PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3120, 22 February 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The many friends of Mr Fred. Hill, Who is so well-known in all sporting circles, will be pleased to hear that although he has been seriously ill for some time past he is now on a fair way to recovery. At Newman last week Miss Hannah Dniftall, daughter of Mr A. of Newman, was married to Mr William Holland, of Woodville. Miss Lily Dunstall was bridesmaid, and Mr Harry Dunstall was ftest man.

Mr A. M. Lewis, who has been •elected chairman of the New Zealand •Congregational Union for the year 1910, has been a resident of the Dominion for 30 years, 25 of which have been spent in Wellington. He has been connected with the union for 18 years, and for 17 years has • occupied the position of District Secretay of that body. Mr H. W. Young, who has been ■appointed a Magistrate and Warden, is a son of Mr R. A. Young, engineer to the Westport Harbour Board, and a native of the West Coast. Mr Young served his articles in Westport, and practised in the courts ' there for several years. He then removed to South Africa, and after a term in the Law Department of the 'Transvaal, was appointed to the important post of Magistrate at Pretoria, with civil and criminal jurisdiction equal to that of a District Judge in New Zealand. He filled the position'for six years, at a salary of £I,OOO a year but was compelled to resign owing to temporary illhealth. Canterbury papers report the death of at Waimate of Mrs H. Dohrmann, a graduate of New Zealand Univer sity, who, as Miss Elsie Low, won her M.A. degree with distinction •some years ago at Canterbury College. Educated partly at the Christchurch Girls' High School she was for three years on its teaching staff. Subsequently she married Mr H. Dohrmann, a farmer at Studholmr. 'Mrs Dohrmann, who was quite a young woman, took a keen interest in public matters, and was an enthusiastic worker for the Women's Christian Ternperance Union. For a time she was secretary of the union throughout the Dominion, which only the unreliable state of her health caused her to relinquish. Mr H. Eyre-Kenny, S.M., whoretires from the public service on March 31st next, has been Stipendiary Magistrate of the Nelson, Collingwood, Takaka, Motueka and 'Brightwell districts since 1904. He was born in Canada, his father, the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Kenny, being at one time a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council. , He came to New Zealand as a lad in 1847, and was subsequently articled the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Auckland. He was afterwards for two years secretary to Chief Justice Sir George Arney. On resigning that position, Mr Kenny commenced to practice his profession in Auckland, and remained so engaged until 1867 when he accepted the position 1 of Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth. Two years later he ' was appointed Resident Magistrate, and in 1870 District Judge of the district.