PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The present location of Ministers\is as follows: —The Premier (Sir Joseph'Ward)-at Kaikohe;.!ho Hon. \V Hall-Jones, the Hon. j. Carroll, the Hon. Dr.'Fihdlay, the. Hon. J. M'Gowari, and the Hon. X. A. Millar at Wellington; tho Hon. R. M'Nab en routo to Wellington from the West Coast; and tho Hon. G. Fowlds at Opotiki. .•

The Hon. J. A. Millar returned to Wellington yesterday, morning. | ■ "

Miss F. Ruth Livingstono, of the Lower Hutt District High School, has.obtained her M.A. degree in Latiri "and French.

Mr. Nelson Illingworth, the Sydney soulptor, who has been engaged by tho Govfernmbrit to perpetuate the" best types of Maoris in sculpture,' leaves for Auckland and " Rotorua this morning..

It is understood that Police-Sergeant Hutton, of Mount Cook, is id be transferred to tho charge of the Gisborno station; vice Sergeant Williams. It is also stated that Constable Stewart, of Mariners Street, is to be .promoted to the rank of sergeant; '

Mr. Henry Burling, 107 years of age, was amongst those present at tho opening of tho Waikanao post office yesterday. Mr. Burling, whose sturdy appearance arid, unbent shouldors do not betray his great age; walked about on the arm of his great-grandson. 'Living in the Waikanao district is a Maori wonian, whoso ago is 100 years.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Hume; Inspector of the Prisons Department, returned to Wellington yestortlay. Mr. C. A. St. G. Hickson, secretary for Stamps, has left on a tour of inspection of j the Stamp Department's offices in tho North Island. Mrs. Hall-Jdnos and her daughter, Mra. Christie, accompanied the Hon. V. HallJones on .his visit to "Waikanao yesterday. Lieutenant C. B. Harton, senior subaltern of the Post and Telegraph Rifles, has been elected to the captaincy of the corps. Yesterday afternoon Mr. .G. W. Kepple, who is severing his connection with the Doiuinion postal service, was presented with ,i photographic group of tho officers of the mechanician's department. Mr.-Palmer, the chief mechanician, in making the presentation, expressed the good wishes of the staff for Mr. Kepple's future success 'in South America, where ho intends residing^ Rev. J.; R. Shore, M.A., who is'tooccupy St. John's pulpit on tho two following Sundays, is one of . the most promising qf the younger ministers of the Presbyterian Church. After a distinguished career as a, student-at Ofcago .University, he entered the Theological Callege in Dunedin, and on-tho completion of his studios there was called ' to a charge near Oamaru, whero he laboured for somo years. For over a year ho has ministered to the Presbyterian congregation of Hawera, in which he has already, won for himself an excellent reputation as a preacher and pastor. - . . '. ' Misses G. M and N. Jordon, who have been in charge of the Waikanae post office 1 for somo years, and v/ho now have been transferred to Wellington, wete last oven- • ing, at a social function, presented'with gifts by the .residents. Miss C. M,' Jordon (postmistress) Teceived a go'd watch and chain and an autograph -album, and Miss N. Jordon (assistant postmistress)' a gold watch and 1 an autograph album; Mrs.; Baillio; who; has been engaged at the M.iles-orth Street offiiie, Dssumed charge, of 'tlie new Waikanae . office yesterday.-.:. Complimentary reference to- th« work of each of the three'ladies was made yesterday at Waikanae by the Hon. W. : Hall \ ["Jones.