PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 470, 31 March 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tito Hon. R. M'Konzio is travelling ovoriand to Westport, the Hon. A. W. Hogg will reach Danlievirko to-day, and tho Hon. A. T. Ngata is at Wliakatano. The other Ministers aro in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mallinson arrived from Rotorua by yesterday's express train. Mr. T. Roiinyno, General Manager for Railways, lias returned from Christchurch. Mr. E. Tregear, Secretary for Labour, is paying an official visit to Auckland. He.is expected back early next week. Tho Hon. D. Buddo will leave to-night for Ohristclnirch and RRngiora on business of local and public interest. Tho Minister for Railways (the Hon. J. A. Millar) .informed a deputation yesterday that ho expected to visit Blenheim about tho end of April. Tho death is recorded by a Sydney Press Association cablegram of Lady Martin, widow of tho late Sir James Martin (at ono timo Chief Justico of Now South Wales). According to a Christehurch Press Association telegram, Mr. H. H. Loughnan has consented to Btand for tho Mayoralty of that city. Mr. W. T. Glasgow, Secretary for Customs, who is retiring on superannuation, will receive a presentation from tho officers of tho Department throughout New Zealand this afternoon. A Press Association message from Nelson states that Mr. H. B. Priestly Wicks, A.M.1.E.E., of Christchurch, has been appointed by tho Education Board as instructor of tho Westport Technical School. Sergeant Baskivillo, of Wellington, has been transferred to Dovonport. Auckland. His place hero will bo taken by Constable M'Ororio, now of Papanui, Christchurch, who will bo promoted to sergeant's rank. Mr. Cyril G. Collins, of tho Audit Department, left yesterday for Auckland, whither ho has boon transferred. Mr. Collins, who is a son of Colonel Collins, is lieutenant of tho Post and Telegraph Rifles, and has been connected with that corps for almost ten years.

An Auckland paper states that Mr. S. N. Ziman, 1907 Rhodes scholar at Oxford, has joined the Imperial Colonial Yeomanry Volunteer Corps, and is in training for the intor-collego boat race. On the scholastic side, ho is following up all branches of mathematics, attending classes, and reading political philosophy and economy. On Saturday evening Mr. R. Speight, who has left tho staff of tlio Christchurcli Boys' High School to take up tho position of assistant curator to the Christchurcli Museum and lecturer in geology to Canterbury College, was presented by tho scholars and old boys with a prismatic compass as a memento of tlicir esteem. Mr. H. L. James, of tlio staff of the General Assembly Library, has returned from Christchurcli, whoro he has been engaged in re-classifying the referenco .portion of tho Canterbury Public Library on tho Dewey system. The work of classifying and re-ar-ranging on tho shelves tho wholo of the 15,000 volumes in the division occupied 17 days. Mr. James has had many years' oxperienco in tho Dowry system, which ho introduced into Now Zealand. Dr. Marshall, of tho Otago University, who went to tho Antarctica with tho Nimrod expedition, is paying a short visit to Wellington. Ho was busily engaged yesterday at tho photographic studio of the Tourist Department, developing somo of tho kinematograph films which wero taken in tho Polar regions. These aro developing very successfully, and the photographs taken on the Furthest South dash promiso also to bo. very satisfactory. The death is announced of Mr. Charles Wm. Skill, son of Mr. Frederick John Skill, of London, member of tho Institute of Painters in Water-Colours, and for some tiino drawing-master at King's College and artist illustrator to the London "News." Tho deceased, who was an old Conway boy, was well-known in Wellington shipping circles, having been for over 22 years on tho staff of- the Wellington Harbour Board. He leaves a wife and nine children, who reside at Kilbirnie.

Tho Rev. W. Gray Dixon, M.A., of St. David's Presbyterian Church, Auckland, left on Monday for Sydney, on routo to Victoria, in response to an invitation to bo present at tho diamond jubilee celebrations of tho Warrnambool Church, of which ho was formerly in charge. The function is to extend from April i to April 11, and tho Primo Minister and Chief Justicd of the Commonwealth arc to bo present. . Mr. Dixon will return in about three weeks' time. Mr. T. H. Hamor, Under-Secretary for Mines, and formerly private secretary to the lato Mr. Soddon and somo of his predecessors, was entertained at dinner on Monday night by the Ministerial private secretaries, Mr. W. Crow presiding. Mr. T. E. Donne, who, like tho guest of tho evening, will shortly go to London to talco up an important appointment in the High Commissioner's ofiicc, was one of several who were present by special invitation. Mr. Hamor and Mr. Donno were warmly congratulated on their promotion. Mr. Henry Brett, managing director of tho Brett Printing and Publishing Company, accompanied by Mrs. Brett, left on Monday night by tho Marama for Sydney, on route to England, where be will attend tho Imperial Press Conference which is to be held in London in June next. On Saturday Mr. Brett was presented with a farewell address signed by tho heads of tho various departments of the company. Tho presentation was made by Mr. T. W. Leys, the editor of tho "Star." Mr. Geo. Fciiwick, of tho "Otago Daily 'Ernes," also loft for the conference by tho Marama. Mr. "W. S. Douglas, oditor of tho "Herald," will leave uoxt week via Wellington.