PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Their Excellencies the Governor and Lady Islington gave nil official farewell dinner Iα the l'rime Minister and Lady Ward and Dr. Findlay and '.Mrs. Findlay at Government House, on Tuesday night. The following were present:—Kight lion. Sir Joseph Ward, Lady Ward, and Miss Ward; the Hon. Dr. 'Findlay and Mrs. Findlay; the ]Jon. G. Fowlds; the Hon. J. Cnrroll and Mrs. Carroll; the Hon. .T. A. Millar and Miss Millar; the Hon. T. Mackenzie; the Hon. R. M'lvcnzie and Mr?. M'Kenzie; General i-.iu! Mrs. Godley; (he JiiVhop of Wellington and Mrs. Wallis; the Hcv. Dr. Gibb and Mrs Gibb; Mr. T. M. Wilford (Mayor of Wellington) and Mrs. Wilford; Mr. and Mrs. Salmond; Mi>s Cotton; Colonel Herd; Captain Spencer Smith; Mies Vormwald; Mr. and Mrs. Guise, and Captain Shannon.

All Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington at present. Inspector Dwyer, of the Napier Police District, is at proent on a visit to Wellington. Mr. Justice Cooper is expected to return from Auckland this afternoon. The Very Rev. Dean Rcgnault, Provincial of the Marist Order, has returned to Wellington from a visit to Hastings. Mr. A. M'Bain, headmaster of the Manukau School, has been granted a month's leave of absence from February 27, . The following resignations of teachers were accepted at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board;—E. Silvester, assistant, Shannon; Mr. R. Hill, Admiral Run; Mrs. R. Murray, Kaiwaha; Miss J. K. Mason, Te Whiti; Miss P. Butler, assistant, Grcytown; Mr. R. S. Gilmour, Pifinoa. Mir. A. B. Charters, headmaster of the Grevtown School, is to be granted a week's leave .in order that ho. may go into the military instruction camp, the leave to be first approved by the Chief Inspector. Mrs. W. B. Rhodes, of "The Grange," Wadestown, is about' to leave on a trip to the Old Country. She has resigned her seat on tlio council of the Girls' Friendly Society. Mr. G. Morice has been appointed captain of the, Normal School Cadets, vice Mr. J. IC. Edie, who has retired. . An old resident of Wellington in the person of Mr. John Martin, after whom Martin's Bay (in'Evans Bay) is named, died at his residence at the bay at a late hour on Monday night. The deceased, who has lived in Martin's Bay for about a quarter of a century, was a boatbuilder and ferryman, and to frequenters of the waterfront in that locality was a well-known identity. It is understood that he has no relatives in , this part of tho world. A Christchurch telegram announces tho dealt of Mr. F. A. Archer, for thirteen years manager of Dalgety and Company's business in Christchurch. Sir Geo. Clifford and Mr. A. E. Cohen, members of tho Racing Commission, left for AVollington yesterday evening to attend tho first sitting of the commission at Wangaiiui on Friday.—Press Association. Ex-Inspector O'Brien, who retired from the police force on January 31, was met by a number of representative citizens at Duuedin yesterday. The Mayor, on behalf of the citizens, presented him with an address and a purse of sovereigns for himself, also a, present for Mrs. O'Brien. Highly-complimentary references were made to the manner in which Mr. O'Brien had carried out his duties as inspector, and to the osteeut in which he was held by , (he public—Press Association.

Mr. R. H. Harper has been appointed district agent for tli6 . Agricultural Department in, the Taranaki oncl Jfana"iv.itu districts, with headquarters at Waugamii.