PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14586, 24 January 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. W. J. MonBELL, headmaster of the Otago Boys' High School, is visiting Auckland.

Mr. W. Wyper, of Sydney, returned from a visit to Rotorua yesterday, and is staying at the Central Hotel.

The Hon. G. W. Palmer, of London, who has been staying at tho Grand Hotel, left by the Main Trunk express for Wellington hist nightr

The Hon. Geo. Fowlds (Minister for Education) arrived in Wellington by the Alain Trunk express yesterday, and was met at the station by his colleagues.

Sir Graham Hammond-Graeme and Laxly Graeme, who, together with their son, arrived by the Mantua from London, on Friday last, left by the express for Rotorua yesterday.

Archbishop Clark, of Melbourne, arrived in the Dominion oy the steamer Warrimoo yesterday (says a Frees Association, message from Invercargill). He intends to pay a brief visit to Rotorua.

Mr. Chas. Grosvenor, secretary of the Auckland Employers' Association, left for Hamilton, yesterday morning, to represent the employers in a butchers' dispute before the Conciliation Council.

. Mr. A. S. Russell, formerly Auckland manager for the South British Insurance Company, who went to England for the benefit of'his health, returned by the Victoria from Sydney on Sunday, much benefited by the trip.

Dr. Bell, head of the Geological Survey Department, 'accompanied by Mr. Kenneth Graham, of the Department, and Sir. M. Paul," mining inspector, arrived in Te Aroha on Saturday, en route for Katikati (writes our own correspondent). They paid a brief visit to Wairongomai, and left again on Sunday morning. Dr. Bell regrets that, his early departure will prevent him from making a of the reefbearing country between Waihi and Te Aroha, of which he speaks in . encouraging' terms. It is chiefly at his instance that the members of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers are to pay a ■visit to Te Aroha on the sth prox.