PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 102, 23 January 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

; lhe location of Ministers to-day will bo as follows' The Premier, tho Hon. Dr Findlayy tho Hon. G. Fowlds. 'and the Hon. J. M!Gowan at Wellington; tho Hon. R. M'Nab and tho Hon. J. Carroll en route for Opotiki from Gisborno, via Motua; and the Hon- JMillar at Dunedin. . ; ,'Mr. G. H. Scales returns from the South' Island by .tho Victoria-this:morning. ■ Mr. F. K. de Castro, Chief Clerk of tho Education Department, left • for -Auckland yesterday; to . attend ; the ; Native School Toachers' Conference. - , The Premier and tho Hon. Dr. Findlay (Attorney-General) returned from tho South yesterday, morning. The Hon. Dr. Findlay spent a pleasant time at 'the Mount Cook; Hermitage. ' •' / Tile Rev. S. Baker, who has 'concluded his seven years', ministry, at tho Emmanuel Congregational Church, Palmerston North,: by accepting a call to Christ Church, Laun-. ceston, Tasmania, leaves, with his family by the Warrimoo to-day for his new home.

A' Press Association telegram from Auckland 'states.' that : Mr. " F. , K.; • M'Clean,' F.R.A.S., who was organiser of tho recent Anglo-Australian astronomical' expedition to Flint; Island, left- for - Wellington via . the West Coast yesterday afternoon ,to join the Sydney steamer. '

■Miss Natalie. C. B. Allen, who heads tho list of ■ successful candidates in' the junior scholarship examinations throughout the Dominion, is the eldest daughter of Mr.'B. B. Allen, Chief Clerk of the Printing and Stationery 'Department. She is a pupil of South Wellington School, and won a scholarship last year, but, oil account of her youth, her parents decided to forego it.

1 : Madame Clara Butt, is to be entertained at a garden party ■at " Awarua," Sir Joseph Ward's residence, to-morrow afternoon by the Victoria League, of which Lady Ward is president. In. tha evening, in the Town Hall, j.tho ' distinguished contralto will ■ present inedals and certificates gained by candidates at the 1907 examinations, of the Associated Board of .the R. A';M. and R.C.M. The. latter coreimohy.'wilijbe h'eld it 8 pim. '"\M?^cgOT^Bi^,vffie-yoimg' T Wdlington pianist, who went to London a couple of years ; ago, writes :to a friend: that he has. just •. returned . to, the: metropolis after, a month's tour with a concert' company corn-: posed of Joska Szigeti, Blanche' Marchesi, Busoni', Fischer! Sobell, and Madame Ella Russell. Mr. Towsey, writing early in December, said, there was every, indication of another hard winter in England. , The late Mr., W. D. Milne, M.A., LL.D., who was' a member of the University Senate from 1892 to 1901, was referred to'by Sir. Robert Stout at tho meeting' of the Senate yesterday as 'a ' strenuous student and an able and kindly gentleman, whose life was cut short, and who, but for his ill-health and early death, would have been a leaderin New Zealand. ;To his widow and family, he was sure, the members of the Senate would forward their sympathy. Mr. C. A. W. F.Z.S., at'one time a resident of the Mahawatu, but recently a member of the Legislative Council of New Guinea, and formerly a resident Magistrate of that country boforo it was amalgamated with the Commonwealth, has returned to New Zealand with the intention of settling near Feilding. Mrs. Monckton is a daughter of Mi*. F. Arkwright, formerly a member of the Legislative Council in New Zealand, and now of Bournemouth, England. 1 '■ Referring in his Chancellor's address to the Senate yesterday, to the death of the Rev. J. C. Andrew, who was Vice-Chancel-lor of the University for many years, Sir Robert Stout said that there were many present who wore Mr. Andrew's contemporaries in the Senate, and those who knew him would never forget his keen wit and kindly fellowship. He had no doubt that the Senate would place on record its appreciation of his services, and extend its sympathy to his widow and family in their bereavement. Sir Robert Stout, in his Chancellor's address at the opening of tho Senate yesterday, referred with deep rogret to the death of Sir James Hector, who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand from 1880 to 1885, and Chancellor from 1885 to 1903. There were, he said, happily many present who could testify to tho ability, care, and tact with which tho late Sir James Hector performed his many University duties. Ho was an eminent scientist, and no man did more in New Zealand for the advaucement of scientific knowledge concoming tho geology, flora and fauna of this country. His knowledge was encyclopedic, and no field of scientific research was unknown to him. Sir Robert said he was sure tho Senate would join in placing on record its recognition of tho great services he rendered to New Zealand, and its deep sympathy with his widow and family in their bereavement.