PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 790, 13 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

' His Excellency the Governor is to leave on a farewell tour of the Wairarapa oh Wednesday nert. ■:. On that day.he will arrive at Featherston at 10.31 a.m., Carterton at U. 9 a.m, Masterton at 5.45 p.m., and Eketahuna _at 7.25' p.m. The following day he will visit Pahiatna and Woodville. '■-..-•

A Napier Press Association messaga states that the Premier and Lady, Ward ,! arrived from' Wellington by express last ' evening, and were to leave during the ; night by the s.s. Tntanekai for GisbonM. •

Mr. W. P. Masseyj Leader of the Opposition, went south last night. He has arranged to visit Otago this week. Before the. session he will deliver addresses in various towns: throughout the. Dominion..: He has definitely promised to speak at Hokitika, probably within th» next fortnight. '.. .

A Press Association cablegram from Sydney received last evening states that the Hon.'J. A. Millar, Minister for Railways, has coiruleted ..his investigatibn of the Queensland railway system, and has gone to -Melbourne and Adelaide to conduct a. similar inquiry.;

The Hon. A.. Ngata will leave on * visit to Hawke'3 Bay to-day. He will _b» engaged-for a day or two in'connection with tho : Kopnkawa • Native Reserve. Afterwards he will attend the conference of :the -Xoung Maori.Party at Waipawa. He expects to return to Wellington at the end 1 of the week. .

Mr. Hog'an;' M.P.. for • Wanganui,' is d present on a. visit to Wellington'.;-. ~ : „

Dr. Hardwick-Smith, M.B.M.C. (Canbridge), E.C.C.S.: (England), ..L.R.CJ?. (London), Medical. Superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, is to bo offered the new position of superintendent in. charge of all the institutions that are now under the control of- the new Hospital Charitable Aid Board.- The institutions the hoard at present controls are the Wellington Hospital, Seddon Hospital, Victoria Home for : Chronic Invalids, Infections Diseases' Hospital (now in course of erection), the Otaki Hospital and Sanatorium, and the Ohiro Home. The salary has been fixed at ,£7OO a-year, with free''house and lighting. '< The proposed appointment will be - placed before the full board at. its next meeting, approved, will be forwarded. on to Dr. Hardwick-Smith, for acceptance or otherwise. Dr. Smith succeeded Dr. Ewart a§. Medical Superintendent at the hospital towards the end of 1908. ..

• Colonel Pollen. President of the British.' Esperanto Association, arrived back from the south yesterday. He is to leave for Sydney on Friday to connect- with .the Morci at Adelaide.

Dr. Batchelor, a well-known Anglican missionary of the Church Missionary Society, is expected to arrive in Auckland to-day by the Morea. While in ■Auckland he will lecture and preach on behalf of the society. Dr. Batchelor, who spent many years working in Japan, was recently decorated by.' the Mikado, ic is the only missionary who has received this hononr. ■ '. '

The death is reported from Gisborne of. Mrs. Muir,- wife of Mr. Allan Muir, proprietor of the "Poverty Bay Herald," and a'daughter,of.the late Mr. James Chappell,, who for many years resided in Everton Terrace: Her sisters are Mrs.,-W. J. Salmon, of Wellington Terrace, and Mrs. J. E, Evans,-for many yearsi a resident of Bouloott Street, and Mrs. W: M. Muir, of Majoribanks Street, is a The deceased lady was a resident of Wellington in' her younger days, having resided in Majoribanks Street for- some years.

. Mr. Charles Rupert. Stead, of .Waitara... was.admitted yesterday as a solicitor ol the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice; •iir Robert Stout. The motion was put forward by Mr. P. J. O'Kcgan.

Mr. A. R. Charlton, who has been visiting Auckland and Rotorua, returned to Wellington last evening, via Hawked :Bay. -.::.' " /'-''; ' }

Colonel Pollen, the president of the British Esperanto Association, who is at. present' in Wellington, is ,a personal friend'of Dr. Louis Yamenhof,the com-, piler and inventor of the Esperanto lan; guage, who lives at Warsaw, in Poland. "He is a quiet, shy, modest little man," said the colonel, "a genius if; ever there was one. He commenced to evolve an international language when he was ten' years old, '■ and worked .'at'--, it Quietly but persistently year • after year, until after 27 years' labour he proclaimed to the world, or others did for him, his wonderful achievement. ■_: Ho went about it in this manner. Taking a common everyday, word, he ascertained what that word was in every European language, and then set. himself the task' of inventing a word (in Esperanto) that was most like the com mo i sound of the word in all the languages. In that way he established the root of the language. Year after year ho was engaged in working out 'the/complete vocabulary, which is to-day one of the most perfect and expresslvo extant. It was only to-day that, I met a boy who had been swatting" a\ Latin for two or three years, and was still at it, though he knew precious little about it. What is the use of that to tho average boy, who in less time could become skilled in Esperanto, which is now being used extensively in business with foreign countries, and will increase in usefulness as the language spreads; -