PERSONALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6495, 15 April 1908, Page 5

PERSONALIA.

The Hon. R. McNab is expected back in Wellington on Sunday from his visit to Otago. Mr Gresley Lukin, editor of the "Evening Post," proceeds by the Maheno on a holiday visit to Sydney on Friday.

Major Davy and Staff-Captain McCiuro will bo passengers for Sydney by the Maheno on Friday.

Mr 11. C. Tewsicv, Wellington manager of Messrs Sargood, Son and Ewen, is visiting Nelson. Mr Horatio Nelson, of the firm of Nelson. Moate and Company, leaves on a trip to Australia on Friday. Mr E. W. 11. Hornabrook, of Wellington, leaves by the Maheno on Friday for Australia, en route .to England. The Bev. G. H. .Tupp, M.A.. secretaryevangelist of the Bible Class Union, was v-storday made a member of the Wellington Presbytery. Mr A. Stcdman. manager of the Napier brunch of the Bank of New South Wales, and Mrs Stedman are on a visit to Wellington. Mr Justice Sim, Judgo of tho Arbitration Court, left Wellington on Monday for Rotorua, where he proposes to spend the Easter vacation.

Mr C. A. Wilkinson, of Eltham, notifies that he will bo a candidate for Egmont in the Opposition interests at the 1903 election against all-comers. One of Wangan-ui's old residents, Mere A. 11. Lyell, widow of the late Mr David Stuart Lyoll, died this week at the residence of her brother-in-law, Colonel J. P. Watt.

Tho Rev. A. D. Thompson, Mr J. G. W. Aitken, M.P., and Mr W. Gray, M.A., have boon appointed by the Wellington Presbytery to be their delegates to the Presbyterian Sunday Sohool Association. The E-ov. Dr Bowie, superintendent of the Mission of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand in tho New Hebrides, has arrived back in Wellington from a visit to Palinerßton North. Ho will leave for Sydney on Friday on his return to tho Islands.

The Karori Borough Council last night placed on record its regret. at parting with Messrs Putnam, Murdoch and Clark, the three representatives of the Northland district, which has just been cut out of KaroTi and amalgamated with the city.

Mr John King, Government Audit Inspector for Nelson and West Coast, has been granted eight months' leave of absence for the purpose of paying a visit to the Old Country. Mr King has been thirty-throe years in the Government service.

Yesterday his Honor Mr Justice Edwards, sitting in chambers, admitted Mr W. R. Borlase as a barrister of the Supreme Court on the application of Mr Brown, and Mr C. A. Arthur as a solicitor of the Court on the motion of Mr Tanner.

Mr J. G. Gilberd, for many years superintendent of the Napier Volunteer Fire Brigade was entertained at a smoke concert at Napier last evening by the brigade, and was made a presentation. A Press Association message says the Mayor and others spoke eulogistically of the services rendered by Mr Gilberd, who is leaving on a trip to the Old Country. Mr J. W. Thom-pson, of tho" staff of the General Manager of New Zealand Bailways, was presented yesterday with a clock, as a mark of his colleagues' esteem and good wishes upon the occasion of his forthcoming marriage. The presentation was made by Mr T. Eonayne (General Manager), who wished Mr Thompson a long and happy married life. The Presbytery yesterday nassed a resolution of regret at the death of Mrs Milne, wife of the Eev. P. Milne, who has been for many years the minister of the church at the Island of Ngune, in the' New Hebrides. The resolution, which was moved by the Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott and seconded by the Eev. J. Paterson, also conveyed the sympathy of the Presbytery to Mr Milne and family.