PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 16 November 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

— —<» Sir Jas. Carroll is at Gisborne, Sir John Findlay at Auckland, tho Hon. E. M'Kenzie. is at Coilingwood, the Hon. T. Mackenzie at E!thorn, and the Hon. A. T. Nguta at Port Awanui. The Hon. D. Buddo left for Cbristclmrch by tho steamer last evening. Ho expects to return to Wellington before tho general election takes place.

Tho Hon. ,1. A. Millar is expected to return to Wellington either to-morrow or on Saturday morning.

Lieutenant-Colonel Logan and Captain Lang-, of tho British Army, were pasRiij?ors from Sydney by tho Warrimoo last evening.

At tho meeting of tho Presbyterian Assembly at .Unnedm last niffht, tho Eor. Cameron (Anderson's Bay) was npjwinted Moderator fur next year.—Press Association.

The Rev. Canon Jfayne, Vicar of tho Napier Cathedral, has appointed tho Rot W. 1 T. Frascr as a Maori acting-curate in the cathedral.

In recognition' of tho valuable services rendered to tho Industrial Exhibition by Mi. Thos. Ballinger, tho committee have presented him with a very handsome solid silver tea and coffee servico in case, with the following suitable inscription.—"Presented by members of tho Wellington Provincial Industrial Association to Thos. Ballinger, Esq., chairman of tho Coronation Industrial Exhibition, May 24 to July 29, 1911, in recognition of valued services rendered." Tho service is exhibited in tho shop window of Mr. U. W. Lloyd, jowellcr, Lambton Quay.

Mr. Hugh Hamilton, New Zealand manager of the Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd., will leave, per s.s. Ulimaroa, on Friday on a visit to Sydney, Melbourne, and Tasmania.

Captain E. P. Evans, of the Aorangi, has been appointed to command the Union Company's new steamer Tahiti, duo in Sydney next week, and enters the Sydik;,-YVoUington-Snn Francisco service. Captain Evans distinguished himself in towing tho Nimrod to the Antarctic when in charge of the Koonya .—Press Association.

Mr. 11. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary for Public Works, who has been absent in tlio North on Departmental business, is expected to return to Wellington to-day.

Mr. Geoffrey Nye has bsen npixiinted general manager for- Havward's Pictures, Limited, vieo Mr. Hugh Wilson. Mr. Nyo, who will conduct tho company's supply- operations all over Now Zealand from Wellington, was for some timo with West's Pictures as manager in Christehurch, as well as on tour. Lately he was in tho employ of Messrs. J. and N. 'fait, and was for a time advance representative, for the Ben Davies Concert Company.

At the Wellington Gas Company's premises Inst evening Mr. L. M. M'Kay, of the meter department, was made the recipient of a handsome present, the occasion being his approaching marriage. Mr. W. J. Stevens, of (ho office staff, made the presentation.

The Victoria College Council, at its meeting last evening, accepted with regret the resignation of Mr. Win. Gray of his appointment, an Lecturer on Education at the College. The appointment is held, ex officio, by the principal nf Ihe Teachers' Training College for the limn being, and the latter position has lwconie vacant by tho npiKiintmcnt of Mr. Gray, as principal of tho Presbyterian Ladies' College at Melbourne.

The Tiev. Mr. Frost and Mrs. Frost, of Sanson, who have been on a trip to England, wero passengers by the Warrimoo, which arrived from Sydney last evening.

Among tho passengers who returned to Wellington by tho Warrimoo from Sydney last evening were Mr. J. Coyle, secretary of tho Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, and Mr. G. H. Bennett, of Palmerston North, who has been on a vi*it to the Old Country.