PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 316, 1 October 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. L. Caselberg returned from Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Dr. Makgil},, Government Bacteriologist, returned last night from the Manawatu. Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, is expectcd back from the south this morning. Mr. A. L. D. Fraser, M.P., is a passenger from Lyttolton by the Mararoa this morning. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Millward left on a trip to the South by the Turakina yesterday. . . ■ Dr. Frengley, district health officer, returns to-night from the Wanganui' district. Mr. 0. Harcourt, of Melbourne, is a visitor to Wellington. - Ho is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. A. L. Butler and Mrs. R. Irvine, of New York, arrived from Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Mr. G. Laurenson, M.P., is amongst tha passengers arriving from the South by the Wimmera this morning. Mr. G. H. Scales, of Wellington, returned from a five months' irjp to Europe and Asia by tho Ulimaroa yesterday. Mr. J. A. Gilruth, Chief Government . Veterinarian, returned to Wellington from Featherston yesterday morning. Dr. Valintino, Inspector-General of Hos. pitals, returned to 'Wellington yesterday morning, after an official visit to Pahiatua, Masterton, and Groytown. Messrs. R. Summers Smith and T. K. Hoywood, of Lichfield, England, aro visitors to Wellington. They are to tour tho Cold Lakes district next week.' • Mr. A. Kaye, of Cliristcliurch, returned by the Ulimaroa yesterday from Australia, where he attended the jubilee of 'the Adelaide Liedertafel. Mr. Kaye went south last night. Mr. Campbell Thomson, of the firm o! Thomson, Walker, and Co., Danneviike, who has been on an extended trip to the Islands and Australia, returned -to Jtannevirke on Monday. »; s •«.- . . Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Braund, of Parkside, Darlington, England, who arrived from London, by the lonic, aro to leaVe Wellington for tho Hot Lakes, via the Wanganui,~River, to : morrow morning. " -- Mr. M. C. Koning, representative in.Aus- ' tralia for the Royal Dutch Packet Compaiiy, which has instituted a service between. Batavia and Melbourne, arrived from Sydney, by the Ulimaroa yesterday.- ii Mr. G. H. Wills, of the teaching'staff of Nelson College, was presented by the students with a travelling clock, before... leaving to take up an appointment on the.staff of tho ' New Plymouth High School. '. i, Mr. C. A. Seymour, of .Nelson, been appointed postmaster' 'at 1.-ow.c J r ; Hutt, was presented by the officers of tlie different branches of the chief post office; %!§(&, with a case of silver fruit knives and forks: 1 A memorial to the late Rev. William'Bpoth, in tlie shai>a of a pipe organ, cbnt'aining 700 pipes, is to be placed in St>- .Mark's • Church,'Carterton, by an anonymous',donor. The order for tho instrument, writes ■ our Wairarapa correspondent, was yesterday dispatched to Manchester, England.-# |1 - Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the New Zea- • land Employers' Federation, who has been:;, in Masterton'during the past thrco days'on Arbitration Court matters, returned to Wei- v lington by last niglit's express. _ Mr. Pryor has had a very trying time during the past five weeks, having appeared before the Arbitration Court in conducting tho employers' case in all the disputes which have been hoard in that time in the Wellington industrial district. The milk suppliers to the Taratahi W Belvedere Co-operative Dairy Companies farewelled' their late secretary, Mr. J. Brown, by a social and presentation at Clarevillo on Tuesday night, writes our Wairarapa correspondent. There was a large attendance of suppliers and their families. The presentation took the form of a handsome sideboard, to which was affixed a silver plate with the inscription: "Presented to. Mr. James.Brown by the Taratahi and Belvedere Dairy Fac- . tories. Secretary from 1890 to 1908." The presentation was mado by Mr. W. Fisher, a member of tho National Dairy and chairman of directors of tho Taratahi Dairy Company. Mr. Sydney Allen, for ovkr twenty years on tho staff of tho Lands and Deeds Registry Office, has severed his connection with the scrvico t-o join the staff of Mr. J. J. M Grath, solicitor. 1 The staff took occasion yesterday to present Mr. Allen with a Rotherham watch as a token of their esteem. The presentation was made by Judge Beethani, who referred t-o Mr. Allen's popularity and his value in tho department, and m" wishing him ■ every success regretted tho toss to tho office of his services which would be felt by both the service and the public. Mr. Allen (who has been given three months leavo of absence) suitably responded. Colonel Hammond, travelling commissioner from the national headquarters of tho Salvation Army will arrivo in Wellington next week in tho course of a tour of the Dominion which ho will make on special business in connection with tho Army's social work. . Lieutenant-Colonel Knight, has had to postpone his Gisborne visit in view of the necessity of his meeting and. conferring with Colonel Hammond. Colonel Knight's engagements for the month aro as follow: —Masterton, 3rd and 4th; Ashhurst. sth; Taihapo (where ho will meet Colonel Hammond). 6th; Hastings, 10th and 11th; Norsewood, 12tli; Woadville, 13th; Napier, l-itli and loth; Gisbonje, 17th to 20th. Mr. William Houlkor, junior, A.R.1.P.H., architect of Nelson, will return there, next , week, after an absenco of some three years. During his absence Mr. Houlkor has been studyinf the latest methods and ideas in architecture in England and on the Continent. Making London bis headquarters, he has mado tours through England and tho Continent (especially Franco, Belgium and Italy) with sketch-book and camera, and has given special attention to building construction suitable to colonial requirements. During his stay in London ho has studied with some of the leading architects, ami with them has inspected ' and measured London's magnificent buildings, ancient and modern. Tho "Colonist" states that Mr. Houlkor will probably settle again ih Nelson. ' Mr. J.. A. • Gilruth, Chief Government Veterinarian, and the Members of the Featherston .blanch of the New .Zealand Farmers' Union, were entertained on Tuesday night at.Feathcrston by Mr. Allan Donald, writes our Wairarapa'correspondent. Speaking of his new appointment to the professorial chair of the proposed Victorian Veterinary College, Sir. Gilruth said that lie would not have been doing his duty to himself and his profession if he had not accepted tho oifer bf tho position, which was the first of its kind south of the Line. ■ He could not state publicly all tho< reasons which had been brougnt forward to induce him to accept the high position. They ware many aud important, but ho might say, that the salary had been a secondary consideration.