PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11813, 18 December 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Devlin, M. P., the Home Rule envoy, is indisposed, being confined to his bed at Tiniaru. It is hoped his illness will be of short duration. Mr. Justice Denniston is laid up T&ith influenza: .. ; . Mr Herirv Austin, of Fdxfco'nV tvi(d has just had an attack of influenza, the othei- day got a slight scratch on one of his hands, blood poisoning ensued, and he died on Friday. Mr James Connel, a veteran settler who arrived in the colony in the early forties, has died at Wanganui. He fought right through the Maori war in the 18th Royal Irish regiment; •; At the ;• sitting of the vSuprfcute Oouri; the other day nt Auckland! the members of the bar took notice of the death ot Mr Hugh Campbell, who was President of the Auckland Law Society, in 1902. Mr Justice Edwards, in replying, said deceased was a gentleman ' ' in whose honesty and integrity one felt one could riiosfc implicitly rely: . ; lt Is ot the greatest pqggibie iniport&ncti both to the public and to the" bar and to the , Bench, that the Benqh should be? able to feel confidence*, iij" ' the honesty; the truthfulnesd; and the integrity of the counsel who practice before the courts. They owe a duty, not only to their clients . but to the public, to the Bench, and, above all to themselves, to be honest and straightforward in their dealings. Such a man was the late Mr Campbell. Mrs William 2iegler, the widow, of the fate" American who financed . several Arctic expeditions, in tjbe , hope that theAmericari flag would be' the Jfirs't, to reach the Pole, has decided ' *Of establish,.:, a 1 monthly magazine for the 1 blind. ■ • . • p Sir Francis C. R. Price and Major E. K. Gordon, both of whom served in the South African war, are at present on a visit to this oolon.y Rawhiti.Mahuta's private secretary who recently patented an impiovement la. the under-carriage of waggqnsYjliaa taeeji offered fij.soo ior tbjj patent rights', which Hi- au,,pr;dJJ~ ability he will accept, says the Whikato paper.