PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 305, 18 September 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. Newman lias returned from Australia, arriving by the Mr.itai yesterday morning. Colonel Hume, Inspector of Prisons; is a passenger from the South by the Ulimaroa this morninc. Mr. W. lsbistcr has been appointed Deputy .Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Picton. Mr. J. S. S. Medley has been appointed Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at New Plymouth. ■nw-? Corrigan, manager ' for the D.1.C., and Mrs. Corrigan leave on a trip to Australia to-day. ■ Mr. 111. L. Hawk will be the new Resident Agent atPenrhyn, in the Cook Islands, vice Mr. M. Naglo, resigned. \ Mr. J. A. Gil rut!), lately Chief Veterinarian of the Dominion, arrived from Australia by the Maitai' yesterday morning. The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), who is at present at Auckland, is expected to return to Wellington in a few days. Mr. A. T. Christen sen will succeed Mr. George Williams as the Government's representative on the Patea Domain Board. Mr. W. P. James, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the Waipawa Licensing Committee, in succession to Mr. W. G. Riddell. ■ ■ - Tho Rev. I. Jolly, of Palmerston North, has been nominated by tho Oamaru Presbytery as.Moderator of the General Assembly for 1009. Mr. S. F. Anderson, assistant fruit inspector at Auckland, has been transferred to Wellington. Mr. Williams, of the local staff, proceeds to Auckland. , Mr. F. H. Brittain has been appointed Registrar of Brands for tho Sounds, Marlborough, Wairau, and Awatere districts under tne Stock Act, in place of Mr. J. Moore, retired. i Constable W. G. Wright has been appointed clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Ohakune, and Constable F. Mitchell clerk of tho Supreme, District, and • Magistrate's Courts at Palmerston North. Brigadier JJray, tho newly-appointed secretary for men's social work of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, will arrive this morning, with Jlrs. Bray, by the Ulimaroa from Melbourne. The 'brigadier's headquarters will be iu Wellington. Mr. Andrew Macdonald, manager; for the New Zealand Insurance Company at Buenos Ayres, died there on Saturday last from heart failure. Mr. Macdonald, wild; was 39 years of age, was a New Zealander, and was formerly in the Dunedin and Auckland branches of tho company. ' '' Lieutenant-Colonel Knight and Staff-Cap-tain Oramos, of tho Salvation Army, arrived back yesterday from Taranaki and Palmerston North, and will leave for .Dannevirke to-mnrrow. Lieutenant-Colonel Knight states that he was well pleased with his Taranaki tour, and with the progress which the Army has made in that province. Negotiations are in progress (says a Wanganui Press Association telegram) which will probably result in Mr. A. Wade, of Ballarat, accepting the appointment of conductor of the Wanganui Garrison Band. Mr. Wade was bandmaster of the famous Wyke Temperance Band (England), and came out to judge the Ballarat contest in 1905. Since then he has adjudicated at various contests in Australia. ■Mr. Louis Becke, the novelist of the South Seas, is revisiting Auckland, after an absence of 28 years. " I scarcely recognised the city," ho told a Press representative. "Tho water front has changed entirely, and tho town itself has thrown off its lethargic appearance, and is as brisk and bright a place as one could wish for. I have been living iu France and Ireland for some years past, but I am contemplating bringing my family over to settle in Auckland." Our Dunedin correspondent writes:—Mr: Reginald G. Blow, of Wellington, was placed second in, the baritone, solo at the Dunedin Competitions Society's festival, Mr. Norman Croft, of Dunedin, being first. .The judge, Mr. Baeyertz, said the winner of 'the second prize lias the better. voice,. •a- .very -beautiful baritone voice indeed, and well worth training, but his conception of tho song was not so good as that of tho winner o£ the first prize. ' It was much too slow and lugubrious. The song was Bcvan's "Peg Away.''