PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 56, 29 November 1907, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Rev. C. C. Harper,' of Palmerston North, is in town. ; Mr. Thomas Scott-Sinith ■ has been appointed Deputy Examiner of Titles at Nelson. . . • ■ -i Lieutenant N. S. C. Cole has resigned his i commission as lieutenant of the Heretaunga > Mounted' Rifles. . '.'. \ The Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department (Mr. D. Robertson) leaves tor Auckland on official business this" morning. Mr. and Mrs. Monkhouse,and family, of Stratford, have booked passages for Londou by the Paparoa, which leaves here on February 13. ■ . . ■ > Mr. D. M. Poison, headmaster of the ' Northland School, has been officially notified that he has passed his examination as majoi in the Defence Force. Mr. James Edmond, editor of the " Bulletin," who has considerably improved :in health during a three weeks' visit' to New ealand, leaves for Sydney ; ,t<Mlay by th< Mahono. . ' .■ Mr. A. H. Holmes, Clerk of the Magistrates' Court, who is visiting and inspecting the Courts between Wellington and New Plymouth, is due back to-morrow, and will, resume his duties'on Monday. v Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Bingham, of Buenos. •Ayres, arrived in Wellington by the Moeraki on Wednesday. They are at present staying with friends in the Wairarapa, but are . to tour the Dominion later. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gibson, of London, : arrived from England by the Moeraki on Wednesday. They brought out a fine 40 horse-power motor-car, and they intend touring the country until April next. ; The death is announced from.Dunedin of Mr. Thomas Sneddon, a well-known bowler, who visited Australia with the " All Whites." " . Death was sudden, and was due to congestion \ of the lungs supervening an attack of :n----iluenza. Mr. H. J. H. Blow,' Under-secretary for Public Works, left for Auckland yesterday. Major George Barclay, who has served in the volunteer service for over twenty years, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' decoration. Mr. J. H. Scott, who was Commissioner, for South Australia to tho New Zealand Exhibition, has been appointed secretary to the Commission appointed by South Australia to arrange for a representation of that. . State at the big Franco-British Exhibition to be held in London next year. Miss Flprenco L. Thompson, until recently on the teaching .staff of tho Hawko's Bay Education Board, and formerly of tho Taranaki Education Board, left Napier by express yesterday morning en route for British New Guinea, where she enters the Mission Training College at Ulbuia with a view to undertaking missionary work.