DOMINION ITEMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 12 August 1908, Page 7

DOMINION ITEMS.

<Por Press Association."i

AUCKLAND, August Ij. Sir Joseph Ward cabhd to tha Secretary of- State, on Saturday :\Congratu.lations: .tp -his.. Majfes|y;■■-, --^xo^^ih^Xiovo^nmorrtf\iirtd;v®eopla of; Jfew^Zealand. ' ;:B;ojhas^rfcoiyiil-tho fpilpwing;repl/ to-: day : , ■through1; tho; Governor r Y'His Majesty has rccjivrd, with much pleasure', tho. congratulations of the Govornment and pooplo or Now■-. Zealaiid. and .ccmmandi mo to thank them." "

HOKITiKA, - August 10. William Keech, aged 73, a very old West Coaster, died at Kumara this inorning^after v short illness. Dccoar,ed was ay cry enterprisiiif; monibor of tho community, being largely concorr-cl m mining undertakings and flipping ventures. His demise removes a very notable*.; figure from the. Kumara district. The-, deaths of thivo other rid idonr,iii;\s aro also recorded, in tho wife of David Bourka, of Hokitika, a~ed 72. Jane .Blithe; oi: Humphrey's, agi-d 70' ar.d Robert Ferguson, niin^r, o': Rimui MASTERTON, Ausisst 33. Lord Plunket v/ill visib Maeto.-ton n--i the* 19th inst., and in ths evening, will be publicly welcomed by the Mayor. Afterwards he will 'present -thejir rertifieatps to the successful members of tho Amhuknce Brigade, the co-emonv to b> followetl by a demonstration of'ambu'lano6 'work. ;-•-.--

The* V.M.C.A. has.offorol the p'siLioi of general secretai^v to Mr BiekiTon. a member of the Wclliiigton branch, who r: now .in training at Springfield, America.

TIMARI7-, August 11: The Education Board, at it meetm*:: to-day; passed d'1 resolution of regret ah tho death of tho Rev. George Barclay, who wap aim-si- continuously n. member of J:he Board since its constitution in IB7S, and aho chairman part o? -tliß ■timt-*, and n, loading member during the whcl'i of bis 27 years' servicp. Tho resolutioti hor^ t-pstimony to his intellectual ability, administrative capability, arid whole-he-irtod dvotion to the ra s>> ■of-education. Deceased was the father of Mr A. R. Barclay, M.P