PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The l only : Ministers of th« Crofrn will be absent from town to-dav wo th» Hon-' T. Mackenzie, who is, at NVestport,. the Hon.'. J.- Carrolli . who is at, Qisv borne,' nnd the Hon. A. Ngata, who is at Port Awami).

The.-Pxirae .Minister (Sir Joseph .Ward) is much improved,.; and,' will,- it. is. expected,: be . able :to ' be about again ; towards of 'the. week;. i ; v

.<• Tho Hon.? J.'iA.-;-'.Millar,' Mmister\for Hallways, leaves, on -Monday-, on a..visit ■ - to' Dunedin andChnstchurch,. on Da-, partmental business. •.;

The Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Inj : ( ternal Affairs, mil bo present atth« ■ Horowhenua A. ■and- P.. show .' to-morrow,', ■ :

v The Hon.: T: Mackenzio visited Lak« Bruimer .'and "the- : Eotomana 'Settlement /' S" xterday; and proceeded to Wostport by " lbi-Tahura last evening./ He returns onThursday ■ to: Greymouth', where he ■ will-- • be entertained a banquet.—.Press As-. sociation.'/v.';/ : ~;X'- V'.V-'-,V - ; //:,' */7 ;

Mr. J. H. Mentiplay,; of the Bank of ' New Zealand, leaves. -to-day by the ■ Ma* for Westport. ,

. Mr. H. E. Nioholls, secretary of tha Harbour Board, who has been on a toll- _■ day visit to Auckland, resumed his dntie*, yesterday./ ' " Upon the eve of Us marriage,.which' takes place on Wednesday, Mr. - A. .Marshall, accountant at Messrs. T." Ballinger and Co.'s, was presented with. ■ suiti able presents by the diiectors and ;th«, staff. "

It 13 understood in Dnncdin that: Mr. J, G. L. Hewitt, , a local solicitor, ha« been,;'appointed*toytho'-jriagistracj-,': and tliat ho wiU leavß :I)n«edin 'shortly - to; take Tip his duties at Hokitika.—Press Association.. v ' '.f' ;;'t "/' ; ! 'y

Mr. H.'S. Wardell has become a' patron of tho Wellington Art' .Club,; and' haa made a handsome dpnatipn to its funds.

":An important appointment in' conn,e<£; tion : \ lidtli'. the', . establishment'" bf v:tMi' Supreme Court at • Mastsrton has just been made, says an exchange. . Mr. A.'B.' Bunny, who'-; for-, many- years' held- tho position of Crown Prosecutor for the District Court of ; Wairarapa until ; its aboli-' tion.has :bceri appointed Crown solicitor for. the; Supreme, Court for; the Master-' ton : sub-district ;6f the Wellington Supreme. Court district. ; i?- v' s : .

■ Mr- and- Mrs. R. ICerr, of Kelvin Giovo, . Brisbane, who are 1 visiting New, Zealand,'-, •; as .tourists,'.leave Wellington to-day for" Nelson,:,'en route .for the "Buller , 'and Otira Gorges. -.- ■

. Commissioner, and Mrs. Hay left Wellington .yesterday morning on- their.,,'wajr; . to, Wanganui and . Eltham. . •'-. i. - The Hon; G. Foirlds; Minister for Edu-; cation, visited ?angiprd.-yesterday morn-J nig,' arid inspected some of the sohools there. " He went,'; north', ty last night'*;, boat.^Pjess;Association/' :

'' Xii" connection' witli: the' benefit venbe>r«,.tainments., which -/wererecently, organised; in ,aid _bf the-widpw and -familyfof-. ths, lato Mr;-W. iCrawford, who was lost overboard .luring a yachting SJn Craw-' ford dosires: to express her gratitude • to all those who have by their practic-td sympathy assisted her during-her . recent trying experience. . , '

*: At' the Bank-of New Zealand l yesterday tho : staff assembled in .the manager's: room to . bid : farewell' to their ■; account-: ■' ant, Mr. J. H. Mentiplay, : who leaves to-day to take up the position' of reliev-v ing manager. The manager, inji happy' speech, congratulated .Mr.^ Jlenfaplay -en'' his-promotion, ..and ' on ; behalf ' of .tho; staff presented him with a set'of.-carvcrs,? a silver 'salver and a pipe as a small : token of the esteem m which =ho is held by. .them;;/Mr. .Mentiplay feelingly -ro-;. -sponded.

Mr. Vivian Simon; of the; firm: of Simon Bros., London, who have, control of .Moet and Chandon's champagne, left : yesterday accompanied by Mr. R. B: Sinclair, of. Thompson, Fraser, Ramsay' Proprietary, , for Rotorua. . -

The Hastings correspondent, of. th« -: "Daily Telegraph" says the Ministerialists of - the district aro about ; to make a strong efiort .to induce Mr. K. M Jxab to contest the Hawke's Bay ..seat .at the next elections. ■ - ~ ' •••'. ■- • Mr. P. K. MTLean, of Tunbvidge Wells, is a passenger by tho Manposa, which left San Francisco for Tahiti' last .week, ■" Mr. M'Lean organised - the expedition.' to. Flint Island in January, 1505, to view the eclipse of , the sun, and,- he •is'.now >n his way to Hobart on. a; further iscientiv fio expedition. On the. arrival of - tho Mariposa, Mr, M'Lean will spend a fevr days in Tahiti,'and will then catch tho. Talone for Auckland. At the latte? place lie'takes steamer, to Sydney, thencq to Hobart.