PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4299, 7 March 1901, Page 5

PERSONAL.

MV J. D. Wilson has resigned his position us Mayor of Pahiatua.

The Hon. C. H. Mills returned from the South yesterday morning by tho Rotomahana.

Mr Petorkin, of tlio Railway Department, is absent in Christchurch, taking the place of Mr Jackson, during the latter’s holiday. The health of Mr A. Morrison, M.H.R. for Cavcrsham, continues to give* his relatives and friends much anxiety. It is probable that he will have to withdraw entirely from public life. Mr Joseph Chadwick (“Spectator”), late of the “Weekly Preßs and Referee/’ who is about to take a position on the staff of the Auckland “Star, ’ passed through Wellington, on his way North, yesterday. A Press Association message from Auckland says that the Governor will arrive in Auckland on Friday. He will stay there for a few days, and then return to Rotorua, resuming the overland journey to Katikati and Taranaki. Captain Jackson Barry, the veteran pioneer, who, in spit© of his eighty-two years, is still looking well, is again m Wellington. The old gentleman has just been discharged from the hospital, where he has been confined for some weeks with a broken leg. Tim captain, who has an extensive and peculiar knowledge of the colonies, extending over some seventy years, recently completer] a journey through the King Country, where he had been on a prospecting expedition'. He is now engaged in arranging for the publication of his book, “The Australian Colonies and New Zealand. 1837-1866/’ which will contain the life history of the author. Captain Barry lauded in Auckland in 1837, when Queen street was a fem-clad gully. The personal liistory of such an old colonist is important; but added to this arc his notes and observations on men and places and incidents that are historical now, together witiT autobiographies and photos, of leading men throughout the colonies. Mr Barry’s book will shortly be issued, over 300 copies having been subscribed for in Auckland alone. Mr Barry deserves recognition, not only for his literary undertaking, but for his pioneering and exploring work,_ of which ho has done much, and in spite of his ago is still doing.