PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1398, 26 March 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

It is understood Hint Mr. J. G. W. Aitlien has been approached to stand for I in J ayorally of Wellington, anil has declined. Mr. <.!eo. Shir;cli(l'e has also li:i-n to allnu- himself to be noiniiiared ior Hie jmsition. lie is to give his reply on his return from the south. Jlr A. ]{. Atkinson has been nominated b.v Jr. A. L. iterdmaii, JI.P., ~,id Jlr. ii.iiiilniiirsli, M.l'., inr tiio vacancy on tho Victoria College Council. Jlr. A. It. Crump, youngest' soil of the ,Kev. .1. (.■rump, ijioil recently in Jkluouriie The jate Jlr. Crump, who had bwn ill lor the last flirco and a half .yei.rs, was «u u-sislanf toacfier under Jlr. U. S. LilUejohn at HmU College, Melbourne. He was an (jid liny ol .Nelson College, and took his ]j.A. degree in laui, and nis JI.A. degree in VM'i. Jfr. Samuel Jfogg, who has been represcntmg the "Jlluarnted London News" at the Jim-bar, in India, is one of the loremost biack and white men of the day. Jlo is at present looking up old friends and relatives at Napier, where he was brought up and educated, and where he first showed those gifts which huvo brought him' into prominence at Home. He was a fel-low-schoolmate at Thompson's (private) sclioul, and afterwards at Marshall's

school, Napier, in the sixties of Sir James Carroll and Mr. Walter B. Taylor, of

Wellington. Tho latter can distinctly romember young liegg being hauled over the coals by Mr. Thompson for sketching surreptitiously when he should have been doing something else. Afterwards, at "Marshall's," it wus recognised that tho youth hud a rare tnlent with the pencil, and (hat it was his bent who can deny.

Tho custodian of Parliament Buildings (Mr. Charles Kobintou) received birthday congratulations from the staff and Ministers' messengers on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Ilobinson .stated, in the course of :v speech, that he wus born in 1850 near tho site of the buildings of whicTi he is now in charge. Hi a first association with the present building \\a< in 1871, when he came down from Auckland, in attendance on Sir George Bowen, the then Governor. At a Inter period ho was in charge for a while when Sir Arthur Gordon was Gov-

Sir. S. J. Morau, LL.B., late of Messrs. Casey and Moran, solicitors, has entered into partnership witli Mr. if. Lavery, in tho acquirement of the legal business of Mr. C. A. Poivnall, of Maslerton. The style of the new linn will Ixil'ownall, Lavery, and Moran.

Mr. "Will Lawson, who has made more than n local reputation as a versifier and press contributor, is leaving the local staff of the A.M.1 , . Society, of which he has been a member for eighteen years, to take up an important position in Hawke's Buy on the society's outside staff. On Friday night he was tendered a farewell dinner by the past and present members of the Wellington office staff, who. after wishing Mr. Lawson God-speed and (he best of good fortune in his new field of endeavour, look advantage of the occasion to present him with a .suitable memento of the esteem in which he is held by life fellow-officers of the society. Mr. Lawson leaves this morning for Dannevirke, where he will be stationed for a time.

Mr. Hubert Church, who has retired from the Treasury Department; on superannuation, after thirly-threo years' service, was on Saturday presented bv his tellow-olfieers with a pair of field-glasses' and other mementos of their regard.

Mi\ W. A. Keliow bus definitely announced his intention of standing for the Mayoralty of Karori.

It was inadvertently slated in Tiru Doatixio.s- a week or two ago that Dr. Johnston, of Cartcrton, had left for England. The reference should have been to Dr. Johnston, of I'eilding.

Mr. F. A. do la Mare, 8.A., LL.B., is leaving the Department of Internal ATfairs, and will go south next Monday, in order to engage in legal practice at Port Chalmers,

Mr. IC. D. Whelan, who for a number of years was connected with the firms of John Council and Co., Melbourne, and G. Wood and Son, Adelaide, has token ehargo of Messrs. AY. and d. Tnrnbiill's tea department.

It is understood that Councillor B C. M'Cormick will contest the H.-<lrigs Mayoralty against Mr. James Garnett, the present occupier of that position.— Special correspondent.

Mr. C. 15. Fordham, after Imring Iwcn connected with Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull iuid Co., Wellington, ior twenty-six years, lias loft that firm to take up a position with A. ]?. Hislop mid Co. Before leaving Mr. Fordham was made (he recipient of three, handsome presents. The oflieo staff gave him a Morris chair, the store hands a silver-mounted inkstand, and the principals of the firm presented him with a solid silver rose, bowl, which bore thu inscription:—"ln token of long and meritorious services rendered."

Commissioner Cnllen has been deluged with telegrams and letters of congratulation on his appointment to the. Police Commissionership. These have been ceived from persons of all shades of political thought, and from those connected with almost every business and profession throughout tho Dominion.—Press Association.