PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14326, 17 October 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr T. Buxton, M.P., for Gerakline, arrived in Timaru on Saturday morning from the north. Ho joined tho Premier in his trip to the Mackenzie Country yesterday, Messrs V> . Rutherford. D. Rutherford, and A. M. Rutherford, of Temuka. aro at present on a visit to Auckland. Mr Craig, J.P.. of Owaka. Otago. is at present visiting Timaru. Ho is staying with Mr W. A. Pearson in North Street. Several carriages on Saturday morning's south-bound express were occupied by members of Christe.iiurch band en routo to Dunedin for tho contest there this week. Mr S. Hosking, K.C., o; Dunedin. and Mr G. M. Thomson, M.P. for Dunedin North, passed through Timaru on , Saturday afternoon on their way to j Dunedin from the north. Mr .William Callendcr, general manager of the Bank of Now" Zealand, is returning to Wellington, via Suez. He broke liis journey at Colombo to .spend a little time in Ceylon and Southern India. A quartette from the South Canterbury Battalion Band, consisting of Messrs Mara, Dephoff, Blackwootf and Reilly, left Timaru by the second express on Saturday for Dunedin. and will take part in tho contest which commences to-day. Mr Maurice Randrup, who left Timaru some time ago to take up laud in I aranaici, was in Timaru on Saturday, Having sold out to advantage in the north. It is Mr Randrup's intention to go south to-day to inspect some land in Southland. Many people in Timaru will regret to learn "that, Mr Werry, who with Mrs Worry had bean for an extended holiday suid was to have returned homo tills week, was taken ill suddenly atWaugauui last week and is at-present-there in a serious condition with, pleurisy. The Rev. H. P. Schleneker, of the London .Missionary Society, who spent a coupio of days in Tmia.ru, leit tor the south ou Saturday morning. After visiting Dunedin lie will return to the North Island, and then go across to Australia. Mr S. Melic.ws, who iias until recently been librariiui at tho Timaru Public Library,, wiii leavo to-day lor Christciiuroh, where he tidces up an appointment under tlio Education Department in connection with the training of defence cadets. Says the London ''Times" : —The appointment announced at Aldershot, of Colonel Richard H. Da vies, C'.B., New Zealand Militia, to command tho 6th Infantry Brigade, in succession to Muior-Generai Colin Mackenzie, recently promoted, marks a new departure, and one which will be generally npproved. It will be remembered that not long ago Brigadier-General W. D. Olter, a Canadian, was offered a similar appointment, but was unable to accept it. Colon.el Davies, who served in South Africa, will be given, | as is customary in the case of brigade commands, the rank of Brigadier-Gen-eral. Mr. Robert MiUignn, wlio lias just been elected president of the Baptist L'nion of New Zealand, is tho second son of tho late Mr. William Milligan, who arrived in Dunedin in 1801, and was in business in Oamaru for some years before his death. Mr. R. Milligan was in the Railway .Department for eleven years, and at the present tine ho is a member of the firm of Milligan _and Bond, provision tuerchnrrfSTUamaru. He is a cosiu of Mr David Milligan, of Wellington. His wife is the daughter of Mr Eyre Evans, of Oamaru, grand-daughter of the late Major Evans, -74 th Hollanders. and a cousin of the Earl of Sealield."