PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7039, 29 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONALIA

Mr Alf Hill was a passenger by the Moeraki for .Sydney yesterday. Mr W. T.' Jennings, M.P. for, Taumarunui, was a visitor to Wellington yesterday.

Miss Huxtable was yesterday appointed a teacher of music at the AVellington Girls' College-

Mr E. Tregear, Secretary of Labour, is on a visit to Christchurch on departmental business. Mr P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, who has been on a visit to Nelson, has returned to Wellington. Councillor Frost returned to Wellington on Thursday night from a holiday visit to the Marlborough and Kelson districts.

Br A. McArthur, S.M. and Mrs McArthur, leave by the Corinthic- this morning on an extended visit to the Old Country.

Miss Agnes S. Vernon, of Invercargill, was yesterday appointed by the Ha-wke's Bay Education Board as an instructor in dressmaking and cookery.

The AVellington Education Board has appointed Mrs Look, widow of the lato Mr Look, to be a temporary assistant at tho Brooklyn School. Miss MoLeod, now at Eeefton, has been appointed assistant mistress at the Dannevirko High School, out of twenty applicants.—Press Association.

Mr AV. S. La Trobe, director of the Wellington Technical School, was last night granted leave of absence to attend tho coming educational conference. Mr A. AV. Hogg, M.P., who has passed through a rather trying illness, is going to .the south, on the advice of Dr Ifoskling, to endeavour to thoroughly recuperate his health. '

Mr A. Dinnie, who has had charge of the electrical work at the Otira. tunnel, has been appointed to the position of chief electrical engineer to the Boss Flat Goldfields Company in the stead of .Mr Falkenbach, who has resigned.

Among the passengers sailing by the Corinthic for London to-day at daybreak are Dr C. G. Tench (who has been on a visit to the Dominion), Commander P. Wheater, Mr J. M. Brown (New Plymouth), Mr 11. H. Enderby (Wanganui), Dr Treevan (Timaru) and Mr E. It. Booth (Christchurch). The Minister of Bailways (Hon. J. A. Millar) ' intends visiting Hawke's Bay next week. He will leave AVellington on Monday, and receive, a largo deputation of the joint local authorities at Napier on the following; morning, when the revised time-table will be discussed. He will return later in the ■ week and remain in town until towards the middLs of February, when he will go to Dunedin.

The Hon. C. G. Wade, K.C., M.L.C., Prime Minister of New South Wales, and Mrs Wade, leave Wellington by this morning's express for Auckland, where they embark immediately for Sydney. Mr Wade informed a "New Zealand. Times" representative yesterday that he would return to New Zealand during his next year's hoiiday, as he was particularly desirous of taking a walking tour in the beautiful alpine and sounds districts of the South Island.

• Mr Bert Gilbert, who plays the part of the Duke of Alasia in "The King of Cadomia" this ovoning, comes from a family of actors. Like Harry L"auder, Mr Gilbert has created a line of fun quite his own, and has been dubbed by Mr Archer, the noted critic, as the "pessimistic humorist." Ho has been earning his living oui tho stage from childhood. Comedians who have the real natural humouT are, like poets, born, not made. Mr- Gilbert has the good fortune to be possessed of the • gift in a rare degree. Mr Edward Okey, whose death was reported from New Plymouth yesterday, aged eighty-two yeairs, was a nativo of Stroud, Gloucestershire, where he learned his trade of house decorating. In 1557 hte came out to New Zealand in the ship Cashmere, and settled at New Plymouth (says the "Herald"). Ho joined Mr Patterson in his sawmilling business, at which lie continued until the troubles with tho Maoris oompelled him to come into town-, where he enrolled himself in the militia, in which capacity he was frequently under fire. After the war he engaged in farming, but in the course of a. fenv years he gave up that occupation and commenced business m New Plymouth as a painter and decorator.

Commissioner and Mrs Hay, who have recently been appointed by General Booth to the oversight of Salvation Army operations in the Commonwealth of Australia' and the Dominion, of New Zealand, will arrive by the Mararoa on Tuesday nest. They will be accompanied by Colonel Birkenshaw (from Melbourne) and Brigadier Albiston, from the South Island. Palmerston North will be visited on Tuesday, Masterton on. Wednesday, and a reception meeting is announced for 'Thursday, February 3rd, -n the Army Hall, Vivian, street, at which tho Hon. Dr Findlay and others will sneak. Addresses will also be give.ii by Commissioner and Mrs Hay. Amongst other special meetings a young Pontes night has been fixed for Saturday, February sth, at which the girls from the children's home, Owen street, will take an active part. On Sunday, ill the Opera House, alt 3 p.m., Mrs Hay will lecture on "Tragedies of the London Slums.