PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2497, 22 January 1902, Page 60

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. R. Oliver and Mrs Oiivei returned to Dunedin on Tuesday by the Mokoia. Their \isit is only a brief one, extending o\ cr only =ome two mouth". Mr and Mio Oliver are staying at tho t£iaiid Hotel.

The operation which Mr Wilford, M.H.R.. rpcpiirlv undervent has been entirely sueC"a«iul.

Mr John Murray has been appointed ascistant registrar of jomt-stock compar.ios at Dunedin during the absence on leave of Mr I. C. Corliss, as from Ist January. 1902. Ilaisane Ota died recently at Tonga, aged 23 years.. She was a princess of the royal family of Tugi.

Mr J. Hugh=on, who has for =ome months been stationed at Balclutha, was on lea\mg prosrntod b\' the iaih\ay employees with ai. anibcr cigarette aud cigar holder and a cigarette and cigar case. Mrs Hughson wa,-, the rccipiuit of a silver teapot.

r lhe Hon. Pir F M. Sargood and party, after spending about 10 days in the Lakes district, where they wore delighted with their exnenei'f c-, left for Stowait Inland in the Rmemoa on Saturday. Ihey remain at the inland pbout a foituight, and then leave for Dunedin \ia Invercargill Mr T. Palmer, v. ho for over 30 years has occupied the position of postmaster at Mataura, was entertained at a farewell =ocinl at Mataura on Friday night. Mr Palmer's lengthy sen ice has been rewarded with a well-earned pension, and it is his intention tn take up his residence in Dunedin Tho function w:'-> hf-M in Mr Cameron's hoM, snd u,tb .ulendod by about 40 gentlemen. It i- tho intention of the loral re-icU'iit-: to forwaul Mr Palmer a souvemi at an early dato.

The Rev. C. C. Oldham was to be inducted as vicar of the parish of Tapanui, Kclso. and Heriot last evening by his Lordship th" Bishop of Dunedin in AM .Saint.,' Church, Tapanui.

■ Tie Governor of Wioria. Sir George Ci;u-ko. was pres-om^l with the first c oveingn i- i"-d by th<- Moj .d Mint bearing the King's h^.id.

While the Pif 'pi' r '\a» at Kumara re eently ho \va^ v, ci"h<-<l, and turned the scale it ?<M *6!b Who da.c "-ay aftc- this that h^ i= not a it. ,in of weigh'

Sub-in-i'iM t' r Kiily. Mho ha- broii Miffpiing from a sc\cre attack of inflammation of the lungs, winch at ore tune caused his friends con-idenible an\ioty, is now progressing favourably towards convalescence.

Captain and Mis Dunkerly. of the Salvation Army. ha\e been transferred from Gore to Port Chalmers Captain and Mrs Ede, from South Dunedin, will take up the work in Gore.

The female officers of thp Mo^giel branch of the Salvation Army Corp« (Captain Gee and Lieutenant flrme) have been (ransfonod to Alexandra The incoming officers are Ensign and Mrs Peart. Sir Charles Nicholson, who lately celebrated Ins ninety-third biithday in Hertfordshire, has seen Australia rise from all but a barren wilderness to a nation. He ib the one man still living who pat in the fin-t Australian Parliament. He was three times Speaker of the Legislative Council of New South Wale«, and for six years Chancellor of Sydney University. Sir Charles has written a great deal on colonial and educational matters.

Mr J. Graham Gow, New Zealand Trade Commissioner, i« at present in London, miking inquiries in the interest of the tiade of the colony. William Noble ha= been appointed a member of the Bruce Licensing Committee, vice J. Inglis.

It is understood that Inspector Cullen, of Auckland, will succeed Inspector Pender in charge of the Wellington police district when the latter retires in April next.

Miss Mary Whijaker, who left the telephone exchange in Auckland to join the Pollards, is said to be the eldest daughter of the late Mr F. A. Whiteker, once upon a time M H.R for Waikato, and therefore granddaughter of the late Sir Frederick Whitakcr, K.C.M.O.

Tlip Chun h Mis-ioanry Society ropoits the baptism of the first pigmy in Stanley's