PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 108, 30 January 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The present location, of Cabinet Ministers is as follows: —The Right Hon. the Premier. (Sir Joseph Ward) at Wellington; the Hon. G. Fowlds, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, the Hon. J. A. Millar, and the Hon. James M'Gowan, at Wellington; the Hon. R. M'Nab en route t6 Wellington, and the Hon. Jaiiies Carroll at Gisborne. ; Dr. C. Coleridge Farr, Professor Benham, and Dr. Chilton will arrive from the South by the Rotomahana this morning. The Rev. Father Fay, of Wellington, 1 who with his brother Mr. D. Fay, has been on a trip round the world, returned by the Winiirtera yesterday. The Hon. R. M'Nab (Minister for Lands and Agriculture) was at Ractihi yesterday. Ho is expected back in Wellington either to-morrow or on Saturday. Among the returning New Zealanders by the Corinthic, due here 011 Saturday, tiro Mr. and Mrs. D. Knibb, of Auckland, and Mr. and Mrs. Lycett Green. Mr. D. Skinner, of the firm of Townscnd and Paul, who lias been indisposed for somo time past, leaves on a month's visit to Rotorua and district to-morrow. Captain C. G. Sinclair, R.1.M., who was engaged to'make a thorough Survey of the coast of New Zealand, which work was not taken up by the Government on the score 'of csjjenso, now occupies tho position of De-puty-Conservator to tho port of Bombay.

Dr. and Mrs. J. Going,! of Hamilton, are spondmg a few days' holiday in Wellington.

Colonel Lyster, of tho Queensland Defence Forces, arrived ■ from Sydney by the Wimmora yesterday on a visit to tho Dominion.

■Mr. H. A. Parker, champion tennis player of -./New Zeuland, and representative for tho R.A.M. in. Australia, leaves Wellington for Sydney via Auckland- to-morrow, :.

1 Mr. J. G. Harkness,- Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, has been nominated to l represent tho Chamber on tho Harbour Board by Messrs. G. Shirtcliffe and G. Wilson.. .

Tho Ven. Archdeacon Devoy and Father Hickson; Who have been attending a conforouce of'tho Marisc Order ,r at Belgium, .will return to > "Wellington, by the Corinthio on Saturday

. Mr.: 'W. E. Fisher; LROP (London)'; Otago - University, ■ New Zealand, has been admitted a Fellow of the Royal College, of. Surgoons of England, having passed, tho required examinations. ,-,v Miss E< J. ; Kilner, of. Wcsterfield, has been appointed school, mistress at Hanmer Springs in. succession . to Miss : Hare, who leaves shortly, to take a position in the .Putiki Native Girls' School. .

. The Right Rev. Dr. Wallis, Angl.can Bishop of Wellington, is expected to arrive back this nlorning froirt attending a conffir.inco.of the Anglioan Bishops, of New Zealand ill Christchurch. . 'Y ■ :

; Mr. and Mrs. F. Horton Bright, and .Mr. and Mrs.- Arthur Bright) of Otalcij intend leaving for a six-mouths', trip noxt month. They will visit England, Scotland, Ireland, and t-ho Continent. ' ! ' •

, Major-Gcneral I'\ R, Chosnov, formerly of the Royal Engineers, who served in the Zealand Campaign of 1864, and was at tho capturo of Pukoliiuahina, in the Bay - ;of Plonty, receiving the campaign, medal, died at Vevey on Decembor, 8, aged- 83 ' years.

The .-plight Hon. Sir Joseph Ward leaves Wellington for Auckland this morning by,the s and Maniwatu express. He will attend a banquet to Mr. liidd. M.P. (Governiiidnt whip;, 'at -Auckland to-morrow flight; and will, return to Wellington on Monday, night. . .• . •. .

, -Mr. J6hn , William Copithorne has ; been nominated for a'seat upon tho Wollingtort Harbour' Board; as a reprdientativo of. the ditizoiis,_ ' His nominators' aro Messrs.i'Wil-. ham Allan and James Godbci 1 . ,Mr. Copithorne was at ono timo a tilly clcrk in.tho Board's service. y ; , Mr. J. D. Ritchie, Secretary for-Agricul-ture t and , Mr. E.. . Clifton; Chief Inspector of Stock, 1 who liavp bee.l visiting, experimental stations in tho Auckland provincej, are expected to return to Wellington on-Sat-', ■urdayTincompany ..with the Minister for. Agriculture (the Hon..R. M'Nali). . .f^

Mr; Harold Parkes, a member of C. Williamson's' Musical Comedy'.'..Companyi whose performance of the coqkney private, in! " The Blue SIoo.i" was ono that attracted' favourable comment, was taken suddenly ill with .appfeqdicitis,: at Auckland on Sunday,, and had to enter a private .hospital

Mr. W. ,C. Kensington,, Under-Secretary for .Crown Lands, r-etiirncd last night from his visit to tlie Auckland Province. Besides dealing on the'spot with the matter^of the drainage of tho IJiakq swamps, Mr. Ken-' siligton Visited Waiotapu, in connection'with, the; proposed romoval, of the prison camp to ariotlier site, and, returning by. way of the Waliganui River, visited a number .of places ■ii'hose - reservation for 'Scenic purposes will bo rccoiiinicnded. - - Mi*. 'Alfred. Reid, -auctioneer', for- Messrs. Laery and Coiripany,' fruit and produco merchants, ' achieves his auctioneering coming-6f-ago this month.'. It is'twenty-oiio;',years ■this monj;h sinco Mr.'' Koid'< cqmmoneed'.tb. "call the price" in Wellington, aiici.with the oxcoption, of a throe-month's' hijliday ■. and * foiv days' illnoss, ho lias condilctcd auotion sales daily, in this city,/which' should constitute a recdrd.'; He knows all tho' Chinese fruiterers iii the city so well that ho addresses'them nearly all by their "Christian" names. . Ho . linows their family history, and to him- John's "ways that aro dark and tricks that are vain" are as an open book.

Dr. 0. 0. Farr, lccturcr on heat, light, mid'sound, at Canterbury ' College, in forwarding 'to tho Board of Governors the resignation of tho Demonstrator, Mr. E,Kidson, who lias >beon offered an appointment under tho Director of tho Terrestrial. Magnotisrn Department of the Carnegie Institute, Washington, added: —"The offer of this position is, I think, not only a compliment to Mr. Itidson, but one also,to Canterbury Col logo and to the University of New, Zealand,, as tho custom-Of. tho institution is to pick tho most suitable man that can be found, regardless of his nationality." It is understood that Mr. Kidsoii will bo employed on magnetic and atmospheric electricity work in Africa, and ; that subsequently, lie will be attached to the new lion-magnotic vessel that the institution is having ' built. The Board of Governors congratulated him upon his new appointment. ,