PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 329, 16 October 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All the Ministers of the Crown will be in Wellington to-day except the Hon. G. Fowlds, who is in Auckland, and tlie Hon; R. M'Nab, who leaves this morning for Hawora.

His Excellency the Governor leaves Palmerston North on November 2 for Canterbury, whero lie will attend an important Masonic celebration at Waimate as well as the Canterbury Show. Tlio King's Birthday dinner this year will be given in Christchurch. Later his Excellency proposes to have a fishing holiday at Tokaanu and Taupo al'tor the big trout. ■ , The doath is announced in tho Dannevirko Hospital of Mr. Walter Fry, formerly of Mnsterton, aged 54 years. The late Mr. Fry arrived in Now Zealand in 1857, when only an infant, writes our "Wairarapa correspondent, and resided for a number of years with, his family at Hutt, and then for a lengthy* period at Fcatherston. Major Holdaway, officer in charge of tho young people's work of the Salvation Army returned to Wellington yesterday after ten or twelve weeks' absence, during which he has been piloting through the Dominion a minstrel company of twelve girls from tho Wellington Army Orphanage, whose entertainments have been quite successful both in pleasing audiences and raising funds. Mr. T. F. Duuhill, who is conducting practical examinations in music throughout tlio Dominion-on behalf of the Associated Board 11.A.M. and R.C.M., London, arrived in Wellington from tho North last night, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. There arb 204 candidates to be examined in Wellington, and Mr. Dunhill will bo at work hero for a fortnight, the examinations, being held at tho Town Hall.

Mr. J. D. Ritchie, Secretary for Agriculture, lias left on a visit to tno South. Lieutenant J. R. Perry, of the Feilding Mounted Rifles, has resigned his commission. Judges • Seth-Smith and M'Cormack, a' tho Native Appellate Court, are on a visit to Duucdin. Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, is visiting Dunedin on departmenta' business. . The appointment of Mr. P. T. Moore, as captain commanding tlio Johnsonville Rifles, is gazetted. Mr. F. T. Leigliton has been appointed an assistant in the chemical laboratory of the' Department of Agriculture. Chief-Judge Palmer, of the Native Land Court, left Napier en route to Rotorua by' motor-car yesterday morning. Mr. A. B. Woolf. tho general manager o( the Neuchatel Asplialtc Company, Ltd., ifi in Wellington. Ho is staying at the Grand Hotel. Owing to ' ill-hcjlth Professor Hamilton has resigned tho > Chair of Pathology in Aberdeen University, to which ho was an. pointed in 1882. Mr. F. W. Temple, of Masterton, who has been on a trip to England, arrived in Fremantle on Tuesday on his' return journey, and he' is now on his way to New Zealand, via Sydney. . , * S. Richardson, electrical, engineer of tho Wellington tramways, New Zealand, waa appointed a member of the committee of tlio Australasian Tramway Officers' Associa- . tion,- at the annual conference fn Sydney last week, writes our correspondent. The Revs. Algernon H. Colvile, M.A., R. H. Hobday, : M.A., Gerald H. Morse, M.A., and Kenneth W. P. Teale, M.A., are gazetted officiating ministers under the Marriage Act. All are members of the Church of England. The Hon. R. M'Nab, Minister for Lands, leaves this morning to attend the complimentary banquet which is to be given tonight to Mr. C. 13. Major, M.P., at Ka« ponga, near Hawera. Mr. M'Nab will return to Wellington to-morrow, and will leava for his constituency early next week. The Hons. J. A. Millar and J. M'Gowan will not leave Wellington this week. Mr.. Millar's departure for the. South is timed'. ■ for Wednesday next. The Hon. J. Carroll will leave for Gisborne as soon as he has finished a pile of Ministerial work, which has been absorbing his attention since,the end of .the session. , r \ Mr. W. C. Gasquoine, general manager of : tho State Coal Department, has returned' from the West Coast, via Christchurch. Mr,, H. A. Gordon, consulting engineer of . the Department, Mr. James Bishop, manager of tho _ Point Elizabeth mine, and Mr.. Gasquoino were in conference on departmental business yesterday., . Tho Hon. 11. M'Nab has moved his quartern from tho Parliamentary Buildings back to the Molesworth Street residence. The ' Hon. J. M'Gowan is back in the Departmental buildings, , but other Ministers remain, for tho present, in the offices they have occupied during the session. The Hon, W Hall-Jones will not shift into the 1 Rail way buildings, his usual headquarters dur> ing the recess, but will retain his present rooms in tho Parliamentary Buildings till he leaves for England. Colonel Hammond, General Booth's special emissary in regard to his emancipation schemes, returned to Wellington yesterday from the South, and leaves to-day on his return to Sydney. Colonel Hammond had an interview with Sir "Joseph Ward respecting his proposal that tho Army should be appointed to chooso Now Zealand's immigrants in London on tho basis of a small bonus for each immigrant sent out. It is understood that Sir Joseph Ward did not. express any glowing appreciation of tho. scheme, which he.stated would receivc tho , consideration of Cabinet. In regard to the Statement that Sir Thomas Lipton would i visit New Zealand in his yacht at.» that •• although ho has had it in his mind for a long time past to . pay . a visit to Australia and New Zealand, nothing definite has ■ been ! decided. •' Ho has been yacht-racing hll the summer, and he may go to the East:during ■ the coming winter. His interests ars : chiefly in India and Ceylon, but he has a branch . house in Australia, and he may possibly extend his tour. In anyr case, however, Sir Thomas will travel by ordinary passenger steamer—not in his yachtMr. Robert Forsyth Scott, M.A., Fellow and Senior Bursar, has been elected Master of St. John's,' Cambridge, in place of the late Dr. Taylor. Mr. Scott, who is'the eldest ' son of the Rev. G. Scott, minister of Dain ■ sie, Fifeshire, was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, in Germany, King's College, London, ana at' St. John's College, where lie graduated Fourth Wrangler in 18/5.' Mr. Scott is a member of the Council of tho Senate, and is the author of a book on "The Theory of ' Determinants'* (1880), also "Admissions fo St. John's College, 1715 to 1757," and a suia.ll history of I St. John's College, in Dent's Series, and various papers on subjects connected 'witb tho history of tho college.

Several well-known New Zealanders havs becii'iu Sydney during tho week, writes our Sydney correspondent under date of Satur* day -last. Mr. Charles Skcrrett, of Wellington, was at the A.J.C. meeting at Rand* wick tho other day, with Miss Skerrett. Mr.' Harold Boauchamp, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, arrived hero on' Tuesday by the Whakarua from .Townsvillo, Mr. N. Kettle, managing director' of Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Napier, was a passenger by tho' same steamer. Dr. Mason, of the Health Department, and Dr. i'omare, arrived 011 Tuesday by the Maheno on their way to Melbourne. Dr. Cahill also reached Sydnoy by this steamer, and will go to Melbourne, Dr. Pollen has been here for some days, and is now in the Bluo Mountains. -Mr. J. M. Geddis, proprietor of tho "Free Lance," returned from his trip to Europo by tho Manuka, from Vancouver, * on Thursday; Mr. J. E. Smith, Registrar of Old Ago Pensions; Mr. and Mrs. L. Dwan, of Wellington; Mr. William Turnbull, architect, Wellington; Mr. J. P. Kelly, chief clerk in the locomotive department, Now . Zealand Railways; and Mr. G. R. Barker, of ille Now Zealand Department. of Agricuk turc, aro in Sydney.