PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 8, 4 October 1907, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor and a party from Government House will attend the final korero of the Wellington Savage Club to lie held tomorrow ovening. The Rev. Arona Te Hana, (Anglican Maori minister at Otaki, retires on pension as from October 1., The Hon. Miss Greville, who has been touring Neiv Zealand, leaves for Sydney by the Wimmera to-day. Sir. Ernest' Y. Redward, of the Crown Law Office, has Been appointed Assistant Grown Law Officer - Mr. E. Cuthbert, engineer to the Christchurch • Bruinago Board, returned south last night. , , Mr. E. J. Von'Dadelszen, RegistrarGeneral, returned to work yesterday after a bout with the common, onemy, influenza. The Inspector of Native Schools, Mr. W. AV. Bird, left Wellington yesterday on a visit of inspection to the schools of the northern districts. Mr. and Mrs. John Duncan, and Miss Duncan, of Wellington, and Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Stead and Miss Stead, of Christchurch, arc passengers by the Arawa, due here from London on or , about Wednesday next. Constable Henry H. Hancox has been appointed clerk of the Magisr trate's and Warden's Courts at Okarito ,an dlias been added to the list of Inspectors of Factories. Mr. A. A. Corrigan, manager of the Wellington branch of the D.1.C., and commanding officer of the Zealandia Rifles, loft 1 for Melbourne by tho Maheno last night. Mr. j. Strnnchon, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and Mr. G. Wright, Secretary to tho Land Board., weut to Ekotahuna yesterday in connection with tho ballot for sections to bo hold to-day.

Brigadier Albiston, officer in charge of the Salvation Army's work in the North Island, is expected to be in town to-day, after a tour of the northern districts. Mr. E .13. Brown has been re-elected by the Wellington Diocesan Standing Committee to the Wellington Diocesan Board of Trustees, tho Porirua Trust, and tho Papawai and Kaikakirikiri Trust; A Christchurch telegram states that Mr. William Hiclcley Gundry, a wellknown accountant and an old Christchurch resident, died yesterday morning from pneumonia, after three days' illness. Herr Gustav" SlapofFski, who was lately hero with Musgrove's German Opera Company, has been appointed conductor- of the Sydney Amateur Orchestral Society,, vine Signor Hazou who is about to leave Australia for Italy. • ■ Miss May Lingard,. the, daughter of Mr William Lingard, of this city, and an artist whose work is very well and favourably known in Wellington, has returned from America, where she has been in charge of the crt department in a largo educational institution in New Jersey. Miss Lingard, who intends to remain in Wellington for about a year, lyill probably open a studio during her stay. Mr. Charles Edwards, L. Mus., T.C.L., who is conducting the annual examinations for the Trinity College Board of Music, left Wellington yesterday'for Blenheim. After completing examinations in the South Island; lie will leave the Bluff' for Tasmania on November 25. The Rev. ■R. S. Gray, of Christchurch secretary of tho Baptist Union of Now Zealand, has had a serious breakdown in health, and has been ordered to take three months] complete rest. . The Rev. P. B. Meyer, whose ■ seheme for the Federation of the Free Churches of the world was recently cabled from England, is • expected to visit Australia and New Zealand towards the end of next In all probability ,Gipsy Smith will pay tho Commonwealth and Dominion a visit tho year, following. , The Rev. W. Lamb, late of Brooklyn, is at present in the Old Country. He attended the Keswick Convention, of which he iwrites most enthusiastically. He is engaged to conduct a "series of evangelistic missions in a number of cities. Sir. Herbert Dix, who has for some years been connected with the Wellington branch of the Adams Star Cycle Company, has decided to try his fortune ill Southern California. Accompanied by his wife and family he leaves for San Francisco at the end ' of the month. ' Mr. W. B. Rhodes Moorehouse, of Christchurch, leaves Wellington on tho 13th instant, for Sydney, there to connect with the Mooltan for London, leaving Sydney on the 26th instant. The Misses Hall (2), sisters of Mr. Walter Hall, intend paying a visit to England about tho middle of the coming year. Professor R. Maclaurin, Professor of Law and Mathematics at the Victoria College,' who has accepted an,important appointment at the Columbia University, New York, has booked to sail for Vancouver en route to the East by the Miowcra, which is timed to leave Sydney on December 23rd. Mr. James M. Adam, late clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Riverton, has been transferred to Cromwell vice Mr. 0. E. Bowling. Mr D. P. Phillips succeeds - Mr. Adam at Riverton. Mr. George G. Chisholm has been appointed clerk o ftlie S.M. Court at. Port Chalmers vico Mr. James Millar,. transferred to Dunediu. , • The appointment of Mr . John Lomas as Chief Inspector of Factories . and Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions; Mr. .F. W. T. Romley. as Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories; and Mr. John W. Collins as Accountant (to tho Labour Department) and Inspector of Factories are gazetted. . The Colonial Auxiliary Forces longservice medal has been awarded •to ' Gunner W. R. Rock/- of tho D Battery, who lias a total service of twonty-four year's three hundred and four days. Mr. A. H. Cooper, president of the Trades and Labour Council, leaves for Christchurch on the 10th inst to attend the sittings of the Agricultural Board, commencing on the 11th, when evidence .will be taken regarding broaches of tho Act governing the 1 operations of Trusts.