PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1490, 12 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vioe-Begau. His Excellency the Governor, Lord I lington, who is. patron of the Orphans' Club, will be duly inst lied o Saturday evening;>at the.'Masonic. Hall, Tho Hon. W. Hi Hemes, the, neMinister for Railways, arrived back fror a visit to England by the lonic yestei day. ' . . .....'; Tho Rev. G. Watson has- resigned tli parish of Geeveston (Tas.), and. acceptc work in the Diocese of Waiapu, unde Bishop Averill. ■...'■■ Mr. D. H. Guthrie, member for Oroui intends to spend a coiipio of days i Feilding at the-, beginning of next wee! Mr. G;uthrie .has taken a cotta'go at Pat kakariki for tho session. Mr. Stanley .iGrant, manager for th Marlow Dramatic Company, leaves fo Sydney to-day. The next attraction t be sent to Hew Zealand by tho Marlon Willoughby management will be "Th Sins of Society" and "The Marriages c Mayfair," Drury Lane dramas. Mr. A. E. Braithwaite has been appoint ed deputy-registrar of" births, deaths, an marriages at Bulls, '.-'.' Mr. James Cameron, sheepfarmer, o Tinui (East Coast), who has been in Wcl lington for the past month owing to ai injury -to one of his feet, left for hi homo yesterday. Mr. Cameron is ,; brothor of .Dr. Cameron, of Wellington Mr. William Pryor, secretary of th New Zealand Employers' Federation has returned from a visit to Aucklani and Rotorua. i ■' The appointment of Mr. Charles E Matthews as chief clerk to the 'Justic Department is gazetted. Dr. P. ]?. M'Evedy, of Upper Willi Street, was operated upon for rippendici tis yesterday. Ho was working as usua on Wednesday, but was taken ill sudden ly yesterday morning, and there was n< ilternativo but to operate immediately He is doing as well as can bo expected. Mr. W. J. Parsons, formerly of Gis borne, died at the Wellington Hospita yesterday, after a lingering illness. Th< deceased was 46 years of ago. '■, Mr. Arthur J. Smith,, of' Wellington who served his. apprenticeship, , at th< Petone Workshops,; has obtained his chic: jnginocr's certificate at Bombay; :■ Mr. J. E. W. M'Ennis has been ap pointed a district engineer in the Publii Works Department. Mr. J. A. Piko. of Wellington, leave; on a visit to London by the Taimii to iay. .. ■ • The premises of Messrs. Thos. Ballin.for and Co. were oloscd yesterday out ol respect to the memory of the late Mr Sdwin Toms, formerly a commercial tray. slier in the employ, of the: firm. v The 'uiieral was-attended, by. the relatives of ;he dwoasod and the principal members )f the firm. ■ .'' ... .>.. Mr. G. F. Bullcn, of Kaikourn, is reported to be in a precarious state ol health; ■ ' ... Dr. Truby Kiug, euperintjndcnt of SeoslilT Aeyluiu, is at present in, Wellington, flo has been given leave of absenoe to deiver a course of lectures throughout tho Dominion on infant life. Tho first of the ieries is to be given at the Lower Hutt >n Monday next.- The subject will be 'Health and Horedity—How to Promote jlio Rising Generation." . .. Mr. W. D. S. Macdonald, late Minister far Public Works, intends to leave for Qisbomo to-day. ■ ' Mr. Harold Gerard and Miss K. Pitzjerald linve been appointed shorthand writers to the Department of Agriculture, Messrs. S. M'Kcclmio and T. T. Ropia ;aro been appointed cadets in tho Public IVorks Department, ' . Commissioner liichard? rocently appointid head of tho Salvation Army in New Zcaand arrived in Auckland yesterday incrnng oa his first visit of ispection to that ?art" of his new command. During the ;hree weeks he has ,been in New Zraad, the commissioner has visited tho rour chief centres, and he told a ivportor reeterday morning that he and Mj-s. Richards had been deeply impresred by :he cordial welcome tlie.t had been exended to them, not only by their own )fficprs b>i t by the whole of the people of S'ew Zealand. This made their coming ,o New Zen I and quite a pleasure, anil vas appreciated very keenly as a tribute o "the great concern." Commissioner Richards told his interviewer 'that ho 'ocognised evidence of the splendid work ;hat had been done by the Army in this iountry, and hn could build on the solid 'oundnMons that hud boon laid. There vas Rient nood for Iho extonsion'of both ocial nnd spiritual work in .Auckland. would be taken to build n new >ople'.« Pnlnoe, and also n iipw innternty home, both institutions to b<? modern n<l4l niton*, nrpiipjwtl on thoroughly uo. o.dnto Imw.-Pross Aiiocktioii,

Mr. W. Loffley, of Rotorua, has been appointed an oflicial member of tho Tβ Arawa District Maori Council, vice tho Rev. T. Bennett, resigned. Mr. N. 13, Gougli, Pctono Borough Inspector, has been appointed to a similar position at Hawera. Mr. Cough, who has been on tho Potone Borough for H years, was chosen from 52 applicants. News has been received by culile of tho death in Canada of Mr. George B. Craven, son of Mr. I?. B. Craven, of Pnrkhur.st, Helonsville. Tho lato Mr. Ciaven left Auckland four years ago to attend the Agricultural College at Winnipeg. He met his death in the tornado which swept over Manitoba on July 1, •■ and at the time he was supervising the erection of now machinery m one of tho province's largest butter factories. Mr. Craven was only 28 years of age. Tho Governor has appointed Messrs. J. 11. Paku, of Waipukurau, I'. A. Grace, of Tokaanu, A. Ormsby, of Otorohanga, J. A. Ormsby, of Otorohanga, T. Puuwliarctapu Kcwcne, of Kawhia, the liov. H. Jenkins, of Ractihi, tho Rev. W. Kateiio Paraire Rangiliuua, of Nuhaka, to act as licensed Native interpreters of the first grade; and Messrs. J. S. Grace, of Tuparoa, W. Tamihana, of, Masterton, P. Tuwhare, of Kaikohe, and Miss llorenco Heron, of Gordonton, Waikato, to act ns' licensed Native interpreters of the second grade, under tho provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909.