PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14479, 28 June 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr W. E. Ivirmorncy is paying ftvisit to Auckland.

It is reported that Sir William Whyte, who has just been knighted, may succeed Lord Strathconn, as High Commissioner for Canada in London.

Mr 11. Skinner (a member of the Tint aru Harbour Board) has been requested to stand for the .seat on the GeraU dino County Council, vacant through the death of the late Mi* Kelmaii, and has consented to do so. Mr A. B. Imrie, of Dimedin, late foreman engineer to tlio U.S.S. 1.0., was in Timaru yosterday, intervjwiug the directors of the llobertsoa Marino Engine Brake Co.

Sir .Tames Carroll, who arrived at Dunodin yesterday, informed a reporter that Sir W. Hall-Jones'© term of office as High Commissioner had been extended till August 31st. Sojue time ago a taxi-cab ran over and killed a cyclist at lnvexcargill. The cab-driver lias been charged with -and committed for trial for culpablo negligence.

Reoidenta of Brunswick street complain of they way in which horses are allowed to roam at large there, to the great annoyance of people at night, especially when, some of the- animals get into a gardei Sydney milk-sellers find that the standard percentage of butter-fat, 3.2, is too high and have asked the Govern u?»t to reduco it. The Chief Secretary told a deputation that he would have the matter reviewed by experts, and see if the standard can be reduced. Sir James Carroll 1 and the Hon. A. T. Ngota. went south by the first express yesterday. They were given a gooCl send-off from Temuka. Hie southern Maoris who were at the Arowhen T ua meeting returned home by the same train.

Mr Hazleton, 31.P., the Home Rule Envoy to this district, had a very good reception." at Geraldine on Monday. He speaks at Pleasant Point tonight. Messrs Donovan and Redmond arrived at Christchurcli overland from the West Coast on Monday. They will join Mr Hazleton at Oamaru on Friday.

On the eve of their departure froin v Temuka, Mr and Mrs George Wilcox, who recently left the district for Grunge Estate, Waihola, were * osentea by their friends with a handsome travelling rug. silver tea-pot, and silver-mounted biscuit barrel, •to mark the esteem in which they wexe held..

The members of tho Star-Pirates Football Club met last evening to make to Sir R. Rodgers a small present on the occasion of his marriage. Mr Knowles occupied the chair, and after speaking of tlie good qualities of and the assistance given to tho Club by Mr Rodgers, handed him a handsome silver afternoon tea servit». Other members endorsed the chairman's and all wished Mr Rodjzers and his future wife e't iy happiness and success. Tho reoif.ie>. t suitably responded. The following is tho official list of prize-winners at the tion Ball':—Mr Cr-aigie's prize for the most original dress, Master and Miss 'Williams, as Mr and Mrs Mite. Best dressed girl, NoeLine NaicLeir (P.owder and Patches), Valerie Reid (Siiepherdress) equal first, Rita .Berry, Nurse, second; Louie Cartwxight, and Nita Livingstone and Ruby Fitzsimmons, very highly oommended. Best dressed boy, R. Roberts (Chinese Emperor) first, Mick Bowie (Nap' 'eon Soldand Jim Nalder (Knave of Hearts) eo..alsecond, Phil Waters (Teddy beai-; and Jack Taylor (Little Swagger), highly commended. • • The Rev. J. H. G. Chappie has received a letter from the London office of the British andi Foreign Unitarian Association stating that the Rev. W. Wooding and Mra hooding purpose visiting New Zealand and the Unitarian Churches here. Mr Wooding is now retired, but for 25 years he had charge of the Unitarian Chapel at Stoke Newington Green, London, combining thie work with the position of a master in, the City»of London School. Mrs Wooding is described as an accomplished and able lady. She was Miss Asquith before lier marriage, and is tlie only sister <.-f t-lie Prime Minister of England. While in New Zealand they 'will visit Timaru, Dunedin, Wellington, and Auckland, and expect to arrive here about the middle of Deceiver, i Mr Wooding will take the service at the Unitarian Church on. the Sunday ho will lbe at Timaru. He is a near relative of the Wooding families, of Woodbury, r with one of whom a son of his is living.

OBITUARY—EX-INSPECTOR BUCKLEY; On his Avoca farm, Hook, di M on Monday, at the good old age of 83, a man whose name, "Inspector J*vckley," was familiar-to every adult of Canterbury thirty and forty years a;ro. There were crimes in those days, and from the plentiful lack of other invs, crimes, trials,' and police activities were subjects of greater interest than they are to-day. And as Inspector cf Police for Canterbury from 18(36 to 18SS, Benjamin Alfred Buckley nsj well known by repute to those who never met him. He a. aatice i r Co. Wicklow; served in the Irish ( onstabulary and in the Victorian IViee (the training of most of Canterbury's fine force of the early days) ; was 'induced to come to Canterbury, and was made Inspector in 1566. With others he was "retrenched" in ISBB, when ho settled down at Avoca, which !•» hed purchased some years before, tackled it in its native state, and farmed it successfully. He ieaees i five sons and three daughters. One I of the latter, trained as a nurse at Waimate Hospital, is now matron of ; the Women's Hospital, Melbourne.