PERSONALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6679, 30 November 1908, Page 5

PERSONALIA.

His Excellency the Governor, Loid ITunket, the Hon. Kathleen Plunket and Captain Lyon, A.D.C., will return to. Wellington on Wednesday. .Tho lion. Kathleen Plunket leaves lor England on Thursday. Tho Governor has consented to lay the foundation stone of the new Nazareth Homo on the Grove Estate. Christchurch, on January 17th. Iha now building, the portion to be now erected, costing some JC23,(KJO, will bo ai very imposing structure when completed.

Sir William Steward, M.P. for Wax* taki, arrived in Wellington yesterday.

Dr Volintine, Inspcgtor-General of Hospitals, returned to Wellington from the South yesterday.

His Honor Mr Justice Cooper willj leave for Blenheim this afternoon on 1 Circuit business. Mr Hamber, editor of tho “New Zealand Uoferee," arrived in Wellington, yesterday.

Mi- George Hunter, tho Opposition can-; didate for Waipawa, concluded a brief visit to Wellington on Saturday. Me George Willie lias resigned hifl commission as lieutenant in tho Johnsonvilll> Rifle Volunteers. Tho Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Dr FimlJay, and Mrs Findlay left Wellington on Saturday for Auckland, on a •short visit.

A London cablegram states that Dr 1 Nevill, Bishop of Dunddin. and Primate of New Zealand, has left London by the Ormuz for Australia, on route to New Zealand.

Mr A. T. Ngata, tho retiring mem-: ber for Eastern Maori district, is again) receiving tho enthusiastic support of the) Young Maori party in connection with the Maori members' election, which takes place early in December.

Captain Livingstone, who brought the Warrimoo over from Sydney last week, loft the vessel at Dunedin and has gone on holiday leave. Captain Hutchings succeeded him in command of the Warrimoo.

Tho Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Labour, returned from Dunedin by tael Maori yesterday. Tho Hon. W. HallJones, Mrs Hall-Jones, and the Misses. Hall-Joncs were passengers by the same steamer.

Mr J. G. Wilson, surveyor, of Napier, has been transferred to the Blenheim Lands and Survey Office, to till the position of draughtsman rendered vacant by tho transfer of Mr E. Frisscll to Auckland.

The congregation of First Church, Invercargill, has addressed a unanimous call to tho Rov. John McKenzie, M.A.,. of St. Andrew's Church, Christchurch. It was decided at the same meeting to raise tho stipend from J 2-100 to .CSOO per annum, with manse.

Lieutenant Knox, K.N., left by the Christchurch stjtamer on Saturday night. He is hooked for several meetings down South in connection with tho Navv League. It is hoped later on that* meetings may be arranged at Nelson,; Blenheim, New Plymouth, Wanganui and Masterton.

The late staff of the Wellington Local' Option Poll Committee assembled at the To Aro Hotel on Saturday night, with' the object of making a presentation tol Mr T. M. Smith, who was organiser in •tho recent campaign. Mr J. Savage was voted to the chair. The presentation took the form of a Gladstone bag, which was suitably inscribed. Various toasts were proposed and honoured, chief amongst which were "Mr Smith” (Mr Bartholomew). "Absent Members" (Mr Smith), nnd "The Committee” (Mr Savage). The proceedings terminated with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne.”

Captain George Perriam, one of the old-tuno masters of the clipper ships which took such an important part in Ilia colonisation of New Zealand, returned to Wellington on Saturday in command of tho barque Gladys, owned by Mr Walter Savill, one of the originators of the big Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company. Captain Perriam last visited Wellington in charge of the Gladys five or six years ago. He first came to New Zealand, in 1876, and has commanded in turn the Wave Queen, the) barque Loch Nagar, the ship Crusader, and the ship Nelson. Captain Perriam has a very extensive circle of acquaintances who journeyed to Ndw Zealand in tho "sailing ship days." At Timaru on Friday night the Hon. W. Hall-Jones was presented, with a smoker’s companion, containing four silver-mounted pipes and a cigar-holder, and Mrs Hall-Jones was the recipient ot a stand of toilet brushes (in silvermounted ebony), from members of his old election committee and- friends. Mr Hall-Jones, in reply, said he was now going to a change of scene, of work and of environment, and he believed the change would bo beneficial. It would be a very great change. At present he had a staff of about 17,000 men under his control. In London he would have less than thirty. Nevertheless, there was a great deal of work to be don© in London for- the benefit of New Zealand, and ho asked them to believe that the energy that ho had applied to his duties as a Minister hero would be applied to that 'work. (Applause.)