PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 779, 31 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime'.Minister is' travelling in. Otaigo with the' Governor;' the Han. .G." l'owlds is at Auckland;-the Hon. E. M'Konzio is in the. North. Auckland district;,the: Hon. T. ; Mackenzie is at Outramj.the Hon. D. Bu'ddo is at Port Chalmers, , and-- the .other Cabinet; Miiiis;ters are. in town. . . ... r - .i • The Hon. Geo.lowlds (Minister for Education) leaves Auckland on Thursday for Gisborne, to.open, tho home, there, . ... " : ■ The Hon. D. Buddo, who is Minister, in attendance in connection with His'Bxcelleney the- Governor's* visit to Canterbury, is -expected; to return to Wellington at the "end of. the*.week;: ; v ■■. -:.- . The Hon. J. Cairoll (Minister for Native Affairs) intends' to be presentj if ■ ■ at the opening of,the new high school at Gisborne. on Airii, ; 6.. : , ...■•••. . : Dr..W.% r Pa'rkinson (son of Mr. W. ■A.Parkinson, ; prbprietor of. .tho : "Hawera Star") has accepted.' a'• post as house sur-' goon at Stl: ThoniasV Hospital/London.' It is one of the positiohs'usuaUygiven'to .the: most' successful graduates, of their year.; 'r. .■''■.._;. : ' ; ' • , ■';: : '-:.; i ,y •■'■'•■ ■■■■■•.'■■•:'■- '•'•Mr. F.' W.. Waldegrave, TJnder-Seeretarjr.. for Justice, iS; at present on an, official visit'to Auckland. •■,,-:. - .-,.;■ .. ~■ Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of' ; the Now Zealand Employers!.Federation,'wiU.leave for Auckland'by the' Main Trunk'express i'to-day; for the purpose of representing the employers before the Arbitration. Court in the Taupiri miners' dispute on April 5. I-Oh-April' 0 ho will leavo Auckland for Ojisborne, to appear before the Conciliation Council' In the drivers' 'dispute- there on April 13. ' ,-v ._ . ;• .On Monday night, at his residence in Napier, the' death-of Mr. Thomas -Watt took 1 place, after a lingering illnessr. extending over, several-years. Says an. exchange:—Mr. Watt arrived, in Napier,in the 'sixties, and ■ took part in .the: Maori! War. He was present at the engagement 'with tho Maoris near Petane, and in other skirmishes under Captain Pnice. He waa' a native, of the North of Ireland, from: the neighbourhood of Belfast' The de-; censed gentleman 'leaves a ; wife and family of. four daughters and one son. Mrs.- E. A. Elliott, ol Waipukuraxi,: and' Mrs. : .H. E. Grainger" aro. the 'married daughters. MrSi . Grainger."arriyed\ ia Napier jost in' time to see her father pass away. ' ■•""■' ■". " ' ''' '■'". ''■ ';'" Captain N. Cornwall'has received a cable from.the London ■ office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, congratulat-' ing him upon the result of tho inquiry into the mishap to tho Kaipara,' and thanking him for the masterly manner in which -he handled the, vesecl ;on the occasion; ; \ ; : '.' .. ■ .■■■' . ■■.■ :