PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1214, 24 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The following were invited to a dinner at Government Hou.-o last night, which was afterwards followed by a small rlauce:— Mr. and Mrs. Abbott. Mr. and Mrs. Inn Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Elcar, General and Mrs. Godley, Colonel Heard, Mrs. Boyle. Captain and Mrs. Thornton. Colonel and Sirs. Burnett Stuart, Captain nnd Mrs. Gnant, Mr. Yrrnon Rrcd, Mr. and Mrs. Dymock, Colonel Jolnison. Sir Joseph Ward has telejrra>)hed from the R.M.S. Knanchn that lip will bo present at the Wellington letter-carriers' nunnal dinner which in to bo hehl at (he Druids' Hall on Saturday. Tho Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford) and 'Sir James Carroll have also signified tlieiri intention of being present. Tho Speaker (Sir A. E. Guinness) stated in the JToiisd of Representatives yesterday that lie had received a letter from Mr. Frank Fraser. Ron of tho late Mr. F. H. Frascr, aoknowkdßinp (ho motion of condolence recently patsrd by the Houra on the deatli of his father. It was ordered that tlio letter should bo entered in the Journal of the IloiifP. Mr. 1!. M'Lonnnn, Dunwlin, manager of tho Union Steam Ship Company's Ameriran and Island services, was a passenger from .Sydney by the Mowaki vesterdiiy. Mr. 1,. (\. Howard Smith, of ilie Howard Smith Shippiiif,' Comjiiiny, anivod ut Wellington yesterday by the Sydney Ixmt. Mr. James Goodall, president of tho Greymoiith Wharf Workers' Tnion, has been elected secretary of tho union, vice Mr. John .Tacfcon, resigned, stale* a l'tw» AFsociniion tplegnini. Tlnj ballot resulted: Goodall, 12;!; Urook, 21,

Dr. BonjlKrlli relumed f1 cm Sydney yesterday by the Moeraki. The chairman of the Wellington Harbour Beard evening sail! that shies the last meeting of tho board the deaths had occurred of two cx-rcomlicrs of (ho board, viz., of Mr. P. H. l'rnscr, who had been a member from 1802 to 1910, and chairman in ISO" and 1S98; ajid of Jlr. F. Bradcy. who had represented the Hutt County Council on tho board from February, 1890, to February, 1898. Letters of condolence had been '*e>it to the families of the deceased gent!eme.-j, expressing tfio board's sincere regrets. Leave of absence for three days on account of urgent private ■ business 1 was cranled by the Legislative Council to the Hon. J. T. Paul, AI.L.C, yesterday. The Hon. D. Buddo was present' ot the Acclimatisation Societies' Conference yesterday afternoon. A vote of sympathy was passed by tho Acclimatisation Societies' Conference, yesterday in connection witlf the death of'the late .Mr. J. J. Devino, a former delegate. A letter of condolence is to bo sent to tho widow. Constable Michael Homing, who has been clerk in the district offico at' tho Wellington Police Station for some time, was presented with a case oi razors, a strop, ond an umbrella last evening, on the occasion of his leaving to take up the position of chief clerk in the district office at Invcrcurgill. Constable Fleming had been seven years in the "Wellington station. Air. W. J. Speight, with n view to again entering into political life, has resigned his position as manager at Auckland of tho Government Insurance Department. Pending the handing over of tho business to his successor, Jlr. Speight does not feel at liberty to indicate what seat he purposes being a candidate for (says the Auckland Star"). Ho has been over 25 years associated with tho Department, and leaves it much to the regret of its officers and the people who have had busiuess dealings with him.