PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 854, 28 June 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

9 His Excellency the Governor intends visiting Auckland in August next, and he has intimated that he will open the Auckland A. and P. Association's winter exhibition on August 15. .

Mr. Justice Cooper is expected to return to Wellington from Palmerston North to-morrow.

The appointments of Mr. G. F. C. Campbell to be Commissioner of lasts, Mr. C. K. C. Kobicson to be general manager of the State Fire Insurance Department, and Mr. B. Wilson to be director of tho Tourist Division, as announced in yesterday's Dominion, are to take effect almost immediately, that is to say, from the end of the present month. It is generally assumed that J lO appointment will be made to fill Mr. Wilson's present position as Registrar of the Arbitration Court, tho work of the Court having very greatly decreased during tho last year or so.

Tho final meeting in connection with the presentation to Mr. W. T. Grundy, headmaster of tho Clyde. Quay School, was held last evening. The secretary (Mr. Forsyth) reported that in all the sum of .£49 19s. Gd. had been subscribed by householders and ex-pupils. This sum, besido covering tho cost of tho presentations to Mr. Grundy and Mr. David Robertson (chairman of committee) and the social, left a balance of £1 18s. 6d.,. which it was decided to hand over to Mr. Grundy.

At a recent meeting of parishioners of St. Patrick's Cluurch (says our Masterton correspondent) arrangements were, made for a presentation to Father Sannderson, who is leaving Masterton on Friday next, for Waipawa. It was decided that the presentation shonW take the form of an illuminated. addTess and a purse of sovereigns. The presentation will take place on Thursday evening in St. Patrick's Schoolroom.

Mr. H. N. Holmes, general secretary of the T.M.C.A., has received a personal letter from Mr. C. Carter, secretary of tho Evangelisation Society of Australasia, saying that all the .invitations from the States and the Dominion for. Dr. Chapman and Sir. Alexander to visit Australia and New Zealand have now been received, and tho formal invitation' is being forwarded to Dr. Chapman. The evangelists propose to begin their campaign, about April, 1912.

Private advice has been received from Eotorua (reports the "Manawatu Daily 'Times") to tho effect that Mr. W. T: Wood, ex-M.P., has how completely recovered from his recent illness, and will bo back in Pahnerston this week.

Mr. F. H. Phillips arrived yesterday to take up his duties as interpreter in Parliament.

■ Mr. P. Larsen, who has been for some years a member of the staff of the Mastorton Post Office, has' been transferred to Eltham. Our Masterton correspondent states that he will be succeeded by Mr. W. J. Jackson, of Eltham.

The funeral of Mr. James Jamieson will leavo his lato residence, Roxburgh Street, for tho Kaiori Cemetery at 2.30 p.m. to-day.

. § The death at Lower Hutt, on Friday last, of Mr. Alexander Pryde, sen., removes ono of the earliest settlers of the Bketahuna district (says, our Mosterton correspondent). Deceased, who was over 60 years of ago, went to the Forty-Mile Bush over 20 years ago, and established himseli as a fanner and sawmiller. . Before coming to New Zealand he was * engaged in the railway service in Scotland.

Our Masterton correspondent states that tho health of Mr. Joseph Payton, proprietor of tho "Wairarapa Daily Times," is causing his friends anxiety.

Mr. J. White, teller, of the Eketahnna branch of the Bank of New Zealand, who has been transferred to Dunedin, was recently presented with a travelling rug by tho Eketahuno. Football Club. Mr. White (says our local correspondent) represented the Bush Union tor two seasons.

The obsequies of the late Mr. Frank .Haft, member of the literary staff of "The Press," were conducted yesterday morning ~.at : Avonside Churchyard. Though the funeral was a private' one there was a very large. attendance of friends, most of whom had been associated with tho late Mr. Hart in his literary work. Tho pressmen of Christchurch paid a unique tribute to ■ his ■memory by attending almost to a man. It would have been impossible to have had a more eloquent indication of the esteem and affection in which the late Mr. Hart was held by those with whom ho came ;nto daily contact. Among those present from "Tho Press" office were Mr. P. Selig (manager), Mr. W. H. Graham (acting editor),' Mr. A. M. Burns (sub-editor), Mr. B. C. Huie (editor of tho "Evening News"), Mr. A. H. Bristed (editor of the "Weekly Press"), Mr. Danvers Hamber (editor, of the "Keferee"), Mr. E. Hardcastle (agricultural editor), Mr. F. G. Board (printer), the members of tho reporting staff, and representatives of every department. Tho "Lyttelton Times" Company were represented by Mr. F. Hyman (manager), Mr. S. Saunders (editor), Mr. A. Henderson (editor of the "Star"), Mr. W. G.. Atack (editor "Canterbury Times"), Mr. Norrie (printer), and members of the literary staff and representatives of the various departments. Mr. G. J. Anderson, M.P. for Mataura, who was associated with Mr. Hart on the "Mataura Ensign" for many years,' and Mr. D. Collins, of Chri'stchurch, an old Southlander, were also present. Mr. Walter Fuller, Mr. Bud Peterson, Mr. Geoff Tfye, and Mr. Walter Monk represented various theatrical and entertainment companies, by whom the late Mr. Hart was held in very warm regard. Tho pall-bearers at tho residence were members of. the literary departments of "The' Press" office, and at the church >and graveside the reporting staff of "The Press" acted in this capacity.—Press Association.

Mr. Joseph M'Cabe, the Rationalist lecturer, arrived in Auckland by the s.s. "Wimmera on Sunday. In the evening ho dolivered a short address in the Unitarian Church. A telegram received last night stated that Mr. M'Cabo's lecture on "The Evolution of Man" was a great success, the hall beitg packed.