PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4295, 2 March 1901, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr T, I;,', pouim ent ei'.sd actively iqion his duties ai' Secretary of Industries and Ccimuereo and Superintendent of Government Touri.-t and Health .Resorts yesterday. Ho is at pres'-nt occiniying ‘T’ ccniiiiitlco room at the Parliamentary Buildings.

The Hon. J. G. Ward left for Auckland Yesterday morning, and will be absent from Wellington for about a fortnight. Ho is In bo banqueted and to receive a. presentation at To Awannifcu in roccgnilien of the establishment of penny postage by tins colony. A, IVetH Association message from Auckland si sites that Mr George Fcwids, M.U.R., has met with an accident. Ho was driving into town in a light, trait, when (he horso shied and ran the vehicle >aii to the footpath. Air Fowkls was thrown out, and tho wbeci went .over lib leg, causing him much pad u.

Tho Very Rev A. Keogh, 8.A1.. M.A., the new rector of Bt. Patrick's College, has arrived in, Wellington from London, and will enter upon his duties forthwith. The new reclior of ‘’St. Pat's” is a. Dublin University man, and com os to us witii a very high reputation as a scholar anil as ji, man. There can be no doubt, that in lus hands the (Vjlioge will contiuiio lo be a, powerful influence in tho cumimiiiit-y_

A very old resilient of tho tintt district, Mr Charles .England, died at tho residence of his son-in-law. Air J. Lowry, Polonc, on Thursday, lie carried on bli-incas as a butcher in tho Hutfe district for many years up till the early eighthly, since which time lie has boon living in retirement, in Pctime. Jio was a quiet, unobtrusive, man. but none the less a good colonist, leaving six .sens, three daughters. for(.y-(iv<> gra'ndchildron and tiiirteeui great-grandchildren. The deceased was cighty-two years of age. His wife predeceased him i>y twenty-two years.

A Press Asocial ion message from Auckland states that the members of the legal profession on Thursday evening, at the Northern Club, welcomed the. Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), and bade farewell to Mr Justice Cooper, at a, complimentary dinner. There was a. large attendance of legal luminaries, including tho Solii’itor-Ch'm-iv.l (Dr Fit diet A. Aftci the usual toasts, the healths of the guest:were honoured. ;vir Justice Cooper was then presented with an address by the Auckland Law Institute, tendering congratulations and expressing tho conviction that his comprehensive grasp of Hie principles of law eminently qualified him for his high position?

The President introduced tho Rev Richard Harding, from England, to the ministers attending the Wesloyan Conference yesterday, as a, nephew of the Into Rev Isaac Harding, who in the late fifties officiated as a minister of tlio Wesleyan Church iu Auckland. In the earh sixties he was removed to Wellington, and his memory Is still cherished by many of Ids congregation in this city. The llev Richard Harding, "'do attended hi; first conference in London in 1850. related some interesting anecdotes oi the shining lights of Methodism in those days, culled from his personal experiences. The Rev J. Lewis (Naisoii), in thanking the visitor, did sc iu the happiest terms.