PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXI, 26 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor was a passenger north by the mail train last evening. To-day the Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) is to visit Stratford.

At a meeting of the Dunedin City Council last night Mr Lewin, of Lvttelton } was appointed Town Clerk, "in succession to Mr R. W. Richards, says a Press Association message. There were 38 applicants for the position, which carries a salary of £600 per annum.

Mr J. E. Schwitzer, who was recently appointed chief engineer of the Can-adian-Pacific Railway, consequent on his brilliant engineering achievements for the company, has died at Montreal or pneumonia.

The Commandant of the Forces (Major-General Godley, C.8.;, accompanied by his staff officer, Lieut.-Col Burnett-Smith, D.5.0., left for the south last night on a visit of inspection.—Press Association.

The death is announced at Stratford * i.- ,X- Fer Sus<>n- Mr Ferguson was well known in Hawera, where for several years in the early days of the town he was m business as a tailor, and old friends will regret to hear or his death. He was very prominent in Masonic matters.

Bishop &c igan, formerly of Auckland, has, been obliged, on the advice of hi* medical attendants, to decline the invitation from the Bishop of Manchester to undertake the work of missioner in that diocese Since reaching England Dr. >ieligan has been staying in Devon where he has taken a house for the winter.

His Excellency the Governor (Lord Islington) will arrive in Auckland next bunday, and on Monday ev^nino- w j]i Preside over a dinner at "the Grand Motel, to be tendered to the Australian mining engineers who will be visiting that city m connection with the anr.ua! conference of the institute. His Excellency will accompany the party to theThames, where the business of the conference, will be transacted.

The Premier has accepted an invitation to go to the Dawson's Falls Mountain House on the occasion of his visit to Kaponga having accepted an invitation from the Park Board. But in a telegram to Mr F, W. Wilkie yesterday Sm JT 1161' ***?***<*■ regret that hi found time would not permit of him carrymg out his intention. He pr£ poses to visit Kaponga by motor P<S to-morrow morning, and according £ Z i r-1i mi m + re P°rted * yesterday's Sta? Ihent &£&&& »* << fi Tlli 3 , C<T ection ,with thF field" changes of the Salvation Army m the North Island, the following transfers are being made : Adjutant Mlrshall, from Dannevirke to Petone: Adiutant Green, from Petone to Dannevirke -Ad jutant Dorkin* from NewC(A uc kiatd) to TYanganui: Adjutant Wellington from X™ P'?mou*h to Newton (Auckland^ TwI tO? *?> Bawera; aEnsiS yGSb\), froS ihame^s to De^onport; Ensign Hultquist IT ?V nVjs& Md 4; EnsignAvenel, from Feildmg to Mast^rton.

Mr Barclay Hector has been appoint\W <7 ? Position of Registrar of theNew Zealand University Senate in succession to Mr J W Joynt, who resigned last year Mr Hector, who is a son ot the late Sn James Hector, has been connected with the University for sixteen years past. In February, 1899 he was appointed assistant to Mr J 'w Joynt, Registrar; and at the Senate meeting of 1904 he was appointed tsistan. Registrar. At the same timeMr Joynt was granted six months' leave of absence and Mr Hector was appointed Actmg-Reo ls trar for that period On many occasions he had acted as Regiswpp'JT en°dS naTjin- from ftreeweeks to two months, and, all told he ha sactuallycarried on the business of the University almost single-handed for -v cry nearly two complete years.