PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

; To-day the Premier will be at Wellington; the Hon. G. Fowlds and the Hon; J. M'GoWan at Wellington; the Hon. J. Carroll and the-Hon. R. M'Nab at-Tolago Bay, tho Hon.' Dr. Findlay en route to Wellington from: the South, and the Hon. J. A,' Millar in Du'nedin. .

The' Premier (Sir, Joseph Ward) .will return to Wellington from the south this morning. Mr. H. Gr. Mitchell, editor of the Christchurch "Star," is in Wellington on holiday loave. He proceeds shortly to the North. •

. We understand that it is tho intention.of Mr. Jolin Bentinck Blaine 'to contest , the Southern Maori seat at the next General Elections.

'. Mt.'F. W. M'Leaii, who was recently appointed Inspecting Engineer of Railways, arrived in Wellington by . tho llotomahana yesterday morning! '

Surgeon-General Turnbull, Captain Gibbons, and Dr. Chappie were amongst' the passengers who arrived-by the; Monowai from northern ports last 1 night.

Mr. Fred. Townsend, ex-Mayor of Miramar, .'and a member of tho Wellington. Har-. hour Board, Who lias been absent from; Wellington for the past ten months;.is returning by tho Warrimoo to-day. \

Colonel Porter, C.8., President of the TaiRawhiti Maori Land Board, has decided to retire from the public service at tho end of the present month, in order that he may devote his time to his private affairs. 1

Mr. William Arnold, who'formerly was in practice in England, was, on the'motion of Sir Kenneth Douglas, admitted as a solicitor of the Supremo Court of New Zealand by His Houour, Mr. Justice Button, yesterday.

' Tho Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) returned to Wellington yesterday from a tour of the Gisborno and East Cape and Rotorua districts, where he has been holding sittings of the Native Land' Commission with Mr. A. T. Ngata, M.P.

Mr., J; Loraas, Chief Advisory Oflicer'under the Workers' Dwellings Act, accompanied by Mr. W. Temple, architect for workers' dwellings, is at present on a visit to Christchurcli, in connection with the contemplated provision of additional workmen's cottages at Sydenham. They mil bo absent about a wcok.

Mr. A. E. Barton, F.1.A., New Zealand, Secretary of Banks's Commercial College, Wellington, is leaving this city for Sydney on January 31." Mr. Barton is going to Sydney to tako charge of the commercial department of a largo business college in Australia, witlT tho object of introducing a system of instruction similar to that in use at Banks's Commercial College.

At St. Peter's Church yesterday afternoon Mr. R. W. Atkinson, of tho head office of the Agricultural Department, was married to Miss Ruby Young, youngest daughter of the lata Mr. Androw Young. Tho ceremony was performed by tho Rev. C. W. Maclaverty. Miss Annio Atkinson, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss Freda Goodman, nieco of tho bride, acted as bridesmaids, and Mr. W. J. Atkinson as best man. Tho bride was given away by her brother, Mr. John Young. Mr. F. Bryant, formerly a well-known bus-iness-man of Palmorston North, arrived in

Wellington by the Papanui on Monday, accompanied by his wife and two sons. For the past eight years Mr. Bryant has been living at Tunbridge Wells, England, and after sponding some months in the Dominion, lie intends returning again to England. During his residenco at Homo, Mr. Bryant figured proininontly at bowls. Ho was ono of the pioneers of tho game in Palmcrston North, and was a member of tho Palmerston team that appropriated tho New Zealand Championship Bonner.-.