PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor will return from New Plymouth to-day, and will give a dinner party at Government House-this evening. To-morrow ho leaves for Auckland; accompanied by Captain Mnkgill Maitland, A.D.C., and on Monday he'will be entertained at dinner by, the Mining Conference.. On Tuesday he 1 will. proceed to tho Thames with tho members of the Conference, and on Wednesday (February 1) he will accompany them to Waihi. He will return to Wellington on' Thursday. next. The date when their Excellencies will take up their residence in 1 Auckland is not. ditinitely settled, but it is not expected that tho work now in progress at the Government Houso will be completed much before the end of March, and it will not be until that date the' visit to the northern oity will be made. The yacht Viking, which has been Chartered by his Excellency the Governor, does not enter into commission until the end of March. Lady Islington is at present in Wellington.

The Commandant of the' Forces, MajorGeneral A. F. Godley, C.8., who, with Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Burnett-Stuart, D.S.O. (Director of Military Operations), and Captain D. C. Spencer-Smith (Staff Officer), is at present on an official visit to Christchurch and Dunedin, will return to Wellington about the middle of next week. On the afternoon of Thursday, February 2, the General will, if. possible, inspect the Herefaunga. Mounted Rifles and Dominion Scouts at the Hutt Park, and will afterwards proceed to Fort Dorset, where lie will stay overnight in order to witness tho AVellington Navals at biggun practice early the following morning.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states: Dr. Pickerill advises that Messrs. A. J. Hansen, C. E. Hercus, and W. S. Seed have passed their final, or second professional, examination for the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery. These are the first graduates in dental surgery in New Zealand. Messrs'. Wm. Scott and Mr. Pryor have been appointed member and acting-mem-ber of the Arbitration Court respectively, representing the employers, and Messrs. J. A. M'Cnllough and AV. T. ~ Young member and acting-member representing the workers. The appointments are gazetted. •' Mr. R. A. Holmes, manager ■of the Union Bank, Wellington, has been transferred to Melbourne, where he is to, be acting-manager. Mr. Thomas S. Jacka has been elected a member of tho Auckland Fire Board, vice Mr. A. S. Russell, resigned. Mr. AY. R. Haselden has been appointed a warden under the Mining Act. Mr. Haselden is a present S.M. and chairman of the Licensing Committee at Tuapeka. The following has beeen gazetted officiating ministers under tho Marriage Act:—the Rev. F. C. Thomas '(Church of England), the Rev. F. J. Tylee (Presbyterjan), the Rev. Andrew O'Farrell .(Roman Catholic), the Revs. L. Macdonald Ashland and Greenwell Carr (Congregational). Mr. M. G. Jessett, vice-president of tho Navy League (London) arrived on Wednesday by tho Athenic. While hero, the visitor will acquaint himself with the progress of the Navy League movement in tho Dominion. Mr. Horaco Savill (Shaw, Savill, and Albion Line) was a passenger from London by the Athenic. He is accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Savill. Mr. G. Faulkner, a nephew of Lord Islington, was also a member of the party. Mr. John Fuller, sen., who has been very busy superintending tho building of tho King's Theatre in Auckland and tho rearranging of the interior of the Opera House in that city, is about to pay a visit of inspection to tho cities and towns embraced in tho Fuller circuit. Mr. G. Brice, warehouse manager ;for the Wellington Woollen Company, has resigned his position, to enter into business on his own account. Mr. Brico is leaving for England very shortly. Our Wauganui correspondent states that Mr. C. L. Bridges, who was announced as a candidate for the municipal by-election, has withdrawn. Only tw.o candidates were nominated yesterday, viz., Mr. Allan Robinson and Mr. Walter Guy. The latter is tho Labour party's nominee. Mr. F. AY. Wheatley, B.Sc.,' headmaster of tho Rockhampton College, who lias been visiting Rotorua, arrival in AVellington yesterday. Mr. Wheatley intends visiting tho southern lakes'before returning to Australia.

Mr. P. W. fowler, of Masterton, who is leaving to outer into business in Melbourne, was yesterday presented by members of the Masterton Bowling Club and Commercial and Farmers' Club, of which ho is a member, with a case of silvermounted pipes and a tobacco pouch, liegret was expressed at the departure of one who had taken so keen an interest in sport..