PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-dav tho Prime Minister (Sir Joseph! , AVard) will be in Christcluirch; the Hon. G. Fowlcts in Duncdin; the Hon. J. Carroll in the King Country; the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, tho Hon.; J. M'Gowan, the Hen. It. M'Nab, the Hon. 1 J: A. Millar, and the Hon. Dr. Fiwllay in Wellington. Dr. R. C. Earle har beei: appointed Port Health Officer at Wanganui. ■ The Hon. J. M'Gowan will probably make a tour of the northern gold mines within a .week-or two.. Mr. D. Carmody, of the Duncdin office of the Labour Department, has been appointed to tho charge of tho Gisborno district, i Mr. Stephen Franklin (Dannevirke) has v been appointed by*the Government to the, ' position of assessor for the Hastings Borough. • ' At St. John's Churoh, Laiinceston (Tasmania), on Maroh 21, Mrs! Annie T. Gould, of Launceston, was married to Air. David Lang, of Wellington. Yesterday the Cnbinet re-appointed Mr.. John^Hislop; to the Tarauaki Land Board, ■ and Mr. Andrew Cumming, was re-appointed to the West .Coast Land Board. The Hon. R. M'Nab had suddenly to alter the date of his for' tho South. Instead ,of leaving; last night, he "will now ,• remain in Wellington until - Monday night. - '•; Judge Johnson, of the! Native Land Court, ' and Mr. P. Sheridan, Superintendent under the- Maori Lands Administration; Act, 1900, have returned from a visit to Mastertoa mado in connection with Native Land Hairi* business. ' . " - " Mr. Paul George Hart, eldest son of Mr.,G. R. Hart, chief, reporter. of the. Christchurch "Press/' died in London last week; in his. 43rd year. Mr. Hart was a sea captain till he married and settled down in London. Ho .- leaves a widow and family of fouj;. : ' Sir Joseph Ward left for Lyttelton-last • evening on, tho Pat-cona. ; Tho; Prime'; Mini-'.-ster spent a busy day yesterday,' holding a;,. Cabinet meeting in the afternoon-.; Ho, was engagedin important matters up to the time ; of his departure. Sir Joseph' will be absent; about throo weeks. . At a special mooting of the Wellingy-n , Guards, held after; parade , last ovening, : Liejatonant J. Rdache, of the Post and Telo.graph Rifles, was, oh, the motion;of Private. , C. H.i Aamodt; seconded by ! Colour-Sergeant _ BouldJ' '.unanimously elected'las : subaltern.'' officer of the company. ",. i ' ■ V Mr. David Thomson Stuart is gazetted a .member of, the Courts' under the Government 'Valuation of .Land 'Act, 1906; for' -■ . the boroughs' of Miramar, Karori, and Onslow. Mr. Donald John , Cameron, has been appointed, as gazetted, to a,similar-position! in regard to tho borough of ■ Carterton and's; the counties of Kkotahuna and Woodville. '

Sir. J. J. Sinclair, well known in business circles in Christchurch, and for many years ;a Blenheim, died at Clinton on Wednesday. . Early last November, says 3 Press 'Association telegram,' Mr. Sinclair left by motor-car .to visit a' run in Southland in .which ho i was interested, but he had two severe attacks of rheumatic fever, arid: after, many weeks' illness; he'succumbed. ;He was the eldest son of the late Mr./'Jas.',. Sinclair, of' Caithness, Sootland, and. a brother of Mr. William Sinclair, solicitor, Wellington,' and of Mr; D. P. Sinclair, solicitor and Town Clerk, Blenheim.