PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 221, 11 June 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day the Prime Minister, and all mem. bers of.the Cabinot, with the .exception of. tlio Hon'. J. Carroll, who is at Gisborne, will bo 111 .Wellington. The Prime Minister loaves for Gisborne in the Wimmora at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the Hon. E. M'Nab, for Duneijlin, in the evening. , i

' The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) roturned from Christchurch and Dunedin yesterday morning. ■ The Hon. J.' A. Millar '(Minister for Labour) returned to *'Wellington from, the' •South yesterday. '; . - Major Head, Officer Commanding the. Permanent Force, wentiSouth by the.Mararoa.last nigh't, on a visit of inspection to the Lyttelton section of-his command.' " Staff-Captain Rose, of, the Salvation; Army's Workmen's Hotel in this city, leaves to-morrow to take charge of the Prison Gate Home at Addington, Cliristchurch. 'V Mr. G. P. Doniielly, of Hawko's Bay, and Mr. A. : -H. Miles, resident partner in Wellington of Murray, Roberts, and Co., leave for Sydney by the Moeraki to-morrow. Mr. W. S. Short, Chief Clerk of the Roads Department, left yesterday to hold a commission at Hamilton to determine the allocatioa among local bodies of the cost of a new bridge over the Waikato River. After visiting Gisborne the Prime Minister will go over the. route of, the Main Trunk railway, and pay a long-promised visit to liawhia. Sir Joseph Ward expects to be' absent on this trip ten days from to-day. A Christ-church Press Association telegram states that Mr. A. Calcutta Chief Clerk iutho Christchurch office of the- .Department of Agriculture, has been "appointed receiver of revenue and imprcstee, for'the Christchurch branch. Mr. J. Youlin Birch, who wrote the libretto of Mr. Alfred Hill's opera, "A Moorish Maid," and who is a member of the lftel'ary staff of the Auckland "Herald," has been operated upon for appendicitis. Tlio latest report was to the effect that he was doing well. ■■ , ■ ■

The following appointments by the Wellington Education Hoard have been confirmed by the various school committees concerned: —Assistant, Newtown—Mr. J. .Griffiths; sole teacher, Akatarawa—Miss E. Johnson; assistant, South Wellington—Miss J; Bairs- , tow; assistant, Reikiorangi—-Miss B. Olnnsen. ' ■ N ; Mr. Herbert Brown has been elected to a lieutenancy in No. 3 Company, Garrison Artillery Volunteer Division (Captain A. G. Hume, 0.C.). The corps, which is generally known as the Electric Light Company, now includes on its staff of officers a mechanical' engineer (Captain Hume) and an elrrtiiral, engineer (Lieutenant Brown). The full com-, pleniciit of officors is three. Lieutenant Brown is a son of Mr. Samuel Brown, of this city. The new company (most of its mehibers wore formerly attached to the n; > ,disbanded Submarine Mining Corps) is stated to be working very well. The strength is now 44, anil it is estimated that the required limit (50) will soon be exceeded. The company expects to be in uniform by the end of 'the month.