PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

~.The Prime Mnister. (Sir Joseph Ward), tt w on ' J f, A " Mll if' tho Hon - J - Carroll ™e,Hon. Dr. Jfmdlay, and the Hon. d! fluddo_at© m Wellington, the .Hon. A W Hogg is at Masterton, the Hon. R. M'Ken-' ae, is m-the Auckland district/the Hon. G Jowlds is at Queenstown,'the Hoi. A. T Ngata is in the Gisborne district, -and the Hon.-T. Mackenzie is cruising in the Hinemoa. .' -' ,- . . ■d 'Sub-Inspector,. Phair, of Lainbton - ; Quay Pplice Station, who has been on sick leave for some timepast, resumed duty yesterday. M'Grath, of Waratah, : New South Wales, who has been on a visit to Wellington,'returned to Australia by the Wan-imoo. • ' _Dr. and Mrs'. Chappie,'with their family,' left, for Sydney by the Warrimoo yesterday, en route for the Old Country." Sir W. J,_ Steward leaves for Durban oh > visit to his soii on February 4, returning to the Dominion.about June 7. : The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward), Lady Ward, and' Miss Eileen Ward will probably leave cn ; Monday for Auckland and Rotorua. . Mr. Chas; the well-known actor, recently underwent in London a successful operation for appendicitis. ;Tho latest report is' that, Mr. Hawfa-eywas progressing favourably.,,:'',; .;'.;-.':V'- ■'.-"";.,] ;;.".';,-.-'':• .'-';:'.. /Writing .from 'Matlock,./.'Derbyshire,;-' on December 9, to a. member of the literary staff of the "Lyttelton Times," Mrs. Lauri (May Beatty) says with. characteristic brevity:;- "Married- London yesterday.''' Spending honeymoon here. Perfectly delightful place. /Thank -everyone for oo'ngTatulations." .■..;The:.position of^assistant 1 engineer instruc-tor-at-tho 'Wahgahui'Technical- School will. (says,our Feilding correspondent) probably be offered-: to 'Mr:-Arnold * Moffis6ii7 0 4f Wellington,- The position of assistant woodwork instructor for.the■ W-anganuf education district has been filled -. by the appointment of Mr.. 0. J.' Gill,; of ;Palmerston North.. 5 Mr. Gill has had .eleven years' experience of technical school teaching »t";H6me'and.two in the .Dominion.: -' : '■ ■-; :.' ■: -..'VV'.V " : - ,: -':v :

~; The Rev.; Fafher Cleary,■ of Dunedin," : on whom the decree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred by the Pope, has edited the ."New Zealand Tablet" for . nearly eleven years. He came out intending to, take-up mission work in Australia, but his health was not ■ robust enough for that duty, and the rev.' gentleman, upon, coming to.New Zealand, undorfcqoK tho journalistic work for which his.-travels andshis /scholarly attain? mehts'.'had:so': well prepared him. -From all quarters,- even' outside .the: Roman Catholic. Church; . Father. Cleary. has been, sincerely congratulated upon his elevation;.: ;.. , ; The sixth International Congress ,of Actuaries will. be held in Vienna nest .'■ June, previous congresses having- met in Brussels, Paris/ London, New York, and Berlin. Mr. Morris Fox, the Actuary, to the Insurance Department, who was appointed by tho Government to represent New Zealand at the New Yorki Congress in 1903, will act: in a similar, capacity at Vienna this year. He will leave for that city on April 23, after thoV distribution of profits to. the policyholders .of . the Insurance Department has been completed. Mr. Fox; whd will be accompanied by Mrs. Fox, expoofe to spend about two inonths in Great Britain, and will, return towards'the end of Ootober.