PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 959, 28 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

• By the Warrimoo yesterday morning,, Dr. 'S. Skernian, of Martori, arrived back here after a seven months' tour. During his absence: Dr. Skerman visited- the Pacific Islands, and thence travelled across America to England and the Continent. While in. England he visited.the training camps at Aldershot. Hβ describes the arrangements in connection with the military hospitals and medical corps as excellent. *' ■ ■•'• '■■•'•.- ■ ■■:

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Duncan, of Wellington, who have been on a trip to Eng-. land, are to leave Sydney for Wellington to-morrow. Mr.. John Duncan (of Levin and Co.) nnd Mrs.' Duncan will return to Wellington a. week 'later... :

Mrs. John Gell and family are returning to Wellington by. :the Arawa after; some years' absence in the Old Country. Mr. Gell was formerly attached to the Telegraph Department, and .when offieer-in-charge at Wnkapuaka ho invented an ingenious telegraphic instrument which greatly reduced the- labour required in an office. Ho will return to New Zealand in ,about three months'. time. ,v

Mr. H. P. Smallbone, who .lias been in tho Auckland, branch . of the National Bank of New Zealand .as acting-aocoiuit-ant.iias been transferred to the Wellington branch as accountant. / '■■.■'•■■.

Colonel Porter 7 was a passenger by the Wimmera, from. Wellington en route to GHsborne, yesterday. :,.

Word has been received from Sydney: of the death of Mr. M. Cohen, late of Wellington, which took.place on Septenibor :17 at his residence, Berry ; Sweet, North Sydney,, at. the . age of 67, ..the cause of death being heart failure. A widow, four, sons, and one daughter survive him. One son 'at present resides ai Somerset Avenue. Kewtown. .:'■.-'

Mr. Richards, Town Clerk and "City Engineer of Dunedin, returned from a trip to Sydney yesterday. • ■'.•■'.■-,

Mr. , A. A. Corrigan returned yesterday morning from Dunedin, where he has been attending the annual ■ conference, of D.I.C. managers. . ' ..'.■■ . ' .'

The appointment is gazetted of Mr. Charles Rhodes as Consular Agent- for Italy, at Auckland.:- .

Messrs. .Thomas Morgan (Eeefton) and George Graham Johnson (Keefton) have been appointed Deputy-Registrars of, Marriages, etc. ■'''.-.'..' . •' ■'

Mr. G. W. Sampson has been appointed Deputy-Commissioner of Stamps at Wanganui as from October 11. . .'.■. . ;

Mr. E.S. Jenkins has been appointed an. Assistant Meat Inspector in the Department of Agriculture,* the appointment to date from October 21. ,

The promotion of Lieutenant J. G. Roache (Wellington Guards-Rifles) to the rank of captain is gazetted. The. date of commission is October 7. . ■-

Mr. C. C. Mann, London buyer for Messrs. Archibald Clark and-Son, Ltd., London, died at Napier on Saturday. At Teneriffe, while proceeding to New Zealand by the Corinthie, he contracted ptomaine poisoning, and complications set in. In the hope of recovering ho stayed with his brother-in-law', Mr. H. A. Comford, Crown Prosecutor, of Napier, but death supervened. Deceased was a native of Auckland.

Mr. J. H. Parker, of Christclvurch, wiio was Avnst's chief backer, nnd who wit- 1 nessed- the raco with Barry on the Zambesi, returned hero" from Syduey by the Wnrrimoo yesterday, after sncniliiig several weeks in Australia on the way back l'rom Africa

Mr. E. T. Hart, headmaster of the Beresforrt Street School, .Auckland, vrlll on Momlny next have completed 33 years' service as a headmaster., of which' 30 have been spent at the Beresford Street School. Members of. the City Schools Committee made flattering references to Mr. Hart's work at tlie mooting of tho committee on Tuesday evening;