PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVX, Issue 3094, 3 April 1897, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

jic T. ,11. . iVilford has been appointed solicitor to the Camera’ Union. Mr T. E. Donne, traffic manager o£ the Wellington and Napier sections of the railway, is holiday-making. Mr John Collins leaves for Sydney on Saturday next to oatoh the OrotaVa eit roiite for the Old Country. Mr Collins intends to enjoy a, feW Months’ Well-earned holiday. Mfa J. Tttther, of the Choir of St. Mary’s Church, Wanganui, was presented on Wednesday, night with* a diamond brOOCh arid gold sleeve links on the eve Of Her departure for Wellington.

Mr John of Wellington, Has tijadfi awarded tho certificate Of. merit Of , the Unmade Society of Australasia for 6yv:ng,tlid life of a boy uSrabd Kifktls 8.1 Clyde quay last fellfilai-y;

Sir Janies Prpndorgftbt is to return to Wellington by the ; Tutanelidi, vvhioli Will leave Onehuuga With the Northern member? ef PnrUai'doat ori Monday! to preside it the Opening of Parliament! _ , Jlr. F. Turnb.iill, )aix of tne firm of Messrs Burroughs and Turnbull, a-ohiteo f s, was a passenger to London by the Gothic yesterday. While at Home Mr Turnbull will undergo a course of treatment by Loudon specialists for deafness.

Mr John Johnston, eldest son of Mr Robert Johnston, chief engineer of the a a. Brunner, who recently completed his apprenticeship to engineering in Messrs Canla and Co** 3 foundry, purposes leaving for Glasgow by the Ruahino to perfect his atudiea.

Mr C. W. Sorenson, Government Dairy ■Expert, has just visited the Pemberton district, and is very favourably impressed with the ptcopeots fdr the dairy ihlttatry in that pirt erf the Hangitikei. It is. proposed to establish a dairy ooaijiany there,. and Mr Sorenson, in an address or Tuesday higlit, reconlmoadod Rangiwahid as the most suitable locality. . . Mr Prank Leokie, of the Government In. aiiran :a office, Wellington, who is on a oycling.tour, was riding through the Mannwatu Gorge on Thursday afternoon, about 5130 o’clock, whoa his machine struck a boulder in the middle of the road, and he went over the bank. He caught a branch of a tree half way down and fortunately lauded on the edge of a rook, and escaped without a bruise. His bicycle went to the bottom of the gorge, and was badly smashed up.