PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 112, 4 February 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day the Premier (Sir' Joseph Ward) will be located at Wellington; the Hon. \X. Hall-Jones, tho Hon. Dr. Findlay, the Hon. R. M'Nab, the Hon. G. Fowlds, tho Hon. J. A. Millar, ami. the Hon. J. M'Gowan, are also in Wellington, and the Hon. J. Carroll is at Gisborne. 1 ; Mr. and Mrs. T. E; Eden, of Brooklyn, leave in March on a visit to England. Dr. Poniare, Health Officer to the Maoris, has left on a. visit to the Chatham Islands. Mr. Leo B.: Buckeridge has returned ,to • Wellington from Nelson, where he has just' : given a successful recital; ■ : Mr. J. W. Collins, Accountant of the , Labour Department, left yesterday oil a holiday visit to Christchurch and the Otif'i? Gorge. . ; ' The Rev. D. Hird, of Christchurch, Chairman of ; the New Zealand Congregational Union, is expected to arrive from the South by the Maori this morning Mr. F. K. de Castro, chief clerk of the Education Department, is expected back either to-night or to-morrow night from a, visit to Auckland, made on departmental business. ' t ' Mr. J. A. Walker, senior counter clerk in the Duncdin Telegraph Office, on the occasion of his transfer to Christchurch. was presented by tho Dunedin staff 'with a purse of '■ sovereigns, also with a hand-bag for his wife. ' . Mr. C. A. M. Chapman, of the Tramways Cash; Office staff, was presented with a handsome dinner service; by. his friends on . the staff on the occasion of his approaching marriage. . The presentation was'-made.by Mr.' J. W. Callaghan. ; The Amokura .will leave .Wellington on hei northern cruiso to-morrow.. The boys havt been ashore for some time, on holiday leave, but have,now rejoined the vessel,-and are no' doubt • lboking forward to-the next cruise'.-' with high anticipations. • i

A Dargaville Press Association telegram, states .that Dr v Eleanor Southey Baker com- . . menced duty on Saturday as locum tenons for the medical superintendent at Northern Wairoa Hospital. • She is believed to be the first lady doctor to occupy, such a position: ' ' in the Dominion. V The annual meeting of the Congregational ' Union of New" Zealand will commence in the , Wellington Terrace Congregational Church at 10 a.m. to-morrow. The inaugural address of the Chairman, the Rev. D. Hird, of Christchurch,.will be- given io-morrow night.' Be- , twecn fifty, and sixty, delegates are expected to. attend the meetings of the Union, which will continue.for a week. ' ; A letter received from Dr; L. Cockayne, F.L.S.; who is conducting the biological survey of the Tonga'riro.:National Park, in com- '<■ pany with Mr. Phillips Turner/ who is mat ing a geographical survey, states that, tho party has so far experienced 'splendid' wea--1 ther.. , .;Dr.,.Cockayne has.been-to the top - of Ngaruhae,-'and l ' l almost'.'to the'top of " R'ua'pehu.' ;.He states, that, he; finds'tlie re- , gion the.upmost interesting-lie v has studied, , owing to Ithe modifications of plant structure' caused by'the'peculiar" climate and i desort-liko conditions; ''i ' . \

Yesterday marked the dispatch of the first , wireless' message between New Zealand and Australia.' ~ The niessago was from Sir Joseph \Vatd to the" Right Hon. Alfred Deakin (premier.' of - the Common- : wealth), arid'was. dispatched .through the courtesy,, of the Admiral, of ..the Australian Squadron.; ; Tho- dispatching .ship was the Pioneer, at present in the : Wellington harbour, and the • message was "received by a worship between here and\ Australia, .and forwarded on to a.'third boat,at- Sydney.-'The message was patriotic in character, and had reference' to the "glorious Old' Flag." .

At a meeting of;, tho Wellington: Bandsmen's Hospital Sunday Committee, held recently,' the' honorary treasurer,. Mr. . Rousa Janson, 'submitted the talapce-sbeet of the rccent campaign ill aid ;ofi the funds for ,the Wellington Hospital.' The statement was' as follows:—Receipt's— : Collcctmg>• boxes, "Satuiv daj\ £249; collecting boxes,: Sunday, £178; hotel boxes, £68 165.; Sunday boxes, £24 2s. 7d.; total, £519 18s. 7d. ;. ExpenditurePrinting, advertising, • ctc., £48 l4s. ,6d.; balance, £471 4s. Id. ■ A cheque for £470 has been handed to tho Trustees of the Hospital, ■' "contribution exceeding the 'previous one by, no less., than £250, the cheque last, year Seing £220. '

The Rev. ' Charles'lnwood, who ,is wellknown in connection with the' Keswick religious. conferences, England, and who has been attending tho religious convention, at AVanganui,'is expected to arrive in Wellington on Saturday. He will preach on Sunday morning in St. John's-Presbyterian .Church, and in the evening in'the Courtenay Placo Congregational' Church.. On Monday' ho will hold a conference ;with: local ministers. On Tuesday, .-Wednesday; : and Thursday , afternoons he will conduct Bible readings; in the Courtenay Place Congregational Church; and on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings he will address meetings in tho .Vivian Street .Baptist Church. Mr. Inwood will leave on Friday week- for Blenheim, where he will conduct services for Archdeacon Grace. . The visitor's services,!therefore, will be unusually inter-denominational. At the. Keswick, Conventions a majority of tl?e attendance consists of Anglicans. \Mr, Inwood is himself a Wesleyan.

.. The circumstances 1 rpc.c rded. in our cables yesterday, "of a young ond .unknown archifctect' having his design '.selected for tlio London County Council's new hall, to bo erected at a cost of £850,000,' has had several parallels in tho past when competitive de-. signs have been : invite 1. George Gilbert Scott, the grandson of the colebrated architect, Sir Georgo Scott, was only 21 years old when ho furnished the successful design for Liverpool Cathedral, • a structure .which is to cost about a'miiliou'pounds.' On account of his youth, the Selection Committee associated with him the late Mr. Bodley, R.A., a distinguished church VrcHtect, who had been an assessor in the 'corr.potition. George Meiklo Kemp,-'who furnished the successful design for the Scott monument, . Edinburgh, a remarkably fine memorial, was an amateur at the time, and never designed another work. In tho case of the young London architect, Mr. Ralph Knott, who. has just becomo suddenly famous, it- is 'professionally stated that his immeuso commission of £38,250 will bo reduced by many thousand pounds by tho time he has paid the assist tants who will bo nccessanv and completed tho details of his work.

' Mr. Andrew Hamilton, of this , city, returned by the.Corinthic,on Saturday from a visit to .England and 1 Europe. ■ 'Mr. and Mrs. Lycett Green, with Miss Lycett.'Green, leave for Auckland to-dir. ~. Mr. Lycett Green is : a - well-known i'aigli?'i sportsman. . : '■■ v : . ' Brigadier Albiston, North Island Comman••v dor of the Salvation Army, and .Major Dut- ■ ton,•Provincial Secretary, returned yesterday from a visit to Napier. , . Messrs: -E. J. Leydon .and P. J. Moran, toth bt whom arc about to be married, were the recipients of presentations from the members of the Catholic Club ou Saturday night. Tho presentations were made by tho Rev. • Father. Kimboll. ... . *lt .is understood, says the Hawlce's Bay - "Herald," that the legal practitioners of .. Napier have addressed :a letter to the. Jiistico Department protesting against tho appoint-' i mcnt.of .Mr. S..E. M'Carthy as Stipendiary ... Magistrato for-Hawke's Bay., ' Mr. W.; H..,Samson, ,wlio was: formerly in • "the office of-tho' Supremo Court at Wellington, and who is now Deputy-Registrar, of the Supreme Court at Christchurch, has been • admitted, a'.barrister and solicitor of tho Court. • : ' t . The Right Hon. the Premier will leave | • Wellington for Auckland'on Thursday morn- i ing, and will be absijnt in tho north for four or five weeks. While away he will attend - the Rotorua Carnival. i Mr. -.Win. C. Dawes, Chairman of Direc- ■ tors of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd.,: and. the New Zealand. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., at London, Jsv'oxpected' to arrivo in 'Wellington to-mor- . row, from Christchurch. : Tho Thomdon Dinghy Club's annual picnic, which .was to havo been held on Somes Island, took place instead, at Day's Bay, as Somes Island was under quarantine. A largo number of members and their friends journeyed • to'the bay by the Dueo,-and, favoured with fino weather, thoroughly enjoyed the day's outing. An'. enarajetio Committee worked ; hard, to ; make';the picnic the; success it undoubtedly, was. . ■■■'■■_■ . Mr. W. S. Short, Chief Clerk of the Roads Department, ■ leaves to-day for , Napier toapportion the maintenance of the. . Eslcdale-Pohui . Road ; among the . : . Wairoa County Council, . and the, Hawkc's Bay County - Council, -and , .the Napier ■ . Borough •On ' February 21 ho : will :hold .a: commission-at ,Lawrence to apportion,■: between'the counties of'Bruco and, Tuapeka, the cost of constructing a bridgo ..over:the Waitahuna River.- The adjustment of accounts between- the Hutt County Council, and Eastbourne- Borough Council, . will be dealt with by Mr. Short: some time to-. . wards the end of this month.: . •