PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The location of pabiuet Ministers to-day will be as follows:—The Premier (Sir Joseph Ward), at Wellington;, tho Hpn. R. M'Wab, at Wairpa; the Hon. J. Carroll, lit Wairpa;, Hon. Dr. Findlay, at The Hermitage; Hon. J. A. Millar, at Wellington; Hon. G. Fowlds and the Hon. J. M'Gowan, en route to Wellington. The Hon. J. A. Millar (Minister for Labour and Customs) returned from Auckland last night. . Mr. H. A. M'Gregor, formerly Inspoctor of Machinery at Welliugtor, is lying seri : ously ill at his residonco in Masterton. ■ Sir. and .Mrs._W. A. Worth haye booked passages for England by the Orient liner Ortona, which leaves Sydney at the end of March. i\lr.' "Mokau" Jpnes is expected out from Home about February 20. Hp ha? been away from New Zealand nearly eixteon yoars. Miss Eastwood, M.A., an esrpupil of thp Wanganui Girls 1 College, has been appointed to a position on the staff of the Nelsph Girls' Colfpge. Mr. John Duthie has accepted the invir tation of the Wapganui Caledonian Society to bp present at tho annual gathering on January 22. Tho popular bandmaster of the Wpnganui Garrison Band, Mr. J. Crichton, is at pre : sont undergoing medical treatment at the hands of Dr. W. H. Homing, Mastertpn. Tho Trustees of the Benevolent Institution,' at their meeting yesterday afternoon, unanimously re-plectecl tho Rev. W. A. Evans as chairman of tho Board for the ensuing year. The Rev. Dr. Tudor Jones, of the Unitarian Church in this city, expects to have pubr fished in London, before thp end of the present year, a volume of "Essays in the J*hilr osophy of Religion," which he has -syrit^en. Mr. G. A. Troup, Office Engineer to the Railway Department, who has been ill, has recovered sufficiently to go to thp seaside at Plimmerton. He intends leaving on 9 trip to South Africa and England about the middle of February. Mr. W' Houston, who has fjeen in charge of the delivery departnient of the Christchurch telegraph offico for tho past eightmonth's, will return to Dunedin this. week, Mr. 0. T. M'Manaway, of Wellington, replacing him. Mr. W. H. Newton, President of the Ne\> Zealand Educational Institute, and headmaster of the Waio-Karaka School, Thames, was in Wellington yesterday attending a meeting of. tho Teachers' Superannuation Board, of which he is a member cx officio. Mr. Newton will return to Auckland this morning.