PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 921, 14 September 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The .Prime Minister (Sir Joseph , Ward) is'again suffering from a severe cold and did' not attend' the House last night. The; Prime Minister informed the House yesterday , that the .new Commandant; Major-General Godley,'; would leave Liverpool for Wellington,: via- Vancouver,' v on October 7. He also'intimated that Colonel Head,_ Director, of Military Training, ; and Captain B.Stuart, Director of . Military Operations; will leave for Now: Zealand direction November It. ' Tho Hon. 6. Powlds, Minister for Education,!, who will represent .New Zealand at the 'Opening of , the". South ' African' Union .Parliament, will leave: Wellington .on' Friday. l morning for .-Auckland.': ,He ■will take his departure.from Dip'northern •city on Monday by tfie •'Sydney. boat, in route for.South Africa; •*> '.The' Prime' Minister has. issued invitations ,to -'members' to be present at an oyster siiptier to be tendered in"Mr. :Fowlds'a'■. honour, 'on Thursday evening. .•. .; : . ;-. ' Mr. John; Bollard,. M.E, : returned to Wellington by the Main . Trunk, express yesterday afternoon, after, a short visit to Auckland. . ' . ' ' Mr. T. M. Wilford. M.P., has heen granted four days' leave 01" absence from his Parliamentary duties; on. account of serious illness in his family. Mr; H. E. Kempthorne,- ,'manager in Wellington for the New Zealand Insurance Company, leaves on' a business visit 'to-;lndia on September 23. He will be absent for several months solely •on the company's- business. ' It. will be remembered that. Mr J: Kempthorne came to Wellington from: Calcutta. During his absence Mr. Kellj, ohiof clerk, will Ijb acting-manager : here. '

Mr. A. T. Bate leaves on a trip to Sydney on Friday next.

, A Hokitika Press Association telegram' records the death yesterday niorning of. ; Mr. (ieorgo John Roberts, ex-Commis-sioner of Crown Lands for Westland. Deceased, was born in Wellington sixtytwo years ago. In the early days he carried out . ninny important surveys in *tland,. including the joining together of the South Island, surveys. 'He was West Coast Commissioner at the Christchurch Exhibition. His health gave way, and. he retired from the service in August of last year. He was one of the most highly-esteemed oitizens of the West Coast. -

Mr. H. N. Holmes, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A., has just received cabin news of the death of Mr. W. H. Mills, the national secretary -of the British Y.M.C.A.'s. The death of Mr. Mills will be a distinct loss to the Y.M.C.A. movement throughout the world.

. Sergeant .Frank, of the Nelson Rifles, who shot very prominently at the Trentham' meeting, .will leave for. Australia on September 30 to take part in the Victorian Rifle Association meeting. . Sergeant J. A. Munro, of the Miirihiku Mounted. Rifles, will also shoot at the Victorian, meeting.

. Major W. R.. N. Madocks, D.5.0., who gained distinction in South Africa while on. active service (with the New Zealnnders, afterwards graduating from the Staff College at Cambridge, England, and latterly holding an appointment as a general staff .officer'.'.(2nd grade) at Portsmouth, has just been appointed military secretary to General Sir lan Hamilton lately promoted to the Mediterranean Command.

Mr. W. J. Napier, barrister of Auckland, arrived from tho north by the Main Trunk yesterday 'afternoon.'

Hughes, D.5.0., District Adjutant at Nelson, who has been goins through a course of training in. England, will leave for New Zealand very shortly It is understood that he will leave England by the .same steamer as Mainr. rf H ra, v A "*^' thb C° mma ndant of tho Now Zealand Forces.