G. Broad, Wellington ; I. Pownall, Thames; E. Harley, Dunedin, and A. Alocdy, Timaru, equal; B. Keyte, Auckland; E. Austin, Auckland; M. Thurston, Wellington; E. Brown, Invercargill, J. Allen, Auckland, and J. Nicholson, Riverton, equal; E. Gardner, Wellington, -and A. Gordon, Wanganui, equal; P. Reynolds, Auckland; J. Brett, Auckland, and E. Dobson, Christchurch, equal; J. Graham, A 1 aster ton; R. Lindsay, Invercargill; R. Rule, Christchurch; M. Wilson, Thames; C. Fullarton, Christchurch, J. Neilsen, Wanganui, E. Crawford, Auckland, and J. Grieve, Invercargill, equal; C. Doig, Dunedin, M. Gibson, Dunedin, E. Wright, Dunedin, E. Massey, Gisborne, and I. Findlay, Auckland, equal. Seven nurses failed to pass.