PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All tho Ministers arc in .town, with the exception of tlio Hon. W. Fraser (Minister for Public Works), who is at Te ICuiti, and the Hon. R. 11. Rhodes (Post-master-General), who is to returi to-day from Christchurch. The Anglican Prima to of New Zealand (Bishop Neville) and the Bishobs of Auckland (Dr. Crossley), and Melanesia (Dr. Wood) returned to Wellington yesterday. They are the guests of tho Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Sprott) at Kelburne. It was announced at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board that Mr. G. London, late treasurer, had decided, in answer to a request, to retain his seat as a member of the board. Leave was granted to cover the term of Mr. London's absence, in Australia. v Mr. A. S. Peterson, of Messrs.' A. S. Paterson and Co., accompanied by Miss Paterson, will leave on a trip to Vancouver early next month. Mr. D. A. Aiken, assistant-general managerof the Union Steam Ship Company of Now Zoaland, arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday. Dr. William Cuthbert M'Caw has been appointed junior house surgeon on the resident medical staff of the Wellington Hospital. ■, Mr. Herbert S, Claughton, of Wellington, has been engaged by tho Auckland City Council to give a recital on the new Town Hall organ nest month. 1 Mr. Edward Branscombe, proprietor of the "Dandies" Companies of Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand, is duo to arrive from Sydney by the Moeraki today. Mr. W. Eyre-Kenny, of the Federated Malay States, is a visitor to Auckland. Mr. 11. Wynn Williams, for some years connected with tho Harbour Board, Ims been appointed to tho charge of Whaltarmvarewa, in succession to Mr. Turner. Miss Wynn Williams, of the staff of the Labour Department, will accompany her father to Whakarewarewa. Mr. C. A. Piper left Dunedin vesterday morning to assume his duties as traffic .«iiponnteivd<2iit of railways in tho North Island, —Press Association.

Tho late Frederick Hancock, the conmictor who was killed through an accident on a, tram-car in Featherston Street on Monday, wc-s considered a very nood conductor and employee of tho Municipal Tramway Sen-ice, and was popular anions a fellow-ivOTkors. Ho was a nativo of Wellington and learned his trade as a, boot finisher in Messrs. Hannah and Co.'s factory. After leaving tho factory ho was in business on his own account for a time and eighteen months joined tho tramways service. On behalf of tho local Bootmakers' Union, the secretary (Mr. J. Hutchison) forwarded a teletrrani of sympathy to Mrs. Hancock yesterday. . iXo ,™ an Aitkcn, on behalf of tho Wellington Dramatic. Club, has made <ra oft er , to the Tramway Employees' Union to give a benefit performance ill aid of the widow a.iul children, which offer has been accepted.