PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 48, 20 November 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. .Malcolm M'Gregor, solicitor, of Auckland, is' at'.'p'resent in -Wellington.^; Mr.. liaird;''stip6rintending ; engineer of tho Northern Steamship Company, is on a visit to Wellington. ~ ... .. . 'CoToriel' Davies, .'lnspector-General of tho Forces, has left for Auckland, accompanied by his-'staff, officer, Lieutenant Chesnoy.Mr. ■ Nelson ■ Illingworth, the well-known Sydney sculptor, is executing a bust of Archbishop Redwood. Mr. Howard Richmond , is returning from his visit to England by the Wimmera, which is due to-day. ; The Rev. J! Spottiswood, of the Baptist Church, Potone, has accepted a unanimous invitation to tho Baptist CtoiTch at Waihi. Lieutenant-Colonel Loveday, commanding the Public School Cadets, has loft for tho south on a visit of inspection among tho Canterbury,and Otago Cadet Corps. '■ Mr. Kemp, of Greymouth, is staying with his brother, Dr. Kemp, at Nowtown.

Inspector Ellison, who has been on a visit to : Blenheim, returned to Wellington last night by tho Penguin. ■ ; The "Wanganui Herald" understands that •Mr. Georgo Hutchison, ox-M.H.R. for Patea, who Jias recently returned from a visit to England, intends to again commence the practice of his profession in Wanganui. ' Among tho passengers who left Lyttelton for Wellington.last evening by tho new turbine steamer Maori were the Primato of New Zealand (Bishop Novill), Bishop Julius, of Christchurch, the Rev. T. Hamilton, Professor T.G.'R. Blunt, Messrs. Belcher, Pitcaithley, and Whitcombo. Mr. W. S. La Trobe, director of the Wellington Technical School, has returned to ■Wellington from Australia, after an absence of. three weeks. . Mr. La Trobe came through via'itho North Island Main Trunk Line. " Mr. T. A. Walker, Inspector of Industrial Schools, has entored upon a tonr of inspection of the industrial schools in tho Dominion. He inspected St. Joseph's School yesterday. : Mr. Nolson Illingworth, the sculptor, who has inado Wellington hia temporary homo, has executed a very clever portrait in plaster of'Mr; A. Hamilton, director of tho Colonial Museum. Mr. Hamilton's expression has been happily caught by the artist, tho' truth of whose work is manifest to all acquainted with tho subject. Tho cast is on view at McGregor Wright's studio ou Lambton Quay. ';.■

"The annual examinations at Wcsfcport tindei the anspices of the Associated Boards of the Royal Academy of Music took place last week, when Miss Lily Stitt gained quite a distinction (152 marks) in tho performers' grade for pianoforte solo. Sho thus won the ii.A.B.—Licentiate Associated Board —degree. . Other passes of an intermediate degree i are recorded as follows:—Miss Ivy Thompson, Miss Katie Duncan, Miss Alico Corby,Miss Myrtlo AVatts, and Miss Eileen Ryan. • All the above (including Miss Stitt) are. tho pupils of the Westport Sisters of Mercy. ■