PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14015, 25 September 1909, Page 3

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The friends of Mr Georgo "Wilson will be pleased to hear of his promotion to District Manager of the Temperance and General .Liie. Assurance Company, Auckland Messrs J. Craigio (chairman), and \V. J. Bardsley returned I'roni Wellington yesterday, where they have been attending tho Harbours Conference. ■At- a Jargc and enthusiastic meeting of tho congregation of Chalmers Presbyterian Cuureh. last evening, it was unanimously resolved to send a call to the Rev. Macaulay Galdwell, of St. Stephen's, Auckland to be their minister. Members of the Wesleyau congregation of Timaru will learn with much regret of the death of Mrs F. J. Lough, ' formerly, as Miss Phoebo! Foden, a popular members of Wesley Church choir. Mr Lough's friends hero will sympathise with him in his bereavement. The deceased's remains will bo brought to Timaru for interment. The Dominion Rifle team to compete at tho Australasian meeting at Sydney next month left Wellington by the Warrimoo yesterday in charge of Major Robert Hughes, V.D., of Wangauui. Major Hughes had a pleasant surprise before sailing, as Colonel Collins handed him a lieutenant-colonels commission. ' Concerning tho new Justices of tlie Peace for Timaru it may be said that Mr George Sealey has been a member of the Borough Council for twelve or fourteen years; he has been for some years a member of the South School Committee and is its present chairman, and he is also, a member of the South Canterbury Education Board. .Mr J. Rothwell has served on the Borough Council for 14 years and has acted in other public capacities. Mr William Priest is well known throughout South Canterbury as a successful business man, and he too, has served in many public positions. Mr Henry Eaton's qualifications for the place of honour may be judged from the fact that he is manager for such a firm as Dalgety and Co., while Mr H. S. Russell, as secretary to the South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board," has presumably been appointed bv reason of the fact that he is si man "of integrity and has an intimate knowledge of a class of people, who through stress of circumstances have often to deal with the law courts, and moreover he is always easily getatable for signing documents, etc.