PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1385, 11 March 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Iwo political loaders of I lie Dominion (Sir ,ln-c)i!i Ward ami Mr. W. I-'. .Mnssoyi were, with the (.iovcrnor, the principal quests of (lie Manchc-ter I'nity of Dildl'elloWs at a picnic at Auckland oil Saturday. The Ciovernor went in his yacht. No speeches were, made.—lVcss Association. The Prime Minister 'Sir Joseph Ward) and the Hon. ,J. A. Millar are at Auckland; the Hon. ]). Jlmlilo at Kanjriora, the Mini. T. .Mackenzie at JJunedin, and the Hon. A. T. N;;atu at Port Awnmii. The only Ministers in town are Sir James Carroll ami the Hon. H. M'k'cnzie. Mr. (.'. ]>. Skcrrett, lv.C, who has been attending the Supremo Court Sessions at New Plymouth, returned to Wellington oh Sntunlay liijjht. Mrs. E. Trask, of Nelson, arrived by the Tuvakinn .from London yesterday. Mr. (.'. ,7. lieakes, Chief Government Veterinarian, who has been for the past week in Ihe Taranaki district, returned to Wellington bv the Xew Plymouth mail train on Saturday night. Mj-. W. 11. Hawkins, formerly JI.P. for Paliiatuu, is leaving that district to take tip farming pursuits in Taranaki. Mr 7'yne, of the Money Order Oflice of the Post (jllieo Savings Bank, has been transferred from Wellington to Whangarei. 7t is understood thnt Colonel A. Robin, C.8., C.M.0., who is proceeding Iloriie in May to join the Imperial General StaT? of the' English War Office, was nominated by the War Office as the officer to represent the Dominion at headquarters. The death is announced of Mr. John Dow, J.P., of Newtown, Outram, in his eightieth year. The deceased was born in Scotland, and landed in Port Chalmers in 1858. A cablegram has been received in Dunedin from the Registrar of the University of. Durham, stating that the. three students of Selwyn College who sat for the university examination in December last have been successful, namely: Mr. George Shibbs anil the licv. C. 0. Bushlung for the li.T. (Licentiate of Theology), and Mr. Alexander J. Petrie for tho first section of the L.T. Mr. Wm. M'Lean, of Wellington, intends to leave on a. trip to America during May next in connection with tho purchase of a boring plant for the Bonithom Oil Company, of New Plymouth. Mr. G. L. Bannatyne is resigning his position as a member of the Eastbourne Borough Council as from the end of this month.