PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 210, 29 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

? To-day the Prime Minister, the Hon. W Hall-Jones, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, and th Hon..R. M'Nab will he in "Wellington; th Hon. J. M'Gowan and the Hon. J. Carroll i Gisborne; the Hon. J. Millar in Dunedin and tho Hon. G. Fowlds in Auckland. Mr. Justieo Sim left for Dunedin las evening. Mr. James Kelly is gazetted. Distric Valuer for the Gore district. ' Mr. John ,\V. Macdonald, has been aj pointed assistant solicitor to the Public Trus Office. Leave of absence for one month'has bee granted by the Education Board to Miss A Dougherty, relieving teacher. Messrs. J. B. Thompson and H. M. Keii sington, assistant surveyors, have been pre moted to be District Surveyors in the Land Department.,, n ; I'y,., . Messrs. W. H. Russell, W. S. Judd, J. W M'Ewan,. H. W. L. Harding, J. Wakeham and M. W. Welch are gazetted trustees o the Taita Cemetery. Messrs. G. G. Lowe, D. L. M'Kay; D. R Dinnie, W. G. M'Clintock, H. Vivian, am | E. Stewart have, been appointed cadets ii tho Valuation Department. Mr. J. G. Scanlon has been appointed t succeed Mr.' R. T. N. Beasley as gaoler a Wauganui. Mrs. Annie Scanlon has beei appointed matron at the samo prison. Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Employers Federation, returned last evening from a tri; to Napier and Gisborne. Hd will leave fo Blonhoim shortly, • probably towards the em of nest week. Mr. Wm. Minson has been elected chaii man, and Messrs. H. Broadhead and G. Shea (employers) and Messrs. ■ H. R. Ilusbridg and G. R. Whiting (workers) members o the Canterbury Board of Conciliation. Sir. Percy Biiller is a passenger by th Warrimoo to-day for Sydney. He embark from there by the Marania en route to Eng land, via Vancouver and Canada. Mr. Lee Buller and Mrs. Madocks and family wil also be passengers in the Marama. Mr. Charles Hume, resident secretary c the Australian Widows! Fund Life Assui anca Society in Now Zoaland for the' pas three and a half years, has received notifica tion of his transfer to the head office of th society in Melbourne. He is to be succeeds in Wellington by Mr. B. H. Pascoe. The resignations of the following teacher have been accepted by the Education Board —Miss R. E. Avery, Pahiatua District Higl School; Miss N. Kelly, Akatarawa; Miss E M. Hildreth,. Mitchclltown; Miss M.'Ran som, 1 Pahiatua; Miss D. F. Arrowsmith Petone: and Miss A. Webster, Petone. ' ' Mr! H. C. Waterfield, private secretary t< His Excellency the Governor, has written t< the Management Committee of the Now Zea land Rugby Union acknowledging receipt of c list of the matches in New Zoaland in whicl tho British team will be engaged. Althougl it was, he said, impossible for His Excel lency to decide at present what matches h( could attend, lie hoped that ho would b< able to witness the contest New Zealand v Britishers, at Wellington, on June 27, als< tho match Manawatu and Horowhenua (com bined) v. Britishers, at Palmerston, or July B.' Captain Hope-Johnstone and Mr. Muschamp Earle, two English tourists, decided in December last, to inspect New Zealand's scenery, travelling in a caravan. In this uniquo conveyance they toured from Auckland through tho country as far as Tarawera. Two months' fishing and shooting were experienced at Rlotorua and Okere, anc then,owing to the lateness of the season and the bad condition of the roads, the caravan was discarded for a 43 horse-power automobile. Tho two gentlemen intend to toui the South Island, if possible, beforo tliej leave tho Dominion in July next for Tahiti, thenco proceeding to China, Manchuria, Japan, and across to England, via Canada. Captain Hope-Johnstono informed a Dominion representative that he had already travelled considerably in America, Europe, India, and Australia, and he served two years |in tho war in South Africa. Mr. Muschamp Earle is a cousin of Mr. Edwin Bainbridgo, the English tourist who was killed at Wairoa during the Tarawera eruption, ami whoso monumont is one of the objccts of interest in the Rotorua district. Captain Hope-Jolmstone states that ho has been most hospitably treated during his stay in Now Zoaland, a period now extending. to eighteen months. He thinks New Zealand is a very fine country, but rather over-done from a poliH-il point of view,

Mr. J. M. Gouldsmith, of Gißborno, is spending a few days in Wellington. Sir. Peter Dalrymple has been appointed Assistant Land Registrar at Invercargill. Dr. Makgill, Government Bacteriologist, lias left for Canterbury on a Departmental visit. Dr. Pomarc, Health Officer to the Maoris, is visiting the Taranaki district. He will bo absent about a week. Mr. D. Cuddio. Chief Dairy Commissioner, left Vancouver last Friday en route for New Zealand. Ho is expected to arrive in Wellington about Juno 24. Messrs. F. H. Pync arid J. G. F. Palmer , aro gazetted trustees of the Christchurch Racecourso Reserve, vice Messrs. L. Walkor and G. G. Stead, deceased. Sir. Guy H. Scholefield, of Wellington, has been appointed London correspondent to an association of Now Zealand papers, in euo cession to the lato Mr. C. Rous-Marten. Messrs. Charles Mitchell, Geo. B. Ashley, and Geo. Wright are gazetted representatives of the counties of Waipawa, Waipukurau, and Dannevirke on the Eawko's Bay and Waipawa United Charitablo Aid Board. . Drs. S. W. C. Warneford (Hokianga), Elizabeth H. B. Macdonald (Wellington), Geo. P. Baldwin (Jit. Grey'), F. Collins (Charleston), and K. F. Gordon (Mercury Bay) have been appointed public vaccinators. Mr. Leo Buekeridgo, teacher of voice production, leaves Wellington to-day for Nelson, where, on Tuesday next, he is to be married to Miss Ethel Edwards, daughter of Mr.' Henry Edwards, of that town. Mr. Buckoridge will not Tesumo teaching until June 11. Mr. Alexander Macneil has (says the Melbourne " Argus ") been appointed Austral- . asian chairman. of, directors of Briscoe and C0.,-Limited. Mr. Ivor Evaps, formerly manager in Auckland, is now managing diri ector in Melbourne. Mr. Victor. Levy, of the Melbourne staff, has been appointed assistant manager in Sydney. . . ~;