PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 735, 7 February 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Ministers out of town- to-day . are the Hon., G.. Fowlds, who is at Christchnrchj Hon. J. Carroll, at Gisborne; Hon. T< Mackenzie, at Groymduth; and Hon. A. Ngata, at Port Awanui.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) was much better yesterday, but baa postponed his .visit south for a few. days. •,

Mr. A. W. .Hogg, M.P., who is slowly recovering from va severe attack of influenza, has gone to Queenstown to recuperate. . ■ ' V: v.'It is,probable that Mr. Hall Caine, the novelist, will pay a visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1911. He is at present Negotiating : with;,the . Manx Society in Melbourne, of. conducting a lecturing dominions.', . v ' vrj The Hon. G. FowMs,-Minister, for Education, ■ visited tho Phillipstown ; and North -Linwood Schools on Saturday.: He , will « return to Wellington ' to-morrow 'morning.., ••

The induction of the Rev.. A. C. W. Standage- to' the 1 Presbyterian'"charge at Kelburnft' will take. place, to-morrow evening. ''.v'-'-'-V

Commissioner. and Mm Hay, of . the Salvation Army, leave Wellington this morning for'Wanganui. and will proceed to-morrow to Eltham. They leave the Dominion from 1 Auckland on February It. ; Dr: Nevill, Bishop of Dunedin, is at present the guest of Mrs, D. .81adden, Britannia Street, Petone. .

_Mr. Neil Galbraith: will act as Wek lingtori manager , of the' New Zealand Shipping Company during the: absence in England of Mr. J. H. N.-A. Burnes.

: Mr. Horace Hunt returned from Auckland on Saturday. '

Mr. Charles Baker, assistant general manager for .the Bank of New .South Wales in Viotoria, is a visitor to Wellington... Mr.. Baker' is. a .keen, bowler, 1 and on Saturday afternoon .paid a' visit to'the Wellington green, when a Melbourne r. Wellington match was played, resulting.'ih a win for the former by a. point.

A Press; Association oablegram from Perth. 6tates that among the: passengers by the German 1 mail steamer is Count Bismarck Bohlen, nephew of the great Chancellor of; the' German Empire. He is bound for New Zealand.

• Mr. J. W; Davis, who recently retired from' the' position of chief draughtsman, in the. Land i.and;, Survey:-. Department,' Wellington; 1 has joined-.'the . firm ..of Messrs. Davis and Porteous, surveyors, of this city. -.-

The Hon. T. Mackenzie - arrived at Greymouth oil Saturday night, and - will visit Eotomana Settlement; on Monday. He will be entertained at a banquet on Thursday .evening,-. after which he spends.; the week in South Westland.— ; Press Association.

Mr. A. ' J.' S/ Headland, a' well-known merchant of Timaru, died oh Saturday, aged 79.—Press Association!

Mr. I C., E. . Matthews, . the ;; newlyappointed chief clerk of the - Police Department, .takes up the duties of that office to-day. l , Mr. Matthews entered the Civil Service in January, 1889, as a cadet in the Treasury Department,' having been selected in accordance with his place on the., examination'li6t. .After six years he was transferred ■to the Department of Jilstiee. On the Hon. T. Thompson becoming Minister for Justice, in .1896, Mr. Matthews, became . his /private, . secretary, ahd when. that. Minister; was succeeded by the Hon.,: J. M'Gowan in 1900,., Mr. Matthews'. Continued to act in; the same capacity..;' Mr. M'Qowan retired' in January,; ; 1909, and Mr. Matthews, then -becatae private secretary to the Hon. K.' M'Kenzie, . who had taken over the portfolio of Mines, which had been held with that of Justice by Mr. .M'Gowan.: Mr. Matthews remained inth the Minister for Mines and Public Works until he received his new-appointment. .-';