PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6314, 14 September 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL

Mr Ben TiHott will leave Sydney for New Zealand on the 21st inst. Mr Andrew Collina states that ho will ton tost the Palmerston seat at the next general election. M> J. J 3. Page has been confined to his house for some days past owing to In d Leposi t ion. Mr E. Bareli Ims resigned the position of hon. secretary’ to the Southland Acclimatisation Society. Mr B. Gallichan, general secretary of the Liberal and Labour Federal ton of New Zealand, will leave "Wellington next Tuesday on an organising * tour. The Bight Honourable Sir Joseph and Lady Ward will be prceeiit at the Opera House this evening to witness the per-f-ormanco of “Mr llopkirison. 'X'tio lion. li. 0. Slovens, of Christchurch, who has boon suffering from a seriouH illness for some months, has recovered sufficiently -to bo able to got about. Gunner Doyle, of the Now Zealand Donnammt Force, who died at; Auckland from bunas received through the upsetting of a kerosene lamp, was a eon ot air Jamos Doyle, Chief Sanitary Inspector for the Wellington City Council. The Bov A. Parker, of Travanooro, South India, will arrive in Dunedin today as a special deputation on Ijwi.iji of the London Missionary Society. AJo will be in Wellington from tho 4th to the Bth of October. Mr IV. Webb, the world-champion jcullor, is expected to visit Lyttelton, his birthplace, next week, and -arrangements arc being made by his old club, the Lyttelton Bowing Club, to entertain him at a smoko concert. Biigadior AlbUton, commanding the North Island Province of the Salvation Army, will leave this morning for lalmerston, where ho will bo engagwl for throe Have in conference with all tho officers in the Manawatu district. Mr J. B. Count*tt, chairman of the Now Plymouth Harbour Board. Mr Newton King, Mr W. G. Malone, and Mr J. W. Foremen are in town m connection with tho Waitara Harbour Bill. They will ?©av© this morning. Mr William Cowie, chief mail dork at the Punodin Post Office, retiree at tJio end of this rdonth, -after a period of forty-four years* service-. Ho lias been all the tlirm stationed at Punediu a,nd has served under five postmasters. Mr F. T. Boys, who has for many rears been associated with Ndeon Brothers, Ltd., has acceded the appoint- : mont of tecretary to tho Christchurch Meat Company, Ltd., and will be taking un bis diities at an early date. ,■ Amongst the arrivals by the Corinthic "on. Wednesday were Mr W. H. McGarry pnd family, of Eltham, Taranaki. Mr McGarry has just returned from a trip to England, and say«s that from what lie jwiw in his travels he is satisfied that there is no country like Now Zealand for the small fanner. Pr John Kirk, who sails shortly to take up work as a medical missionary in the Canton villages, leaves Wellington this morning for Marton, where he will visit the parento of Mrs Mawson. who is already working in Canton with her husband, the Bov. W. Mawson. Pr Kirk will then visit Wanganui and Auckland, leaving New Zealand in about a week's time. Major Jackson Keddell. Stipendiary Magistrate at Oamaru, will shortly retire on a pension. Bom in Kent in 1831, he joined the 16th Lancers in 1850, but soon after left, and went to Victoria, where he rose to be sub-inspec-tor in the Mounted. Police. Ob failing leave to visit Otago, he settled there in 1862, and became coroner on the goldfields. He served in the Waikato under General Cameron, and became major in 1864. H© was subsequently Magistrate at Thames, Coromandel, Central Otago, and Grey-mouth, his Itust move being to Oamaru, in 1682. The following volunteer effioera have applied for free passes to Wellington, where they will undertake tho ten days* course laid down for their military instruction Capt. ■ Allardi-ce, Dannevirke cadHri; _Z/laut. Small, Huramua M. 8.; L>eul. M&Pougali, Wanganui Cadets; Capt. Hislop. 3rd Battalion; Capt. KingLand, Napier Guards; Capt. Simm, Banfurly Bides; Capt- Beer© and Lieuts. Mitchell and Coleman, Gisborne Bifles; Capt. Meldrum and Lieuts. Ashworth and Pleasants, Hnntervillo M. 8,; Lieut. Clark, Eltham Bifies; Capt. Tomblcson, F-ast Coast M. 8.; Lieuts. Wright and Kintz, Hawera Bifies; Capt. F. Boss, Hutt Valley Rifles.