PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 247, 11 July 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Employers' Fedoration, was at Carterton yesterday on official business. . Colonel'Saunders, Architect of .the Salvation Army for Australasia, who has been somo time in Wellington, will probably return to Melbourne next week. Mr. "William Tudhope, a clerk in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington (and formorly .of Christchurch ana Palmerston North), was admitted as a solicitor of the Suprome Court by Mr. Justice Cooper on tho motion of Mr. W. Perry yesterday. Delegates from air parts of Not Zealand will attend a Conference of tho Civil Service Association, to bo held shortly in Wellington. Mr. E. Tregear, Secretary of the Labour Department, will preside. The subjects of superannuation and classification will .be prominent, and the Conference will probably last throe days. A Wanganui Press Asooiation telegram states that Mr. J. Harry Stephens, the singing ovangelist, who has been representing the Evangelisation Society of Australasia, at Wanganui, left for Patea yesterday after a most succesful ten days' mission in the Baptist Church, "the various churches participating. The Kapiti Island bird sanctuary is tho subject of a report by Mr. James Drummond, F.L.S., F.Z.S., which is attached to the annual report of the Lands Department. He is' convinced that tho presence of the Maoris on tho Island will bo a menace to th© forest and tho birds every summer, owing to tho great risk of bush and grass-fires. New Zealand birds will not' live away from tho Nativo forest, and if the trees aro destroyed, tho Island wil bo quito valueless as,a bird, sanctuary. Mr. Drummond, therefore, suggests that tho Maoris'should be offered somo inducement to relinquish their rights in re. spect to land on kapiti.