PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency tie-GciaiEor».a±ia.naieN ing of the Executive Canncil yesterday morning, presented Sir femes Kills with the patent and insignia of office of &s Knighthood, which was recently conferred upon him by His Majesty th» King, j : The Prime Minister .{Sir.. Joseph "Ward) • left yesterday afternoon, on-a vfat'to-Ua Eangitikei and Wereroa. districts. The Bishop-elect of Bew Guinea, (Ds. ' Sharp), who armed in Australia from ; England recently, will be-consecrated «i ' Brisbane on April 25 Mr. Waldegrase,' 'OndeESecrotary far Justice,, expects bvretern'to WeUrhgtoß to-day. ''. Mr. John Duncan, of Jaarin sad. -Co, Leaves en a .'trip 'to laondinrty tb» Kjnio ' to-morrow. At the close, of jtstenlay* aßaefing.-irf the Hospital Trustees, tie Hon. C. SL "Luke, M.L.C. (chairman}, presented a handsome framed photograph of Mraseli to the institution; It is noteworthy that whilst the board has been in existence, I—a period of 25 years—only three; mem- \ bors have, held the position of chairman.... Mr. Luko was elected a trustee in 1885, and, with the exception of two years, sat continuously on the board. For eight years he occupied the position of chairman. It is understood that tie two pre. vious chairmen, Messrs. Webb and leaser, also intend to present their photographs to the institution, seeing that the boaTd is now about to be superseded. Mr. P. G. Bolton, solicitor, intends leaving by the Mpkoia to-morrow on a three months' health-recruiting bap to America, the Islands, and Australia. Mr, Bolton will proceed'to San Francisco via Tahiti, and will spend_ some timo at Honolulu, Fiji, and in Australia befoio returning to Wellington. The Harbour' Board yesterday gave him three mantis' leave of absence. He has been suffering from nerve-strain, and has been medically advised to take'a sea voyage. Dt.i Kerr Hislop was 'appointed honpathologist and radiologist to tie Wet • lington. Hospital yesterday. Mr. John Domenech, of Lower Cuba ,Street, has made, arrangements, to. proceed to the Argentine, in company with Mr. Ernest, Short, of Parorangi, who is taking some prize Eomney rams to the great international show at Bueno3 Ayres. Mr. Domenoch has translated Mr. Short"s catalogue into Spanish, and it has been neatly printed in that language as well as English. They leave for Monte Video by the lonic • bwnorrow. 1 Sergeant F. Needham, of the Palmerston. North. Eifles, has been awarded tht 12.years' service medal, and Private B, Archer,.of the samo .corps, the 16 yeatj* . service medal.'. The Eev. H. S. Wooilcombe, the trawl.. ling secretary of the Church of England. [ Men'si Society,, wiU make, a return visit: j to Wellington next week. He has boea ill in Auckland, and several public meet-, ings which he was to havo'addressed her* t will be■abandoned. He will, howerar, j preside at two conferences in Wellington F in connection with Ms society. One ct these will be held at St. Mark's School-

room on Thursday evening of next week, and the other at St. Peter's Schoolroom. on the following night. Both Trill be for';' members only. Mi. WooUcambe \riH ■ leav« far Sydney, en route for England, on Friday, April ;29.

Writing on board B.M.S- CorinUiiu, in the latitude.of Cape Horn, Dr. A..-W, M'Arthur, iii ,a letter to Mr. A. ■BL Holmes, clerk of the at Wellington, speaks enthusiastically of his holiday. The steamer. had had an excellent passage up till then, and both Mrs. STArthnr and himself were, at the time of writing, enjoying the best of health. ;

Mr. H. E. Hi Barnearis has been appointed private secretary to the Hon. A. Ngata vice Mr. Macalister, who is no* acting in a grnritar capacity to the Hon. E. irKemrie. , ,'

Mr. Hedley Jordan, a student at tia Normal Training College, Thoradon,; and an undergraduate. of Victoria College, died suddenly at a private hospital oa Monday evening. Deceased was very popular among his fellow students, and his unexpected demise was a great shock to his many' friends. He was parading with the Victoria' College Officers'' Training Corps on Monday afternoon at burnt Park, when he suddenly fell, apparently in a fainting fit. He was- aft . once removed to a private hospital, where he died about 6 o'clock that evening. Tha late Mr. Jordan is a native of Dovedala, Nelson, where his people reside, and was educated at Nelson College. He came to Wellington to equip. himself for the teaching professim, ana was a most promising student. As a . member of: ths Officers': Training Corps, he was an enthusiastic and regularly visited the range at Trentham.

•Sir James Mills was a passenger for the south last night by the Mararoa. The Hon. E. M*Kenzie, Minister for Public Works, was in Gisbome yesterday, and received some minor deputations. The Hon. Jas. Carroll, Minister for .Native Affairs, was also there yesterday* Both will' leave on Thursday for Wellington, via Wairoa.'—Press Association. .