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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1683, 1 June 1904, Page 60

It has been decided by the Government that the Government Buildings in Wellington, Government House, Parliament Buildings and the General Post Office are to be illuminated in honour of his Excellency Lord Plunket upon his arrival in Wellington. The details of the reception of the new Governor upon his landing arp, of course, in the hands of the civic authorities, and the Government, in order to assist as far as it can, has decided to call out the volunteers and Garrison Band to take part in the reception- The Mayor Avill invite the citizens to observe the day as a holiday. The Hinemoa, lvith the members of the Ministry on board, is to meet the Gothic outside Wellington harbour, and Lord Plunket will tranship to the Hinemoa, and enter the port on board the Government steamer. An address of welcome from the citizens will be presented at Queen’s Wharf by the Mayor of Wellington. A committee of the City Council is now preparing this address, and an address of farewell to Lord .Ranfurly, who is to leave Wellington on June 20th, the day on which Lord Plunket will probably arrive here. Miss A. N. Johnston, M.A., of Manchester, has been appointed by tlie council of Bangor College—one of the three colleges constituting the University of Wales—'to occupy the chair of education during the absence of Professor Green in the present collegiate year.- This, it is believed, is the first occasion on which a woman.has been appointed to a professorship in a British. University College.