PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 88, 7 January 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Premier (Sir Joseph "Ward) to-day is at Half-Moon Bay, in the smith; tho Hon. R. JJ'Nab will bo at Wellington; tho Hon.. Dr. jindlay ;en route to the Mount .-Cook Hermitago; the Hon. J. M'Gowan at Auckland; the Hon. J. Carroll at Auckland; tho Hon. J. A. Millar at Auckland, and the Hon. G. Fowlds at Rotorua. J Professor Salmond has left on a visit to Mount Cook. /. The Hon. Dr. Findlay and Mrs. Findla.v left for the south last night on their way to Mount' Cook. ■ Admiral.'Sir'< ; Wilmoi :: Fawkb's and Lady Fawkes leave Fairlio on a visit to Mount Cook on Saturday. Mr. W. P. James, S.M., of Mastcrton, and Mrs. Jamos are away, on holiday in Auckland. and Rotorua. .. . ; . Major Dutton; North Island Secretary of tho Salvation Army, is enjoying his 'annual term of holiday at Rotorua.

Mr. J. A. CassidyJ of Christchurch, who has been spending a short : holiday .in Wellington, returned by the Maori yesterday. .

Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., who has been spending tho Christmas and New Year in tho South,' resumed duty yesterday morning.

: Mr. F. Waldegrave, Under-Secretary for Justice, and Mrs: Waldegrave, leavo on January 17, by the Wimraora, on their trip'to England.

His Worship the Mayor (Hon. T. ,W. Hislop) went south'last evening ou a visit to his brother, Sir. James Hislop, of Dunedin, who is seriously ill.

• Mr. W. A. Hawkins went South by tho Maori last night to tako up his now duties as Sheriff for tho Otago district, and Registrar of the Supremo Court at Dunedin.

Mr. T. F. Leihy, poultry grader in tho Agricultural Department, has been trans-, furred from Wellington to Auckland in placo of Mr. R. W. Pounsford, transferred to Christchurch. It is not yet known who mil succeed Mr. Leihy.

Mr L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries is iat present at Hakataramea in tho course of a visitation of the Otago hatcheries. He will go on afterwards with an assistant and tent to Lake To Anau, to construct a temporary hatchery for tho Atlantic salmon ova, which his son, Mr. C. Ayson, has goue to Vancouver to fetch.

Dr. L. Cockayne, F.L.S., of Christchurch, will probably arrive in town to-day, on his way to carry out for the Government a botanical survey of the Tongarire National Park, which is practically new ground to tho botanist.' At the same time, a topographhil survey of the Park will bo conducted 1> ; ? Mr. Phillips Turner, of the Survey Departmo.it. Mr. R. Speight, Lecturer on Geology at Canterbury College, will, accompany Dr. Cockayne, and will also probably arrivo from tho South to-day.. ..

. Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, left last night for tho South.' Ho will visit Southland ■on business oonnectecl with tho Federation, and will sit on the Arbitration Court at Dimcdin noxt month in place of Sir. S. Brown, who will then bo visiting Australia. ' Mr. Pryor expects to bo back in Wellington about tho middlo of next month, but ho will soon leavo again, to visit Timaru, Oamaru, Christchurch, Marlborough, Nelson, and other places. In fact, Mr. Pryor expects to bo travelling on Federation businoss during most of tho remaining portion of tho parliamentary rccess.

An old settler of Tait.a, Mr. William Scott Milne, and Mrs. Milno, celebrated their diamond wedding on December 31 of tho year jusC past. Mr. Milno is a highly-respected farmer at Taita. Ho is aged 83 years, and his wifo 7S. They liavo 37 grand-childron, and two groat grand-children. Mr. Milne arrived ill Wellington in 1841 in tho Lady Nugent, and Mrs. Millie (whoso maiden nuran was |Miss Graco Yule) in tho Bongal Merchant in 1840. Their marriage was celebrated on December 31, 1847, at the houso of tho bride's paront, Mr. Alexander Yulo (nowdecoasad), Lower Hutt. Tho Rev. John Englis was tho Minister. Tho houso in which the ceromony took place still stands, though the inroads of tho Hutt River once compelled its removal from its original site..

-Mr. F; :Brownp assistant-Poultry? Agricultural Department, is l enjoying ■a- holiday in Australia. _ ■i Mr. J.. D. Ritchie, Secretary for Agrionlture,, is expected,-back to-day'from" a'visit' to Palmcrston South. , > : Mr..-, T. E. Donne, General Manager of. tho Department of Tourist and Health . Resorts," V leaves to-day- on.- a visit to- Rotorua.-.-. ; .' vt. f

v.-:/v.lifv-.';v.-'7<;. ; ■ Mr. 0. A. l : Bunny,![ of. -To Awaito stationj'v-. met with an accident recentlyiwhile and seriously injuredi'ono iof his hands. . .

Mr.yß. W. Holmes, Engineor-in-Chiof; of-f tho .Public W orltß Department, ■ night from an inspection of; railway-Works in Taranaki. ' 1 l . 1 ' Chicf-Dotectivo .Hoi bert, of Dunedin, who has been in search oi health at Rotorua, is at present in .Wclliagton., >,■ He .is accom- -■ panied by Mrs. Herbert.

Mr. T. E. Roberts, of tho Official Assignee's Offico in, 'Dunedin, -has -been J :ipPomted Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court and Clerk of -Awards. ' ! - > ' .

; The Secretary of the Post- and Telegraph"' Department (Mr. D. Robertson) left for tho south on dopartmontal business last - ; Ho expects to return in: ten days' -time/' *• .... Dr. Bell, Chief • of; tho Geological Survey, -• and Mr. Colin Fraser, ,'of the' same - department, leave, in a day or two for the Heaphy • River,-Nelson, to. carry out geological survey -: work. Tho Right Rev. i> Dr. Wallis (Anglican : ■ Bishop of Wellington) will attend a- meeting of the New Zealand/Mission Trust Board, to ■' be held at Napior on Thursday,' commencing- j' at 9 30 a.m.

, :■ - " Mr. E. Clifton, Chief Inspector of StooK, is expected back: tcMnorrowf rom a visit to '' Auckland.' Ho was to inspect tho Momohaki experimental station to-day in tho'course ol bis return journey. I Mr. William C. .Dawes, chairman of, directors of the New • Zealand Loan-and Mercantilo Agency Company,, and of New ' Zealand Shipping Company, is expected to arrive from England shortly. ■■ ■, . Mr. H. Adams, ' Assistant 'Government Geologist,.loaves for. Gisborno on (Thursday next to carry out. a preliminary survey of • the oil-boaring country near Gisborno."Tho •' work; .will : afterwards bo completed by > Dr.' Bell. Dr. J. K.. H. Inglis, who graduated M.A. > and B.So. from Canterbury Collogo in 1899, : has. recently boon' promoted from tho position of lecturer in chemistry at University College, Reading, England/ to that of professor of chemistry. > .' Brigadier Albiston, 1 North • Island Commandant of tho Salvation Army; is expected ■ to arrivo back to-day from a visit to the Auckland district. Ho will bo aooompanied by: Colonol Kuight, South Island Command-' ant, who'will return by to-night's boat to Christohurch.'. 0 ' • •.■ .' .> ' An Eltham, Press Association telegram states that Mr. G. P. Wake has announced - himself .as a ! Government ■ oandidato for itiio Egmont electorate. >Eo stood i!or Patea, in which Egmont was then incorporated, as an "Independent", at. last election. It is ex-' peoted that there" will be several candidates for the new seat. ■

Mr. J. E. Armstrong, head olerk in tho Chief Traffic' Manager's office of tho Railway.' Department, has been transferred to Wanganui : as- traffic manager,. and left'yesterday.' to take 'up his .new. position.> 'Mr. W.-: Stringleman, traffic manager at Wanganui, has. Jjeen _ appointed _ Relieving District, Traffic'. Manager'on the headquarters staff. Mr. Thomas Alston," a well-known, figure in Melboumo business circles, died in tLat city j a fow; clays ago. Mr. Alston'was- ior many years a director of ths Australian Mutual Provident Society, l and; also of' tha' Perpetual Trustees' Association and other companios. Up to tho date of his death he' was chairman'of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company. * ■■ ■: >•'

Mr. Keir Hardie left for Lyttelton last night.. Though tired after his speech of .Sunday ovening, he spent several hours yesterday meeting saying farewell to a number of friends. ; Ho will leave Christchurch by the mid-day express to-day for Dunedin; and. will proceed to Invercargill on Saturday. He has decided to leave New Zealand finally, on Monday next.

Tho following delegates to the Primitive Methodist. Conference at Dunedin left for thp South last night:—The Rov. C. E. Ward, president of the Conference ; and the R'evs. J. Cocker and J. Dawson, : Messrs. F. Ellison, G. Hoare, and I. Clarke, (Wellington); Rev. I'.' J. ( Cossum (Fcilding); Rev. J. Southern, Mr., and Mrs. Stiles (Foxton); Rov. H. White Inglewood) ; " Rev. A. .Armstrong ' (New Plymouth); and Mr. 'J. Clark (West'port). • '

Tho late Mr. Joseph Charles Nathan, who died at Palmerston North on Sunday, wag a son of tho late Mr. Henry. Nathan; of' Wanganui, where he was horn in 1846; For

somo years lie was a member of the Palmerston Borough Council, also of the- County Council. At ono time the deceased was president of the Manawatu. Racing Club. Mr. Anthony Nathan, Mayor of' Taihape, is a brothor, and Mesdames G. Bush, and Ormsbce, of Wellington, are his sisters. , The latd Mr. Nathan, who served in tho campaigns against the Maoris in the sixties, wil be accorded. ai military funeral to-day.