PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1298, 29 November 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

—♦ His Exce'loncy the Governor was at Hokitika yesterday. Sir Joseph Ward journeyed from Palmerston to Dannevirkc last, evening. He leaves the latter place for Shannon this morning, and will return to Wellington by Main Trunk express to-day, leaving later for tho south. Kir James Carroll received over three hundred telegrams yesterday from all parts of the Dominion congratulating him on his unopposed return to Parliament. A largely-attended meeting of Natives met (lie Native Minister at Gisborno Yesterday morning, and congratulated him on tlic honour lo himself and to the Dominion by his knighthood—Press Association. Sir James Carroll is still at Gisborne, and is not expected to return to Wellington before the general election. Mr. E. C. Gold Smith, Commissioner of Crown Lands at Auckland, is about to retire on pension. Mr. li. M. Skect, who has been Commissioner of Crown Lands in Southland for the past two and a half years, has been promoted to tako charge of the Auckland district. At the Seamen's Institute this evening, Sir Robert Stout will present Cecil F/llison with the Royal Humane Society's framed certificate for sftving life. In the list, published in The Dominion, of tho successful candidates at tho last examinations of the City and Guilds of London Institute, tho name of Robert Wainwright was omitted. Mr. Wainwright passed in tho test of ordinary grado plumbers' work. Colonel Birkenshaw, who has been in charge of the North Island province of the Salvation Army, has received notico of his transference to Melbourne. Ho is to leavo Wellington on''January liIn formally accepting the resignation byMr. Wm. Gray ot bin appointment as principal of the Teachers Training College, the Wellington Education Board yesterday, on the motion of tho chairman (Mr. Robert Leo) adopted tho following resolution"Tho Wellington Education Board, the controlling authority in tho administration' nf the Wellington Training Collego for Teachers, accepts with regret the resignation of the principal, Mr. Wm. Gray, M.A., who iu fivo years' faithful servico has organised tho "comparatively new institution, and has year by year improved,in ft marked degrco its efficiency, tone, and general usefulness. In taking up tho duties of a moro remunerative appointment in Melbourne, Victoria, Mr. Gray will carry with him the good wishes of the board for success in his new sphere of work." Mr. Nielsen, ex-Minister for Lands for New South Wales, is about to proceed to tho United States in order to gather fuither information about irrigation, It is also plannod that ho shall endeavour to direct to Australia thoso irrigation farmers who aro disposed to try their l'iek in other lands. Tho Hon. D. Buddo is at Christchurch, Sir John I'indlay ut Auckland, tho Hon. R. M'ivcnzie at Wostport, the Hon. T. Mackenzie at liltham, tho Hon. J. A. Millar at Dunedin, and, tho Hon. A. T. Ngata at Gisborne.