Personal Items.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5118, 8 June 1907, Page 2

Personal Items.

Mr Santley’B benefit realised £2160. King Edward aud Queen Alexandra will visit Dublin on July 10th and 11th.

The Hon W. Hall-Jones has been steadily improving iu health during tho last week, aud is now well on the road to recovery. The estate of the late Hon A. J. Cadman was valued for stamp duly at £22,070, and thftt of Sir Walter Bullar at £150,232.

On arrival at Adelaide, Sir J. G. Ward will travel overlaud to Sydney, catching the Maheno thore for Wellington, and arriving at Wellington on the 26th instant.—Press Association. Times change. Mr Andrew Dawson, who was one® Premier of Queensland and later (in the Watson Ministry) Federal Minister of Defence, is to be found selling lollies behind tho counter of a Melbourne suburban shop. A sitter of Major von Terapsky recently paid a visit to tho battlefield of To Ngutu o te Msdu, where the distinguished Prussian lost his life in au action against Titokowaru’s men. During her visit she was presented with a greenstone axo, which was dug out of the ground near the spot where her brother was killed.

Chief Detectivo MTlveney, of the Police Commissioner’s office who was sent to Monte Video to bring back D. C. Mclntyre, arrived at that port last Saturday, and is expected to leave for Now 1 Zealand, via England, before the end of the present month. An announcement was made yosterdny of the names of tho King’s Counsel appointed. All the applications were forwarded to the Chief Justice, who recommended the following teu : H. D. 8011, M. Chapman, C. P. Skerrett, J. G. Findlay (Attorney-General), Wellington; Hon J. A. Tole, 8.A., L L. 8., F. K. Bauino, L.L.8., Aucklaud; T. J. Joynt, T. W. Stringer, Christchurch; J. J. Hoßking, S. Solomon, 8.A., Duuedin. Sqjjao interesting religious autobiography was given by the Minister of Education at the Primitive Methodist oeutonury celebration at Wellington. Mr Fowlds stated that ho had started life iu Scotland as a Presbyterian. When he wont out to South Africa the nearest place of worship iu his locality of settlement was a Wesleyan Methodist Church, and he became a Wesleyan, and he did not find the change in auy way upsetting. Subsequently, at Capetown, he was married in a Congregational Church ; and on settling in Auckland he had become a CoDgregationalist, finding their church offoriug the widost door, and in that church he had now rested for twenty two years.