PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12409, 26 November 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Or. W. j. Kbilly has been elected Chairman of the Takaka County Council. - •Or. Oorby has bpen re elected Chairman of the Buller County Council without opposition. Cr. S. G. Ferguson bas been elec-t-.d Chairman Jof v the W»stland County Council. A Press Association message announoea' the death at Wellington of Mr John Smitb Rituhie, an old and respected settler Deceased had been iii the Dominion nearly forty years, and was father of Me J. Ritchie , of JJelsbn. A Press Association message states that Sir A. W. Moore, who was com-nisnder-in-chief on the China station in 1906,1- arrived at Wellington yesterday. >He will spend some time id the Dominion.

Sir Frederick Darley, Uhief Justice of New South Wales, who retires at the end of January next, this month completed \tweaty-twp years on the Bench, and tifisppriod, added to -eighteen years' previous s^fvics •>s. ,a member of i;iie begislafcive Oounml, will mslce up forhv years of sfcrsnuous publiu Ufa. Sir Freciericiforoposes to leave for England a week or two after his resignation.

Mr 3 Gibb, wife of the Rev. Ur Gibbj has been operateti on m Melbourne for. appendicitis. frivate advice was received in Wellington on Saturday uigbt stating that tha operation :was successful, that the patient was still weak, and that the dootors he'd hopes for a complete recovery. -.. .'[ .."■■' -■■■•'■