PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONALIA

His Excellency the Governor will open the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s, winter show and exbibtion on Tuesday next. Mr J. Unstable, of Dunedin,,is on a busineh? visit to Wellington. Mr R. H. Rhodes, M.P. for Ellesmere, has been granted - a fortnight’s leave ol alienee from the House of Representatives. A cable message from Adelaide states that the Rev. Alexander Low, “father ' of the Presbyterian Church in , South Australia, is dead, at the age of ninety. Mr Neil Rutfell Russell was yesterday admitted as a solicitor of tho Supreme Court before his Honor the Chief Justice on the motion of Mr G. Samuel. The Mayor, Sir T. M. Wilford, M.P., was unable to attend to his Parliamentary duties yesterday owing to the state of"his health. He was granted leave of absence for the day. ■ Mr Tisch, Mayor of New Plymouth, underwent a serious operation at NonPlymouth yesterday morning. The doctors stated afterwards that he was as well as can be expected. Tho Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister of ’Agriculture, and Messrs D. Cuddio (dairy division) and 0. J. Peakes (veterinary division) will address the conference of delegates to the South Island Dairy Association next week. Major-General Godley, Commandant, leaves for Palmerston North this morning. He returns on Monday, and on Wednesday proceeds to Dunedin. Timaru will be visited on August sth and Christchurch on tho 7th. Appreciation of Mr W. D. Lysnar’e efforts iu his endeavours to improve tho handling of frozen produce in England was expressed at yesterday's sitting of the Farmers' Union Conform)oe, and n resolution to that effect was recorded on the minutes on the motion of Mr Ensor (Canterbury), seconded by Mr Maigill (Auckland). Detective-Sergeant Mollveney, who is to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Detective-Sergeant Cassells to Napier, ar. rived from Auckland last night. For sixteen and a half years Detective-Ser-geant McUveney had been stationed at Auckland—for the last twelve years as detective. For six years he .was in .charge of the detective office at Newton. Messrs W. A. Redmond, E. Hazleton, and J. T. Donovan. Irish envoys, who have concluded a highly successful ■ tom of the Dominion in tho interests ol the Home Rule cause, left Wellington yesteiday afternoon- by the Manuka for Sydney. Their sond-off was of tho heartiest nature. Several hundred people gathered at tho wharf, and before the steamer moved away /-on her outward passage, popular Irish melodies were sung, concluding with enthusiastic cheers for the envoys.'