PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 851, 24 June 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day is Lord Kitchener's sixtieth birthday.

It is understood that Mr. G. P. C. Campbell, formerly Valuer-General, anil now in charge of tho State Pire Insurance Department, will bo appointed Commissioner of Taxes, in succession to Mr. Peter Heyes. • .

J Jr. P. Waldegrove, Under-Secretary for Justice, ha* been appointed a member of the Public Service Superannuation Board in lieu of Colonel It. J. Collins, who resigned on his appointment to the position of Auditor-General.

The Hon. T. Mackenzio left for Palmerston Xorth by the Main Trunk tram yesterday to attend the daily show, anu will return to Wellington to-day.

Mr. Tiller has been reappointed , a member of the Wellington Licensing Committee, and Mr. Wilton lias been appointed to fill the vacancy caused through the resignation of Mr. It. H. Ostler.

Mr. T. Harlc Giles, the Auckland Conciliation Commissioner, who has been seriously ill* for some time from • bronchitis and congestion of the lungs, is now in a much better state of health, and is able to get up for an hour every day (says the Auckland "Herald" of June 22), though lie is not yet able to leave his room. Ho hopes to return to his duties in about a fortnight.

It turns out (says our Palmerston correspondent) that there is no truth in tho rnmoifr that Miss Thompson, a member of the Maori Mormon party which recently left this district for Salt Lake City, had died at Fiji. Tho party has reached Honolulu, aU well.

Mr. F. S. Pope, secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists, has been appointed a member of the Public Service Classification Board vice Mr. K. Carter, retired.

On Wednesday evening, Sir. Andrew Grav, general manager, of the New Zealand" Consolidated Dental Company, Ltd., was entertained at dinner m tho Grand Hotel by the dental practitioners of "Wellington. Mr. Gray is leaving on a trip to Great Britain, Canada, and tho United States to-day.

Mr. K. Heaton Rhodes,' M.P., arrives from .Lyttelton by the Moana this morning and proceeds by the same steamer to Sydney.

Bishop Mules, of Nelson, arrived in ■Wellington by the Pateena last night.

The Hon. T. Y. Duncan is a passenger by the Maori, which, left Lyttelton for Wellington last night.

Mr. Dive, M.P. for Egmont, is staying at tho Occidental Hotel.

Mr. J. Mallard, manager of the National Insurance, arrives back in "Wellington this morning from Greymouth via Christchurch.

Our Masterton correspondent statcß that tho Kev. Father Saunderson, who has been stationed in Masterton for some time, has been appointed to tako charge of the Waipawa parish, Hawke's Bay. He will be succeeded by the Kev. Father Molloy, of Marton.

Mr. "Wm. Canning has been appointed a vaccination inspector for the district of Ohakune.

Mr. Wm. M'Lennan has been appointed to bo a member of the Wellington Land Board.

Lieut. H. W. Smith (of the Sixth ann Tenth New Zealand Contingents) has been appointed to be a lieutenant in tho New Zealand Militia, his commission to date from Juno 1 last.

Additional officiating ministers under tho Marriage Act have been appointed as follow:—Tho Rev. C. Moody, M.A., (Presbyterian Church), and the Rev. E. M'Grath (Roman Catholic Church). Dr. J. Q. A. Henry . and Mr. C. A. Potts, tho -well-known missioners, left for tho south by last night's boat. The congregation of the Muritai Presbyterian ChuTch, with Mr. J. B. Finlay as spokesman, presented Mr. and Mrs. John Barr on Wednesday night with a silver tea service and salver, and a set of silver cake knives, as a recognition of their services to tho church. Mr. Barr suitably replied. Mr. Callaghan. from Okoroire, has como down for tho session, and is staying at the Occidental Hotel. There passed away at»Parawai, in the early part of- the week, Matemoo Ivonui (probably better known as Merriman), snys an exchange. This aged Kativo woman had lived at Thames .since the opening of the field, having arrived thero in the early days as a girl with her mother. She- belonged to tho Ngati Kiiruiiiwi tribe of Ngati Kahungunu, of Wiiiroa, Hawke's Bay, and was a chieftainess among her own people from Wairoa to Napier and towards Turanganui. Shortly after her arrival on tho Thames field she was married to Mr. Merrimau. Konui was the first Maori woman to be married in tho English custom on the goldlields.