PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 416, 27 January 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. ' t . fiSiriJoseph-Ward will be at Napier and Hastings to-day, and the Hon. J. A. Millar .<•„ ©n;rnute for Auckland, -The Hon. R, M'Kenzie is on his way to Wellington, tho Hon. A. ~- is in;tno Gisborne district, the Hon. T.\Mackenzie ,is cruising in- thfi. Hinemoa, . - wo*- Hon* J, Carroll, tho; Hon. - Dr, findlay, the Hon. G. l''owlds, the-Hon. A. W, Hogg, ißnd.the Hon. P.Buadoaro in Wellington. • 1 ' The Prune Minister arrived in Napier Jast ; , evening (according to a-Press Association ,telegram), and will remain there till • Friday, when he leave, for the nprth by steamer.- . '- Tho Hon, - G.- Fowlds, and family arrived from; CLristchurch yesterday morning. ; ■The Hon. R.-M'Kenzie, Minister for Public •. WoSrks, - will arrive ■ from the north- by the exv -press,to-jjight. ; : He,will leave for Nelson tomorrow.

■. Mr;. _W, T. Glasgow, ■ Secretary for • Customs, is at present on a vjsit to Auckland.

, Mr. and Mrs. Oornfoot, of Wanganui, with thejr child,-roturned.-by- the lonic yestoday/ from a trip to thp Old Country. ■ : ■: fflie-Revi A.; T. Smith, of Napier, v who has been ;on: a trip to tho Old Country, returned yesterday by the lonic; ' Colonel , Jluroc, , Inspector-General of Prisons, left, on an ■; official visit to Invercargill yesterday. He, will -probably return ■ to Wellington ivitbin a fortnight; ; ■ Mr; ,Patrick J. Garvoy, formerly of Welha? passed .the final .examination : ■at. the' University of Edinburgh for; the degrees of M,C. and Ch.B. * Tho Hon G. J. Smith, M.L.C,, Mrs. - Smith, .and ,son ; .arrived .home in New Zea- -. 'land hy tho loji;c yesterday," after, an absence of about fourteen months.froin thePomimon. . Lieutenant Micklo, of the New Zealand ;. Ppfenco/Forces,,who has been undergoing a : : Jieriod-; of training; in England,; returned to the -Dominion, by the ■ lonio:yesterday.- • i-' - , . ,Mr\? Ware, at-one,.time a consulting en- :> fiineer of- Auckland;:' returned ■' with Mrs. Ware ( to New Zealand' .yesterday by the lonic, 1 after- an absence , or 1 some years 'from the Dominion. , ■ ■ .Profefisor J, M. Gabbatt, who. has been apppmted .to succeed■-Professor Cook in tho chair,'of. mathprnatics '. and . natural philoao- • phy at: Canterhury College,. arrived ;by the , ionic yesterday,. and left for Lyttdton by last night's ferry boat. - , Mr, Btanley S- Dean,' who is well-known «i atnletic ciroles. in Auckland, a pas- - jenger from South Africa on the lonic. Ho . Jias accomplished his mission of ,' starting a branch of tho South British Insurance Company in, Johannesburg. ■ '; Mr. IE: T. Edmonds, of the Church; of Cjirist, Arkansas,. U.S.A., who was in Wellington recentlyduring, nino months' visit . to Now Zealand, left Duncdm on Monday for. the Bluff,. from- which place be sails for his home, via Australia. Constable Issell, who for the last five years has. bcen stationed in Wanganui, and has; acted/as '.mounted - constable-for- some . time, has received .word that he has been promoted to the rank of a detective aud is to bo transferred to Auckland, v .;*-.Mr,,J.'Carey'r , iteg?r»ld,''who will .leave . Now Zealand to take up his. new appointment as'secretary of the City Club, Kalgoorlio, - Western Australia, to-morrow week, has do,'cided. to oome forward as ,a; Labour candidato for tho Kalgooriio scat; at the'Dcxt general election. V;. ; Mr. :T. ,A. Peterkin;;Mayor of the .'Lower , Hutt,,,is still very il). . He : was unable to attend the meeting of: tho' Borough'. Council :/ ■; oh' Monday night.A -vote of-sympathy .with : the 'llayor was' passed by the council... The council also passed a voto of condolence with Rossi; ,?pfAhig/-xnoiih'eir," -..••• j'iiMr,-A. M'Kay, formerly-Government Geo- : logjst, s and. Mrs. M'Kay haro been on a ;' -jwrt..-to. Ashburton: (states -•>"The Pross"). 1 They.,left, on-Saturday evening on a visit to Mr.;M!Kay is interested in ■' -. '.W?,-.B®Pl°2!cal.formatibni.of.;the country;some - S a ? CGu p from. Mount: Somers, and he Jpll'iriialliprobabilityVclbsely-irispect it whilo ~ in .tho : district. ' -A'.Press._Association message announces the death of Emil C.,Skog, who in'lßß4 was • • VicCfCoDsul - for- DoniDark nt Christ-cburch, and nine years later Consul for -Denmark for the. South Island. Deceased Napier in 1875; where ho remained till 18S1) wjion ho went to Oliristchurch. 7n " ; ;'v Jhat acted) ais. assistant' manager for JleSsrs.,-Cook-afadßoss,, chemists; atid-'vas in the- business :till 1893,- when ho became . manager. Ho has acted as examiner for the Pharmacy Board, and was a prominent .~. Mason. Heiwas born in Copenhagen in 1848 and held a'commission as lieutenant in the : Danish army, v .' ' ; ' Tho efforts of . the Boat Harbour Commit- . t'e'e ,ahd the constable stationed at Clyde ;Quay, Sire-infill. sullicioht to' prevent .children trfim. sWarmingon to the' tops of. tho boat-■:."^:'slxed.'-at-ltho''C^d^:!,)iu4y.-.'Bpa^'HarWri'', 'and when a caretaker 'is appointed , to the boat ;.. harbour :a : good 1 deal of his 'time will be - taken'. up .in keeping; the roof-tops clear of . ; ohiltlren. Besides' making the ■ sheds leak there, is an'element, of, danger in tho lofty ', : P'ay-ground, , Yesterday- iiftornoon a.. lad named Morgan, residing in Ghuzneo Street; ' ' ; running Valorig' .'on/ thq: roof from shed ■ . j to'shed'when. ho slipped . and fell on to the : concrete below, sustaining injuries which , necessitated . the attendance', of ; : Sir Henry Greene Kelly, Chief Justice of - Nigeria, arrived in Auckland from Sydney on Sunday by the Victoria. Ho will remain ". there fo- 'four .oo r five days. His. Honour, \ N . wio j was -, educated at Trinity College, Univprsity of Dublin, .has held the Nigerian v- .; Chief. Justiceship sinco 1899. He ■ was created a knight in 1006. He is an. honour-. • • man and prizeman in history- and political science, a B.A. and an LL.Bi Called to /Bar, ; fn; 1884,-he .;was ; appointed a puisne ' iudge ~of' the Supremo; Court in .the .temtoricr_.of 'tlio; Chart-sred : R-oyal Niger, ( ®l. , r ; He | acted 1 on ! several oc- 1 caslons as! Chief. Justice,-'and ; on the transf! ~. fcrence of the company's. territories to, thj •' Cfrown. -on January. 1, 1900, was confirme*} in that position.... Sir, Henry Kelly-is a grew . ; tVaveller/ and his present visit to New Zea- , land; is .chiefly a pleasure trip-..