PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1340, 18 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor is at Eotorua. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) and the Hon. J. A. Millar are at Tanpo. The Ron. T. Mackenzie is at Papatowai t'Otago), and the Hon. A. T. Ngata is at Port Awamii. Sir James Carroll, the Hon. li. M'Kenzie, and the Hon. D. Bnddo are iu town. Sir Arthur Guinness, M.l\, left last night for Lyttclton, en route for Greymoufli. Mr. D. Buick, M.P. for Palmerston, leaves for Auckland next week to attend the Kel'orm League rally. Mr. I!. H. Lcvien, M.L.A., president of the Now South Wales Totalisator Commission, is "father" of the State Assembly, having eat in Parliament for 32 years. Probably no other present mom- ( ber in Australia has sat continuously for so long a term. Mr. jr. J. Crombie, of the legal firm , of Devine and Crombie, returned from a I holiday visit to Australia yesterday. Tin Hon. Wm. Pitt, the well-known ; Jlelbonrno architect, arrived from. Syd- ■ ney yesterday by (he Moana. Major-General Gcdley, Commander of ; the Jorcos, accompanied Mr. W. H. Jlor- ; ton (city engineer) on a visit of inspee- | Hon to the, waterworks at Waimii-o-mala < on Tuesday. I Mr. ,T. Spo«d. a barrister, of Perth, . West Australia, is a visitor to Wellington, Mr. Speed was formerly a resident ( t of Pictan-

Messrs. .Max Mullcr, R. D. Low, (,'. Avers Joyr.t, Br. Coln,uh;uui (of Dunetliji), and (he Rev. M. Warn wore passengers from Sydney by llin Monna yesterday. Mr. W. Leggalt, gaoler at Wainlnpu, lias been spending a holiday in South Canterbury. Ho returned north yestort|ay. A Tress Associa'tion cable, message stales that Mr. Johnson, of Mantua, Railway Commissioner for Culm, has left Sydney on a thorf. holiday trip through Now Zealand. Mr. W. V. Culhherlson, local manager. for John Chambers and Son, Ltd., returned from a business and health (rip to Australia, by the Moana yesterday morning. Mr. .1. .1. Sullivan, of the Auckland Deeds Office, is resigning, nt the end of (he present inonlh (u enter (he services of a Wellington legal firm as senior clerk. —Auckland "Star." The vacancy in the parish of St. Andrew's, Cambridge, in the Diocese of Auckland, caused by the resignation of (he >Ven. Archdeacon Willis, has been filled by tho appointment of the Kev. ('live. Mortimer-Jones, B A., of Oxford University. Mr. Mortimer-Jones is at present in chargo at tho Bay of Islands, Mr. ,T. Castle lias been re-elected president of tjje Pharmacy Board of New Zealand. Mr. Conchie. of London, who was married to Miss Skerrett (sister of Mr. C. P. SkeiTctt, of' this city) some months ago, arrived from Home, via Singapore ami Western Australia, yestorjiny. Mrs. Conchie arrived here with ."her brother Aires weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. Conchio are to return to England, towards the end of the month. Dr. Haswcll, F.R.S., Professor of Biology in Sydney University, wns an inward passenger by (he s.s. Monna yesterday.