PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

- Major P-irio, of Auckland, 1 was among th< passengers that arrived by tfhc TaraWera yesterday evening.. It is uudenstood that' Mr. Crookoj of Lawrence,' who has -boon appointed a stipendiary magistrate, Will not assume'his official duties until the beginning of next month; ' ' , 'Mr.,', E. M'Kenzie has been appointed ro-: feree' 111 the ,representative match, Wanga«. ; . nui v.. Tfiraitaki,, ■ which is played at , , Wanganui on Saturday. Dr. 1 Alox. M, Tolhurst, on tlio staff at Guy's Hospital, London, on the physicians' ' ...do, ■ daring the' past six months, has now been' appointod tor , a , torm . assistant , house* , surgeon. • ' ' V . ' 'Mr.- J. A. Hutto'n, Ohiof Postmaster at Wellington, hai been granted t month's leave of> absence on account, of , ill-hoiiltJi, • His duties will : bo'assumod by Mr. R. B. Morris, Inspector of Savings Banks,, ; ■ Dr. Norma,n S., Hales, son of tlio late , "Mr. W. H, Hales (formcrly i Engincer-in-Chiet for' tho Dominion); who is-; oomploting a dental course at Philadelphia, U.S.A., : s ro turning to Wellington in October. Mr. C. W, Wellor, one of theisuperihten*. dents of tho T. and G., Mutual Life Assiip- . nnce Sooiety in Wellingtoni had beeii apy pointed to take chargo Of itho North/Queens., - , land branch of the society., Mr. and, Mrs. . Weller leave Wellington; for Sydney by tha Moeralti on Friday next. . ; . Tlio Attonioy-General-(Dr. Findlay) ", leave by the .Main Trunk express on Friday ■ for Feiiding, whore he will deliver a political • address that evening, Next _day lie will pro-; coed to Foxton, whoro at 12.30 o'clock ho will , open the new post offioe. : At 1 p.m. the same day lie will be entertained at a com* plimontary luncheon by the residents. ? . • Tho- Hon. A, T, Ngate will leavo foi Omahu. this morning. At that placo ori Fri-,' day: he will discuss with the'representative . of tlie tribes in tilio Hawke's Bay district tin , new pipix)Bnls relating to Native land and other problems which were outlined by tin Acting-Prinio ; Minister (the Hon. J. at Papawai last week. Dr. Dixon, Professor of Antiiropology at Harvard University, U.S.A.,was in Wcl- . lingtq!i oil Monday, on, his way south in.. t,-i 'course''-'of a| vacation tour of Now, Zealmnd and Australia. -Ho expressed';.himself-: • m inUch interested ill the'scientific problems ol , this country, and stated that -lie hoped U study them with greater fullness during » subsequent longer. vacation. . V : . News has been received of the death in Hamburg of Mr. W. Dittmer, a German artist .who not long ago spent about two m - Now Zealand, studying the Maoris as subjects for paintings, and producing some v err s-uoCeesful portrait of leading warriors. and Wfthinbs, Ho Hvckl principally at T\angnnu',' . and Taupo. After returning ,to < Germany, where ho was rooontly, married; in Hamburg. , ho published an interesting work, on' Mnori niytns and lesonds, -. which t . w - as , illustrhtct by verv forcenil sketches intended to repro . dueo the .Maori, spirit. Tlio latest work on; which ;.ho; was engaged • Was a series of Orto hundred .views of tlio port of Hainburg, wine. , ho was commissioned to paint for the GovonsniAat or local authoritiSSi • -