PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 723, 24 January 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir Joseph; War 4 ■ is at Hastings, tht. Hon, T. Mackenzie:is at Dunedin,' thi> Hon. A.-T. Ngata is in the: Poverty Bay District, Bnd the other Ministers are in : Wellington. ; '-.i

The Hon. Dr. Findlay, who has boen visiting the Mount Cook district, arrived m town yesterday'.: morning from the south. ■ :..

c. Buchanan, M.P., has been appointed to represent the- Wairarapa and iitist Coast P. and-A.:Society at.the;conference to be held In Wellington to dis- ; cuss the position (and improvement) of the meat' export trade.

Mr. W. ',Tripe will represent .the Gear Company, and Mr. W. G. Foster . the Wellington Meat Export Company at the iro ? en i Meat Conference, to be held in Christchuroh,'on..Thursday ♦ .-J .1 •' -A Press-Association message;. from Dunedin states 7 that ,the followinghave passed their, final examinations : for degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bache•lor of | Surgery :—Misses Collins and IvV-S j'Afessrs* - Foote, Gower,: Hyde, M Bride,,' Nelson, Short, ■ Sincox, Tait, Watt, :and Woodhouse. .■

-Sir Joseph Ward:'left for Hastings on baturday morniug., -He returns to town to-n»onfo V ;--evening, .and !:will: go. .south about-_the end . of, the- week to: welcome' Lord Kitchener on his landing in nIW Zealand, v-'

His . Excellency tho Governor will break up caoip at Kakahi (near Tainnaranui) to-morrow, and -will return to Palmerston North;

Mr.. Leo Backen<lge,::*ho-' /has; fen spending va' month's . holiday in Nelson, returned by thePateena on '"Saturday night. , :' : V

Colonel A. W. Eobm, CB, Chief of ;tho General Staff,/Lieut.-Colonel E.' W ' C- Chaytor, Lieut-Colonel A. Bauoliop, ,O.M;G}., Ofhccr, Commanding tho Wellington District/and Lieutenant jHulbert,District .Staff 1 Signalling; Officer, attended the annual shoot'; of/the D Battery 'at Featherston on Saturday.':■- j \> " _ The Hon. C. Q.; Wade, Premier of Now south Wales, is already:'much benefited in- health by his : visit to -. New Zealand, and, -expects .to be thoroughly well by the time he. returns'.-t'6.:New.South Wales. > lie intends ■ to' leave Auckland for.' Sydney. ;0n January 31,- and'.'in the' meantime his headquarters will . het in ■ Wellington: A : ; prOjeetad - visit to / the South Island lias.,,been. cut out:of;,the / present tour' owing : tiine.-, Mr. : "Wade is accompanied :by. Mrs. Wade. ancl his son, Mr. Or. Wade. :,/,

of. tho: dtraptprist., Order,_ was a passenger :-by - the:. Mapounka, which arrived from: Nel-. son. on afternoon. ' .

• Tho Scarlet Troubadours '-'Comnanv from : :the south

s ?°oiation cable: messago from Melbourne: announces. the death tliere of Ife formerly connected and Tasmanian fw^ rV K«" ; ® aok was on®'of. P®,;'identities.:in. railway admi'nis.tration. in : New'Zealand.:--He'join™ ¥he service about the, year 1876, and.:became general; manager - for Canterbury in ■ 1879 .. . time Mr., W» Conysrs was r'nrn missioner of,; Hail ways. government was brought' about, and the management of-the whole of the railwava Wemnfftn? eala 5 d \? cam T ■' c S ltt in; Wellington under-'Mr; 'J. '•/:P././Maxwell ' S tie „ w,ls to; that of District Traffio -Manager, for-Canterbury, a position which he resigned to become general manager, of -the, Tasmanian'. railways (m 1901), m .which position' he was succeeded a few years ago by Mr. C Hudson,..also of thc New Zealand .raiiwav service. .Mr. Back left Tasmania to besfsf>sro.^fi' c s"is n ' rh « lat « "Mr." Edward John Look, of Brooklyn,..whoso demise was announced on. Saturday, was a native'of Victoria, and came of a'good Devonshire familv. Bet °™. Bwiw: to Brooklyn Mr.-'. Look was at Mount; Cook;..Petone, .and Newtown •fir?hi S \vSr T ri years in the,.service of the Wellington Education.Board. Halso, took .ft keen interest', in .local, affairs; ?Hit i a \i? ec s e K ry -°f the.Vogeltown Muni- ' h-° s -.Assi'dation did oxwUent «oik.- v .Ho was, Worshipful • Master- of Lodgo Brooklyn of Freemasons,; and .was: exceedingly weU versed :in the '.ritual of-Hio.-.1l •{ •v'S 9 !'"!?",also,/ft member; of the; DruiiL) ; Priondly Society. Deceased was. buiiad _at .ICarori Cemetery: yesterte"'. : f.- Dewdnoy '. conducted wS'niK' an^^at the; graveside' Masonic : and,' Druid, services ..were .held. -