PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 602, 2 September 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All the Ministers of, tho Crown, with tho ' ox6eption of tbo Hon. D. Buddo, who is at ttotorua, will bo in town to-day. ■Mr. Thomas Dwan returned from a visit to Sydney yesterday. . ■ ' ' Mr. T. H. Lowry, of Hawko's Bay, ie leaving by the TJlimaroa. for Sydney to-mor-. row afternoon.Tho Hon. p. Jones, M.L.C., of Oamami, who is in town on '-business, will probably return to tho south at tho end of tho week. ' Mr. W. E. Bidwill leavos for Sydney by tho Ulimaroii to-morrow in order to soo Provocation contest tho A.J. C. Derby next month. '..,.- Mr. Yung-liang Hwang, 'tho Chinese; Consul, returned to Wellington from a vißit to Auckland, by the Now Plymouth express . last night. ■ . ■ Mr. A. Anthony,'the woll-known.Canter-bury representative cricketer, is leaving Chnstehurch to take up hie residence in Auckland.—Press Association.. Mr. Stanley Grant arrived from Sydney yesterday by tho Warrimoo to make arrangements for a tour through tho province* of Jlr.iEdwin Goach's."An Englishman's Home" Company. •*...'' Mr. J. Ilott's many friends will be pleased to know that he is making an excellent recovery from tho offeots of the severe bioyclo accident which befell him last Monday week. Ho expects to bo about again very ehortly. Mr. H. W. Parr, of tho Melbourne office of Messrs. Tlios. Cook and Sone, arrived from Sydney by the Warrimoo yesterday, to take- up tho duties of chief clerk in the Wellington office, vice Mr. Sollars, who ha» gone to Melbourne It is understood (says our Pahiatua oorrespondent) that Mr. Thomas Horton, of the Pahiatiia and Hawko's Bay nurseries, has been appointed.onp of the New Zealand representatives to attend the conference of Australasian fruitgrowers, to.bo hold at Perth, W.A., shortly. • .; . : /. . Mr. E. H. Medland, prior to retiring from tho,Government Printing Offioo, aftor 34 years' service, was presented by the memjers of the composing staff with, o gladstone bag. Mr. J. Mackay, Government Printer,' in making the presentation, eulogised Mr. Modland's long services. . On theirreturn from Europe, Mr. Fowler (the principal of tho Nelson Boys' Collcgo) and Mrs. Fowler, according to a private cablegram, reached Perth, W.A., on August ' .31, in the P. and 0. steamer Mooltan. lh<# arc duo in Wellington on September IC, and proceed direct.to Nelson. ; ', A Press Association telegram from Wakapuakiv states that Mr. A. Wright, superintendent of the' Eastern Extension Company, who succeeds Mr. E. Brooke, entered upon his duties yesterday. TTio latter takes, his departure this week for Melbourne. During his six months' sojourn at tho cable station ho was looked upon as a popular chief, and wae highly respected by the staff. ; Colonel Knight,'-'provincial commander of the Salvation Army, has' returned from Pal-, merston North. He will remain in town till Wednesday next, when ho*will leave on a' round of- visits t to Taranaki, Auckland,Waihi, and Daunevirke, 'for -the purpose of holding officeis' councils. Brigadier Bray, officer in charge of the men|s 'social work,' will accompany him as far as' Auckland to arrange business matters in connection with the "new homo at Eltham and to visit the. inebriates' homo at Pakatoa Island; StaffCaptain Orames, provincial secretary,,will leave' to-morrow week bv tho Main Trunk lino to join Colonel Knight at Auckland. ' Mr. John Hartley Smith, who resigned a few months ngo his position os a master of the Boys' High School, Christcl|urch, ov{ing to continued illness, died in Christohnrcli on Saturday. . Mr. Smith wae born and educated in Christchuroh, gaining junior and BQ}i6r university scholarships ,aud: obtaining ihis M.A. degree-with'first-class honours in Latin and' Greek. Ho was a master ot the Timaru High' School 'under.'Mr. Gcorgo l ; Hog'pon,: arid was appointed to tho staff of tH<>,Christ^ , church.Boys''HighSchool in'lSM.y^Prifir"to his resignation he had'had leave of absence 'owing to illness for about a yeari ■■-Kγ. , . Smith was a popular, and. efficient teiier, and took a keen interest also in tho'ifkirte of tho school. His untimely death will be much regretted by numerous ox-pupils m Wellington and elsewhere, and also by many other , friends, i • /.'...' . ; ■'.-.■,.-