PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1281, 9 November 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

In accordant ivith his promiso to open tho Auckland Town Hall, his Excellency the Governor will arrive in Auckland on December 13. The ceremony at the Town IXall will bo performed on tho following day.—Press Association. .

The Hon. R. M'Kenzio, who is electioneering in tho remoter parts of the Atotuelui district, will go ou to-day from Molupiko (o Tapawern. A Press Association message from I/on(ion received lait night states that Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, tho well-known advocate of postal reforms, is returning to Australia. The Rev. Father Price, of Christehurch, returned by tho Moana from Sydney yesterday. Mr. B. K. Waite, curator of the Christchurch Museum, was a passenger from Sydney by the iloana yesterday. Mr. H. W. Moss, manager for Messrs. Johnston and Co., ■Wellington, who lias been on a tour to America and London, returned by the Moana from Sydney yesterday afternoon. Captain J. D. Grant, V.C., late of tho Stli Ciurkas, India, arrived in Wellington by Hie Mciann from Sydney yesterday. Captain Grant has como to New Zealand as Staff Officer in connection with tho military training scheme. Ho has a distinguished record as an army oflicer, and received the Victoria Cross for gallant conduct in loading a storming party at Gyantse, Thibet, in 1901. He has been stationed in India for thirtco uyrars. Mr. Philip Npiyliury, Hie cultured tenor singer whoso visit to New Zealand yoars ago, with tho Ncwliury-Snada Concert I'arty, will be well remembered by Wellington concert-goers, will arrive in New Zealand at tho end of the present month (November 27), and will in all probability remain in tho Dominion for two or three months. Miss Bright and Messrs. Burns, Bnllacliey, Low, and IlasUim have been elected to represent the Wellington District Institute at the annual council of the New Zealand Educational Institute, to be held at Timavn in January, 1912.