PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Cabinet Ministers who will'be out of town today are ifco Hon. G. Fowfds, who. is at Nanicr; the Hon. Dr. Findlay, who will bo at Forton; the Hon. R„ M'Kenzie, who is in Otago; and the Hon. T. Mackenzie, who 13 going to MotimaoakLSir William Steward, 31; P., is in town. • Inspector. Hlfson left yesterday 1 for Ne}£o_n,'_wheTo he is to afctead the Police Commission, which opens there next-■ week. 1 The' Rev. J. Gibson Smith left last night on a visit to Bunedin. He will be avray nao or ten days. , Mr. Franklyn, of the Church of Christ. Wellington, will conduct a twelve days mission atePalmerston North, beginning oa Sunday, August 15. The Hon. J. A. Millar has accepted an invitation from his- combined elc-ction committees, who wish to entertain him at Dusedfn. on Thursday, August 19. The presentation by the Midland Crcb to Mr. E. F. TJpham, th« .wcll-kcown representative cricketer,'who is retiring fromacnVe participation in tie game, will be made at Godber's Rooms on Monday-evening. ~.: The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, leaves by: the N,ew Plymouth express this morning to pay a short visit to the Moumahaki Experiment Farm. He will return on Monday, and leave the samo night.for the south. A Press Association message from Dunedim states that the Hon. R. M'rlenzio journeyed froin Ophir to Alexandra and Clyde yesterday.. At these.places, several deputations; waited'on. him m regard to irrigation and mining matters. Mr. M'Kenzio' will proceed cm to Qneenstown to-day. Messrs. J. G. Harkness and K. C. Tews- . ley .'bare been -appointed to represent the '.Wellington Chamber of Commerce at the Chambers of Commerce Congress of the Empire, to bo held in Sydney in September nest. Both gentlemen are uncertain wkotlioT they will be able to moke Vie jiccessary arrangements to go to Australia, but hope .to bo ai)le to do so. - ' J 'The 1 Rev- C. W. Scott-Mpncrieff, who has occupied, the position of warden at St.-John's College, Auckland, since _ January 1, 1908, has resigned'that position. His resignation' lias ■. been • accepted ..by tho ' Board y,of., 'Governors,: and ..during the next ,'term'-tho college will be ill . chargo of the"RoV.'E: H. Stroiigi'at present 'sub-warden of the "college ?•'.'''■""' Tile Hoik Dr. Findlay. accompanied' by Mrs. Findlay, visited--Feuding yesterday. _In the evening the Minister delivered a political. tiddre'ss. 1 ' Ho' leavesvthis'morning'by-motor for Foxton,' where ho will open a now post office and receive deputations. When speaking at Foxtou it is his intention, to, refer to tho latent Savings Bank returns! and tho growth of postal business. Ho: will return to Wellington this pvening. ■'.."■•. . ; Mr. Donald Robertson, secretary,- ; to the. 'Post and Telegraph. Department,'-• received advice yesterday te'the effect that his son, ;Mr.' P. W. Robertson (the first-Rhodes scholar .to go to Oxford from' Wellington) had taken his degree' as; Doctor of Philosophy at Leipzig with "distinction. For_ his thesis in connection with the' examination, ho received the highest,marks of distinction (egroigius), and/ in his oral test, the highest marks ("summus cumiauda). The'name of the thesis submitted by Mr. Robertson was '" Optica! studies' in.'copper-amm6nia com-, plexes for 'rod and ! yellow pxyaza-benzono salts'."' It is controversial as to which' educational centre corifera'.-the greatest distinction on ono'gaining his' Ph.D. degree, but Leipzig :has beeii most in favour, einoo the chemistry division of. tho university ''thoro has been controlled' by" Professor Hantsych. Mr. Robertson, who takes up an appointment as lecturer to tho Rangoon branch of 'tho Calcutta University in October,'may now append tho following letters to 'his: iiame-M.A.; M.Sc. (N.Z.), B.A. (Honours), (kon.; Ph.D., Leipzig, a fact which rcflccte credit in very great degree on such a young man, and honour' on his' Alms-Mater—Vid-toria. College, Wellington. ~:< ;,-'.'