PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1215, 25 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor is to attend the first performance in tho Concert Chamber of the English Pierrots on Thursday next. The season of the company will be under tho patronage of Lord Islington. Mr Albert J. Kellow, manager for Lsvin and Co.'s Foxton agency, was presented with a complete set 01 table entlerv, fish and fruit knives, anil forks by members of the staff of the Collins on ofiiea on tho occasion of his approaching marriage. Mr. Donald Koss, a member of the Waitotara County Council, has been requisitioned to contest the Patea seat in the Government interest. He defers giving a definite answer till Mr. O'Dea's chances against Mr. Pearce can bo nla Am' v" he is disinclined to prejudice Mr. 0 Dca s prospects of winning the scat. Mr. L. M. Isitt, the newly-«lected M.P. for Christchurch North, is esnected to take tho oath and. his scat to-day. Ihe Speaker did not receive the writ from tlio burning officer yesterday. It was ascertained that it had been posted on W nosday night, but presumably too lato loi the mail.

Mr. 11. D. Bell, K.C., leaves on a trip to' Auckland to-morrow.

Our Hastings correspondent states that, though not definitely announced, it is undoTsfood that Mr. G. S. Clapham, wl.o stoDd for the Hawke's Bay i-eat last election, will again be a candidate for larliamentary honours. The death is reported from Sydney of Mr Ernest Garden Wilson, a well-known vaudeville artist, who has appeared on more, than one occasion at the lheat.ro Koyal under the Fuller management. Uo excelled as an imitator of actors, some of his best. , impersonations being tlioso ot Cuvier Hastings, J. B. Atholwood, Bland Holt, Van liiene, Dampiev, and Ecuben Fax and Mr. Morrison (in "Irilby ). Prior to taking up this lino of business Mr. Wilson was known as a clevor charactor actor. JJn was the son of the lato Mr J. E. Wilson, scenic artist, and a brother of Mr. Frank Hawthorne, of the dramatic stage.

Mr. Frank Hntchcns, the brilliant Hawera, pianist, who has been six years in the Royal Academy, London, is visiting Wellington, after having paid his relatives in Tarnnaki a visit. Mr. H.utchcns did very it-fell indeed in his pianoforte studies at the Academy, and comes back to the Dominion a finished artist. Whilst nt the Academy Mr. Hutchens composed an orchestral selection, which ho called "A Song of Victory." This was played quite successfully by the ■Vcademy orchestra before Mr. Hutchons lolt, but, unfortunately, he, had immediately Itfforc mislaid his score, nnd had to do the whole of the work over again from memory. ■ It is Mr. Hutchon's intention to give recitals throughout tho Dominion, assisted by his brother, Mr. Will Hutchens (who has studied voiceproduction at the Academy), and possibly a lady vocalist.