PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 157, 27 March 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

- , The-Prime Ministor is at Auckland to-day, tho.-Hoi). J. Carrolhis in tho.Urewora Coun- ■ • try, and tho Hon. l R. M'Nab is travelling to : Christchurch. i. The other, members of tho Cabinet arc . in Wellington. Dr. F. W. Kemp,-of Wellington, hasbeen gazetted a public vaccinator., .. . - i.Jlr.,' Hamilton .Hunter, British'- Consul at . Tonga,'- is at present? visiting 'Auckland. , .Mr. .Owen Bartram has -boon re-appomtcd of the Huwko's Bay Land Board. - Mr! W. Dinnie, Commissioner of Police, is . axpcctcd to arrive back from tho South on . Sunday. , ■ . Mr. Aloxandor Simpson is gazotted Offioial Assignee at Wellington, vico-Mr. J. A. Ash- - croft, retired. . ■ Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schatz leave Sydnoy en route for - London by tho Ulimaroa to-day. ' / Inspector Ellison left for ■; Masterton yes- i •;torday, and is duo back' in Wellington to-1 'I;' .. .•: Mr. D. A. Abercrombie, manager of : tho ■. North ■ Queonsland . Insurance : Company, leaves on a" trip to Sydney to-day. -'-• ;} .jVV William ..JsbisterV. has: been gazetted i -Deputy-Registrar of. births, deaths, and :-' marriages -in.,-ilip Hutt, ;dis*trict. -'• ' V-' ' • Mr. W. C.- Kensington,, Under-Sccretary . for - Crown Lands, returned yesterday from inspooting. tha plantations in Otago. / Mr. J. D. Ritchie, Secretary for Agrioul- ! turo, :is expected i back .this -morning from bis v visit to Motuara Island, in the Marlborough Sounds:. - - - ' : .- : r Judge. Fisher .'presided at a'imeeting of the . Aotea.Native Land Board at-Wanganui yesterday.: Ho will probably, return to town to-morrow.• ■;■ ;-Tho.Rev. Stephen l Pidgoon, of tho Redomptorist Order, died last, evening at tho. Monastery, Hawker Street.'- Tho late Father , : was about 60 years l of'ago. - - - -, < Mr. ( Hackworth,,-Suporintendent of Maori ; > Councils, is attending a Native meeting ;in .; connection |with.- . Council' ,:ni^tters, : ;'; whibh opened at Pipiriki yesterday. ■ i : Miss. (Titt-ell Brune, the. popular -actress, . has arrived -back in Australia, and is about , , to commence rehearsing for -,the-coming production of , Bame's fascinating,; conceit,' "Peter Pan." / /,■ -, . recently retired from , the position of General Manager of tho Com- - morcial Union Assurance Company;. has resigned his commission as a Justico 'of the - Peace. > 1 , ; Dr.: Bell, Director of.the Geological Survey, loaves to-day,> for,,'the. Gisborno district to . coLtmue - his inspection l of " petroleum depesits. He will remain thero till the end of April, whon he, will go on to the Thames. , Messrs. Dugald M'Pherson - and 0. S. - Owen : .,(says , a Dunedin Press Association telegram); will represent the Dominion, at the Commercial Travellers' Association, -.Confer- 1 ence; it'.'Brisbane;..at 'Easterl '. .; ■ i'.'■*■> •■Mrs; Eliza-Brown, widoWTjf, the lato Mr. , .William Henry .-Brown," died at-the residence of Mr., .Charles, Stewart,:.'6o Marjonbanks Street, yesterday. ..-The; deceased-, was only ono year,short. of being a'ccnten.irian.

„ a Leave of.. •■ by .the Wellington; Education! Board to Miss A. A l , .assistant.,tmistressvat ' Kaiwarra' SchooJ;,(eight months, as : from May-1) - and Mr., 'R. C.- Drummond, .head J teacher at Clarevillo School (one month).- • . v.w

■ -Tho - "Wellington Education Board, at its meeting yesterday,: accepted tho resignations of ' tho 'undermentioned teachor's :—Miss E. F. -Weddo, 'Pahiatua; - Miss \M. Smith, Nireaha; Mr. J. Harvey, -Waingawa; :Miss B. Maxwell, .-Johnsonville. .' .■ 1 > 1;

Lieut.-Colonel Alex. E. Stewart, ot the Otago Riflo Battalion, Jias retired, and nis namo has' been.' placed on the' activo list with the rank: of "LieutenantColonel. Captain Hcrbort'Prico has also been posted ,to the retired list, v ■ ■ The Hon. -Thomas E. Roberts, AuditorGenoral at Tonga, passed through Wellington yesterday, ■en route to . Auckland, 1 whero he will be a'passenger by the next Islandbound -steamer. ' An - interesting interview with . appears clsewhero in 1 this '-issue;i^f Dr. F. G. ; Braithwafte, a prominent New York' Life Insurance Official, who is. touring tho Dominion, is at ipresent in Braithwaito was at one time .a commissioned officer in the .U.S. Navy, and is greatly interested in . the approaching visit of tho American Squadron: to Australia. '''

. .The ,Reys.. Crosbie Blair j and Arthur Charts Weymouth .Standage, and Mr. John Charles Loan, all .of/ the Presbyterian Church, are gazetted officiating ministers under the Marriago Act. • The names of Messrs. James T. Lawrence; Charles : H. Olds, and H. L. Richards 1 (Methodists)- aro withdrawn from'tho.same, j ■ - ■

The Rev. J. V. Watkin, President of tho Free Church'of Tonga, aAd Chaplain to King Gcorgo'Tubou 11, is reported to bo in indifferent health. The reverend gentleman who :has been a resident of Tonga for the greater part of his ; lifo, was educated in Wellington, whero his father was one of tho earliest Weslpyan ministers. •••' . • .