PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho present , location of Ministers is as follows:—The Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) nt Waikino; the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, 1 tho Hon. J. A. Millar, the. Hon. James M'Gowan, and the Hon. Dr. Findlay, at Wellington; ' tho Hon. R. M'Nab eri route from New Plymouth, and the Hon.' G. Fowlds at Napier and tho Hon. James Carroll at Gisborne. Mr. James Lindsay Greig, of Melbourne,is.a visiter to Wellington. The Hon. J. M'Gowan (Minister for Justice)'.returned. from Now Plymouth last evening. . ■ Mr. King, of the firm of Mitchell and King, contractors, is at present on a 1 visit to, Sydney. Mr. D. H. Stowart, of tho Anglo-Souih American Bank at Iquique,. Chile, arrived "by tho Marama on furlough yesterday. Colonel Tuson and Captain Richardson, of the General Staff, Defonce Headquarters, aro expected to return from Auckland on Monday, s . ■• ■ .

". A Gisborno Press ' Association message states that Mr. John Townley, Mayor' of Gis-. borno' for nineteen years, retires from ;that position at the end* of : the present term. : , Mr. G. S. Munro, well-known as general manager of the Ghristchurch Exhibition cf 1906-7, is :in Wellington. He will sail for London in the steamship China, leaving Sydney on March 11. . A Nelson Press 'Association,, telegram states' that at a, largely attended meeting of .members of, the' Church. of England last' night, Bishop Mules/was,presented with a purse of sovereigns on the eve of his departure , for , England to\attend the Lambeth Conference. '',

Captain T. W. M'Donald, Assistant-Adju-tant-Gonoral,-/District j Headquarters, leaves for Hobart'by the Marama to-day on a holiday trip, having'been granted six weeks' leayo of absence. During his vacation Captain ' M'Donald /proposes' to,'lnquire into educational and military matters in Tasmania, Sydney, and Melbourne. . Mr. E. H. Barber/mining engineer, of Victoria Street, arrived back from a business trip to, Tasmania and Victoria by the Marama yesterday. He has been reporting on several properties in the States mentioned, and is to return thei;e -l;iter oil. /Meanwhilo, ho is to do' somo work for Sydney, Melbourne, and Now Zealand people in tho Dominion, and wil(. leave for London via America in about a month's timo. ■/ '

Tho following appointments by the Wellington Education Board,have been confirmed by tho various School Committees concerned: —Sole teacher, Muhunoa East; Mr. B. Blako ; assistant; mistress, ; .Pongaroa, Miss ;M. Bat-, .tersby; assistant mistress, Reikorangi, Miss A. Dalo';. assistant mistress, 'Parnparaumu Miss M. Hurley: . assistant mistress: HuJtanui, 'Miss 0. Simnionds; i, Other appointments have been held over until tho nest 1 meeting of .the Board.' :

Captain Carey, for .' many years in tho Union Steam- Ship Company's service, and who has now been , on -.tho I ,';retired, list, for four years, is making tho round, by the Marama. . Captain Carey, who is now 72 years of age, was captain of 'tho Moana'on tho San Francisco, service during' the : latter part of his active'lifo afloat,: but. his .career is mainly connected with, the Uhion Company, for it was he that brought out from Home the To Anau, thon one of the finest: ships, in the intercolonial service, and now relegated to the West Coast trade. Captain Carey is really a notable figure in tho history of our mercantile marine, having been in command, of the old Now Zealand. Steain Navigation . Company's packet "Wellington, which traded out of- this, port contemporaneously with the Taranaki; Phcebo, and Ladybird longer ago than one cares to reraomber, and,/when the company's'business , was acquired by tho Union Company, he was taken over as ono of the former company's niost valued assets. Captain Caroy now lives in rotiroment at Bondi, Sydney.

■ The following is'the resolution adopted by tho Wellington Presbytery in reference to tho departure on a trip to tho Old Country of the Rev. Dr. Gibb and Mrs. Gibb:—" The Presbytery, of Wellington takes advantage of the opportunity furnished by. tho arrival of tho twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Gibb's ordination, and of his projected departure for tho. Old Country, to express its cordial appreciation of the valuable work done in thoso twonty-five yeirs, both in his eminently successful discharge of the pastoral work of tho largo and important congregation of First Church; Dunedin, and St; John's,' Wellington, and. in the wider service of tho whole Church. Tho Presbytery expresses its admiration of the unsparing energy with which Dr. Gibb has taxed his'great natural powers unremittingly in promoting' the' welfare of the Church, in the General Assembly, in the Presbytery, in important church committees, and in the social life of tho community. Tho Presbytery wishes Dr. and Mrs. Gibb a pleasant and profitablo journey, and trusts that they will return refreshed and inspired by their contact with tho. life of tho Homeland." I _

Wellington ladies are now. convinced that to render, the huir bright and glossy, and to keep it in good condition, soap 'must be avoided, , and only Calvo Shampoo Powders used: prico Gd. each, or ss. dozen. Obtainable P r {r 0 ® 1 I'™'-,? Chemist, and Mrs. Eollcston, 3 Willis Street (over Carroll's), Hair Physician and Masseuse, Certificated, by whom they are.specially prepared and recommonaeo. ■ .

Mr. W. H. Georgo returned from a trip to Australia by the Marama yesterday. Detectivo Cassells left for Christchurch' last night, and is duo back in Wellington on Friday. . Inspector Ellison left on an official visit to Masterton yesterday afternoon, and i 3 due back at the end of the week. Mr.'A. J. George, of the Wellington firm of Georgo and Doughty, returned' from a trip to England by tho Marama yesterday. Mr. John. Fuller, sen., the well-known theatre manager, is visiting Wellington prior to leaving the" Dominion on a tour of tho world. Mr. H. N. Didsbury, brother of Messrs. W. H. and G. Didsbury,"of Wellington, and manager for tho Now Zealand Insurance Company at Bendigo', arrived from: Sydney by the, Marama yesterday. Sirs. Didsbury lias been recruiting her health in Wellington for some months past, and Mr. Didsbury hopes that sho will be well enough to accompany him back to Victoria,. . V" . Mr. William W. Wyper, manager of the National (Edison) Phonograph Company, of Australia,' arrived from Sydney by the Marama yesterday, to , make a tour of the Company's New Zealand- agencies. Mr. Wyper is related by marriage to Mr.Thomas Pringle,-of this city. Mr. Vincent Ward, second son of the Premier, who was lately connected with' the local 'staff of the National Bank of Now Zealand, joined tho Dorset at Sydney last week to procccd to London. He is to gain commercial experience there /for three or four years, when he will return to the Dominion to join the J. G. Ward Company. Mr. S.'Brown, employers' representative on the Arbitration Court, and Mrs.' Brown returned ■■ from a holiday trip spent in Australia, by the Marama. They left New Zea|and. yia tho. Bluff, spent a pleasant time in Hobart and Launcestori, then crossed to Melbourne, where they experienced three or. four daj's of tile terriblo heat wave that afflicted .that .city lastymonth. . They- wore glad, to leave Melbourne, 'where life was' a'gasp for breath, ■ and -it- was-with.pleasurai.that they anticipated a; spell' in ' the Blue Mountains, but ' tliero they experienced \ nothing . but heavy rains. The stay in Sydney was heartily enjoyed. Mr. Brown suffered somewhat from tho scorchiiig received in Melbourne, but is now quito.well againf ' . ' '