PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 115, 7 February 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day the Premier will be in Auckland. The Hon. G. Fowlds, Dr. Findlay, this.Hon. W. Hall-Jones, the Hon. J. M'Gowan, the Hon. R. M'Nab, and the Hon. J. A. Millar are at Wellington, and the Hon. J. Carroll .onl'tlio East' Coast. ' Mr. W. C. Nation, of Levin, has been gazetted-a Coroner. . /.-Vv ' .-The Rev. J. Dawson arid Mrs. Dawson; :hftvo left •to spend a holiday in> the Auck-' land .province. ; > : ■" i Mr. J. Graham Gow, Government 'Trade Commissioner, returned from Canada yesterr day; and left in the evoking for the south;' '. The' Premier left for ; his Auckland tour yesterday morning, accompanied' by Messrs. J. Hislop and Matthews (private secretaries) and- two typistes. Brigadier Albiston, North Island Commander of tho Salvation Army, will leave for, the south next Wednesday to meet Commissioner M'Kio at tho Bluff. 1 Mr. M- A. Philips, General Manager in New Zealand for Henry W. Peabody and Co., of New York, etc.',. leaves' by the Maheno today on a brief visit to Australia. ,i. Mr. C. St. G. Hickson, Commissioner for Stamps', left yesterday on' a tour of inspection of the South Island offices"of tha Stamp Department.; ,Ho will bo absent from Wellington for a fortnight or three weeks. ' .The Hon. R. M'Nab (Acting-Minister, for Defence) attended ai cricket match at ; the Lower Hutt recreation grounds yesterday ' afternoon between the head-quarters staff of the' Defence Department and the Stores I staff. 1 - v ' ■'■

The Hon. R. M'Nab. will not be'able to find time this month to visit Southland as at first intended. After returning from Feilding artd- Hawera, he will proceed to the West Coast, being due there for the Hokitika Show on Tuesday, February 18. , ' Recent arrivals, at the Empire Hotel include the following:—Judge and Mrs. Haselden; Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Lysnar, Gishorrie; Sir. J. Waiighj Riverina, N.SrW.; Mr. C. H. J. Anderson, London; Mrs. Lyons, Martin; Mrs. D. Cameron, Martinborough; Mr. and Mts. F. M. Glasson, Sydnoy; Mr. A. J. M'Donald, Sydney ; Mr. S. Whitta Thorndon, Christchurch; Mr. T. Perry, Christchurch; Mr.' B. Phillipj Sydnoy ; Mr. Georgo J. Jacobs and Mr.' C. C..Jacobs, England; Mr. H. M. Jackson, Sydney; Mr. W. Kennedy, Kent, England; Mr. 'James Gorric, Kent, England; Miss J. Parker, Sydney; Mr. W. Park, Levin ; Mr. A. E. M'Adam, Melbourne.

The following recent arrivals are, staying at the Grand Hotel:—Mr. J. Smart, Levin; Mr. aiid Mrs. E. A. Sbitjl, Sydney; Mrs. M'Cullum, Dunodin; Mr. C. Tustin, Surbiton, England; Mr. Tipton, Christchurch; Mr. A. E. Pitt,. Christchurch; Mr. H. G. Simms, Christchurch; Mr. Alexander Hill, New Plymouth; Mr. Max Rown, Sydney; Mrs. Abbot and Miss Imlay, f \Vanganui; Mr. T. A. B. Hudson, Levin; Mr. N. Fitzlierbert,, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Cockburn-Hood, Masterton; Mr. and Mrs. Veatch, New York; Mr. D. M'Caig, Sydney; Mr. C. Andreas, Auckland; Mrs. Goring Thomas and Miss Roskruga, Khandallah; Mr. A. Mackenzie, Melbourne; Mr. R. Nicholson, Dunedin; Mr. h. Young, Palnierston North; Mr. AV. T. Williams, Hawke's Bay,; Mrs. and Miss Knoebone, Wanganui; Mr. A. G. East, Auckland; Mr. W. C. Beard, Masterton; Mr. A: J, Shaw, New York'; Miss Peterson, Napier; Mr. H. Owen, Christchurch; Mr. H, G. Lusk, Syduey; Mr. R. S. Grice and Miss price, Melborrto; Mr. and Mrs.- Matthew Morrison, Glasgow; Misses Paap, Sydney; Mr. Thomas Kingston, London; Mr. A. L. Silly, Sydney; Mrs. and the Misses Sinpon, Christchurch; Miss Preece, Featherston; Mr. and Mrs. Mockler, London; Mr. H. E. Dennis, Sydney ; Mr. R. H. Lartcr, Feilding; Mr. E. F.'Clemens, Christchurch; Mr. R. G-. Bell, Dunedin; Mr. Buhmeyer, Sydney; Mr. A. L. Williams, Nelson; Mr. Marshall P. Fos. New York; Mr. J. Downey, London.

, Mr.; R. J. D. N. Potts is gazetted a clerical cadet in the Department of Roads. The Right Rev. Dr. Wallis (Anglican Bishop of Wellington) is on a brief visit to Wanganui. :. i' • ■ Air. J. G. Price (Church of Christ) has been gazetted an officiating minister under the Marriage Act, 1904. Mr. John J.'J. Mallard has been appointed a member of the Wellington, Palmerston North, and l''cilding Fire Boards, vice Mr. l'\ Allen, resigned. Mr. J. P. Cochran, secretary of the Sydney Trades and Labour Council, has arrived in Wellington. His Council has given bim a month's leave of absence. Mr. Norman Anderson, son of Mr. Edward Anderson, of Wellington, leaves by the Corinthic on a business trip to England. He expects to be away a year or two. The portfolio of 'Minister for Dcfence, which the Hon. R. M'Nab filled temporarily in place of Sir Joseph Ward, during the,absence through illness of the Hon. W. HallJones, has not yet been resumed by the Premier. It is probable Mr. M'Nab will continue to act during the Premier's absence in' Auckland.

Mr. Mattbow Paul, who has been ap-. pointed an Inspector of Mines for the North Island, at a salary, of £315 a year, graduated from tho pit (says tho Thames . " Star "). He is a member of tho Thames School of Mines, and possesses a mine firstclass certificate of competency.' He occupied the position of mine manager to the Kura-nui-Caledonian Gold Mining. Company at Thames for many years. Ho is a son-in-law of Mr. James-Coutts, who recently ' from tho position as Inspector of Mines.. It ■ is probable that one inspector will attend to tho coal and the other to the metal mining. Probably Mr. Boyd Bonnie, the othqr inspector of mines, will take over the inspection of coal, for ho holds first-class certificates tor both, branches of mining'.