PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 9 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor, Lord Islington, will leave for the south towards the end of the week, and will be ill Invercargill in time to turn the first sod in connection with the municipal tramways. Sir Joseph Ward will accompany the Governor. Sir Joseph Ward, who has been spending the i^ew Year vacation in lnv-arcar-gill, returned to Wellington yesterday morning. The Hon. Dr. Findlay will leave for Christcliurch on Thursday next, if business arrangements will permit him to get away. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, is expected to return from the south to-morrow morning. Mr. If. J. 11. Blow, Under-Secretary for l'ublic Works, has returned from a visit to Rotorua. The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Marine, arrived back on Saturday from his holiday tour in the north. The Eight Uev. Dr. H. W. Cleary, Horn on Catholic Bishop of Auckland, arrived from the south by the Maori yesterday morning and is staying at the Archiepiscopal Palace in Hill Street. While in Wellington he is being entertained by the local clergy. On Tuesday Dr. Cleary leaves for Auckland, where he will be welcomed on Wednesday afternoon. Archbishop Redwood, the Kev. Father O'Shca, and other members of the clers.v will accompany the new Bishop to Auckland, also Monsigncr Mackay, of Oamarn, who •has come north as a representative of the Diocese of Dunedin. 1 The Very Eev. Father Nicolas, Provincial of the Marist Order in the South Sea Islands, is a visitor to. this city. Mr. C. P. Skerrett will lie engaged in an important New Zealand case before the Privy Council this year. On his way to Loudon he will spend about a month visiting relatives in South America. He will 'leave Wellington by the Kotorua next Thursday. • Mr. Martin Kennedy returned to Wellington from the south by the steamer Maori yesterday morning. Dr. Hardwick Smith, medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, is spending a month's holiday in the South Island. His senior house surgeon, Dr. E. J. Simpson, is relieving him. Mr. W. H. George, managing director of George and lversley, Ltd., leaves for London on February 10 for the purpose of supervising the London business of, the company. He-will also visit the Continent and America to acquire the latest ideas in store equipment, which will be embodied in the new building to be erected for.the company on the corner adjoining the D.I.C. Mr. George, whose family will accompany him in his trip, will return for a time superintend the new building.

Mr. J. Orchiston has been appointed Engineer-in-Chiet ! of the Telegraph Department, o.s_ a result of the retirement of Mr. J. K.' Logan, Superintendent of Eketric Lines. Mr. Orchiston was born in Aberdeen in 185", and arrived in New Zealand in IBG'2. He joined the Telegraph Service in 1874, and his first appointment of note was to the charge of tho Hawera Station. He transferred to the construction' branch in Wellington ill 1877, and was in turn Snb-Inspector of Telegraphs for the Wellington, Auckland, and Dunedin districts.. Seventeen years ago he Mr. Logan as Inspector of Telegraphs at Dunedin.

Dr. St. L. Ciribben, of Picton, is relieving Dr. Beattio, medical superintendent of tho Auckland' Mental Hospital, who is on holiday leave".

Messrs. Henry Stephenson, sen., and H. Stephenson, jun., of Ashburton, have been touring the North Island by motorcar during the .past few weeks, accompanied by Messrs. A. H. R. Amess and Percy Mann. ( They are spending a fewdays in Wellington before continuing the journey south. Tho towns visited by the party',inclucWd;'_Napier, Kotorua, Wangamii, and '-'Palmerston North.

Mr. J. Farrell, representing J. C. Willjamsoil, Ltd.j-mwiiLjJi.fficlHrigton yesterday by the" Tarawera/to'complete arrangements, for the 'Ivatherine Grey, season, which commences at the Opera House on Wednesday, January IS.