PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. -.-. L.' Cockayne, F.L.S., left for the ifouth yesterday. [ ' . ■, Captain Dorrien-Smith left on a visit to Marlborough yesterday. . The Hon. R. M'Nab is expected back in Wellington on Sunday next. Captain Davidson was a passenger by the Maori to Lyttelton last night; Constable M. Gaffney, of the Commissioner's staff,- has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. ■' . "_. The Rev. Father 6'Donnell and;-Captains Tait and Willis will, arrive by the Rotomahana from Lyttelton this morning. Mr. J. M. Geddis, of Wellington, is to leave on. a trip to England-this month. He has booked to leave Sydney about December 28/ .■ . : ■ ; ' !., . . ■ " Surgeon Major-General Turnbull, K.H.S., will be a passenger for London by the Athenie, sailing from Wellington on January 30. , .. . .;.■.. Colonel Bayley and Captain Dorrien-Sraith, D.5.0.,.wh0 are visiting tho Dominion, havo booked for London by tha Arawa, leaving here on March 26 next. ; Mr. Jas. Hutchen, managing director of tho Stewart .Timber and' Glass Company, of Courtenay Place, leaves on a trip to England early in the Now Year. Mr. G. Elliott,. of the teaching staff of the Palmerston North High, and Technical School, has booked to leave Sydney for London by the Omrali on December '28. Mr. arid Mrs. H. S. Woolcott, of Hankey Street; hayo booked passages for Home by the Bremen, leaving Sydney on March 21 nest. Mr. Woolcott was for many years foreman of the Wellington Fire Brigade. Mr. Garnet B. Holmes, of the firm of Messrs. Holmes and Allen, inventors of tho well-known trolley-head, is on a flying visit to London to confer with Messrs. Barnard Brown and J. Burgess, their British and European concessionaires. .The Hon. Dr. Findlay leaves for Wanganui to-morrow, where lie" will attend tho annual prize-giving of the-Girls' College on Thursday. On Friday he will distribute prizes at the Palmerston North High School, probably roturning to Wellington on the following day. Mr. 1 ,, . G. Dorrington, manager of tho Bank of Now Zealand at Port Chalmers, has been appointed to succeed Mr. J. F. White as manager of the bank's branch at Hokitika. Mr. White has resigned to go into business for himself. Mr. Y. W. J. Donald, assistant-accountant at Christchurch, has been promoted to 'the management of the Port Chalmers branch,"and Mr. A. M'Lollan, of the Christchurch staff, becomes assis-tant-accountant there.