PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 817, 14 May 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor, who is at'present living at tho ; Molesworth Street residence) will remain in Wellington until after the date of the late King's funeral on Friday next.' The arrangements for Lord Plunket's farewell visit to Christchurch and Dunedinremain unaltered, with the exception that all social functions will be entirely dispensed with. Arrangements in connection with the Auckland -visit are as yet uncertain. In any case they will be greatly modified. It is also doubtful whether His Excellency will be able to make the promised farewell visit to tho West Coast of the North Island.

Lieutenant P. W. Skelly and ActingLieutenant W. Avery, of the D 'Battery, have successfully completed the theoretical and practical portions of their examinatiins for captain's and lieutenant's commissions respectively.

Mr. F. W. Isitt, General Organiser of the New Zealand. Alliance, returned to Wellington last evening from Auckland, via New Plymouth.

Mr. C. H. W. Locke, headmaster of the Aramoho School for 25 years, was farewelled at a social gathering at Aramoho this week, and presented with a purse of sovereigns by residents and old pupils; and articles of jewellery by tho teaching staff .and present scholars. Much regret is felt at Mr. Locke's retirement.

Mr. Henry Gee, of the West's Pictures Proprietary, who manages the glaciarum at Sydney, is in New Zealand at the present time, pushing forward tho circuit-building scheme which was originally published in these columns. During tho past three months tho firm has opened two King's Theatres—one hero and one in Christchurch. Now they intend to go ahead with the erection of now theatres in Dunedin and Auckland. It ia all but settled that West's theatre in Dunedin will bo erected in tho Octagon, and the firm are negotiating for a central site in Queen Street, Auckland. Mr. Geo expresses himself well pleased with tho local King's Theatre, which ho thinks is one of the most comfortable, airy, and up-to-date picture halls in Australasia. ■

Mr. Cecil Jameson (son of Mr. Jameson, manager of the United Insurance Company), who has been studying art for some years in Scotland, had a picture "hung" at tho Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, this year. Having completed his scholarship term at the Fraser Art College at Arbroath, he is now about to settlo in Kngland and practise his profession. Mr. C. N. Woreley, a well-known artist in New Zealand, was also an exhibitor at the Bosal Hibernian Academy