PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 114, 6 February 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

—_ ; Tted&y . the Premier will, bo en roufco for Auckland j tlie Hon. W. Hall-Jones, tho Hfm. >-R; M'Natyithe.Hon. GivEowldSjS.tho Hon: Ji Ai.Millar, tho Hon.. J. M'Gowah, and the! Hon. 6r. Fihdlay will be: in .Wellington ;and the Hon. J. Carroll on the Easl Coast. . ■-. Distfibt 'Judge ""Haseldcn arrived • from Nelson by the Pateena yfcsterday. ,■; • j Detective Rawle is to go off to-day on a fortnight's holiday leave.- ■ ; The District Health-officer, Dr. left yesterday bn a Visit to' the Manawatu and Taranaki districts. ■ .'"'Detective Cameron left ifofc Christclnrchi last night to do relieving duty at .he southern.town for.several Months. - •: .iV Mr. James Hay, a chief i draughtsman of tho Lind and Survey Department, has Retired on compensation on account ofill-healt l i.' , Dr. Vaiihtine," Inspector-General, of Hospitals, and" Dr. Hay, Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals; returned yesterday from tho South. • • n . .. ■ ' ■ !The General Manager for Railways andheads of branches,, who have been on an lh Bpeot'ing tour in Wcstlnnd, have returned to Wellington. .The Cabinet has appointed Mr. Willmm Wilkinson to be the. Government representative on the Otago Harbour Board; This is a new appointment. . Constables M'Keefrey,' of ChriStchurch, !nd Simpson l , of Kaiapoi, have : been prbmoted'to be sergeants, the former to be stationed at Dunediii, and-the latter at Auckland. ; i 1 Colpnel Robin, C.8.j,-Chief of the:Genjral Staff, is at .present iii tho South." He will be at lim'aru'tliis cVening, arid is sxpscted to return to Wellington on Saturday. Mr. A. -H. Holmes, Clerk of tile! Magistrate's Coilrt, is to'leave f&r Piitori, lilcnhfeim,. Ha'velock, and tbe West Coast to-day t6 fioiitililie: his in'spfifitifln .•of"/ th 6 various ; Court6i Mr.'Holmes will return, by way of the Otira Gorge' and Christchurchj and is diie bafck about February 22. . . ." Principal Warder . Reid, ; who Is- how Mn charge of prisoners engaged in tree-planting at • Hanmer, has been transferred to the Waiapu prison eamp in place 'of Principal .Warder Byrne, Who has befell transfirrod to one of the towtis. Principal 'Warder Murphy, of the late Dumgr46 camp, will go lo Hail' mbr. / ;. . ! v- .. ; ' ' Yesterday the - Hon. W, Hall-Jones nnd Mrs. Siiid Miss Hall-Jones wero, entertained at luncheon lit the Royal Oak Hotel by <ho Premier and the members of the Minisiry at present •in Wellingten-^the > Hon. ( J. M'Gowan,. the Hon. 11. M'Nab, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, aild the Hon,' J. A. Millar. Lady Ward, Mrs. Findlay, and Miss Fahny Hall-Jones Were also present. ; tfhe following promotions in the- (PiVice Fttfco hate, been decided upon [--Constable M'Keefrey, pt his been made ft Sergtellt, fend is to W tranSferrfed to Diuiediri, whfcre he jtiiU ■repltiise Sergehiit' ville, whb'is to ciffife td Welliiigtori; Ojbstable Simpson, of Kniapei,' haS'alSo been raised to this rank of sergeant, and willbe transferred to Auckland, Where he, will taiio the place of Sergeant Rogers, Who.his taken charge of the Onehtinga, sub-district. : Sergeant Beattie, at present doing duty, in Wellington, is to have charge of the new police district at Taihapc. A Pross Asso6iation telegram from Hokitika 6tates.that the Rev. Father Aubrey, f6r so.me' yekrs in charge, of. that district, aud tow transferred to Waitnittfe, was entertained last night iit a socihl, which was well attended by all classes of tlie/community! The congregation presented, him ' with an address and a substantial purse of sovereigns, -while, the Volunteer Band and many other organisations also guve him handsome tokens of est«etai ■ • > ' \

Captain Menzies, of No.'l Company Well-, ington Division Garrison Artillery Volunteers, has resumed his command after a period of . six months' leave of absence, granted to him on account of urgent private' business. - The Rev. J; G. S. Bartlett, of St. Ma-k'a Church, Wellington, -who has accepted a charge at 'Oamaru, will take his on February 18. An interval must eUpse • before the Rev.. A. M. Johnson, now. of. Master ton , can succeed Mr. Bartlett, and for this period lio arrangements- have yet' been made. ' , < The Premier leaves for Auckland this morning by the Manawatu express.;, Hfe will. be absent from Wellington for four or five weoks. He will deliver an . important policy speech at Aucklalidj and amongst tlia places ; ho will subsequently visit will bo Whangarci,. ivawhia, Rotorue (attending the carnival thero), Hamilton, Thames, Wailu, the Bay of Plenty districts, and in fa6t all the important centres of^North' r and' : South Auct ; ' land. ' v ' j 'V ' ■ f-.'