PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day the Premier (Srf Joseph Ward) will he at Wellington; the Hon. R>. M'Nab and tile Hon. jv Carroll will arrive at Js'apier; the Hon. Df, Fiiidlay is at Mount Cook Hermitage; the Hon. J. vA. Millar will, be en route to Wellington; + A)o Ht>n; G.'Fdtflds is at Rot'OrUaj and the Hon. J. M'Gowin at Auckland. "

t Mr. Ti, Ei Shirley, postal officer at Napier, has fetiredi

Dr. Bor'ghotti has returned from his boil day in the WanganUi district;.

The Hon. W; Hail'Jetles will arrive in Wei lington oil or about January 29.

Tho Hon.' j. M'Gowan is expected to arrive back from the north to-night. MossfS. Nv Hodges and /W. W. S. Johnston, of Melbourne, are here on tour.

Mr. H. R. Smith, Town Clerk of Christchurch, is at present visiting Wellington.

Mr. F. Bull, Receiver of Land Revenue, Napier, retires on pension as from April 1.

Mi'. Hjorriiig •is at present incapacitated owing to a rather sharp and sovore attack of Sciatica.

Inspector Ellison, who has been on a visit of inspe'otioii to the Wairarapa, returned to town last night. .

Dr. A. 'M'Arthur, S.M., who has been Spending the holidays at Rotorua, returned to Wellington last night.

Mr. Et. C. Lane, Secretary of tho North Canterbury Education Board, leaves tOniay on a visit to Hawke's Bay.

Dr. Hay, Inspector of Mental Hospitals, is on a visit to Auckland, from which ho is expected to return oarly nest week.' '

The General Maaager of Railways, accompanied by tho principal officers, is soaking a periodioal inspection of the Hawke's Bay linos.

Mr. W. Dinnie, Commissioner of Police/ who broke his leg some weeks ago on tho Kelburno Bowling green, resumed work at his office yesterday.

Mr. A. Sollar irtts the contractor, and Mr, George T. Stewart was the designer and engineer of tho Hiltawera Bridge, recontlj Opofled for traffic At Feathefston.

Mr. Geo. Troup, Office Engineer to tho Railway Department, is still in a precarious state of health. He is to be removed to Plimmorton this week, it his condition permits.

Mr. Horace G. Sunt, Secretary of tho Wellington Society of Musicians, who loft for Now Plymouth yeHtrday morning to give an organ recital at St. Mary's Churoh, will return to Wellington on Friday.

Tho Hon. James Carroll (Native Minister) accompanies tho Hon. R M'Nab on his visit to tho East Coast on i (fairs., of administration. Everything is to bo dono to havo the lands dealt with by the Native Lands Commission surveyed, opened Up, and made available as soon as possible. It is in this connection, and also in regard to lands vested in Native Land Boards, that ho is taiking his present trip, the Minister said yesterday that the Nativo Land Court? were hard at work, and also Um Commission, and everything Was being dono to facilitate pro'gresa.

Mr.,;W< S< Shaft, Chief Clerk cf-thoßoada ■ ) | Department left ■ Rotorua. Joßterdayon hi« ; - ' j feturh to Wellington, "• ' < / , Mf. l r . W. Rowley. DefutyOhiof lnsjico-. ■ ■•> tor of . Factories, left;'on Saturday night on • . . I aii Offioial viett to Dunedin. | Mf, John Melbourne,:is> said lo "; :; . - bo negotiating' With CarUsti, :tho great Italian, i: ; ? tonor, for a concorttour Of AUstral&ste/; -V. ( .-■. ; Tho Hort. G,: Fowlds (Mihistot, for Health ;..,: t" , 1 ind Education) 16.ejected back ill .Welling- 1 ton from the north;',oh Thursday, evtoing.'i!;,. ■. .! lioxt. ' * , ! | Mr. Ai StUbb«i the now Deptity-ftCgietrat i| of tho -Supremo; Coitft <irt ■ W&llingtdn,M)as;!i ;Vv, y, arrived from \ Duhediti, ■ and taken ,Up his /, duties here. n ' 1 5 Detective dassells is to ■ leave /or r Wan- ' vi.ir ganui this morning tli give evideitcditi tli6- . ! - fiases of alleged housebreaking at Wattgamii -v' - I . r ;v on New l'ear's Dayi,; ' i> ( Sir Edward , (jibbßSjfSeflretafy. folf tedtita- j! Hon/who has bficil absent far nbotit aforfc- |* : higlit. ill Auckland) is - Oxpectcd W atrivd , , ' back 611 1 Wednesday» \ Amongst the passengers, to,arrive by the Rotomaliana, from. Lyttolton ■ this-:morning. .■••:. ,■? are Judge Johnston, the Rev, Mr. Blaralfes, '' : ahd Drs. AtkifiSdh and Guthrie. ' h , ' - Land Board • statutory vaoifioieS, .filial ■. by, ~«•.; Cabinet • yesterday -were . Mr. v. ■Watson (re-appoiht&l) ;■ Nelson,.-. Mr. 0. \ Lynoh ■ (re-appointed) j SoUthlandj; .Mfi M'lntyre (re-appomted). 'tw. . ,1. ■ • Mr. T. ttamerj : Undrf-Seoretary foiij MiAeS, who . has been nbseiit On departmental busi-,. , ; • 11444' in tho Aucklandvprovlnoe, is expected^ l i •••.;••• to arrive back-with the Hon. M'Gowan, ; Minister fto-MineS;.oil'lfuosday'flight, .' Mr.' John Word,- of the Lower Hutt ISoroUgh. Council, who has just > roturned from a trip to the Old Country, wa»' welcomed homo by the Mayorj on-taking hia ';- .• ' scat at the Council Wonting last; evening. s y v 'Mr, Edmonds,- who has been in the service! ■ r j of tho City Council for over thirty years,'!b ; , /■ | about to 1 retire from the position of caro- • > | taker of tho. Kafori-reservoir,, owing to ill- . health. Ho has been at Karori for the past quarter of a century. His Successor will bo Mr. Robertson,, another old Corporation . sorvant. : - y ; Mr. Harry Sweonay,! of AVilliamson's Musi- , • s cal Comedy Company,i is'leaving that.6om- • • A: bination to join tho Julius Knight Company. - It is understood, that his plate in tho;6om- • pany now playing here ill ba taken by Mr." -- ,• Geo. Castles,, brother ,t)f. Misses. Amy and' Dolly Oastlosj; who: is now on his Way from : England. y/ : :. /:■'■■■ f-[ -:^;5.-i' : »• 'I'ho Wellington Socialist • Society . a' ■ gathering at its. Hall ill Manners 'Street last , evening in . honour of Mr: H.. Gi 1 Eitzgerald, ■ , the hrst organisef 6f the body, Who is leav- ' ' ing for tho West Coast. - Mr, R. Hogg was . in. the chair, and presented Mr. 'Fitzgerald With a number ofi bookSj including somo of ■ \ . tho works of Karl, Marx,, , , TJndor tho Civil Serviflo Classification Act of last sessionj ; ,the official; designation of Mr. R. Av .Pater Son,; of the Lands Depart- ) liient, will, bo altered to Chief Accountant. ! tlllder tho, law as it Stood before; though' • 1 Sit. Pater Soil really held that positiotl| ho i could not bo'termed Chief Accountant,. and ' the; various dodunieftiS 6ignatur< COuld not, bO signed by hinl. ■ ■