PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1004, 20 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Major-General Godley, Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, has intimated to Captain Palmer, hon. secretary.cf tho Palmerston Naval and Military Tournament, that lie will, if at all possible, be present at the tournament on -January 2. Sir Robert Stout spent, the jveek-end in Palmerston, 011 his way from Wanganui to Wellington. - Mr. R. M'Nab proceeded from Palmerston to Hastings yesterday, to consult with •ii L^ cra ' i ,art y as to matters connected with the Hawke's Bay seat at the next general election. Mr. A. Wells Newton, licensed-, surveyor, returned to-day from Southland, where ho has been for -. the past two months engaged on an-,extensive survey contract. Mr. P. S. Qiiinlan, late of tho Government Life Insurance Department; who is about to settle in Nireaha, has been presented by the local staff 'with, a handsome travelling bag. Mr. Quinlan has also received a presentation from his friends at Lyall Bay.' ' Mr. R. J. Pope, headmaster of the Kai-, warra School, who recently underwent an .operation, is recovering -satisfactorily. A Press Association telegram states that Mr. Eustace Lane, representative of the Crown tenants on the Land Board, announces himself as a candidate for tho Hawke's Bay seat at the,next Parliamentary election. He will stand in the Independent Labour, interest. • Our Palmerston correspondent stat,6s that tho Rev. Father Costello, who has been in indifferent health for some time, proceeds'to Auckland on January 2, and will spend a.two.months' holiday in that district. • .

Mr. J. 'D. Hall, :sqn of the late Sir John Hall, and chairman of.tho Christchurch I''iro Board, in response to a re-' quisition to stand for the Christchurch Mayoralty, has replied regretting his inability to comply with tho request on account of business engagements, and .the fact that he is already on<jnged in a number of public and semi-public, bodies. It is understood Jlr. Hall ivill probably bo a candidate for ono of the country electorates at the next general election.—Press Association. ■

llr. John Thoiiias.Eosworth, who is in-, eluded under the list of Area Adjutants (infantry), who have-' been temporarily appointed, is a counter clerk in the Auckland Telegraph . Office. He . joined the service in Octobef; ,1880, and on March 31, 1900, joined the lifth Contingent, with which he Served until June 30, 1901.

Mr. Spencer Lorraine, the well-known teacher of - singing, will spend his Christmas at New Brighton, as tho guest of Mr. Robert Home, manager of the Dresden Piano Company in Christchurch. Mr. Archibald M'Donald, builder, an old resident of Wellington, 'lied at his residence, liajoribanks Street, on Sunday. He v/as 7U years of age. Mr. Frank Lampen, who has been appointed one of the Adjutants (Infantry) tor Iho Wellington district, is well known in this city as an amateur actor of more than ordinary ability. He has been one of the most valued members of the .Mountebank' Dramatic Company, for which body he has played many partsall well. Air. Lampen has soldier blood in his veins, beiiif; a soldier son of a soldier's son. His father was the late General Lampen, of the Indian Army.; one of his brothers is Colonel John Lampen, Officer Commanding oi-.e of the Ibjpul regiments, at present in Northwest India; aqd another brother is Captain Charles Lampen, Intelligence Officer to the Admiralty (Royal Marines). Mr. Lampen, after a public school education in England, entered the Royal Military 'College i>t Sandhurst, where he secured a Queer India cadetship. Taking up the'sclioiarshin, ho served some time in the Indian Army. Whilst in that country he made,a spr~ial study of signalling, aud was awarded a snecial certificate for this work at Poona. Being of on adventurous spirit, he went. north at the. time of the Russo-Japanese War, and for a time attached himself .to the Russian Army as a signaller round about Chemulpo, Seoul, and Dalny, prior to the fall of Port Arthur. During his residence in Wellington Lieut. Lampen has bpen employed in the pharmacies of Mr. Dunbar Sloane and Mr: Frank Shaw.