PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 264, 31 July 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. J. \W. Hall, of Auckland, has- beea appointed consul for Mexico. Mrs It. Essex left Palmerston. North - yester.day for a trip to t-ho Old Country. Mr. Thos.-E. Wilson, of Taihape, has resigned his commission as Justice of the Peace. Mr. Alfred L. Kemp has 'been appointed harbourmaster and pilot for tho port 'of Karamca. . <' y - ■ Mr. A. R. H. Swindlay, of Coromandel, has been appointed a , member of the Auckland Land Board. Mr. A. W. P. Howitt has been, appointed Deputy-Registrar of Births, • Deaths, and Marriages at Cambridge. Mr. 'W. M. 'Easthopo has been appointed vaccination inspector for the district, of Mastcrton vico Mr. S. Indcr. ' ' . Tho Rev. Father Moloney, of this city, has been transferred to Christchurck to succeed the late Father Marnane. Councillor; Biss, who is taking a trip to the Islands, was granted a month's leave of absence by tho City Council last night. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., who is to relieve Mr. M'Carthy, S.M., at Napier, for a month, will J.eave Wcjliiigton to-morrow morning. Mr. John Bowden, of the Ocean Accident Insurance Company's Wellington offico, has been appointed district .manager 'for Otago. Lieut. AVm..H. Scoon has been transferred from the active (unattached) list to the Napier Rifle Cadets, with , the rank of lieutenant. . Major Sheet, -of Canada,who is at present oil a health visit to Now Zealand, will leave shortly on his return journey via Australia and India. ■-.■■■ .His Honour tho-Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) left Wellington. for Auckland ' last. night,' in connection with Native Land Commission business. ; Mr. Thos. Me.ile, of Nelson, has been ap-' pointed to represent the employers on the Conciliation Board for the Nelson district, vice Mr. H. H. Johnston resigned. - Mr. Walter Fuller will leave for London by, tho Arava on August 13. He will he" accompanied by Mrs. Fuller, and will bo absent from New Zealand for about seven months. All Auckland Press Association telegram' states that Mrs.. A. Bcsant, tho well-known leader of the Theosoplncal movement, left for tho South by tho Rarawa yesterday afternoon.... . - Mr. A. M. Finlaysoli; of Otago: Univorsity, who is the holder of tho 1851 "science scholarship of £150 a year, left,iby tho Ruapehu yesterday to.pursue his.studies at;the' Royal School of Mines,, London;: The Mayor (the Hon. T. W. Hislop) told "a renorter yesterday that lie did.not know .vet.if he would bo.'ablq to visit Auckland 111 connection with the visit, of the American Fleet. 110 would go''if ho.could. ' Leave of absence' has been granted by the Education Board tQ the following teachers Miss F. M. Stormont, Paliiatua (August 26— 2S); Miss M. A. Johnson, Waterfalls (no dev finite time stated); and Miss Jacob, Otaki (three weeks). . ' = The Wellington, Education Board, at _ its meeting yesterday, accepted the. resignations of the following teachers Miss E. .11. Irwin, Whitemaivs Valley; Miss M/ W. Spence, Jit. ' Cook Girls' School; Mr. C. Caigon, Horokiwi Valley ; arid Mr. K. Holdawoy, Clyde Quay-

Mv. T>E. Corkill, accountant of the head office of the Bank.of Neiv Zealand,' has been promoted to the inspecting staff of the Bank. He is to ho succeeded hue by Mr. F. A, Jl'Bean, accountant of the Christcliurcfc brunch.' Mr. A. C. Mathoson, manager at ■ Fcilding, who will take up inspectorial work' in the South: Island, is being succeeded by . Mr! F. 1). Clayton, of the head office staff. Mr. A. L. T. Jones, of the Wellington branch, 1 goes to Christchurck as accountant.