PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

'•,''■ • .'-,' '"' ". ' fr~ " 'The Hon. J. ; M'Gowan returned from Hawke's Bay last evening. , The' resignation of Mr. W. H. Simcox, Otfiki, ,as a coroner, is gazetted. M. Wilford, M.P., returned to Wellington by, the Pateena last night. ' TheV.Hon,. T. K; Macdonald was a passento, Lyttelton by the Rotomahana yesterday! .',■ • ■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ B. Dall, Inspector of Post Offices, leavos'for,Auckland this morning on Depart-mental-business. . • .-'.. 'lt' ; is'likely that Sir Joseph Ward will go south-in the course of a few days; probably eitenctfrig his trip r as far as Invercargill. The' Hon; J. A. Millar wijl leave for Dunediri and Invercafgill to-night. He will probably .'-be absent, from Wellington for a week, ; The Rev; Albert T. Holdon, secretary of Wosleyan Home Missions for Victoria and Tasmania,''is a. visitor to Wellington at present.'/ r ,\- ■,'■■'•■ ■Messrs. .Clyde, , L. Carr, f and W. H. Wise (JrfethodisiV, and the Rev. J. Douglas Will ' (Baptist) J 'have been gazetted officiating ministers under the Marriage Act, 1904. ■'•';■ ; . ?H"; ■;■ ' ' ■ A vvery excellent portrait of the Secretary for, the .Post and Telegraph Department (Mr. D. ; .Rflbertsqn) appears in the October number of." §ti Martins-le-grand,'. , . theoffipial paper of the' British Post Office. .., ;: Captain', M'Beth,' of the Warrimoo, toyes.'.for. London .topday' by the Mamari, tov'take';ctommand of the new.steaiuer,.Tofua, her out to'^New. Zealand. He will ■accompanied,by.jMrs. jM'Beth and child. 'It"'is-announced by-LondonJournals that Mr.', Charles.' M._, AJj?xander, the, evangelic, liaa[- : dissolved partneriship with Dr. Torroy. "Itjifl'possible Alexander will join forces,with one of tie popular English evangelists;;; .. _ ■ , -• Dr.'", Marchcsini, of Te Kopuru, North .Vairqa,.has becif.' appointed surgeon for the Mew- ? r!sealahd; r J3hipping Company's, steamer Kaikoura Homeward voyage noxt February., Hj| wife will accompany him a- » V 'V .-',■■ formerly a resident of thisfoity). arid who at one time played the leiaamg'jparte:: with the Wellington Amateur Operatio-Society, is at present on a visit to from Johannesburgj whore'" she has 7 resJded for some years.., ■ „ • v ßie ? Seoif[tary of the Post and Telegraph .D6p&-itment"'(Mr. D. 'Kobertson), who is in )h : e?;npr^h', ! ;.;visited Whangarei on '.Wednesday io;"|DSßesb';a site for a , new-post office. He the Waikato*'ts-day, and will retnrjivtojjyellingtdfi via the Main Trunk Line .&Hy*ifox)i'week. ■'. < «'.V.H; Stephenson, Inspector of Fisher-fc^,-^,nd'.' Collector of Customs at Russell, beep in charge of the trawling ex''tne Nora Niven for tho past f will remain in. Wellington for /"some^ays' to'assist in the completion of tho t/ * [ GDvernmfent.:report on;the Bteamer's second ■'. cruise?;',--' '■•■ "'■'■ V Brook's, P.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., •Mr."iW-E.-:Raymond, F.R.A.S., and Mr. J. !Snort (the. two last-mentioned being . the staff of the Sydney Obsorvatbryj%er'e to leave Sydney on December 4, in accordance with an invitation by Mr. F. R, M'Lean to join him in observing tho total 1 eclipserof the sun at Flint Island on January 3. - ; . : ; -i •' . . ' News was received yesterday..of the serious ■ illness : of.'Mr. W; H. .George (sen.), Lon"■dpn.;V Hp is the father of Mr. 'W. H.Gcorgo : director : of. Mcsgrs. Goorgo and Kerslby,. Ltd.),. and of Mr. A. J. George (of Messrs.■Gebrge and Doughty), who is at'prosent':in'London. Mr. W. H. George leaves by the Warrimoo this ■ afternoon in order to catch; the Moldavia at Adelaide. At , .the conclusion of yesterday's meeting ! of the.Harbour Board, Mr'. H. E. Nicholls, the ; newly-appointed secretary, was intro- "' duced to the members by the Chairman ';(H6n.'.T; K.'Macdonald, M.L.C.), and was Congratulated on his promotion. Mr. NichoUs. acknowledged the compliments that wefe.paid to : him, and promised' to do his • ; best -in the interests of the Board and of 'the''harbour generally. ;' The following visitors to Wellington are at present, staying at the' Grand Hotel:—Mr. ,D.'Nathan, Sydney;-Mr J and Mrs. M. Casel'borg,:,:;Mosfeftpn; F.'G. Neill, Miss Lily Noill, 'Feilding , ; J/ E.,Ramsay, Wellington; D. 'Caseiberg, Mastert'on; "C. W. Booty, Colombo;' Max Feist, Hanover; H.G. Gor- . don, Auckland; W.F. M. Buckley,' Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Macfarlane, Dunedin; Malcolm, Christchurch;' Leslie A. .Walker,' Auckland; T. Fox, Auckland; Major Davisj South Africa. The Premier, who returned from Auckland by last "evening's oxpress (via W. and M. Railway Company's line), had a very pleasant trip down. He also enjoyed his visit to tho north city. The chief object of Sir Joseph Ward's, visit was to arrange a site for the ■ new' Post Office there, and the result/he ' states, wasquitb satisfactory. Ono or two ' small (deputations waited on the Premier yesterday' on the joiirney down from New Plymouth,/, the matters brought under notice 'being/of purely local character. ■JUr. T. Ronayne, General Manager for Railways, ,and Mr. R. W. Holmes, Enginof the. Public Works Depart- . ineht,','returned from., Auckland yesterday. ~ Jit the recent meeting of tho Christ ..church Methodist Synod, a letter was read . from the President of tho Conference reporting that the Rev. L. M.. Isitt, having entered into business, had requested the ac . coptahee of his resignation as a minister oi :. tho:..Church. The Rev, W. Baumbor wa; directed to prepare a minute recognising th< valuable service which Mr. L. M. Isitt hac rendered tho Church, particularly during this years of his active ministry. ;Vln consequence of tho representations tha' have .been made regarding the hardships tc tishornieir owing, to tho closo season foi mullqt having Jbeon proclaimed in Aucklant provincial waters, the Minister for Marini ;(Hon; 3; A. Millar) has under considoratioi ■,thc quostip;i pf removing the restriction ovei '.a ,':■ portion oLtho dis|ricti '". Tho.,lot, of : tho suburbanito with limitec water-tank provision is'not a happy on< ; in ; thd surnmer time. Tlioro has only beei o' fpw' wedks'- dry weather, but already then '" aro;iiidications,in the hollow-sounding tank: \ that ~,rntri'v ; i s?' pretty , urgently needed. Ii gome!cases''•'■tho householders are to blami Sor riot taking advantage at an earlior dati of-y.the." exiting suburban reticulation. A Bropk'lyn 'connections are being made ai • lapidly-as" possible, but Kelburno is not ye :faiia,.p&ii;ipn ,to tap a supply, and will no • '■]te-runtil' / Fobniary next. . • •' PJiptograJjflic post cards of the "Compassioi • •■■Home"'' workers, military tournament at Pal ■■• . moreton; Dominion celebrations. Turakina firs "- ttcM '(!te.''-.oii Bftle at ZAK'd PHOTO DEPOT aWfnfsiStreet (price 4d. each). C6i;