PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 457, 16 March 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day llio Primo Minister rocs to Marion, llio lion. 0. Fowlds is on his way to Kaikoura, and the Hon. D. Buddo will read Hamilton. The other Cabinet llinistors art in Wellington. Mr. 1). 1). Hyde, Chief Poultry Expert has returned from the south. Mr. W. Dinnio, Commissioner of Police him returned from the south. Mr. .T. Loueli, Provincial Engineer, wenl to Napier yesterday ou departmental busi nous. The Hon. Dr. Findlay leaves for Christ church and Dnnediii to-morrow H( expects to lie back on Sunday morning. Mr. ■(!. Frost, who was a city councils from April 1903 to April 1907, will bo a can didato for election-this year. Mr. \V. C. Kensington (Under-Secretar; for Lands) has returned from a departments visit to Wcstland and Cliristchurcli. Mr. T. P. Walshe, of tho Napier Dcedi Registry Oflice, has received notice of 111! transfer to Wellington.' Mr. J. R. Blair, who has been absent ii Cliristchurcli, is exported liomo this morn ing. jlr. Cowan, for fifteen years railway sta tionmaster at Petone, is exchanging position! with Mr. W. Bass, stationmaster at Ash burton. Mr. G. L. Cook, District Engineer to tht Public Works Department, left on_Saturda; on a trip to England. Mr. C. J. M'kenzie of Oliakune, is Acting District Engineer. Tho Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for Educa fcion, left for Christchurch last lught ei route for Kaikoura, whoro lio will attend, tlx agricultural show. The Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Publii Health, left for tho Waikato by'the tlirougl express yesterday. Ho will visit tho lluakun State Farm, near Hamilton, to-day. Sir Joseph Ward goes to Marton to-day b; tho midday express to attend a banquet t< Mr. John Stevens, ex-M.P. for Mauawatu Ho will return to town to-morrow. Mr. W. R. Jourdain, secretary to tlx Scenery Preservation Board, has been_ ap pointed secrotary to tho Royal Commissioi on tho Timber Industry. Tho Chineso Consul-General for Now Zca land (Mr. Yung-Liang Hwang) paid an offi cial visit to the Hon. A. "W. Hogg (Minister for Labour) yesterday. Tho Hon. T. Mackenzio has accepted ai invitation from tho Catlins-Tahokapa Rail way Loaguo to visit the Catlins district. H< will go south for the purposo this week. A Press Association message from Christ church states that Mr. J. J. Turnbull, a present chief bailiff at tho Magistrate ! Court, Christehurch, succeeds Mr. E. ,W Seager as crier at tho Supremo Court. Tho Hon. A. T. Ngata has been spendinf tho last few days in tho Napier and Gisborm districts, making arrangements for tho coil templated official visit of tho Governor t< the East Capo, Bay of Plenty, and interven ing districts. , In connection with the visit of tho Catlins , Tahakopa Railway League to Catlins dis , trict next week, the Tanakopa settlers bav< decided to tender a banquet to the Hon. T Mackenzie on Thursday night to mark 111! 1 promotion to Cabinet rank, A Press Association telegram from Thame: , states that tho High School Board last night . appointed Mr. J. tJlricli Ranson, 8.A., Lon [ don, assistant master of tho Thames Higl . School. Applications were received' fron . several parts of New Zealand.

Messrs. A. Leigh Hunt and C. H. Coote, reprosouting the Southorn Cross and Zealandia Lodges, 1.0.0. F., A.C., left for Christchurch by-the Maori last evening for tho purpose of representing their _ respective lodges at tho Grand Lodgo session, to commence its sittings in that city this morn-

Mr. John Hutcheson, who at ono timo represented Wellington City in Parliament, has been interviewed by some persons desirous that ho'should contest the Mayoralty next month. Ho declined tho honour, stating that tho demands of his business would not permit of his giving tho necessary timo to tho duties of tho office. Mr. AV. T. Hambly, lato assistant instructor in wool-classing to tho Christchurch Technical College, has been offered tho position of instructor to tho proposed now class in that subject now being arranged for by tho managers of tho' Mastorton Technical School. Mr. Hambly (says our Mastorton correspondent) possesses, first-class certificates, and was highly spoken of by the Director of tho Christchurch Technical College.

Tho Rev. W. S. Potter, who has been stationed in Auckland circuits for the past 11 years, and is about to leave for Wellington, whero ho will take up work at tho Webb Street Primitive Methodist Church, was mot by a largo number of friends and adherents of Alexandra Street Church, Auckland, and presented with several valuable tokens of esteem. Many speakers testified to tho good work done by Mr. Potter during his stay in Auckland.

Mr. T. M. Macdonald, Crown Prosecutor, who commenced practice at Invercargill in 1862, dropped dead in a cab yesterday morning. At tho rccent sitting of the Supremo Court his son Herbert acted as his substitute, owing to his father's ill-health. A Press Association message states that decoased, -who had arranged to sail for England, leaves a grown-up family. The lato Mr. Macdonald served articles witlr Mr. (afterwards Sir) Frederick Whittakor at Auckland, whero he was admitted to practice in 1861. For a time deceased acted as solicitor to tho Provincial Council of Southland, and then becamo Crown Solicitor for the Southland district. His first wife predeceased him by a number of years. About three years ago ho married again. He leaves a widow and large grown-up family.

Informaton received in Christchurch regarding Mr. Robert Alexander, who was rofcontly appointed director of Lincoln Agricultural College, is to tho effect that Mr. Alexander hails from Londonderry (North of

Ireland), and spent about twenty years cn his father's farm. Ho obtained his diplomas at the College of Science, Dublin, and for two years afterward was lecturer in agriculture, in Londonderry. His next appointment was as locturer on agriculture at Albert College, Glasnovin, Dublin, whero ho also had charge of • tho farm attached to tho college. Ho is reported to bo a first-class disciplinarian, and lias tho faculty of getting on with students under him. Ho is expected to arrive in tho Dominion about the middlo of next month. It is locally considered that ho will bo an acquisition, and a worthy successor to Professor Lowrio, tho previous director. Ho is not only a scientific farmer, but is also a thoroughly practical agriculturalist. —Press Association.