PEESONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 28, 28 October 1907, Page 4

PEESONAL ITEMS.

Lieutenant Hewitt, of the 17th; Cavalry. Regiment (Southern Indian Army), who, has boon making 'a stay at Palmerston, North, leaves for Bombay'at the end of the month', having booked tp, leave Sydney by' R.M.S.; China on November 9. ', '.■'.': Mr. Frank Thomas,' of the London nqolbrpking firm of Messrs. Thomas and Cook, who is paying a lengthy visit to the Dominion, is to leave for England in January. He Viil be accompanied by : Mrs. Thomas and Miss Ambpr. • ' : - .-.- : Mr. Datt, formerly in the employ of Messrs. Benjamin and Co., and latterly "on tlfe road" Sargood,. Son;', and Bweiii sucpeedsMr.T. W. .Witt,, as head; of the latter firm's fancy department, in the : Wellington house. '' J , , ! : .. '\- : '. ';. '~ ' Mr. W. Bradford, of Cape Colony, has left. Wellington on a visit to Auckland' and'the thermal district of, the-North.; .. / , ■ ''■.. < v.Mr. Delatour, of Gisborne, will be a passenger by the Ar&wa, whicK leaves .Welling-, ton for London, ria Monte Video, on November 7. :■ . . ;. '■..-, ■~; . : - Mr. F. H. Wood, formerly'of Masterton, and now of Tauranga, leaves on a trip to Japan in January. , ■!/..' Mr. and Mrs. Elkington and the Misses Elkingtoh (2), of Napier, leave on a' trip to England by the Corinthic in February next. Brigadier Albiston, officer in charge of,the North, Island work, of the, Salvation will go to Auckland'this week, to take over, aa from November 1, Paketoa,, fit. Boll's Island, which the Army has acquired for an inebriates' home. ' . .... Mri J. Coom, Chief Engineer for Working Railways, who,intends retiring from tho service in a few weeks, joined tho Public Wonts ■Department in 1876, and the Working Railways Department in 1881 Ho hold successively tiio positions of Rcsidont Engineer,and Inspecting Engineer, ,and has occupied his present position for nine and a half years. Mr. A. H. Holmes, clerk of the Magistrate's Court, is at present on a visit lo tho . South on departmental business, and is expectod to bo away for about a fortnight, [t is undorstood that the business Mr, Holmes is engaged upon is tho working up of a uniform mode of procedure in. the various Courts. Mr! Garrad is acting clerk of tho Court during tho abserico of Mr. Holmes. . •'

Mr. H. \yi. Rpwden, of tho Tourist Dopartmont, who has been transferred to tho Agricultural Department, was tho recipient of a presentation from his follow-workers previous to lpaving tp take up his now duties. Mr. D. Buddo, ! M.H.R., and Mr. J. U. Maddiiion woro among the passengers from the South by the Mararoa yesterday Colonel Saundors, architect to tho Salvation Army, leaves Sydney for Wellington on Wednesday. On his arrival, work will ha oommenoed on tho new Citadel in Coiistablp Street. , ; . , ..'.,.. : Tho Row J. J. North arrived home on Friday night after his trip to■'Auckland and Rotorua.. , i Tho Rev. Robert F. Elder, of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union, is a visitor to Wellington from the , Argentine. • Tho death is reported of Mrs. Barnet Pholps, au old resident of Wellington, at tho age of sixty-two. Tho Into Mrs; Phelps arrived in Wellington forty years ago. She loaves a family of eight—fivo daughters and throe arms. Her husband is still living in Wellington.

Tho funeral of tho late Mr. W. J. Salmon was, largely attended yesterday afternoon. There woro.rppfosontatives present from the Commercial Travellers' Association, {to- , Wellington Bowling .Club, the, Wellington Cricket Association, and tho leading commercial houses, including Mr. Hcrcus, general manager, and Mr. C. Bowie, local ' ' manager for the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, in whose employ, tho deceased gentleman was for over a quarter of a . century. A' profusion of flowers from friends in all parts of the" Dominion testified to Mr. Salmon's wide-spread popularity.' The Rev. James Patorson officiated at the gravesido at Karori, Consequent on Mri ■' C. A. Ewen's retirement from . the management of the New Zealand Fire ■ and Marino Insurance Company's branch at Wellington, several changes: ■ are being made in the. management of the company?!! business abroad, amongst them being the promotion of Mr." A.' J." Scandfctt," : formerly of Invercargill, to the management of, tho branch at ■ Singapore... Ho. jwill .sue- . coed Mr. Kompthorno, the gentleman- who \ succeeds Mr. Ewpn. ■ in, Wellington.,. Mr. , Scandrett has been ; the. x representative p£-y the. Company, at Durban, South; Africa,, for., the,past seven.years.l ~:. . : .,.•■■■; ■:. .'. o, ■