PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 694, 20 December 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

; The Primo Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) win spend' Christmas in Wellington, He has- not yet decided whero lie will spend the New JTear .■■; holidays. ■' -v; A-Press' Association telegram sent from New Plymouth on Saturday, states: Mr. G. F. Rob- . inson, who lately retired from the position of' Road Engineer for the "Wellington district,, waa'y this morning vpresented with ail address and' . a silver; tea and coffee service, subscribed bylocal. body engineers throughout the Wellington province. The presentation was ninde by l 1 Mr. G T. Murray, district lioad Engineer,' laranaln, on hehnlf of tho subscribers. -Mr. S. Carroll, secretary of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, has 1 returned from a , holiday visit to Auckland. .. ' . — . Mr. Walter -Baird Martin, lato of - Martinborough, has been admitted as a solioitor of ■ ,the Supremo Court by Mr. Justice Chapman, on the motion of Mr. lv. l Kirkcaldie. Mr.'. Marfan is connected with the legal firm of Messrs. Hordman and Kirkcaldie. : Mr. Wi Reid, of tlio ■ staff of Messrs. 8011, bully, Bell and Myers,-who has been on a trip round the world, returned to Welling- ! 1 ton by tho Hanroto yesterday morning. ■ Mr. E.-A. Raid, lato fruit inspector at Raro- 1 tonga, arrived in Wellington by tho Haurota ■>' - yesterday on; his way. to Auckland. Mr, Held ' ■ lias bccn relieved at Rarotonga by Mr. Beam; : Mrs. Carter, wife of Carter the magician, at 1 jprpsent,in the south, was a passonger by tho' 1 iHauroto, which arrived from-Earotonga yosterday. • ■ > : .Tho Rev. Q. _E. ICear,. of. Dannovirke district, was ordained as a priest at Napior Cathedral yesterday by- Bishop-. Williani.-' " -Association.;'- ' Captain G. Gi' i; Smith,' ai' •Wellington, leaves for the south' this even-" ing on business connected with tho visit of Hiu.S. Pioneer to Dunedin, " . Captain E, Dorrien-Smith, who has boen ' on a_ botanising expedition to tho Chatham ■ Islands, .returned to Lyttelton by tho Hippie on Friday and arrived in Wellington on Bat uiaay'morning. >•; 1 . • ■ ,-■ t . . \ 1 «&' Spencer, editor of tho "New Zealand behoof Journal," was a passenger from Lyttelton yesterday rooming. ■ Mr. Sponccrhaa * • recently ; returned . from -tho Chatham Island) where ho, mado . visits of inspection .to tho schools. . . • .