PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 228, 19 June 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day the Prime llinister will be en route to Wollington from Waitara, the Hon. J. Carroll is at Gisborne, the Hon. It. M'Nab at Waimahaka and neighbouring townships in Southland, tho Hon. 0. Fowlda at Auckland, the Hon., J. A. Millar at Napier, and the Hon. Dr. Findlay, the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, and the Hon. J. A. M'Gowan at Wellington. , . , ,His Grace Archbishop Redwood intends to leave to-day on a visit to Sydney. Mr. W. T. Jacobs, of, Kiwitea, was a visitor to. Wellington yestorday. . Mr. A. H. Quin, accountant to Messrs. John Chambers and Son, Auckland, has been transferred to Wellington. i It is proposed to arrange a private bos for his Excellency the Governor and suite at the Palmorston North Opera House. The appointment of Mr. A. A.. S. Danby as. Immigration Officer in Succession to-Mr. J. E. .March, who has resigned, is gazetted. ; The Hon. G. Fowlds (Minister for Health and- Education) is not oxpocted to roturn- to Wellington from Auckland until Monday next;. ' • . The appointment of Frederick Charles Robertsdn, M.R.C I V.S. ) England, as captain of the New Zealand -Veterinary Corps, is gazetted. • 'Major Henry O'Brien Deck (Ist Battalion Nelson Mounted Rifles) has been appointed Captain of the Motucka Mounted Riflo Voluntcers. ■" ■ ' ' • The Rev. W. -E.'Gillam, A hon. chaplain of thb Ist!' Regiment Auckland Mounted Riflo Volunteers, has beep raised to the rank of Colonel. ' ,

. Mr. Ernest E.. Townshnnd has been appointed, according to a "Gazette" notice, a ringer of Crown Lands for. the Marlborough Land District. ' . 'A" Prfiss Association message from Dunedin states that Mr. Furkort, at present resident engineer at Ohakune, succeeds Mr. ( .Usher as district engineer for Otago. Mr.'E. Carter, a delegate from the Carpenters' Union,, of three years' standing onthe Wellington Trades and jLabour Council, was last evening, elected a vice-president' of ' that body. . r ' In recognition of hia services at the recent ' Post Office block fire, Mr. Hicks, a Harbour Board employee, was accorded a vote of .thanks by the City Council at its meeting last- evening. ' It is understood that the electors of Oha- j riu and Makara districts, now severed from the Otaki electorate, intend entertaining Mr. . Field,' M.P., early in the session. Sir Joseph Ward-has promised to attend. „ ( , Brigadier'Albiston, Provincial Commander, i and Major Duthisi, Provincial Secretary of tho Salvation Army, left yesterday to \tako up their new positions in Christchurch and Mel- . bourns : respectively. 1 Lieutenant-Colonel 'Knight will arrive from Christchurch this morning to succeed Brigadior Albiston. A batch. of 24 persons in whose favour letters of naturalisation have been issued, • according to a notice in last night's Gazette, includes the • following:—Johannes Berntsen, dyer, Potone; Gustav Hohberg, h>ootmaker, Wellington j Hans Peter Jakobsen, labourer, Palmerston North; John Nelson, merchant, Wellington; Woolf Schwartz, tailor aid merchant, -Wellington. ' ~ Chief-Detective W. L. Chrystal, of Christ.phuroh,, who has been connected with tho . jiplioe f<?rce' .jfqr.. about .thirty years, is to . retire/oh a f pension, of £140 per annum— . haying been pronounoed! medically unfit for service. Detective Henderson, of Auckland, • is also to retire from the force, as he has .reached the age-limit, on a pension of £164 b 'year. ...... .-Mr. and Mrs. Charles Saunders have been engaged to sing the parts of Faust' and Siebel in Gounod's "Faust," to he given in concert form'by the Wellington Musical Union in August. ■ ;Mr. Saunders visited Wellington, some ten or twelve years ago, when engaged ,totako part in ,a musical festival given at the Opera House ' under the baton of Mr. Robert Parker. Works performod on that occasion" included "Tho Spectre's Bride," . "The Golden Legend,". " Israel in Egypt," etc. On that occasion Mr. Saunders .was associated with Mr. A. H. Geo (baritone) andi Madame Bristow (soprano). • Amongst those- who left for London , by tho Athonic. yesterday was Mr. Cunningljam Bridgeman, a London journalist afid critic, who has been visiting his brother, at Dunedin. During his stay in tho Southern city, Mr. Bridgeman saw the production of Messrs. Hill and Birch's opera, "A Moorish Maid," and-at once became very enthusiastic over tho,work." .His enthusiasm led him to suggest that if the opera was brought under the notice of the proper people in London it would most probably be produced there. Mr. Bridgeman has interested himself to'tho extent, that he will submit tho work to some people of influence with whom lie is acquainted at Home, and endeavour to obtain for the opera the consideration he believes it deserves. ::