PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. - Bishop Wallis and Mrs. Wallis, who are on a holiday visit' to Marlborough,, will return to Wdlingtc® about ■ the middle of January.

Sir William Lyne was a passenger by the Maheno which arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday—Press Association. •

Sir Robert Stout, who has been visiting Dunedin, left that city on Saturday to spend at least a week in Southland. He will be in Christcliureh about January 10 in connection with the meeting of the University Senate, which takes plaoe a late*. .

Tho "Church Chronicle" states that the Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Wallis) has appointed the Rev. George Vincent ICoidriok and (until January 31) the Rev. Sampson Stephens surrogates-for-tho purpose of.granting marriage licensesin the parochial district of Palmprston North; also the Rev. Arthur Wirniinr P.ayne for the parochial district of Pohangina, . ,

Mr., J., Strauchon, Surveyor-General, and Mr. T. Humphries, ex-Surveyor-, Gcnaral, will • attend the conference of the Federated Surveyors' Boards of Australia, which is to commence in. Hobait on January IS.

Mr. F. B. Turner, manager -of the Patea branch of the 1 Bank of .New South Wales, is at present on. a visit- to Wellington.' .'

Mr. J. G. Harkness, secretary of the National Dairy Association, who left for England, in tho.Tainui, will investigate : the marketing of New Zealand dairy produce in London, and will r.lso. visit the dairying distriots o£ Denmark. -He .will Ijo absent . from New Zealand .for four or five months. .

The lato Sergeanfc-Major ■ W. Paton, who died on boaTd/tho s.s. lonio on December 22, was on his. way ■ to the Dominion to his relations and for. the benefit of his health. H?. leaves a widow and 6on 'in Exeter, England, ' and was ' a brother of Mr. Robert Paton, of Pukeuri, Oamaru, Mrs. Jas. Hislop, of Kaitangata, Mrs. Robert Young, Pukerua, and Mrs. J. Smith, Cromwell, Otago. He was, up to a few years ago, Sorgeant-Major of the Wiltshire Regiment, _ and' he retired on reaching the age-limit.

The temporary rank of Colonel has been approved for Lieutenants-Colonel Heard (Director of Training); and Chaytor, Wolfe, Hawkins, and Smyth (officers commanding the military districts of Wellington, Auckland, Canterbury,. and Otago respectively). This promotion does not involve any increase of pay.