PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 86, 4 January 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Cabinet Ministers to-day will bo located as follows:—The Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) at Stewart Island; the Hon. R. M'Nab at Wellington; the Hon. J. M'Gowan at Auckland; Hon. J.. Carroll at Auckland j Hon. Dr. Findlay at Wellington; Hon. J, A. Millar at Rotorua, and the Hon. G. Fowlds at Rotorua. ' i

Dr. .Tripe, of Wanganui, is leaving that town to take up his residence in Picton.

Mr. P. Galvin, editor of the "Mining Record," is spending a few days-at Feilding.

1 ' Mr. R. W- Holmes, Engineer-in-chief of the Public Works Department, is at- present in Taranaki.

Mr. H. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary for Public Works, resumed duty yesterday, after several days' illness. ,

Madame Blancho Arral, the ■ vocalist, was giving concerts in Melbourne recently under the management of Mr. John Wren.

Dr. Charles Henry Huborich, Professor of Law at Stanford University, California, was on Decombor 21 honoured by the University of Melbourne conferring upon him tho degree of Doctor of Laws ad euudcrn.

Mr. J. H. Carruthers, ex-Promior of New South Wales, has booked his passage to London by the R.M.S. Asturias, sailing about the middle of March. Though nothing has been .definitely decided, it is understood that Mr. Carruthers will bo appointed to officially represent Now South Wales at tho Franco-British Exhibition to bo hold in England this year.

Mr. William Sanders, of Rosebank, Dryfosdalo, Dumfries-shire, and of Underwood, Dumfries, and of Motnotaria, Hawkes Bay, Now Zealand, sheep farmer, J.P. for Dum-fries-shire, and for nineteen years chairman of the Lockerbie School Board, who died on June 22 last, left, in addition to considerable property on his shcop station at Motnotaria, Hawkes Bay, whose value is not yot ascertained, personal ostato of the total value of £35,530 10s. 3d., of which the personal estate in the United Kingdom amounts to £31,605 Is. 3d.

Tho Hon, Dr. Findlay will moot Admiral hnd Mrs. Fttirkcs at Mount Cook next week as- -'the'. .representative of the. Government. Ho' will probably be absent from Wellington for a week. Mr. G. Hathorly, who is a son of Dr. . • ELithorly, of Wanganui, was a passenjjor to Wellington by the Moeralci last "Wednesday. ; i It ia understood that Mr. Hathorly intends Bottling in New Zealand. ' •Mr. D. Robertson, secretary to tho Post and Telegraph Department, returned. yestor'day after a few days' holiday in tho Pelorus Sounds. ' Hp goes South as far as Invercar- . gill on Monday on Pepartmeutal business. It is reported that Mr. C. 0. Kingston, cx-Fodoral Minister for Customs! is gotting no bettor,,and tho chances arc against his taking any furthor active part in politics, though-ho still evinces a warm interest in ; tho; State and Federal Legislatures. '. Mr. H. S. who is one of the staff of Messrs. J. B. MacEwen and Co's Auckland branch, and who has returned to WolHngton'tojbo married, was presented yesterday morning'with a handsome pieco of sil-vor-ware by the employees of the Wellington Fresh Food-and Ice Company, as a mark of, their esteem and goodwill. Mr. Rose was connected with the' Fresh Food! and Ice Company'for.'somo years prior to accepting his ■present position. / The Rev. A. N. Johnson,' of London, with his wife l and daughter, arrived from Auokland by tho Zcalandia yesterday morning. )1r.,-, Edward Smith, J.P., of ?owdloy, Eng- • land,''came by the Manawatu express last. sveriing, having travelled from i Auckland bythe Wangapui River. Theso' two gcntlcmon are touring Australasia as a deputation from tho' London Missionary Society. Associated with.them is the Rev. Joseph King, of Melbourne,' who arrived here on the provious ■ evening. ' ■ Mr! and Mrs. Humphrey Callister, of Car- ; tcrton', intend to leave New Zealand in the. Corinthic on February 27, for Great Britain, on a year's tour (writes our Wairarapa coirespqndent). Mr. Callistor was ono of the . first of. the Wairarapa pioneers. He arrived ■ in that'district early, in tho 'fifties, and ; it ■ is recorded that ho and Mr. Thomas Moore, ■ sen., another old pioneer, onco stood iu tho , Tiowlv cut track of the Three Mile Bush (now known as Carterton), and Mr. Callister asked his comrade if he thought that a vehiclo would ever pass up tho road, i Cartorton now ir> a'prosperous town, with municipal gas works, drainage, water-supply, and is going to raise another £' I IGOO for as-: phalt and macadamised roading.' . ,