PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The present location of Cabinet Ministers is' as follows The Premier (Sir. Joseph Ward) is at Russell, the Hon. W. HallJones at Christchurch, the Hon. R. .M'Nab at Greymouth, the Hon. J. A. Millar 'en route to Wellington from Dunedin, the Hon.'' G: Fowlds at Port Awanui, the' Hon. J t : M'Gowan, the Hon. J. Carroll, and-theHou. Dr. Findlay at Wellington. Mr. Robert lee, Chairman' of the Wellington Education Board, is at present on a holiday trip to-the North. Mr. F. Reed, Inspecting Engineer of the Mines Department,, leaves to-day for the north of .Auckland on departmental business. Mr. H. Morgan, who has been appointed science master to the Auckland Technical College, arrived from England by tho Arawa yesterday. His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman will leave Wellington on Thursday afternoon for' Gisborno, where ho will take tho circuit sittings,' commencing pn March 2. : Mr. William Barnard, 1 of Foxt-on, was, on tho motion of Mr. Atkinson, admitted as'a solicitor of the Supremo Court by His Honour Mr. Justico Chapman yesterday. ' A Stratford 'Press Association telogram statos that , Mr. J. B. Hine/who contested the Pat-ea seat at last general election, has been Selected a-s the Opposition candidato for tho Stratford seat at tho next genoral oleciion.

Mr. JamoS Kowin, representative of the. well-known English firm of.. Lovell and Christmas, arrived in Wellington by the Arawa yesterday, this timo not solely on business bent. Mr. Kowin was married just beforo ho left London, and ho has brought Mrs.'Kowin to Now Zealand with,him. They; will leave on Friday for Hawera, whoro they will probably resido. for some mouths to come. .-. Mrs. Etlicl K. De Costa, LL.B. (nee Miss' ,Ethel B. Benjamin, of Dunedin), after practising for some years in that ei'.y, has. commenced practice as a barrister'and solicitor in No. 0 Nathan s Buildings, corner Grey and Featherston Streets, Wellington. Mrs. De Costa has the distinction of being tho only' lndy I practising at the Bar in the Dominion. 1 .Intending clientß can depend- on prompt 'and j .careful attention at Mrs. De Costa's hands;

Mr. J. Stout and Mr. Olaf Stout leave by v tiio Moeralvi on Friday for a year's trip to England and tho Continent. Captain Johnson, tho Wellington Harbourmaster, has been granted , seven weeks' leave of absence in order to visit Australia. The General Manager 1 of the Railway Department and heads of .branches "will leavo to-morrow for tho inspection of Auckland lines. Professor R, J. Scott, of Canterbury College; and Mrs. Scott, arrived from Hobart by tho Arawa yesterday, and left for tho south by tho Waikaro. ' . The Hon. W. • Hall-Jones is expected to return to Wellington from. Christchurch today. The Minister celebrated tho twelfth anniversary of his appointment .as a Minister on Satyrday last, Tho late Mr.' Edward Alfred Drury, who died .in his sixty-third year on Monday night, was.a Maori War veteran. Ho served under ■ Lieut.-General Cameron, Major Gallaway, and Lieut.-General Bal Nevis, in 1862. and 1863,. in the Xo. 1 Royal Company Auckland Riflo Volunteers. Of recent years ho was employed as . a messenger ; in tho Government servico. ?

Yesterday afternoon at the Railway Offices, Featherston Street, Mr. John Coom, who is retiring after, thirty-two years' Government service, from tho position of Chief Engineer, v Maintenance Branch, was presented with bis portrait in oils:: This portrait was tho out--come of a i wish on, the part of Mr.' Coom's brother officers to show their, kindly regard for him. Mr. T. Ronayne, General Manager, made • the presentation,' aiid .Mr. .Coom expressed his appreciation of. tho . kindness which had prompted the gift. " Tho Rev. C. W. Maclaverty, who has boon for seven years curate of St. Peter's Church, . and is leaving on Saturday' on a visit to England, was-presented last evening, on behalf of the parishioners,. with' a purso of sovoreigns. Mr. Grease, churchwarden, mado the presentation, and,' in doing so, referred to ,the very .high esteem in which Mr, Mac-, laverty is'hold in the! parish. . The Rev. G. P., Davys,' vicar of St. Peter's, ■■ also spoko very highly/ of Mr. Maclaverty's 1 character and services. There \vas a ..largo attendance at the gathering. At the meeting, of. the Hospital Trustees' yesterday tho chairman'/(the Hon! ■C. M. proposed a motion of deepest sympathy and condolence with tho family of tho late : . Dr. Tripe. Ho stated that Dr. Tripo had been associated, with the Hospital for very ~ many years, and in his more youthful day 3, especially, had rendered splendid ;sejrrice! to tho institution. Ho felt that, he'could speak for-all the; Trustees in saying that' no man . hald performed mora, self-deoying work in the interests of the sick, and suffering in this community than ,tho la'to. Dr. Tripe. Mr. Lnndon seconded' tho motion,, which was adopted in silence., ; '