PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 952, 20 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

, A ' Press . Association message ; . received last night; from. London states • that Colonel ;Godley, the new. commandant; .of, the New, Zealand-forces, has boon gazetted major-general for.j.ths 'term ,of his' appointment in the Dominion. < ' Major C. A. Scott, of Queensland, is a passenger by the .Tongariro for' London to-day. ; ' . ' SV' .V Dr. Martin',' who is'suffering.from septicaemia, underwent an operation on Tuesday, and is"progressing favourably. . Mr. Leslie Fell;. L.N.C.M., late of .Weiliiigton and..' Johnsbnville, has. been .'appointed organist'to ' the Roman. . Catholic Church at Hastings. . v : Mr. P. Gruchy ]:as been appointed Acting-Eegistrai' of: Births, Deaths, and Marriages; at;' Napier, rice the late Mr. George Cross. The Postmaster-General : .has v informed -Mr. Field, .M.P., that the, question' of the erection of a post-office nt Pnraparaumu is being considered by the; Government. Dr. Archer Hosking,' 01". Masterton, was a passenger from Sydney to= Wellington by the Moana, whicharrived ia port yesterday. .;. ■.' /• Sir. B; T. Taylor, , and Mrs. Taylor, of Kilbirnie, who have been spending a holiday in the Old Country, returned to Wellington by the ' Moana, ■ via - Sydney, yesterday. By the ; Moana from Sydney .> yesterday there, arrived in Wellington Mr. Harry Norman, who ,is - conducting : a.. concert party ' through .New,': Zealand.' He was accompanied by Miss Amy Murphy, the well-known Dunedin soprano,- and : Miss Nellie Black (the talented violinist of the Black. Family of Musicians), who will tour with Mr. Norman. ■ The 1 "first concert ,of the, tour' will: be given in Dunedin. Mr. Norman has also secured Mr. Blitz, the . well-known . . bass viol player, who will be :the ; 'cellist of the party, - Concerts'will 'be piven in all the larger centimes .from Dunedin to Auckland.