PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 785, 7 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir Joseph Ward will return with the Governor to Wellington on Friday next; but three weeks hence he 1 intends to have a sojourp of a fortnight in Southland, and will then visit the surrounding districts. ' ' . The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, who is at present in Otago, is expected to return to Wellington next Wednesday.. ■; Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, "vyill visit, south shortly. , Tho Hon. W. Peinber Reeves, director of the London School of Economics, is at the school a course of.lectures on "Colonial State Tribunals for the Regulation of the Condjtions of Labour." '.' He will' bring up to date the matter relating to the subject in his book, "State. bJxperiments in Australia and New, Zealand;" Mr., R. W. Eobsori, of the literary staff of the "Otago. Daily Times," is on a visit to Wellington. v Sir. John Tcniiie], the famous "Punch" cartoonist, was ninety -years old on February 28.1t is "fifty-nine years' siuco he drew his, first cartoon for "Punch," and from then until January, 1901, lie was responsible for 1 an almost unbroken series' of the "big cuts." Mr. Henry Silver, who is the only other survivor of the "Punch". staff of the fifties, mentions what is_' 'certainly ' not generally known, that Sir John has only one eye —a-'weakness he shared with Du Maurierl Major Boyd Wilson, a'retired Imperial officer, who has been in Nelson for some little time, has taken up land at Kohatu, whero he intends to' settle (says a Nelson exchange). His object is to devote most ■ of his attention to sport, which he will 1 have all around him. ....... j A Nelson Press. Association telegram ] states that th« funeral of the late Hon. Francis Trask, M.L.C., will take place ] on Saturday next It is expected that ; it will he attended by people from all ' parts of. tho Dominion. . • The Bishop of Loudon and Canon New- s bolt have recommended the Rev. Harry ' D. Burton, of.St. Albans, England, for ' appointment _as .Vicar of St. Michael's 1 Church, Christchurch, in succession, to f Bishop iverill. Mr. Biirton was ordained < in 1881. He is a widower with six daugh- s ters—Press Association. Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, who left ( Wellington- for San Francisco on March IB by the Alokoia, did not land at Rarotonga, but was visited on boaid bv the Reiident Commissioner, Mr. J. .Email Smith. At Tahiti, Lord Kitchener paid t an 'ifticial visit to the Governor, and t Hiade a trip round tho Island in a motor- r car. He ieft Tahiti Tor San Francisco f on March -(I. i

Madame Ehlors, a resident of Tahiti arrived on a visit to New Zealand by tho Mokoia yesterday. Appointments to positioaw on tho staffs of . the undermentioned sohiiolfl are announced by the "Wellington Education Board as follow;:—Upper Hutt, asKi<itan.t master, Mr. J. Waikanae, assistant mistress, Miss H. Temple, late .of the relieving staff; Pnrapa.rauimi, asa'stunt mistress, lli.ss 11. Shelley, "e.v-s'iuieiit ; Levin, assistant mistress, Mi„x VOP „ Keisenboxg, o-f Jlastortdn; ''-.putaiva. assistant mistress. .Miss L. !h;li; Jlimnt Cook Boys', assistant master.i Mr. J. C. Burns, of Levin; Scarborough, head master, Mr. ,T. Bi-ingan*, of Ohariu; Wharau, sol» (earlier, Sir. J. Grant, of j the relieving staff.