PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13159, 4 July 1908, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Justice Donniston, Mr A. W. Rmherford, M.P-, and Mrs Rutherford, left for Wellington by the Mararoa last evening. Bishop Julius leaves next week for the West Coast. He will visit Hokitika, Kuniara, and Ross. The Rev. G. S. lVtrie, of Western Australia, has been ;vpi>omted vicar of the Malvern district. On tho motion of -Mr 0. 'I. J. Alpers, Mr J- 11. iSalnion, associate to his Honour Mr Justice Sim, was yesterday admittftl by Mr Ju-stico l>enniston as a polic-itor of \ha Supreme Court. Reference was made at the smoke concert of tho Victoria Cruising Club (Auckland) to the fact that Sir Thomas Lipton, owner of the Shamrock, was expected to visit Auckland shortly. Arrivals in town yesterday included: —Messrs G. Featherston J M. A. Ilott, J. W. H<xid, Phillips (Wellington). E. Short (Feildinß), G. Hunt (Nelson), R. Bradley (diet;, W. Kaufmann iGenova). G. H. Black (Gisborne), G. Godins (Sydney), J. McLeod (Dunedin), A. Macfarlane (Achray), M. Scott (Ranciora), H. Vl*. Philhps, and J. Ford (.Timaru). Information was received by lest mail from London that Mrs W. P. Roovos, wife of the High Commissioner of New Zealand, has o*an elected to the executive of the Fabian Society.

Mr Alfred Warbriek, the well-known lias resigns! from the Tourist Deimrtmont. Colonel Loveday, V.D.. commanding

the State school cadets, has received orders to take charge of the parade of ca«deU> in Auckland during the visit of the American Fleet.

Mr C. J. Fulton. Chief Fibre Expert, who has been on an extended visit to {?t. Helena, to report for thfj British Government en the state of the flax industry on that island, returned to Wellington on Wednesday by the Maheivo.

Staff-»Sergpant-Major Rose, who succeeds Staff-Sereeaut-Mojor Colclough as infantry instructor at Wellington, was formerly Colour-Sergoant in the Cameron Highlanders and instructor of musketry in that regiment.

Mr J. G. W. Ait ken, M.P- for Wel-lin-gton East, stated at the Accountant Students' Association dinoier at Wellington on Wednesday evening:—"'l have no intention of being a candidate for Parliamentary honours at the next election. In the last six years, during which I hare boen in Parliament, I have enjoyed the work immensely, but I have not enjoyed tho very late hours to which we aro oftentimes obliged to sit; and the dreadful atmosphere of the House—in tine past. And I can't quite see that the atmosphere of the present House is likely to be better. I csm't sit in such an atmosphere till two, three or four o'clock in the morning, and then turn up to my own private business."