PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. ——» -• • The movements and present location of Ministers of the Crown are as follow:—The Premier; leaves Taihape this morning for Martinborotigh, and oomes on later to Wellington. The Hon. J. Carroll leaves for AVanganui . this morning. The Hon.. J. M'Gowan is en route for Auckland. The Hon. Dr. Findlay is at Dannevirke, and the Eons., R. M'Nab, J. A; Millar, and G. iFowlds are.in Wellington. ' Messrs. i Jourdain and Rayward have been notified of. their success in tho recent law examinations of the University of New Zealand.' Sir Joseph Ward received a cablegram yesterday informing him that tho Hon. W. Hall-Jones left London, on Monday by the Corinthic; muclj improved in health. Mr. John Cameron, , the gentleman who is conducting a crusade against Chinese and other undesirables,' will leave Wellington oh Thursday morning for Palmersfon North, and will;, return : later via Mastcrton, Carterton, and Featherston. • An old resident of Wellington, in the person' Mr. Mitchell, father of Mr. J. Mitohell {(of the fruit and produce firm of Laery and: Co.), passed away at Turakina (near .Wanganui); on Saturday morning. The deceased' gentleman was eighty-five years of Bgo. •" , . ■ •Constable Patton, who has been stationed at-.the.Lower'Hutt for the past ten years, is under orders to transfer to the Justice Department as bailiff at Timaru. Constable M'Kenzie, of Westport, will transfer to the Hutt, and Constable Biittar, of Wellington, will I ;be moved to Westport. . The Hon. J. M'Gowan, after attending the opening of the Taihape Post Office yesterday afternoon, proceeded on by train to Waiouru, en route for Cambridge, where lie will be 'present at the opening of the Victoria Bridge. He' 1 then 1 goes on to Auckland. The Minister was, accompanied by Mr. T. Hamer, UnderSecretary; for Mines., . ! V Dr.' 1 Mason, during his investigation of th 6' -sanittey Conditions of the Maoris of Poverty Bay last week, visited Gisborne, Toia'gO! Bay, Waipiro, Kakariki, Te Araroa, and the.. somewhat roadless ; distriots connecting, them. He was accompanied by Dr. Pomare;;and Mr.'Ngata, M.P. He returned t6 duty at the Wellington office yesterday morning. Mr/ L. Ayson, Chief' Inspector of Fisheries, will .leave, for the south as soon as he has finished his report on the Nora Niven's trawling'experiments,' to select a site and erect a . hatchery at Lake Te Anau, for the Atlaiiiic, salmon -ova which his son, Mr. C. 'Ll j. Ayson, is going to Canada 'to fetch. Mr. Aysbnj son., will probably bo ready to go south soon, after Christmas. The . Anglican Bishop of Aucldand, .Dr.' Neligahj is &t present in Wellington. He leaves for London by the Tongariro, which is due. to sail tliis weo|t. His Lordship will be accompanied by Mrs. Neligaii and familyi '.The ! primary object of his visit is to attend, the Lambeth Conference, but he will also engage in other work, afld the dunftion of hik'absence,from the Dominion is, there-fore!-uncertain. ( ' • .Mr .> Philip Putnam, solicitor, who wa'6 articled to the legal/firm now known as 8011, Gully,; Bell, and Myers, and } who, since ho qualified .in „],9oi, ."has s with j^at- ? fir^,,;liaa:^ec^ded c;i tq^ 1 practice.' oh his,"own' account"; m Wellington. Mr. Putnam is a member of the Karori Borough Counoil,~arid :.is tf ,wellrkn,own r in; hockey, ten-, | nis, and musical circles. . .1 ,

Mr/. William Evans, who has been manager for the Standard Insurance Company in Wellington for many years, is retiring from business at the end of the .month. He is to bo succeeded here by Mr. A. H. Fisher, of the Duneditt office, who is Well-known to the public as one' of the ' finest iricketers in-the Dominion. ' It is to be hoped that Mr. "Fisher will continue to play in Wellington,'as services • such as he can render will ba : needed in : the coming representative matches. \