PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 594, 24 August 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

It is expected 1 that all: the' Cabinet Mini-!' sters . wilh bo in town .by to-night; ; :; Tbp Acting-Primo Minister :is to'> arrive by the Napier express, the'Hpns,.G. Fowlds and A. T.Ngata by tho Main; Trunk, 'and' the ■Boh,'' R. M.'Kenzlo by the Lyttelton ferry boat this morning.' 1 Their colleagufeß are already, in Wellington. : ';:yU- '.. }, •;'' .;'-- .Ji-X.^-'v.*

.Dr. Buck,' M.P.jis confined to his bed by illness in Wellington. '•'''"'■■•'

Mr Mi B, Tuncll will leave on a bnof visit to Australia on Friday nest

Mr W , P'linie, Commissioner of Pohoe, left for AuoMand yesterday to attend tho sittings of the Police Commission Mr. Jojin A Phmmer has been appointed a, director of tho Golden Daj Comonfc >Yorks, Ltd ' ' '

" Tbo Hon,' G", ,Fowlds,> Minister', for lixlijoa,tion, who has been on a flying visit to Auckland, will return to Wellington to-day. ', Pilot Dawson, of the Harbour Board's staff, who has boon laid up for so'hio weeks with a severe attaok of influenza, resumed ' duty yesterday. , Mr. Bert. Roylo hap arrived in' Wellington to lunUo arrangements for the "Jack awl Jill" Pantomime ( Comnany, duo to appear at the Opera H,',Uso shortly. 'The Hqr.f Jits. Carroll (Acting-Frimo Minister) is expected to arrive in Napier 'from Wairoa, Ho will probably return to , Wellington on Wednesday- evening. Tho Hon', R. • M'Kenzio, .Minister for Publio Works, journeyed from Palmcrstqn South to Christehurch yesterday, and is expected to return ■ to Wellington thi» morninc,

Mr. A. M'Calluni. Mayor of Blenheim, passed through Wellington yesterday on his way to Christehurch, to attend a meeting of tho Now Zealand FlourmillcrB 1 Association, to be held there to-morrow.,, )

Mr. T. W. Reynolds, of the local Customs staff, who is being transferred to Auckland as looker, was tho recipient of a presentation yesterday'from tho staff of the Department. /

Tho Pen, Minister for Internal Affairs, has been invjted to attend tie annual banquet under tho auspices of tho Wanganui Caledonian Society on Friday. _ It is not unlikely that if he finds it convenient to visit the district ho will also inspect, tho bush-felling operations on-the Waitotara Block, and subsequently proccod to tho Auckland district.

The resignation of the Rov. C. W. SeotiMoncrioff, Warden of St. John's College, Auckland, camo about from his having joined tho Theosophical Society. This having been adjudged incompatible with his position as warden by certain friends, ho put his resignation in tho,bauds of the board for them to judge the point, and they unanimously at a full meeting accepted it. Tho Chinese Consul, Mr. Tung-Liang Hwang, intends to pay on official vjsit to Auckland this week, arriving there' by the Main Trunk express on Friday morning (says a Press Association telegram). Tins being tho , first occasion on which _ tho Auckland Chinese have had an opportunity to meet tho Consul, quite aa interesting programme is being arranged. A banquet is beipc arranged for Monday pight at the Grand Hotel, and leading citizens of Auckland arc being invited to this function. .