PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 October 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

~ Sir, Joseph Ward, Lady Ward, and Ministerial . party will be present at the performance of "The Great Awakening" tomorrow (Saturday) evening at tho Opera Houso. ' " ' Hume is a 'sufferer from influenza. Messrs.':W. D. Bauckham and Henry Bennett' are gazetted Deputy-Registrars of birfclisj deaths/ and marriages at Aslihurst and "-Featlierston respectively. v .The appointment of William A. Ring, Stanley B. . Harrison, and Martin O'Maley to be ,cadets in the Government Insurance Department : is gazetted, this week.

• Mr. B. C. Aston is gazotted Chief Chemist to' tho Agricultural Department in this week's " Gazette.'-' Tho" resignation of Captain John Stud-holme,''-of'-the Ashburtoh; Mounted Rifles, bas';bccn accepted by tho Government. Mr. W. Jackson, late handicappcr to tho Thorndon Dinghy Sailing Club; was presented by .tho .members of tho club last evening with a case of silver-mounted pipes, as a tqlicn 'of 'the esteem" in which he was held. Mr. Jackson, who i 3 an enthusiastic yachtsman, is leaving Wellington. " Captain. Charles H. Ma'thias ' has, been awarded tho Colonial Auxiliary Forces longBervico medal, having.over, twenty years' servico ,to.. his credit. • ,

Mr. C. Crpnche/, has bcen ; appointed to succeed - Mr. J. W. Williams as secretary to the' Shipasasters" 'Association.

/ Tho Hon. Captain Baillie, who has just returned from ail'oversea trip, took his seat in ■'tho.Legislative Council. yesterday aftornoon, and- was wolcomed by, his fellow mombors.

Lieutenant Edward Pago has been pro'moted to bo Captain of tho EkctaliunaMounted Riflo Volunteers. Mr. James Scott, has beon appointed captain of' tho .'Wanganui Rifles, aiidMr. Felix H. Levin captain "of St. John's Collego, Rifles. Mr. C. W. Jonesi Now' .Zealand manager of the. Huddart, Parker, Co., is a passenger from Du'nedin by thc'Mahono, duo this morning. , .. , ;■' - Loavo of absence,has boon-granted to the. following teachers by tho Education Board. —Mr; C. R. Jopi'in, headmaster. at Wadestown (two ! monthb as from October 21); Miss F. Bird, assistant teacher at Roseneath (threo weeks from October 13); Mr. K. Hold'away, pupil-teacher at Worscr, Bay (one month;from.October 10); and Miss.Dowdcswell, hoad-ifceacher. ; -at Kaitara, (an additional month).

' The Education Board at its meeting yesterday- afternoon • accepted the resignations of' Mr. A. Biichlcr, head-teacher at Mauricevillo,, and - Mr: -C.<'i J; Lyno, assistant-master at Lovrer Hutt District/High School.

At a special mooting .of tho Wellington Education Board,, hold. prior to,the ordinary meeting.,yesterday, afternoon, Mr. J. G. W. Aitken, M.H.R., was. elected successor to the, Rev.- W.' A.. Evans (resigned), _as tho Board's;' representative on, tho.,Technical Education. Board. ~-i.

The following;: gentlemen have been appointed Commissioners of tho Supreifio Cou -v of- New Zealand Messrs. Gustav, H. Lebius, Sydney; Donald R. Morrison, : Melbourne; Alfred B. Crisp, 1 Hobart; R.' S. W: Dickson, Melbourho; ;Rui»ert. Wilks, Melbourne. :

: Mr. 'E. G. Beale, who has'boon appointed: chief clerk in the Greymouth office, of tho Public ! Works Department, in .succession to Mr. G; T Grace; is ai. present in Wellington. He will leave fdr-Greymouth-by the Arahura to-morrow. ■' ' : Mr. John Wood,; assistant-engineer- of the Public Works Department, ( who is to t-ako 'cbargo'of'tlie construction 'work on, tho Midland Railway between Otira and tho turinolj will reach, Gr.eymouth' at--tho beginning- if next.'week. • Jlr. Maughan Baniett leaves for. Palm;rston North thisj morning,, and will. give, a. re-cital-at .the Presbyterian Church there l this ovoning oil the.-'organ- that formerly belonged to .the, First .Church, at Duncdin. Miss Mina. Caldow, .. of .Wellington,. will bo . tho assisting , vocalist.,-. ~t.; , - ' \ ,

Mr/Andrew.' Black, the talented English; -baritono- vobalist, • left for tho North, jester-* day"-on-'-a-..holiday visit ;to | To Aroha':and; Rotoriia ,(via Auckland). - !"

Regretful reforehcb was made to the death of Mr. James Mackay, lato Chief Clerk 'n the Labour and- Chief-Inspector of' Factories, at tho meeting, of. tho ; Shop-. kobpers'' l 'Association hold yesterday, afternoon.!' Tho President} (Mr. H. Seaton) testified to;the.willing help.Mr. Mackay. had always given' thorn. •A'voto'of condoloncc.wit'i his relatives v,*as passed, and the secretary was instructed..:to - forward, them .a, suitable lo'ttor,. expressing tho Association's rogret at Mr. Mackay's untimely decease.

- Mr. T. W. Witt, for twenty -years in, the omploj? of Messrs. Sargood,,Son,, and Ewei, the last ; fifghteen as,, head,, of,, the fancy goods department in Wellington, is retiring, from;tho firm's ,service at tho -end. of the month, to enter-into, busirioss-on ..,his, .o.wn.account .later. .on. .Complimentary.-, reference was-.made,, to Mr. ; Witt at tho -.meeting ot the.., .Shopkeopers!-. Association ... yesterday, soveral spoakors • testifying to his ;tact and : tho -, help :he had afforded , them during his long conncction with tho Jcrvois Quay firm. It was. resolved to forward him a' letter,' regretting; 11 his". retirement;" from Messrs.^Sa'rgqod, 1 Son, and Even's, and'wishing him every success in the futuro. ■ Mr. Witt ii a' niomber of the Miraniar Borough Council. , r ■ Gable news'lias been received of tho death 'at . the Pimble. Sanatorium; Sydney, of. Mrs' W. S.', La Trobe,'wifo of tho Director of tho-Wellington Technical School. Mr. La Trobe , heard of 'the vory serious condition of his wifo ' last week, and left for Sydney by the Mon'owai on Friday last:.' Mrs. La Trobe lias been in, Australia for some months past for'health reasons;"