PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

! His, Excellency Admiral. Sir,,.GSbrfje King-Hall, will .be of the New Zealand Club at luncheon .on .Tuesday December ; , 10. , His rExoeJlenoy' is expected .to arrive 'from 'the south /oii board H.M.S. Cambrian ncit Sata'rday.

; Mr. A. Guise <late Private Secretary to Lord Islington) did Mrs. Guise will'remain in-Wellington until about Wednesday/December 18, when' they leave for Auckland to.catch,the Marama sailing for Vancouver oh December ,20... '■

•The Prime Minister (the Hon. W. P. iMaweyL' the ■ ■. Hon., B. - Hv Ehodes, the Hon.^W^PraserT.the•'*ao£; , 'Dr. Pbmare"f and the Hon. F..M. B. Fisher will all be present to-night at a banquet at.l/aw-. rence, to be tendered to the Hon; James Allen, The Hon. A.; L. Herdman. is ,'at Auckland, and the Hon. W.-.H. Hemes and the Hon. H. D. Bell are in.Weilington. Oh.his return journey .the, Prime-, Minister will spend.'one ; day„m Dunedih and one day in ChTistchxirch, arriving back here on Tuesday. • ....

i' The Hon. James .Allen has accepted the invitation'extende'd to him-by the. Wellington College Governors to present the prizes next Wednesday,./ Mrs,. Allen has accepted a similar invitation to preside ■at the priie-giving at the: Girls' College next Thursday. .' . '■ ,

,' At the recent, meeting; of ,the executive of tihe Reforin-party, a presentatioii.was mad* oh behalf '[ of,J tte.'/delegates who attended,, the: firet general . conference, of,-..'. the ~ party, to the 'party leader, .th'e'.;.Hoh..;W v F. Massey, PTime' Minister.. .The. presentation, which .was made by, Mr. B.H. Williams, representing, Hawke's Bay,..:is. a handsomely, framed,, photograph''* of the delegates at tho conference. .'• ~; , . , Rear-Admiral A. Boss, of,,the tT.S.A. Naw, and his daughter, .are staying at the.'Royal Oak Hotel.;, They have been touring the North Island.,'. . ■■'■.■' Mr. A. Myerii M.P., Auckian'cL has intimated his ihtentibk ,'6f attehdiriS the banquet whioh is to be given to the Hon, James Allen in Wellington next week.

, The Eev. E: H. Hobday, vicar. of St. Matthew's, Brooklyn, returned from a trip to England by the.Moana from Sydney to-day, ■•' .;,'

.. Mr. Martin Kennedy'leaves fora trip to London.bh December 13: by the Orient inail steamer from Sydney.-, '

Captain D. C. Siiencer Smith, Staff Officer to the G.0.C., leaves Auckland, fbf fngland to rejoin, his, Kgiment(Ebyal rtillery) on December 20.' He.leaves by the Marama,' via Vancouver.'

Mr. J, H. Bafr has "appointed accountant to the .Department of Tourist and Health Resorts.

, Mr. W. W.- Cook has been gaietted chief clerk in the Eegistrar-General's .' bfiflcb. . ; •■ ..•'.;

! Mr, Charles Mlntyfe,. president of ii'e JEngin'eers' Sooiety, of Wellington, leaves on a health trip to, Saiii' Prattcisbo ,by the Moana. He will be accompanied by his biothef, Mr. Douglas,M'lntyre. . i ■'■■ ■