PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1606, 25 November 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vice-Eeoai,. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Islington arrived in Auckland on Saturday morning from Wellington. In the afternoon the Governor opened the new King Georgo Coronation Hall at Mount Albert.—Press Association. Tho Prime Minister (the Hon. W. F. Massey) called on the- Governor at Auckland on Saturday morning, and subsequently received a deputation from viticulturists. In the afternoon Mr. Massey attended a garden party given in honour of the Reform party at the residence of Mrs. Brigham, in Parnel(—Press Association. , The Hon. W. F. Massey is at Auckland, and the Hon. F, M. B. Fisher at Christchurch. The Hon. James Allen, the Hon. A. L. Herdman, the Hon. W. Eraser, the Hon. R. H Rhodes, the Hon. H. D. Bell, and the Hon. W. fl. Herries are in Wellington Mr. Herries arrived from Te Aroha yesterday. The Hon. Dr. Pomnre will arrive by Main Trunk express this afternoon. Tho Hon. W. Eraser, M.P., arrived from the south by the Maori yesterday morning. Sir Joseph Ward has consented to repre-i sent the Invercargill Importers Association in London in their endeavour to obtain direct shipments to the Bluff.—Press Association. I Mr. W', Smith, of Messrs. Smith and Smith, left last night for Rofcorua.

Mr, Gavin Hamilton, private secretary to the Governor-designate, is a son of the late Sir Robert Hamilton, K.C.8., who from 1887 to 1892 was Governor of Tasmania.

On Saturday the Rev. Dean M'Kenna completed his twenty-five years as parish priest of Masterton, laving arrived in the town on November 23, 1887. The parishioners of the district are celebrating the event by giving a grand complimentary concert in the Town Hall on Wednesday, November 27.

Mr. Robert Gibson (foreman of the car and wagon department at the Petono Railway Workshops), who Tetired on superannuation last week, was the guest of.the evening at a farewell smoke concert gi<-ea by the officers and men of the Department at Petone on Saturday night. Mr Pearson, locomotive engineer, was in the chair.

Sir Gilbert Wills,' who has been appointed extra aide-de-camp to the Earl of Liverpool—the Governor-designate, is the second baronet, and is an M.A. of Magdalen Collego (Oxford),' with a town house in Kensington Palace Gardens and a country house at Dulverton, He is thirty-two, unmarried,- a J.P. - for, Somerset, was a, lieutenant of. the Royal North Devon Hussars, and was an extra aide, a few years back, to Lord Aberdeen, ■

Captain Shaw and Mr. Eastwood, who have been appointed aides-decamp to Lord Liverpool, Governor-designate of New Zealand, were both in the Rifle Brigade with Lord Liverpool.

• Mr. Christopher Smith has returned to Wellington from a trip to England and America.

Commissioner and Mrs. Richards and Colonel and Mrs. Fisher have left Wellington on a visit to Blenheim, Nelson, and Motueka. This is the first visit the Commissioner has paid to these districts. The party is to return, to Wellington on Thursday next. - 1

Dr. Graham Robertson, of Johnsonville, Wellington, has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, having passed the necessary examinations, . with special reference to the diseases of women. Tho, doctor has been doing post graduate work in London and Edinburgh, and now intends talcing an extended tour on the Continent and Italy, accompanied by Mrs. Robertson end Mrs. and Miss Gear. Ho hopes before his return in- February to 609 the principal Continental hospitals. ,