PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 150, 19 March 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The present location of Ministers is as follow ■ Prinie, Minister : (Sir ; Joseph Ward); and tho Hon. Jas. Carroll,' at • Waharoa; 1 tho Hon. .Dr. Findlay en route to Cheviot, where he-arrives to-night; the Hon. [ J. A. Millar at Napier; the Hon. G. Fowlds, tho Hon. . W. Hall-Jones, the Hon. R: M'Nab and the Hon. J. M'Gowan at Wellington. ■ It is understood that Mr. W. F. Massey, Loador of. the Opposition^will be in "Wellingr ton about the middle of-next month. - . Mr. R. M'Callum, who is leaving shortly on a six. months! trip, to England, was granted- leave of * absence ■by the ■' Victoria College Council yesterday. . Mr, A. C. Elliott, of Messrs, Elliott and Duncaiij is confined -to his room, suffering from rheumatic fever.' He may not be .able to resumo. business for somo time. . •Mr. John.Smart, of Clyde (according' to at Press Association I message from Duuedin), will 1 contest the Tuapeka seat in the Opposition interest at the ; general election. " The Hon.; W. Hall-Jones .(Minister, for Railways) will rot be able, owing to pressure of departmental business, to: visit the -.head works of the. North Island Main Trunk lino to-day, as intended. : Tho Rev. J. T. Pinfold, President of tho New Zealand Christian Endeavour .Union, arrived . from'' Pa'.merston '■ North yesterday, and left by last night's boat for Lyttelton, en route for his home at Rangiora. Among the candidates for membership to the British Esperanto Association,. published in' the February number of -the "British Esperantist,". '.appears the liamo of Sir G. R. Le Hiintc, K.C.M.G., Govornor./of South Australia. l ' . -. ..i Professor Adamson, : the newly-appointed : Dean of the Ficulty'of Law'at Viotnria College, left England by ,tho P. and 0. steamer iHimalaya,, which is' due> at Melbourne ion March 23. The Professor will thus arrive in Wellington in timo for tho opening of the college.term. .' • -v.'. . 7 ;■' Mrs. A. C. Taylor, of Christehurch, has passed the advanced examination in Esperanto' (with honours),... Another "honours" pass, in the last exam nation conducted by the British Esperanto Association was that of Mr. Jas. Cheney, librarian of the - Wat Department at Washington...