PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■With the exceptions of the Hon. Q. Fowlds, ; who is at Waiinate, the Hon. Dr.' Findlay,' who is;at Napier, and the Hon. A. \V. Hogg; who is at Auckland, all tho Ministers of the :■ Crown are in Wellington to-day. : Sir Josoph Ward will leave for tho south oarly next weok in, order to attend a banquet to tho Horn T," Mackenzie at'Mosgiol oa Wednesday.:. . '•■- , '....;.•.;•.'"■ ■ ' Mr. C. C. Graham, who is at present' acting as relieving magistrate. in Masterton, ia expected to return to Dunodin- about the middle, of month., ■•'.'.;>.... ~ .< •■„ ..-•■■. Tlio Rev! G. 1 , .' Davys, vicar of St. Peter's, will leave Wellington '.on Friday next on au eight months' holiday trip' to,England,',Bailing via Sydiioy, by tho Moaria. Mr. Hi-.'B. Tomliiißon, M.A.,' who recently occupied n position on the staff of tlio Auckland- Grammar • School, has been, appointed to one of the senior vacancios on tho Wei-', lington College staff. ' , ;■• ■ Tho death is recorded at Melbourne on April 16 of Mrs. Floronco Chapman, wife of Mr. Ernest Arthur • Chapman', of. Bostoa Road, Canterbury, Molbourne, and daughter of the late Mr. C. D. Barraud, of Welling- ■ ton; ;Tlio deceased lady was 57 years of ago. Mr. W. Simm, \ manager , ' of Messrs. Blythosy Ltd., of .Napier, and formerly: wellknown in Wellington, was, on Thursday evening, presented with a hundsomo fumod, oak sideboard' by the'eniployece of _ tht> firm in honour of his approaching, marriage. . Mr. Gladstone Bell, the gifted 'cellist, who was. soloist, in. the Exhibition Orchestra, loft' for Sydnoy by tho Mooraki yesterday on route for England. Mr, 801 l has suffered a good doal from rhoumatics lately, and the trip is being unddrtakon for health reasons. Misa E. K. Field, who for family reasons is resigning her position as matron of tho Nelson Hospital, whoro sho has'seen five and a half years' service, has received a prosent of a handsome set of; furs from the modicalnnd nursing staff of the institution. Mr. D. T, Stuart, ouo of tho oldest , and most respected public ncotmntants, simro'.brokers; and'auditors , -in'-.Wellington, intends • to idtiro from business early next year. Hβ has sold tho goodwill of his business to ; Messrs. Barr, Leary, and Williams, of this city. •.' .../ ■■•■.•.... • ■■■ ■> .. : .;■ •■ ■■ , ■ ' . Messrs. H. G. Ell, M.P., and W. H! P. Barber, moinbors of the Timbor Commission: and Messrs. J. ' W._ Stevenson, P, j Gough, ana B. Lo, Grove, official reporters,- ilrrivou from tho south by tho Maori yesterday, having come overland from tho West Coast via Otira. Tho main body of the commissioners journeyed by way of tha Bulta Goi-go (o Kelson, and.will reach 'Wellington by tlio Mapourikfv to-day. They will leave for Taihapo on Monday, tako evidoneo there on Tuesday, and then proceed to Auckland. returning afteiv . wards to 'hold their ifimil, sittings.: hi the capital. ~-'-. : -.- -' , ;'■,.,-.-.■ ■■■■.-■. '