PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1049, 11 February 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

———♦ To-day the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) will be in Wellington. Other Ministers in town.will be the Hon. Dr. Findlay, the Hon. R. M'Kenzie, r.nd the Hon. D. Buddo. Ministers in other parts of the Dominion are the Hon. J. A. Millar in Otago, the Hon. G. Fowlds returning to Wellington from Auckland, the Hon. T. Mackenzie with tho Scottish Commission, and the Hon. J. Carroll and tho Hon. A. T. Ngata on the East Coast. The Hon. G. Fcwlds is expected back in Wellington from Auckland this evening. : Tho Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, left yesterday for .Palmcrston North, whore he is to relieve Mr. Justice Cooper, who goes on to Auckland to preside over the civil sessions of tho Supremo Court there, on account of the illness of Mr. Justice Edwards. ' The Chief Justice is expected at Napier on February' 21. Mr. Justico Chapman will leave for Blenheim on Saturday next and afterwards goes on to Nelson.

The RaV. A. Dewdney, of Wellington, is to, attend the second Australasian Baptist Congress, to bo held in Melbourne from March 25 to April 5. The Rev. .W: Hay, of Dunedin,. and tho Rev. C. Boyal'l, of Caversham, and probably Mr. A. Fi Carey; of Christchurch, will also be present.

Messrs. J. Barr and C. Corbett, Sydney pressmen, who have been holidaymaking in.Wellington, left for homo by the TJlimaroa yesterday, and were accorded a hearty farewell.

i Mri F. W. D. Clifford, chief correspondence clerk at the local office of the Union S.S. Company, was the recipient last evening at his residence of a small presentation'from a number of personal friends on the occasion of his being transferred to Port Chalmers. Mr. Clifford has been six years at the .Wellington office of. the company.

The Official Assignee, Mr. A. Simpson, is to leave Wellington to-day bythe Arahura on a visitto the West Coast. Before returning to .Wellington he will visit Nelson and Blenheim.

Mr. John Patrick, who has held various positions in .the firm of Messrs. H. Matson and Co., Christchurch, has accepted tho position of secretary to the Southland Farmers' Co-bperativo Association.—Press Association..

Tho Hon. Major B.' Harris, whoso term of appointment as a Legislative Councillor, expired on February .3,' has been reappointed for a: further term of seven years.. '..'.'■"'.■ . ■

Tho members of. tho Willoughby Comedy Company left, for Sydney . .by tho Ulimaroa yesterday, evening.

Mr. William Couper, a resident of Wellington for twenty years, died in the Otaki Hospitalon Thursday night. Ho arrived from Scotland: by tho ship Auckland in tho early '70's, and settled in Oaniaru, where he resided until 1891, when he caine to' Wellington., Of his six soris only two—Mr: Bobert K. Couper, of tho Postal Department, secretary of the Old Wellington Navals' •Association, aud Mr. '.A: C. Couper, of tho Tramways Department-are living in Wellington. Tho deceased's, only daughter (Mrs; M'Millan) is a resident of! the .Hutt. Mrs.v Couper is ; still alive, and is living at Otaki. ,'.',

Mr. T. E. Artastrbng, London manager of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, 'in. company with Mr. H. : N. Liardct, manager for Now Zealand;' will -leave for Auckland on Monday next. ~' ,' ' \ .. ,'•':;.••'

1. Mr. .George Haase, of this: city, is by the Or:sova, on an, extended trip to England arid America.- Mr. Haasej who ■ is. a prominent member . •■ of :■:. St. •. John's Y.M.8.C., will be:, missed ,_ in'! hockey circles, being.an , ex-Wariganui reprfr; sentativo player, ..a member: of..' the Pakeha team, which won tho' Wednes.day championship and five-a'-side tourna-' ment for 1910, arid also a member of last season's representative team. He expects to.be away for three or 'four years.-../ '•' '•'' -," ' ;•" ;'"■'■' '„'.'■•'

Mr. Harry Stubbs, who has been second in charge ; at* Woodyille' railway station for the past ten years, has been transferred to the Auckland province.as., relieving officer. Last night ho was presented with. presents from the railway staff and institutions in the,town with which he was' connected.—Press Association.; ..■■:'■'•'

At a gathering of the officers of the Lands and Survey Department in. the board-room at the-district office, to bid farewell to Mr. Arthur -Johnston, who is severing his connection with-the Department: after 12 years' service in order to-.take up engineering studies at Homo. Tho Chief -Surveyor, Mr. Mackenzie, presented Mr. Johnston on behalf of; the,'office staff with a travel-1 ling bag and a case of pipes, and also | on behalf of the field staff with .apaii'.j of prism binoculars. .;.:'.'