PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1087, 28 March 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day the Hon. .T. Carroll (ActingPrime Minister) will be in Wellington; thp_Hon. J. A. Millar, tho Hon It. M'Kenzie, the Hon. T. Mackenzie, and the Hon. D. Buddo will also be iii Wellington; the Hon. G. Fowlds is in Christchurch; and the Hon. A. T. Ngata 011 the East Coast. Mr. Percy E. Sargood, governing director of Sargood, Son, and Ewen, Ltd., who has just returned from a two years' trip abroad, presided at the annual meeting of directors held yesterday. Tho other directors present were Messrs. A. Ewen (Dunedin), Thos. Finlayson (Auckland), and H. C. Tewsloy (Wellington). Major-General A. J. Godley, C.8., Commandant of the New Zealand Forccs, will leave. Wellington on' Monday next on an official tour of Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth. Rceflon, Hokitika, and Christchurch. He is due back in Wellington about April IS. Tho new Vicar of All Saints' Anglican Church, Palmerston (the Rev.- 11. C. Hoscher, M.A.). is to be instituted in his office by the Bishop of Wellington 011 April (i. Mr. Roscher is from Lilleshall, Shropshire, England, lie will arrive in New Zealand by the lvuapchu early in April. The lion. G. Fowlds is expected ( 0 return from Christchurch la-marrow. Mr. .1. Fuller, jnn., lias decided lo come forward as a candidate at tho forthcoming Cilv Council election. He states that he will stand as an absolutely independent candidate. A meeting of the Methodist ministers of Wellington was held yesterday for tho purpose of making arrangement in connection with the coming visit of (lie licv. .1. G. Wheeu, of Sydney, general secretary of the Australasian .Methodist Foreign Mission Society. Matlers are now in hand for an All-day Foreign .Mission Convention, to take place in Wesley Hall, Taranaki Street, on Wednesday, June 14. The Eev. J, G. Wheeu arrives next mouth,

The Kcv. J. Dawson received a telegram yesterday from Dr. J. Q. Henry, stating that his father, Dr. Henry, sen., died on Friday. Tho town clerk (Mr. J. I?. Palmer) commenced his annual holiday yesterday, and will be away for about three weeks. During Mr. Palmer's absence his duties w;ill be carried out by Mr. E. Tail (assistant town clerk). Mr. Justice Chapman arrived from Gisborne and Napier bv yesterday's express. N Mr. Justice Denniston left for Christchurch last night. Ho is duo back in Wellington at the end of the week for the Court of Appeal sittings. Mr. Edward Newman, M.P. (Manawatu), is visiting Wellington for a few days on business connected with his constituency. Mr. C. Edward Lamb, who has been Assistant Town Clerk to the boroiijh of Masterton for the last two and a half years, has received the appointment of Assistant Town Clerk at Napier. There wero forty applicants. Mr. E. S. Stafford lias replied lo the deputation which waited on him on Friday that, owing to business arrangements, he will be unable to offer himself as a candidate for the Mayoralty of Onslow. Mr. Charles Hanson, formerly a Government grader of dairy produce in Taranaki, will be a candidate at the Parliamentary elections for the Hutt scat. He will anneal to electors as a Labour candidater Captain Watson, secretary of the Merchant Service Guild, is to be a candidate at the forthcoming Harbour Board elections on April 26. s He stands for the combined suburbs seat. _Mr. E. J. Carey (secretary of the Cooks' and Waiters' Union) left on Saturday evening for Dunedin, where ho will act as an assessor in the Conciliation Council upon the industrial dispute between tho Dunedin cooks and waiters and the private hotelkeopors. Mr. T. Long, of Auckland, secretary of the Cooks' and Waiters' Federation, also v;ent south on Saturday in connection with the Dunedin case. The latest addition to tho Borough Council "ticket," which is being organised by Mr. D- Robertson, a candidate for the Mayoralty of Eastbourne, is Mr. George L. Bannatyne (of the firm of Bannatyne and Hunter). Constable Clouston, of Nornmnby, has been appointed to the charge of the Opunake police district, viec Constable Hickman. It is likely that Constable Iladlor, of the Hawera station, will go to Nornianby. '