PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 171, 13 April 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

• To-day, the Prime Minister and the Hoi R. M'Nab will be at Lawrence, the Hon, G Fowlds at Dunedinj the Hon. J. Carroll a Auckland, the Hon. ,J. .M'Gowan 'en route t Auckland, the! Hon. t)r." Findlay'en route t Auckland, the Hon.W. Hall-Jonos, and th Hon. J. A. Millar at Wellington. The Hon. Dr. : Findlay a,nd the Hon.. i M'Gowan leave for' Auckland to-day. •Mr.. William Fraser, M.P., returned fror the South by.the Maori Yesterday morning. Mr.. G. W. Russell, chairman of the Can terbury College Board of Governors, was i Wellington on Saturday: ' Mr. A. Chappell, of Wellington, has bee appointed to apposition "on the literary; sta of the "Taranaki Herald." . ' At a ; meeting of .the Board held on Friday | last, Mr. Harold. Beauchampwas re-el cc tod chairman of directors of'the Bank of New Zealand,for. the ensuing financial/year.-,.: v •CJA. Press Association message.from Dunedin stages . that' Mr.. A. M. Finlayson, who;, was the:Otago candidate for the Rhoiles Scholarship this year, -has been awarded; by" tho Senate of the New Zealand University ,the Exhibition Science Scholarship for 1908. Among the visitors to Wellington at present staying* at the Empire Hotel are the following Miss Jean Howison, Perth, Scotland j Messrs. 1, Wm. Steele, H. G. Bealej and A. Dowling, Melbourne; G. R. King and S. 1 R. Howe, Sydney; and R. H. Abbott, Auckland. The Rev. David Hird, M.A., has accepted a unanimous call to the ministry of the Congregational Church at Palmerston North.' Mr.' Hird, M.A., is the popular minister of ■Trinity Congregational Church, Chrisrtchurch, where he succeeded, the Rev. Sidney Bakor, whom, by a'i strange coincidence, ho again succeeds, after a seven years' interval, a t Palmerston. Mr. Hird was recently appointed chairman' of the Congregational Union of New Zealand, and his presidential addross at the annual meeting of that body, held in Wellington, was a very able' and well-reasoned disquisition. Mr. Hird was married to a Christchurch lady throo or four years ago. He will take up his Palmerston ministry at the beginning of June. ' Mrs. Ethel It. ae Costa, LTj.B. (nee Miss Ethel It. Benjamin, of Dunedin), after practising for some years in that city, has commenced practice as a barrister and solicitor in No. 0 Nathan's Buildings, corner/Grey ami Featherston Streets, Wellington. Mrs. De Costa has the distinction of being the only lady practising at tho Bar in the Intending clients can depend on prompt and careful attention at De Costa's hands. Berne advises the Telegraph Offico: —" Telegrams from Nagasaki announco interruption of communication with Tokio and. 'Yokohama."