PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1046, 8 February 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tfie Prime Minister, the Hon. JJr. lin_dIny, anil the lion. 1). Buddo will bo in Y\ olliligton to-day. Tlie Hon. T. Mackenzie H rsncetrd to rot urn lrom lelldinjj. Tin' lion. .1. Carroll and tlioJlon. A. T, Nguti nrr* ou ttie Const, tlic* Hon. .1. A. Millar i.- in Duncilin. the Hon. G. l'owlds in Auckland, and tlie Hon. L. M' Ivcnjie in Cambridge. The IYiiiie -Mini-kT arrived from Ohaltunp yesterday afternoon. Ho will be in Wellington for at leant a few days. 'i'lir Hon. G. Fowlds is expected to be in Auckland until Saturday next. Majnr-G['ii"ral A. J. Gcdley. .C.li. (General Officer Commanding tin- Forces) anil G'oiilnin 1). C. Spencer-Smith (.Staff Officer) returned from the staff camp at Tauherlnikaii, I'ealheistun, last evening. The Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr. Clarke) returned to Auckland from Holorua on (Saturday evening. and was the guest of Archdeacon Calder at. All .Saints' vicarage, "I'onsonby. The Archbishop enjoyed his stay in Hotorua, and the rest has greatly benefited him. He left for Sydney on Monday.

Chief Detective Marsack, of Auckland, is reported to have been offered, and to have refused, a sub-inspectorship of police.

Nonconformists as well as churchmen who have listened to the eloquent Bishop Neligan (formerly of Auckland) at the Pail-Anglican Congress, and elsewhere, will learn with regret (says the - "British Weekly") that his doctors forbid him to. undertake heavy work for a long time to come. The "Guardian's" Lancashire correspondent comments on the Bishops decision not to accept the offered P° s ' miwioner for the Manchester JDiocese. "The news of ■ the Bishop s impaired health," he savs, "has disappointed onr hopes. The climate of Manchester is the most trying in England. Work-in the diocese is, in point of intensity tyid range of interest, at least equal to work anywhere else. But it Is work that NOUlu break an ailing man."

Captain Richard Seddon, of Wellington, has made arrangements.to leave for IXD» doii about the middle of March.

Mr. J. D. CruickshanK, until recently in business in Masterton, has intimated his intention of becoming a candidate for one of the Wairarapa seats ou the vt ellington Harbour Board.

Sub-Inspector Norwood will leave Wellington to take charge of the Palm'erston north police district on .Saturday week.

It is understood that the Very Rev. Dean-Grogan will shortly retire from the Wanganui parish. Amongst the names of his probable successor is mentioned that of the Eev. Father Holley, of Blenheim.

Dr. Ertritt Atkinson, who has been in practico in Auckland for l-l months, has been appointed bacteriologist and pathologist. /to the Public Health Department in West Australia, and will leave for Perth ou February 15 by the P. and 0. steamer. Dr. Atkinson is a New Zealander, having been.born at G'hristchurch.

Mr. H. A. Wild, second clerk of H.M. Customs, Auckland, has been promoted to be landing waiter at Invercargill.

It is understood that Captain Makgill Maitland has re-signed his appointment as aide-de-camp to his Excellency the Governor.

Messrs. Oliver Nicholson and Mr. Stanley Milrov (secretary to the Kauri Timber Co.) o'f Auckland, are visitors to Wellington.

Mr. R. Walter, landing-waiter at Wellington, lias been transferred to Nelson, where ho will succecd Mr. T. li. Herd, who becomes senior landing-waiter at Auckland. Mr. J. E. Nichol, clerk at Wellington, is going .to Nelson to replaco Mr. K. H. Smyth, clerk in the Nelson office of the Customs Department.