PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 82, 31 December 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

' To-day the Premier is expected to roach Inverc'argill; the Hon. J. Carroll is at Auckland; tho Hon. J. A. Millar at Rotorua; tho'Hou. J. M'Gowan at tho Thames; the Hon. G. Fowlds at Auckland; tho Hon. R. " M'Nab at Wellington, and the Hon. Dr. Findlay at Wellington. ' Archdeacon Fancourt left yesterday on n fortnight's holiday visit to Tenui. ■Mr. H. C. Waterfield, private secretary to His Excellency the Governor, is paying a brief visit ,to Wellington. Mr. J. IT. B. Coatos, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand, is at present on a visit to Auckland. Tho Rov. M. W. Butterfield has been appointed to the position of headmaster of tho Waerenga-a-hiki Nativo Boys' College. - Dr. Ronald, who has been practising for a number of years in Napier, intonds leaving shortly to tako up his residenco in England. • As a marriagp gift Mr. E. K. Cameron was presented with a salad bowl by the proprietors ,and employees of the Victoria Foundry. ,Arch.bisliop Dunne, of Brisbane, has just celebrated his silver jubilee. Ho has been forty-four years amongst tho people in Queensland. " Mr. R. Crockett, who has been for some Tears a noxious weeds inspector in Now Plymouth,'has been'appointed a" dairy inspector for ,the Wanganui district. The Hon.'- Dr. Findlay and Mrs. Findlay, wjio have been "visiting Auckland, roturned to Wellington last evening. Mrs. Findlay is much benefited by the trip. Mr. H. J.'H. Blow, Under-Secretary for Public Works, has 'been confined to his bod for several days by sickness. His illness is not, "however, considered serious. ' Mr. H. P. Wyatt, formerly of tho Wellington Telegraph Office, has boon appointed officer-in-bharge at Auckland. Ho is sucNapier by Mr. W. C. Yates. Mr, .H.' Smith, of tho staff'of the Bank of Now -Zealand at Stratford, has received notice of, his transfer to Auckland. Ho will be succeoded-by Mr. P. Jackson, of this city. i -The* principals and employees of the firm of 'Messrs. 'R. Hannah and Co., presented Miss" A. Stewart, who has left the firm' to be iriarried, with a silver tea and dinnor gervice. Mr. Keir nardio, M.P., who is laid up •with a broken rib at the residenco of the Hon..T! W. Hfslop, was reported last ovening to .b'o making satisfactory progress towards _ recovery. • Mr.,H." Birch, engineer for tho Wellington Gas Company, Limited, who has been on a business trip >to England, has returned to .Wellington. An interview with him appears elsewhere in this issue. The vacancy caused by tho death of Mr. T. M. Grant, chief draughtsman in the Nelson' offi'co of the Lands and Survey Department, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. R. T. Sadd, district surveyor at Nelson, Mr. P. A'/ Yoder, formerly director and ehemist of "the agricultural experimental station' in Utah (U.S.A.), was a recent arrival ia Sydney.; Ho is travelling to study agricultural conditions in Australia, Now Zealand, and'other countries. i 'The following officers have been appointed to the stuff of tho now Korpa nf-mnmifcxl-.il)-i fan'try' -j at , Carterton: —Acting-Captain, Hflfi'ry Francis Skey; acting senior subal- , tern, Wm. Toomath; acting junior subaltern, Herbert Hart.' Among the visitors to New Zealand at present are Mr. John Gane (immediate pastpiesident of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales), Mrs. Gane, , ami Miss Gane, who expect to make a stay of several months before returning Homo, Via Vancouver. ' Mr_. A. H. Fullford of Brooklyn, has been presented by the tramways motormen and conductors with a handsomo caso of pipos and'. a/silver , match-box, in return'for the kindness'shown to them during the past year. Mr. Fullford has been Mn tho habit of supplying the men with, tea on Sunday evenings in his hall whilst waiting for the time to leave, whereas they would otherwise, have had to wait outside in all weathcis. An accompanying letter from tho Tramways Union thanks Mr. Fullford for his kindness. , Cardinal Moran will visit New Zealand to open the new Roman Catholic Cathedral in Auckland on February 23. His Eminence, who'has paid two previous visits to this country, will arrive a week before the ceremony, and spend tho interval at Rotorua. He will not come to Wellington, as his advancing years render unnecessary travel inadvisable. All tho New Zealand Roman Catholic Bißliops will attend the ceremony, and Bishop O'Connor, of Armidale, aud probably some other Australian Bishops, are expected to be present. Cardinal Moran will leave Auckland for Sydney the day following tho ceremony, and Bishops Vernon, of Dunedin, and Leniban, of Auckland, will leave by the same steamer for Sydney, preparatory to paying a visit to Europe.