PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5311, 24 June 1904, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr fV-kavnc. of Christchurch, is taking up his re-idenee in Welling! on. Tho" Hon J. A. Tele has accepted the position of Crown Prosecutor at Hamilton. Mr \ J. Wicks has resigned tho con-ductor-hip of the South Wellington C horal Society. Colonel Shepherd, Sergeant-al-Arms i I tho House of Representatives, arr.vecl la i night from Auckland. Mr John Dulhie. M.H.R., was m Palmerston yesterday, and returned to Wellington in tho evening. _ Mr D. J. Nathan, who had been visiting tho Palmerston winter show for tho past two days, returned to M cllingum last night. Mr R Crowe, tho Victorian Dairy Commissioner, returned last night 1 rom the Palmerston winter show. Ho intends to leave for Sydney to-morrow. Mous. Robert Booufvc has been appointed Consul for Franco at Auckland, with jurisdiction over New Zealand, the Cook Archipelago and tho Tonga Islands. Air T. W. .McDonald, who contested the education Hoard election to fill Mr Blair's place last year, and was only beaten bv a low votes, has again boon nominated for one of the present vaThc appointment of Mr James Meach;,in iiatha.nl to ho Doputy-Registrar-Gcncral of Land for New Zealand, and Demur District Land Registrar tor tho Land and Heads Registration District of Wellington, is gazetted. Air \V. L. Esson, who has been a member of tbo Government Telegraph staff at tho Wakapuaka cable .station for tho past ten years, has received notice of transfer to New Plymouth. Tho vacancy at Wakapuaka will he filled by Air J. Morton, of the Wellington office. Air AI. C. Harnott, who is in charge of tho Christchurch branch of the Public Trust Department, has obtained leave et absence for tho purposes of visiting England. Ho will bo relieved by Air Kendall, chief accountant at Wellington, whoso duties will in turn bo assumed by Air A. Purdie.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that a meeting of tho congregation of the Devonport Presbyterian Church unanimously agreed that Rev I. K. 'Bertram, of Hawera, be appointed to the pastorate of tho church,, in succession to tho Bcv It. Ferguson, recently appointed to Invercargill. Tho appointments arc gazetted of Mr Horace Clare Waterficld as private secretary to his Excellency the Governor; Captain Francis Powell Braithwaite. ot the Northumberland' Fusiliers, as aide-de-camp ; and Lieutenant tho Hon Arthur Maurice Robert Bingham, of the Fifth Lancers, as second aide-de-camp. Mr G. W. Tindill, of the Eastern Extension Oablo Company’s staff,, is at present in Wellington on holiday leave. For the past four years Mr Tindill, who was- trained at tho Wakapuaka (Nelson) station, has been located at Port Darwin. Prior to that ho saw several years’ service in the Philippine Islands, and at the expiry of his leave ho returns to the group to take charge of the company’s station at Cebu. The following visitors are staying at tho Occidental Hotel:—Hon J. McGowan. Hon J. Carroll, Mr E. Cock (Now Plymouth), Mr Webster, Mrs Webster. Mr M. IV. P. Lascellos (Napier), Mr A. Woods (Sydney). Captain East, Mr Marcus Marks, Miss Fanny Marks. Miss Doris Marks, Mr Easter. Mrs Joseph McMahon, Mr James McMahon, Mr Stuart, Mr Norman Campbell, Mr V. Hitchings (Levin), Miss May Woods, Mrs Williamson, Mr J. McLeod, Mr W. McLeod.