PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 192, 8 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day the Prime! Minister will, be at.Reet ton and other, portions: of the West. Coast; the Hon. J. M'Gowan in the. Thames, district; the Hon. Dr. Findlay en route to Dunedin. tlie>Hon. G. Fowlds at' Hastings, the Hon. W. the Hon. -R. M'Nab, the Honi J. Carroll, and the Hon. J. A. Millar at Wellington. '• ~v ■;■■■ 1 4 • Mr. R. R.yGroom has been re-appointed as Government' representative on the Hawke's Bay Land: Board tk from May 20. ....

The Hon. R: M'Nab,-. who'attended the funeral of the- late Mr. -Bennet, >M.P., at Tiiapeka, will return to 'Wellington this morning. Dr. Valintine, Inspector-Gonoral of. Hospitals, who is at present in the South Island, will' opon a new wing of the Westport publio hospital on Monday next. Tho following i are gazetted, to bo captains in the newly-formed New Zealand Veterinary Corps:—Peter Maxwell Edgar, M.11.C.V.5., England; Herbert,Seton Stownrt Kyle, Melbourne; Harfy Avery llcid,. M.R.C V.S., England. ' ' Mr. Frank J. Goodnow, Professor of Law ' in the Columbia University, Now "York, leaves Wollington,this morning for Auckland, via the Wanganuißiver.' Ho will afterwards, visit Rotorua and will th'eji return, to Australia, leaving Sydney, oil June 8 .to finish his world , tour by way of Vancouver and ono of the trarfs-continenfcal railways. . The Rev. A. R. Osborn, of tYarrnambool, Victoria, who has boon'conducting tho services at St. John's Church during tho past four weeks, leaves to-day on his return toi Australia. His successor at' St. John's will bo tho Rev. G. M. Connor, of Sale, Victoria, who will tako th©< services from May ■10 to May 31, inclusive. Mr; Connor has oonsidorablo reputation as a preacher. r