PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 34

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr David Forsytli, well-known as a ches3

player of repute, was on Monday admitted by his Honor Mr Justice Williams as a solicitor of the Supreme Court 'if New Zealand under the provisions of " The Law Practitioners Act, 1503." Mr Forsyth is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Scotland, and his enrolment here is believed to be the first case in the colony of an admission under the act of 1903, which permits any person who has been in practice as a solicitoi in any part of the United Kingdom for not less than three years to be admitted as a solicitor in New Zealand without further examination. Mr J. Rennie has been appointed travelling auditor for the whole of New Zealand and Queensland for Messrs Dalgety and Co., and will take up his duties at the end of January. Sister Isabel Sinclair, who has been in. England for the past five years, has returned to Dunedin. Sister Sinclair is tinder ei^-ge-

( ment as deaconess in the Taranaki Street Methodist Churdi, Wellington. Before leaving Dunediii she proposes to give an account of her experiences. Mr W. Naphtali was presented with a silver matchbox and sovereign case combined, and suitably inscribed, in recognition of his | honorary services as ;i teacher in the Dunedm Hebrew School,