PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 254, 20 July 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■ -» .■■■ — - . ; v; : The Rev. T. A."Wilson has accepted a call to work in the Baptist Church at Petone. ' The Hon.'.C. H. Mills, M.P.,-arrived from Picton by the Fateena yesterday.-' The Hon. R. H. J. Reeves, M.L.C., left for Nelson by the Arahura 'on Saturday. Mr. W. Stuart, at" present employed in the Land Transfer Office, has.gone,to New Plymouth to relieve the. Assistant Land Registrar, Mr. R. Bay ley, who is indisposed. Dr. Bell, Director bf Geological Survey, Dr. Valintine, Inspector of Mental Hospitals, the'Revi Father O'Riley, and the Rev. Mr. Mots'on arrived from the South by the Maori yesterday. : ' ■ Madame Melba, who is to tour Australasia' under the management of Mr. ; John Leminoho, will appear at the Town Hall on April 27 and 29 of next year. The New Zealand tour will begin at Invercargill on April 13 and conclude at Auckland on May 20. Mr. W. R-. King, of the head offico staff of the Department of Agriculture, has heen transferred to the office of the Chief Inspector of Stock. Before leavingho was the recipient of a token of esteem and goodwill by liis fellow-workers of the head: officostaff. " Mr. A. S. M. Poison, headmaster of the Napier Boys' High School, arrived in ■ Wellington on Saturday night for'the purpose of interviewing the Minister for Education on a scheme for rebuilding the High School. Mr. ,T. "C. Moore, chairman ,of the Board of Governors is also in . Wellington for the same purpose, ' ' A Napior Press Association'telegram states that at a meeting of the executive of tho social branch of the Society for Promoting the Health of Women and Children, 1 Nurse li. H. Donald was appointed Plunket.nurse for Napier. She will take ' up the-.duties' of tho" position, when' slid has 1 completed her training at Karitana Homo, Duncdiii, ' "Mr. James Bragge, an old Wellington resident, who conducted a photographer's'business in "Manners Street for. maiiy years, died on Friday night in liis seventy-sixth, year, The deceased leaves a widow and' tlireo daughters—Mrs. Hearn, of Cliristcliurch (formorly of Worsor Bay), Mrs. Teale (wifo of Mr. G. H. Veale, Court Crier at tiio : Supremo Court), and a child of tender years. A Professorship of Engineering Science at Oxford has beon ostablishod, and a Professor has been chosen.. • Ho is Mr. Charles IV Jenkin, once of Trinity Collego, Cambridge, sinco of many famous ongineoring works,. a man of wide oxperienco in-practical work and no stranger to research, and son of a famous Edinburgh Professor, Fleeming Jenkin, . A Fellowship at Now College is at present attached to the Professorship. .. Mr. Sydnoy C. Cookoroll has been elected Director -of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cam-bridge-University, in succession to Dr. Mon- ■ tagiio James, Provost of King's. His -association with William Morris in the Kolmscott Press productions, and .his diligent study of illuminatod manuscripts,' which hp has pursuod in many countrios, will make him a fit custodian of a Museum which is rich in mediovnl art, especially since tho recent splendid bequests of Mr. M'Clcan. For tho first time an Assistant-Director will bo appointed, who will probably represent somo other department, such as Egyptology, whiph is ill-provided for in Cambridgo at present. Mr. Arthur Cecil Pigou, Fellow of King's Collogo, has beon.elected Professor of Political Economy at Cambridgo University in succossion to Sir. Marshall. Mr. Pigou is only thirty-ono years of ago, but ho has rapidly established his reputation as a clear-headed and aouto lecturer; and "writer on economic questions, He caino up to Cambridge from Harrow, and obtained First Classes in tho Historical Tripos, Part 1., and in tho Moral Sciences Tripos, Part 11., with special distinction in Political Economy. Ho won tho Chancellor's. English Medal, and the Burnoy, Cobden, ami Adam-Smith Prizes. Ho was President of tho Union in 1903 and delivered a romarkablo speech against Tariff Reform in a recent debate, Mr. Pigou.pub- ; lished his Burnoy . Essay under- tho' title, ! "Robert Browning as a Religious Teacher." His latest contribution to oconomic literature is " The Principles and Methods of Industrial Peace." Mr. Pigou has. shown himself gapable of stirring tho enthusiasm . of tho younger workers, and ho should have a'great futuro before him,