PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1345, 24 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) and the Hon. J. A. Millar nro at Tnupo, the Jlon. T. .Mackenzie at, Papatowai (Otago), and the lion. A. T. Ngata at Port Awiuiui. Sir Jus. Carroll, the Hon. li. il'Kenzie, and the Lion. V. Buddo are iu Wellington. Mr. John Miller has been appointed attendant at the Ohiro Home ior one month, on probation, in place of Mr. John Glen, resigned through ill-health. Dr. J!. K. Brown's resignation as house surgeon on the medical stall ot' Wellington Hospital was yesterday received by the board with regret. The ((Uestion of recommending a. successor is to be left m the hiimts of the medical superintendent. At the conclusion of tho retreat of Roman Catholic priests held in Auckland last week, it was announced that urn Very Roy. Father Urodie, of Waihi, had been raised to tile dignity of an. Areluleacon, that the Very Kev. Father Ma honey and the Hov. Fat'her Uarby had been uppointcd Deans, the liight liev. Mousignor U'lieilly an Archpriest, and the Kev. Andrew o'l'arrell, private ieuretary to iii.-hop Cleary. -Mr. 1). Milligan, who lias been spending a holiday at itotorua and the Waitomo Caves, returned to town yesterday. Mr. H. U. Irving and the members of his company will arrive in Wellington on I'l'idii.y afternoon. Mr. mid Mrs. Irving will stay ill the Grand Hotel. Mr. John Pope, tor "w yours connected with the business of Farmer and Co., Ltd., Sydney, died recently at his residence, ilanly, after a somewhat protracted illness. At one limp the deceased was engaged in trade between Melbourne and Wellington. Mr. 11. A. Cornes, of Parnell, has been appointed junior assistant-master at the Oisborne High School. Mr. Colin M. Litllejohn, D.A., of Milton, has been appointed iiiot assistant-master at the same school. Messrs. L. Dahmeii (of Paris), F. 11. Crabtree (of Montana, I'.S.A.), Jl. A. Slotkowski (of Sydney), and J. T. Thompson (of Melbourne), arrived in Auckland by the Victoria from Sydney on Sunday. Mr. Frederick 'William Kobcrtson, a very old resident of liongotea, died there on Sunday, at the great age of 91 years. Ho arrived'in the district 3G years ago, and was greatly esteemed by everybody who knew him.