PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 October 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister is in bis electorate, liis headquarters being at Invercargill. Tho Hon. W. Hall-Jones and the Hon. Dr. Findlay aro in Wellington. The Hon. J. Carroll is in the Gisborne district, the Hon. J. M'Gowan at the Thames, tue Hon. J. A. Millar at Duncdin, and the Hon. G. Fowlds in Auckland. The Hon. R. M'Nab is on his way to Mataura. Mr. Justice Edwards leaves Wellington for Auckland to-morrow. , Mr P. Ahradsen, of Tory Street, is a* present suffering from pneumonia. Mr. John Campbell, Government'architect ' has returned from Auckland. Mr. Arthur George (of Oeorge and George), Cuba Street, is confined to'his home through illness. Tho Hon. J. Carroll, Native Minister, who is touring his electorate,, is expected to reach Gisborne to-morrow morning. Mr. Wm. Brown, head of the firm of Laery and Co., left on a visit to Australia by the Climaroa oil Friday last. Owing to pressure of work, tho Hon. W. Hall-Jones will probably bo unable 'to visit Tim'aru before the opening of tho Main Trunk railway next week. Sir Joseph Ward is expected to bo back in Wellington on Sunday' morning next. ■ He will attend tho Slain Trunk railway ceremony uoxt week, and will then visit Auckland. . The Hon. R. M'Nab left for the South' by the Maori last night. He is proceeding to his electorate of Mataura, where ho willprobably remain until tho election is over. Staff-Captain Ford; officer in charge of tho Salvation Army's Peoples' Palace. Hotel,' is under farewell orders. Staff-Captain Glithcrve, of, Tasmania, has been appointed to succeed him. Lieutenant-Colonel Knight, provincial commander of tho Salvation Army, and StaffCaptain Orames, provincial secretary, will leave on Thursday on a fortnight's visitation of the corps at Waihi, Thames, Cambridge, Hamilton, Paeroa, and Rotorua. Tho following are the new office-bearers of the Wellington Terrace Congregational Sunday School, whose anniversary meeting will bo held to-morrow night Superintendent, and treasurer, Mr. F. Meadowcroft p deputy superintendent, Mr. W. J. Lankshear ; minute secretary and organist, Mr. F. R. Lankshear; secretary, Mr. D. Mack lin; librarian, Mr. F. W. Taylor; school visistor, Miss Evans. News has been received by cablegram of the death in England of' Mrs. Cradoclt Beauchamp, who, with one of her daughters, was visiting relatives and friends in the United Kingdom. Tho deceased lady, with with her latc.'husband (who died in 1906), resided at Anikiwa, hear Picton, for upwards of 40 years, and was much esteemed by [ large circle of friends, "who will sincerely mourn her loss. She leaves a grown-up family of sis sons and four daughters. Tho staff of the Geological Survey department is widely distributed at present. A geological party, under Mr. E. D. Clarke, is working in the Whangaroa. subdivision; a topographical party is at Tarua, near Thames, under Mr. Colin Fraser, mining geologist; Mr. J. H. Adams, assistant geologist, is conducting work in the. petroleum country, near Gisborne; Mr. H. Richardson is in chargO i of topographical work in the Heaphy subdivision, near Collingwood,- Nelson; and Mr. Ernest Webb, assistant mining geologist, has chargo of the operations in the Mount Radiaut subdivision, near Karamea. , Dr. .Bell, director of the Geological Survey, paid, a visit to North Cape while lie was at Whangaroa recently, in order to correlate the geology of that district with the work being done in the Whangaroa subdivi. sion. Deposits of iron ore ana quartz wera found. -At Whangaroa Dr. Bell supervised the work in hand, and inspected the deposits of copper, mercury, and building stone ■lie was also at the Thames, and made an examination of tho very detailed work being dono in the mines there by Mr. Colin Fraser, who is making a special plan of all the mino workings.. Dr. Bell will leave 'to-morrow for Aiiiseotl Valley, Nelson, to commence a 'survey, of the copper fields. He will probably reiiain there till .Christmas. Mh George Willis, secretary and Customs agent, has disposed of the latter section of his 'business, consequent on his duties as secretary. to the - - Wellington .' Hospital;. Board land the Wellington and Wairlirapa, Charitable Aid Board having been added to. For the future, Mr. Willis us to.acWs inspector for thoCharitable Aid Board, and one of his first acts Svill be to travel over the wlible of the district and gdtithe fullest particulars of every person who lis in receipt of charitable aid, and inquiroi-closely into each case, with a view to presenting., the imposition that lias undoubtedly) been practised upon the institution. Xn respect to the Hospital Board, Mr. Willis is Jto devote .time to the collection of outstanding accounts.