PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2018, 27 March 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

- The Right Hon. ]W. F. Massey (Prime Minister) is at Dunedih. Tho Hon. W. H.Hcrries isat Tolaga Bajvthe Hon. Jasi Allen and the Hon. A. L. Herdman at Rotdrua, and tho Hon. R. H. Rhodes at Auckland. The other Cabinet Ministers are hi Wellington. The Hon. F.'M. B. Fisher returned to Wellington- from Masterton jesterday.-' He is to deliver a'political address at Foxten on Monday night. ' Mr.: Justice Edwards has returned to Wellington. ' • ". :•• Mr. Justice Stringer, replying to a welcome from the Auckland! Bar and representatives of Capital and Labour in the Arbitration Court yesterday, said his experience during the past two months had only served to deopen the sense of responsibility with which he had accepted office, and his apprecia.tion of.the vast importance of the decisions given by the Arbitration Court. Mr. J. G. W. Aitken, who underwent two ; serious operations recently in a private hospital, lias recoyered sufficiently, to be removed to his own homo. Ho was able to take the air in a motorcar for the first time on Tuesday, and, generally speaking, is making a steady •recovery. Mr. A. S. Biss, .of Wellington, who has been on a,visit to Australia and Tasmania, was a passenger by the Athehio which arrived yesterday. "The Rev. H. J. Allen, late of Liverpool, who has come out to New Zoaland to take charge of a parish in the diocese of Canterbury, armed in Wellington bythe Athenic'from London yesterday. - Mr. R. Triggs, Assistant-Public/Ser- .' vice Commissioner, is to return to-day from Blenheim, whero he has been .transacting Departmental business.

•Mr; F. Train, of Waitotara, who iin- , successfully contested tho Pa tea seat ■ at the last election, is " an- -.■; nounced as. a candidate for. tho same ' seat at the next polls. .-. /Mr. H. W.'Northcroft, Ncwv Zealand ' Resident Commissioner at the Cook Is';lands; arrived in Wellington by the . Moaha yesterday. . . ■'.The Rev. W.-E. Lush, of Auckland, and formerly curate-of St. Paul's-Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, returned from .: a visit to - England. by tho Athenic yes- . ■ terday.. -.-.,. ■■■ '/ ■ .'■' Mr. Henry Bracy, who has been in 'the employ of Messrs. J. C. Williamson, Ltd.', tor a quarter of a century, and '; who-has just : retired from the service ; ;' of that'firm, is a through passenger by "tho. Tiiliiiti' for San Francisco. -Mr. v Bracy is taking a trip to America for . "health reasons,'and to pay a visit to his : wife and son_ (Mr. Sydney Bracy), both ■ of-whom are in'the'employ or the Amer-. ; loan Biograph Company as picture play;ers.- They are"at present located at Los .-• Angeles, and Mr. Bracy.does not an- ■ ticipatethat he will travel further east . -than'that city, as his health-suffers on : a long train journey. Mr. Bracy in- ■ tends, to'return to Sydney by the Tahiti on her return voyage.. : '''■ The.Rov. E. C Dent, of Zulula'nd, /South Africa, arrived'in Wellington by ; , the'Athenic from Capo Town yesterday. /He is on a visit.to relations in Auck- . .land. ■'.. :"'':.' '."•'''

./; ''Mr. .Griffith- Taylor,'. 8.A., B.Sc., ,■ :F.R.G.S., a member of. Captain Scott's ; Antarctic Expedition, was a passenger :'from London,to Hobart by the Athenic. ; Mr.' Taylor will visit New .Zealand '■■•shortly.. ~.'■ ..'■'■ •-•; '■''. -Dr. Spencer-Wicks, ' of Kimberley, ■ South Africa, was a passenger from Cape Town to' Hobart by the Athenic. i ' He intends coming oh to New Zealand. \r. Mr. v..Rv Constabiei--, %-;who 'designed ~ R.M.S. Niagara for thejUhion Company, i. arrived in Wellington from-London by -the - Athenic yesterday; ■-, int ■■■:>, ■;> ;.■ ;,,,,, Mr. E/W. Johnson',' of Gisborne] re- "' turned from London by the Athenic yesterday. • . ..■ . '.'-.'., Dr. W.. J. Cran, who at onp time /-■practised on tho West Coast, and left ' '•'lor' England about two years.and a.half ; arrived in' Sydney' yesterday, per the AVhito Star liner Medic,-, en route .;• to Wellington. He will arrive here by the Willoelira- next Wednesday. ;'...,. -Mr. T. S. Williams, -Mayor of Wanga- , nui, complying with the' request of a . large deputation yesterday, has.decided '..-.'to stand for .the,position.,.?' ... -Mr. Stanley West;' journalist, of New York, is a through'passenger by the ;<Moana from San Francisco to Sydney. He is.en route to-Fremantle. ' i .'. .Sergeant A. VG. Baker, Sergeant E. Clough, Sergeant J. Moore, and Sergeant E. M. Vickory, of the Imperial Army, arrived in Wellington by the i' Athenic from London yesterday. They ' will be attached to the New Zealand ■-'. staff.' ' (•"-. "•■;• '■' ■"■■ .Captains Geo', Crawshaw and Irwin ■ were passengers from ..Sydney'by the Tahiti yesterday., .. ..-'.' • . ,Mr. A. S. Bignell has been appointed . .to'the Wanganui District Licensing ; ■ Committee. ' . Mr. J. W'. Poynton, S.M., has been appointed chairman : of the Licensing Committee for the districts of Oroua, Palmerston, and Otaki, vice Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M. , ' ; The Acting-Town Clerk (Mr. R, Tait) received, the following telegram from His Worship the Mayor (Mr! J. P. Luke), at; Napier, yesterday': "Son progressing fairly well." Mr. James Macintosh, of the firm of -Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., returned from a visit to Australia by the Tahiti yesterday, ; Mr. R. R. Hollister, the American journalist-evangelist, who has been lecturing in' New Zealand, leaves for San Francisco by the Tahiti to-day.

Mr. Holhs, M.P., of New South \\ ales, is a through passenger to America, by the Moaua. .

fho Greater Wellington Municipal Electors' Association has appointed Mr. Grich ton-Smith as organiser, in connection with the present Mayoral campaign. It.is hoped to considerably augment tho present membership of tho association, and the organiser will also make- it his business to induce qualified citizens who have not yet done so to enrol.