PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 608, 10 September 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

1 o Professor Salmond and Mr; Salmond leave to-day on, a visit to Sjdnoj Mr W Dmme, Commissioner of Police, returned from tho north last night. ' The Rev. J Dan son returned jestorday from a visit to the Auckland district The Rev. Father Mahonoy, of this at}, 1 has been transferred tcmponrilj to Nelson to take tho placa of tho Hoy. Father Clancy, who will mako a, collection throughout flic, arch-diocese on behalf of tho Stoke Oiphanage. The Usual annual collection {or she Roman Catholic Cathedral will not be ms.de this >«ar, and its placo will be taken by tho collection for the orphanage. 'An official noto from Lord Crewe, Secret t»ry for the Coloniw, published m this Tveek's Gazette (and also in tho London Gazette), authorise. , ) tho High Commissioner (the Hon \\m s Hall-Jons?) to retain the title of "Honourable," ho , having sorv.'d over three as a member of the Executive Council of Now Zealand > ' Mr. G 'P. Pucnell has been appointed Deputy Official Assignee at Greymouth, vico Mr. J, E Allen/transferred. ' Dr. M'Arthur, 8,M,, is suffering from an attack of influenza, and was unablo to take ' his seat on the Bench yesterday ' Mr. William Phillips, of George, Street, one of the few remaining members of the earliest baiid of settlers in Wellington, celebrated his.' ninetieth birthday yesterday,' and was the recipient of many congratulations from a large circle of frionds Mr. Phillips, who arrived hrre in 134 p, was for spme years storcr man in the Government Printina Office when Mr. Didsbury was Government Printer. Jnquines as to rois?ing relatives aro made through Mr Moore, of the Missions \o Seamen, as follow.—Mr.'D. W .Smith, on an American whaler m Japanese" waters, asks fortho address of his parents, who formerly resided in Adelaide Road; Mrs Privilege; of Liverpool, in(jUjr<?» for authentic particulars regarding &he death of her husband, wao had been killed in elcctnoai works in somo ' port of Ajwtrejasfc. ;, ', 'Mr W H George", of George and Kersloy, Ltd, uho has been om a visit to Great Britajn and the Contitfent, returns to I'iis city by next week , *- direct steamer. ' The Ror ,T Taat, of St Paul's Church, Christ«hu,rcb (states a Press tel«gram)i has been asked if ho will ai'ow himself to bo called to the pastoiate of a leading Presbyterian Chutqh in Briebmo, Queensland- Tho etipend offered is £700 There is a fine new building, which wm erected four yeaw ago a> a cost of £22,00'), ' and it is praotically free of debt lliq chnroh hall 15 as large as the ohurch itself, s and has. a suite of smaller rooms attaenod There isn'so a splendid organ which cost about £2000 The office-bearers have informed \tr Ta.it that no steps will be taken with reg-vd to tho vacancy until he gives hi 3 decision There aro fow ecclesiastical positione of greater influence in the Commonwealth thin that' occupied by tha minister of St. Andrew's, in Brisbane. Thia is at least trio fifth time an effort has been raado to induce 1 Mr Tait to leavo his present ohargc In answer to a reporter Mr Tait said he on*y received tho invitation by that morning's mail, and he had not had, time to come to any decision m the matter Mr. John Kirkcaldie (whose brother died recently »t Sydnoy) and Mrs Kirkcaldie leave for Sydney by the Mccralq to-day Mr, Frederic Shipman, manager for Bcngough, returned trom the south vestorday Hβ has made,' arrangements for Bengough to appear for another three nights in Wellington on October i, 5, and 6, prior to his r departure for' Canada 1 <The Hon.' T. Mackenzie, M'nister for Agriculture, leaves this morning for Hawko'n Bay. Hn will transaot Departmental business at Hastings and Napier, and visit the Government vineyard at Arataki, and tho Irimley orchards, returning to Wellington en Saturday or Monday. The Prime Minuter and Lady Ward loavo Vancouver by tho RMS Makura, which is due to sail to-day Honolulu is 'to bo reached on tho 17th, and Suva on tho 25th' At the latter port tho Prime Minute* will tranship to HM S Challfinger which is expected, to make Auckland about beptember iJU, ' ' ,The Hon 3 Carroll, and the Hon. G FowJds hiving'returned to Wellington ?estsrdirt, all the Cabinet Ministers, with two ; exceptions, will be, in town, to-day The Hon Dr. inidlay is en route from the Waikato to where hi> is due to-night, jnd th» Hob T. Mackenzie leaves Veiling' ten this morn.ng for Hawke's Bay Nearly all the members of the He,odStiartera Staff of the Defence Department are at present absent from Wellington Colonel A. W Robin, Chief of tho Goivra! Staff, is m Dunedin; Colonpl H D Tuson, Adjutant-Genernl, 13 in Auckland, Captain G. S RioharuSon, Chief Instructor ol Artillery, and Captain J R Duigan (Eneneer Services) are Mn Christchurch Captain S V Trask, Staff Officer to Colonel Robin, returnod from Nelson last night, Captiui Rohtl W. Stilee ha« resigned from the pbsition of Assistant QuartormasterGeneral fe-r the Nelson. Military District In pursuance of the recent developments with regard to the creation of an Imporia Germl Staff, Afajor-Genoral Hoad has been •pprnnt-o 1 Chief of the Commonwealth Diviitj >n of the General Staff of tho Empire The aDpointment 15 announced in a renoral order by Army Council ( i' "* That tired feeling and rundown, norvoui condition 11 a naming of moro deep seated troub'e? D\uld jour'jplf up with Stearns ' Wine of Coil tivor Extract, the peerless tonic and builder. It uou uio contemplating removing, tho first thing you should uo ,is obtain a quotation 'roi 1 J heir. 7G 78 Jcrvois Quay Ho hai had uiftiiy yours oxuenence in this class of work, and lit in a position to pack, store, and roiuoyo any description of furniture Ho also ckars gooili through Customs, and dupatohcs package,,! and parcels to any nddress in tho world Tclephono No 1180 —Advt CMI Ttio largest volcano 111 tho world 19 111 tho 6and,vipli Islands. Tho crater is 20 nnleb in dinmctcr, .anil the 'tream of lava flowuig from it is 30 miles long, and in places four uuka nido.