PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1425, 27 April 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The only Cabinet Ministers in town this morning are the Hon. To liangihiroa and the Hon. 11. G. Ell, but tho Hon. J. V llanan returns to-day from l'almerstou North. The Prime Minister (Hon. T Mackenzie) and MlO Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald are at Te Kuiti, the HOll. A. M. Myers is at Auckland, tho lion. G." \\\ Uussell is at lioturun, (he Hon. G. Laurenson and the Hon. J. Colvin aro at Christchurch, and thoj Hon. T. Buxton is at Temuka. ' The Hon. G. Laurenson left for Christchurch last night. To-day he will recoivo deputations, and open tho new public library at Woolston. Ho will return to Wellington to-morrow. Colonel A. W. Hobin, C.8., C.M.G., Ad-jutant-General of the New Zealand Forces, who has been appointed a member of the Imperial War Stall in England, left for London via San Francisco by tho Aorangi yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. John Hod, of JohnsonviUc, were passengers by the Sussex, which left for Avonmouth from Lytteltun ,fc;tor<lav afternoon. Tlicj' are taking the' trip t'o'l the benefit of their health. tt is now known with certainly that Mr. Joseph Hell was chief engineer of the'illfated Titanic, and friends who knew lum as a regular visitor to New Zealand may possibly remember tho cablegram's laconic statement: "Xo engineers were saved." Mr. Ml traded her« for many veare as chief ouitiiiner (if the old lojijc wid the present

Mr. T. Dunn, until roecntlv of tho staff | of the "Press," Christchurch, loft for Svdnsy liy tho Wnrrimoo last night to take up n position 011 tho New Zealand Press Association staff. Mr. Mnnrico .Mantliell returned to Wei'ram .San I'rancisoo bv llic Tahiti last cvenm;;. Mr. F ,T. Ilolleston was elected a memnwi.°f J 1 ' 0 . J Harbour Hoard yesteuUj (stale.-, a 1 rcss Association message). vice Mr. D O. Tiiriilnill, who eonteinplatos a trip Home. at present on 2 .■' ,l o| , 11,0 aiignmii Collesiatc ,f 1 • M- °7 l nsM'stmit mas- « »t ItlliiiSta Boys Collop., p'/V'J* Q"irk, t)m first president of ilio Pahiatua branch of the Xe«- Zealr.ml i ariiuM-s I'mon, and one of tho founders pt yhe branch, was presented with mi illuminated address at the annual meet»S ot the branch, and was also electwl a llic member. Mr. Lionel Matthew Tansev, of Cromwell was yesterday admitted as a solicitor ot tho taupreme Court by his Honour oMIr. M tlM> B M )licBlioa Tho memory of the Into Dr. Napier \v■ r jf. a,l , was , ) l ' M 'i»oly referred to at the Wellington boxing Association's meeting last night by tho chairman f])r. A. \V », trhlto lo the work ! ' Dr. M Lean ha<l tlono for the association and remarked upon tho standard which ho had set for his successors. At tho meeting of tho Wellington TecliV? i Hoard last evening, Mr. I). M'l.aren received tho felicitations of his leUow-members on his election to the civic chair. Mr. D. Robertson (chairman ot tho board) remarked that the board should now have a chanco of potting its new Technical ,School. He hiped tnat jlr. M Laron would not lose sight of tho pressing necessity of the board in that connection while ho presided over tho deliberations of the council. Mr. Jl'Laven briefly responded, declaring that it was his earnest desiro to keep ' party politics clear of civic politics, and to do Ins duty for tho general interests of the community, irrespective of class. A Press Association messogo from Nelson states that the death occurred yesterday afternoon of Hemi Matenga VVaipunaahu, a noted Maori chief, and husband of Huria. Matenga ( bett-ey known a3 Julia Martin ''the Grace Darling of New Zealand"), who predeceased him by two years. The deceased chief was a member of the Nelson Anglican Synod for many years. Mr. Edward F. Adams, of the San Francisco "Chroniclc," arrived by tho Tahiti last night, en route for Victoria. His mission in Australia is to represent tho San I'rancisco Chamber of Commerce and to study commercial things there with a view to encouraging trade between Australia and the Pacific Coast of America. Mr. Maurice Manthel, of Wellington, returned from a trip to Honolulu by the ialuti last evening.