PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1493, 16 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tin' Prime Alini-ler (Hon. W. V Ma«;1;\v) returned to Wellington bv Alain trunk line express yi-.b-i-day alternuun. iJumijr Ins journey, Air. Massev Was inl?l"'',i,''l.V',l! h - v deputations and «l i'eildiue, ii lojin-fiiliUivc delegation, with the .Mayor (Mr. lloodbeheref at its heail, cimsf.-atiiliitcil him on the'Micce-.s »t lis Jlill-ty, H!i;| upoll |,i s ;l|)J)aiIIIlllL-llt as I rune. _Mmi~l»M- of the Dominion. All Ihe Cabinet Ministers will 1,0 in town to-day. The Prime .Minister returne<l by Main Jnink oxprc-s vestsrdav. anil no Hon. U. H. jJliorics is due to arrive hem the south this moniin.?. The -Hon. it. fl, ];hodcs (I'estnipMcrliencrnl) spent the week-end' at Chri-i----church. He returns to Wellington (his iiiornnii;. • Air. K. I'iiiT.v, Government Ilvilre-Klcc-trical hiiKnin;.,., returnt-:! to WelliiiHlou on Sunday lioin Aknrea. ii l '' 10 .!^'"" 1 is r( 'l >ui 'teil from Hrisl.-nne nf -Mr. Alfred Jones, one yf the founders of the firm of Gordon ami' Gotch. Air. Alex. Jameson, the organising secretary of the Victorian Y.AI.C.A., who Ins been sent to Aew Zealand to net as national secretary under the new order of separate control, has arrived in Wellington via the south. He will confer with the Aational (,'nminittee this week before entering upon his campaign. I'our applications were received for the position of night signalman at Westport. Captain Wahlstrom, of s.s. I'utiki, has been appointed.—Press Association. Captain H. \'. Baker. commandiiu: T/-w;cr Hutt Senior Cadets, and Second Lieutenant i\ A. Xros, Y.M.C.A. Senior Cadets, have resigned, their rcniiuissicns. Air. Joseph Lacltniann, for many years local manager of Messrs. P. Haynian and (.'"., (lied at his residence, 72 Webb Street, last evening, afler a protracted illness. Mr. Lachmann, win was 73 years of age, came to New Zealand in ISG',I. 13 years ago. He is .survived by a widow ami I'mo daughters—one of whom U married.-to Mr. K. (jillon, of the Hailwa.v Department's engineer .stall', and the other t'i Afr. .T. Kchloss, of Wellington. Mr. T.aehinann was actively associated wilh the successful development of Messrs. Haymau and Company's business, ami retired a fewyears- ago, when lie was succeeded by ATr. \V. A. Camiuei;., Th.? burial will lake jilnce at Karon . cemetery to-morrow morning.