PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 118, 11 February 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho pTesont location of Ministers is as follows: —Tho Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) at Auckland; the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, the Hon;' J. A. Millar, the Hon. Dr. Fitidlay, tho Hon. G. Fowlds at Wellington, 'the Hon. James Carroll ;at Gisbome, the Hon. R. M'Nab'at Hawera,.and the Hon., J. M'Gowan at New Plymouth. , ■ - j . Mr! 'E. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock, is on a visit to Nelson. _ \ •The Inspector of Prisons (Lieut.-Colonel Hume) left for New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. A. E. G. Rhodes, of Christchurch, was a visitor to Wellington yesterday. ' Mr. G. Marshall Bird, of Vancouver, is I in Wellington, on a tour of the Dominion. Judge Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, has returned to Wellington from Gisborne. . Tho Hon. James M'Gowan (Minister'for Justice) will return from New Plymouth tomorrow night. - The Hon. W. Hall-Jones goes South on February 19 to be ; banquetted by ; his constituents at Timaru.. ■ 1 1 . Mr< W. W., Bird, Inspector of Native Schools, left yesterday, to inspect the. schools iu the Napier and-East. Coast district. Mr: and Mrs. E. 0. Lower, of Karori, will leave Wellington in April-post' on a tour of the world. ■ , •• , The General Manager of the Railway Department and heads of branches day on an inspection of northern lines. ,Mr. W. Jaqnes, Government fruit-canning eipert, returned from the Nelson district on Saturday,' and left yesterday for.Central Otago. v

Captain M'Doiiald, of the Defence Depart-: ment, leaves on Thursday on his visit to Tasmania,' He will return by way of ! Melbourne and Sydney. j • Tho ReV. J.' C. Jamieson;: who recently resigned the position of .organising secretary of the Presbyterian Young Men's Bible Class Union; has-.'accepted a call ,to the pastorate of the; Presbyterian Cljurch, Hokitika. ThV Hon. J.' A. Millar (Ministet' for Labour) contemplates - visiting Dunedin, Inveroargill, and Port' Molyneux nest week.' He leaves here oh Monday night. The Minister has not yet decided whether he will deliver' an. address at Dunedin. \ .' - The Right Rev. Dr: Nqvill, Anglican Bis•hop of Dunedin and Primate of New Zealand, will 'not go' Home to attend'tho .Lambeth; .Conference. Bishop 3 Nevill and Julius (of; Christchurch) will be the ionly Anglican i}i 5 tlie 'Pomiiiibn. j , , A new board of. management' of St. James's '.Church,: .South! Wellington, 'increased from nine to twelve members,' has beeii elected and installed 'as follow: —Messrs. T. Bibby,, A. Campbell, O. A. Eibye, G. Giesen,' A; Irvine, G. W. Key, E. Lewis, A. M. M'Diarmid, Felix A. Morris,' S. Rimsbottdm, D. Ryric, and G. R. Wilson. ■' i Mr. :R. G. Fincham, o£ Colac, .Victoria, who ife. President of the Hospitals and Charities Association of that State, and : also President of the Victorian Chamber of. Agricul-

ture,= is visiting-New Zealand to .investigate, certain, aspects, of vhospital;atid charitable aidadministration. i:tr. Fincham left Wellington yesterday for i Napier,. and. later on will visit Hawera and go on to Auckland bv the tyain Trunk line;: • ~ . - • ; /■: Mrs. and the Misses Dyason, of Bendigo, loft yesterday morning on & tour of the Hot Lakes '■ Distriot;' via theWariganui r River,after consulting the local representatives of Thomas Cook and Sons,- Ltd; Proceeding under the same guidance, Dr. W., A. Wilson Smith, of Duns, Scotland, and Mr. F.;W. Jones, of Stourport, England, left for Auck-.. land yesterday by the Monowai, intending to go on to Rotorua. ■''' Mr. G.W. Sare, who' has been' appointed ,manager of the Dunetlin branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., is at present in Wellington .- He will go south by to-night's boat. Before leaving Hamilton, where he has for several, years managed a branch of tliQ Companyls -.business, 1 . Mr/ Sare ■ was entertained, at; several farewell functions, and received prey sentations from ' different sections of town and .country residents.

; :To-morrow : morning the Minister for Education (the:. Hon. G..' Fowlds) leaves for Dannevirke, where ho opens the Hjgli School and delivers a political' speech in' the- even-, ing, ' On February 13 Mr. Fowlds' goes on to Napier and then Waikare, and his subsequent itinerary will be as follows: —Walkaro to, Mahaka and Wairoa; Nuhaka and Morera Hot Springs, Wharerata, and- Gisborno. Two days will be in Gisborno probably, and' tho Minister will then go on to Tolag'o Bay, to Tokomarii Bay, Hiropafama, Waipiro Bay, Tuparoa, Te Araroa via East Cape, Whangaparaoa, Te Kaha, Te Kaka, Omaio, : Torere and Opotiki. Ho will reach the. last-men-tioned, place on ,'Msircli 4. The ,trip_ will be made with the object of . visiting the-Native schools. .' ' ■',