PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1348, 27 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) and the lion. J. A. Millar are at laupo. tho Hon. T. Mackenzie is at Duuodin and the lion. A. T. Ngata at Port Awanui. Sir Jas. Carroll, the "On. D. Buddo, and tho Hon. R. M'Kenzie are in Wellington. < jr. Victor JakovM, of Odessa, Russia, a student of niitural history, is a visitor to New Zealand. Ho has just completed a tour of the Hot Lakes District and liie Wanganui River. Mr. Henry X. Southwell, of Sydney, who has been managing for Mr. John M'Cormaek, the famous tenor, during his recent concert tour, left for Sydney yesterday by the Ulimaroa. Mr. Geo. 11. Roe, a descendant of one of the seven families who founded a settlement in Western Australia, is a visitor to Wellington. He is engaged on a tour of Now Zealaud. Mr. Leonard Monk, who ca.lllo to Now Zealand as representative of the Australian Photo-Play Company, in connection with the kinematographing of the Davis Cup tennis matches, left for Sydney by tho Ulimaroa yesterday. Mr. N. Stewart, of InvercaTgill, and Mr. W. M. Millard, of Dmiedin, have lieen appointed to the teaching staff of Wellington Boys' College. A Press Association message from New Plymouth states that Mr. W. Armstrong. Commissioner of Crown Lands, died yesterday morning as the result of a paralytic stroke a few days ago. Charles Stanley Marshall, of Graterbury College, was yesterday awarded the Haydon Prize for an essay on "A Sukgested Constitution for the Organisat.'eai of the British Empire." There was on.v one competitor, but tho examiners considered his essay worthy of the prize. The late Joseph Haydon presented to the University certain securities estimated to produce sufficient money annually for a small essay prize, the only condition attached to the gift being that it should be used for the enoouragement of Imperial sentiment—that the subject of the essay should bear reference to the maintenance by Great Britain of sea-power, from an Imperial point of view. The prize' awarded to Mr. Marshall was of books to the value of £2.

Mr. A. G. Purdy, who has been in the employ of Messrs. Bing, Harris and Co. for the past fourteen years, was Riven a novel send-off by his friends on ieaving for Sydney last evening. As the TJlimaroa moved away from the wharf a eolden horse-shoo was thrown to Mr. Purdv, attached to which was a number of coloured streamers, the ends of which were held by friends on the wharf, and gradually paid out as the vefsel moved out from tho wharf. Mr Purdy was accompanied by his wife.

The Hon. William Pitt, of Melbourne, left for Sydney yesterday by the Ulimaroa. Baron Gustavo de Tauhe, of Paris, arrived in Auckland by the Tofua on Wednesday. He will return to America by the Aorangi, sailing from Wellington on February 9.

The Rev. F. G. Evans has been appointed Archdeacon of Taranaki.