PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 733, 4 February 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

-. .. Tho Hon. J. Carroll is at Gisborne, Mio Hon. G., FoWlds is, at Christchurch; the Hon. T.: Mackenzie is: at Eichmond, the Hon. Aj T. , Ngata ls at. Port Awanui, teid the other - Ministers: are -in ■ Welling- ;/ i.r-ton. Msifev; ;-:i' M : .The Prime' Minister, (Sir Joseph Ward) .ias; postponed.hifl.yintendedjourney .to the eouth for .'a fow daya,' ; t

The , Acting-Chief Justice, • ilr. -' Justice Williams, .will, arrive, m: Wellington' from iV;v ; ; : 'fli9,south ~abqu.t'Marcirß.oi^^ in;; the.;. Court, of,; Appeal;. sittings. :' Mr. . Justice .-Cooper,...who-will preside at tho 4: Aucklai^ycrimini&iis^iohs,-commencing . cn February 7, leaves for the north' to•i'?norrow. .■ He'will ata>;take>the circuit sit-' v., -tings' at Napier, and Gisborne on. February, ■; S2 and March: 14 respectively.: Mr.: Justice •.• • Chapman is .presiding, over the Welling- - . . r -,ion oriminalsessions,-and,-, aftergoing through the list, • his Honour will proceed to Palmerston; for the "sittings- on February 11. 'Tho .Wellington' civil' sit-1 tings . .-16 and following- days,- and Mr. Justice s vfi.'.ChiipinanVwill.' 'subsequehtlyifake'v'the'isittings'. of Uhej;.Court -at". MasWiton ■ and-.'on :liiei:West;Coast..-;;Mri,,.Justice Sim is ei- ( ! .pected, to-,Teach i:Wellmgton. about--March 1 Mr.' F. \f. Connell,' of the' firm of . .:Butherfurdjand;Connell;;Palmerston, -and Mr. • H.j' MTCellar,,, of'i the-/Palmerston , , branch. ofthe, .Now .'Zetland," Loan 1 and' Mercantile ..Agency-"Company,-' leave .to-, morrow on a holiday trip to Europe and ,i.; ; : 'Asia; v. The', trip will:, pro Daily ■ last: about .7 '.''fix months.;"'

Mr.. A. > MTJee, who had a land and pstate; agency .in Brandon Street, intends . " to retire to. his fruit farm in the Motueka ■£*flistrictVfor V&; y ■ : Mr. -.. Edward .-Newman, M.P. (Mana- . „ t jiratn), was in' town' yesterday.' on business . : ii. toimectedi:with: his.-constituency.' ■ .Mr. SfJewman will return; to, Marton to-day. ■ Mr.-'A.^-Wheeler,::'chief.''..clerk at 1 1 the ■ v.:Union.Company's Suva.branch, arrived in Wellington -by the Navua yesterday. on his : ..jiray, to take up apposition : in: the •company's Dunedin office. ' . -~ Tho-Colonial Auxiliary 1 Forces long-ser- • jsioe medal has been-awarded to Lieuten-imWklonel-EobertvHeaton .Bhodes,.-Ist . Eegiment. North . 'Canterbury - Mounted Eiflg >. Volunteers; .v;(21 '-years' ;■»service); : . fLieutenant-Colonel G. S. Clayton, • Nerr • (Zealand Medical Corps (23 years' service) j v - tend • Lieutenant-Colonel Eochfort ' Snow,. - [activelist,: unattached (20. years' • service). -.:X. E. JL.Fraser, Crown.Prosecutor ; Kfc -Dtmeditvhas been 'appointed one' of . .Ms Majesty's -King's Counsel. , Tho now w v, BLC., who is a. son of the lata Hon.'Capjbdn Eraser, MJj.C, was admitted to tne [Bar in 1875, and became Crown Solicitor in 1888. He has been a member of the ; Gtago Education Board and High School •f- V poard of Governors, and in';las. he was ,' Appointed president of the Law Society. ... v i , Th» .Public Service loses •tm experienced Jnxjiiilxir .. in ,Mr. J; W. Davis, chief *drangMsman in the-Lands, and-Survey : CDepartment, .who has just retired on the -. |giound of ill-health...Mr. Davis has been » member of tho Public Service for 27 ~ Jjears,: and - was formerly chief draughtsflnan in the Wellington District Offioe. He ■. Murray; wme . time :: , . ksgo . in: the'.position , from' which he now .' •Etetircs on : pension... ' • ...'. ' Mr. J. H. M'Alister wfll sucoeed Mr. Matthews as private secretary to tiho Hon.-B. MTCenzio, Minister for Pub<®o Works. ,;During the last.twelve months . [Mr. M'Alister; has acted in the • fiamo capocity for the Hon.. A. T. Ngata. He 1 sras formerly one-of "the late Mr. Sed- - don's private eecrotaries. Mr. D. J. Naihan is spending a- holi'2ay' at Eotorua. ,

The names of the Bov. J. D. MTCenzio ( ®nd Mr. A. . Mlfeur are ' gazotted as lofficiating' ministers' under 'the .Marriage ,M.ct in the Presbyterian- Church'/ - ; ; -.. .'i Our Feilding correspondent 'stai»3 that . 3fr.;"Arthur '■ B.Noffke,; son ' of; Mr.!: andMrs. F...:Noffke, of Halcombe, is leaving for . Malvern, \ Adelaide, to study theology in the Concordia College. -The Lutherans of vHalbombe : made Mr. Noifke'a presentation 1 vpn- s the eve-.of .his'ideparture..!/.: ;• .. ;

■■■-.. Mr.- JV H. Mentiplav, president-of the v to be enter- ■•: i tained at- the 'club s;pavilion - to-morrow - evening,-iprior; ■■ to hisv departure from' ■ /■Wellington to take up.the position of-re-X: lioving manager for the Bank of New ■Zealand. <" Mr:'./LlewellynEthiringt<W\ a Solicitor, /- ; .'*ho' has practised in~England : and .Wales/ ' admitted; by."Mr. 'Justice Cooper; as a solicitor of tho Supreme ".-..--Court,, of "'New 'Zealand. , The application ir ■ was made by. Mr. A. Fair. ; Mr.. J. R. Campbell, -of Glasgow, tho : Union" Company's superintendent in' the . United Kingdom; is at i present ;in Wel- • lington.-, Mr. Campbell came out to Aus-tralia^-by..the Canadianmail route,.'-and - then journeyed-to Suva by the Makura. ■ • he came :'on- to Wellington by the Navua, - and. ho is to leave for - Dunedin this evening by the-Mokoia. '••'."lf there is ■" one': man in tho British^ ;:.;. '' Kavy : ;who is iuniversally , trusted and -be- ; lieved w.-his.hame.is Sir Edward . Sey- ■ mour, who .lias iiow : been' honoured by his .Majesty. by.'selection for the. Privy . Council-", This; remark is made by the .'-. -eccretary 'at-.the headquarters of the Navy - League in a; letter to the Wellington secretary, Mr C.-V.-Palmer. The death of Mr.-Wf. H.- Ingram, an - - old' resident- of tho. town, occurred sud- •■■'■•< denly at -Hokitika last, night. While ~X .'having; his dinner Mr. Ijigrara suddenly •'. collapsed, and shortly afterwards ex. , ' f . pired. • Deceased' was, an oUI pioneer and ■ a jeweller by trade. He,was 74.yearg of : ; ege.—l'ress Association..