PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 812, 9 May 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. James Xllen, M.P., will deliver an address to his constituents about May 23, probably at Milton. Ho will then deal at length with the policy speech delivered by the Prime Minister at Win ton on Thursday night. Sergeant Willis, of Diincdin, will probably take the, place at Palmerston North of ■Sergeant M'Gujre. who was shot during the search for Powclka. The Rev. W. Jellie, 8.A., of the Unitarian Church, Auckland, will be invited to take charge of tho Wellington Unitarian Free Church. Mr. Jellie. had intended to resign his Auckland charge and rut urn to England. Mr. Hugo Gorlitz leaves for Auckland by the Main Trunk express to-day to arrange for the season there of the Ellwood trio and Miss Winnie Nixon. Miss Constanco Pronse will go with the party as .accompanists. Mr. Brownlie, of Havelock, is on a visit to Wellington..' He is staying at the Hotel Bristol. Appointments to positions in tfio undermentioned schools are announced by the Wellington Education Board as follow: —Assistant mistress, Hawera; Mrs. E. Lees; sole teacher, Kaiwaka: Mrs. R. Murray. Miss M. Martin, pupil teacher at Nowtown, has been transferred to Muritai, and .Miss A. Fitzgerald, of Johnsonville, to Newtown. Mr. J. B. Lindsay, of Auckland, for•merly of tho Government Railway Department, has been appointed "traffic inspector for Auckland city from among 53 applicants. . ' The "Kobe Herald," Japan, dated March 11, 1910, states: "Among the passengers who left Marseilles by the P. and 0. liner. Morea on March 4, for Japan, are Messrs. G. K..Totton and E. Maligny, who are both returning to Japan in the interest of the New Zealand Insurance Company, Limited." Mr. Totton, who is well known in Auckland, was formerly chief clerk of the Invercargill branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company, and in 1904 he was appointed to look after- the company's interests in Japan, Korea, and Formosa. Ho was appointed by tho J apaneso insurance .companies as .one 1 of their representatives at the recent insurance conference in London. Mr. T. E. Scdgwick, of London, who came to New Zealand, in March to make inquiries on emigration matters, has booked a passage to London by the Atheriic which leaves Wellington on May 19. A New Plymouth Press Association telegram- states that Mr. Ernest Ifwerson, a well-known Auckland business 'man, formerly traveller for P. Hayman and Co., was seized with paralysis on Friday , afternoon, and removed to' a private hospital, where ho died during tho night.