PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1545, 14 September 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Oaptain (Adjutant) Collins, of the Royal Berkshire Jiegiment, has been appointed to succeed Major J. K. Cochrane as General Stuff Officer at District Headquarters, Pnlmerston North. Major; Cochrane was recently appointed to fill tho position of Director of Military Training, vacated by Colonel Burnett-Stuart.

The Bdv. Canon Garland, of Brisbane, will bo the guest of honour at the Now Zealand Club's luncheon on Wednesday evening next. He will speak on "The Bearing of Immigration on tUo Future of Australasia."

It is not aJways the simplest matter in the world for one to seo himself os others see him, bat this opportunity was afforded tho littlo. folk of Tiny Town yesterday morning, , when nt the King's ■I'heatre they were shown a kinematogrnph picture of themselves issuing from tho portico of the "Wellington Town Hall, nnd driving off in their own diminutive carriages. They were also shown the splendid new coloured picture, entitled "Tho Run God," ono of tho finest pictures in an Eastern setting cvor exhibited in Wellington.

Mr. Frank Talbot, managing director of tho concert tour of the Countess de Cieneros, arrivod this morning from Auckland.

Mr. Geo. T. Adams, advnnco agent for tho Plimmcr-UemviMon Dramatic Company, arrived in Wellington yesterday to make- preliminary arrangements for , (ho opening of tho company. Mr. Gordon L. Conrad, touring manager, will arrive hero on Sunday from the south.

Tho members of the English Pierrots having completed a highly succc.-sful tour of the Dominion, left for Sydney yesterday.

The Now South. Wales'Hugby football team, which ia en route for Vancouver and made a call of two days nt Wellington, left last evening for San Francisco by tho Moann.

Couples who had the privilege of being ablo to say they wero married by Bishop George Augustus Sclwyn , nro now getting somewhat faro (writes our Auckland correspondent). Mr. nnd Mrs. Htirkneas Hamilton, who celebrated tho fiftieth anniversary of their wedding nt their residence, Klkrslie, on Wednesday afternoon, wero married by Bishop Kelywn in St. Mary's Church, Parnell, on September 11, ISU2. Mrs. Hamilton was tho second daughter of tho late Mr. William Buennuan, of Tarn, New South Wales, and Mr. Hamilton came to New Zealand in the early 'sixties with his parents, being the eighth son of the Into J)r. .James Hamilton, of Cookslown, Comity- Tyrone, Ireland. Hie father was for some tims settled on land at Drury, and during the Maori war his residence wns a kind of city of refuge, for adjoining farmers in those troublous days. Mr. Hamilton is now the last snrvivor of eight sons, and though well advanced in years, wns able to take n live-milo stroll yesterday, and still carries on his chemist's business al hlloislio. With ono of his brothers, Mr. Hamilton carried on n chemist's establishment in Oncen Street, next the liank ol -Now /calami lor n long period, but about hye years ago ho removed to Kllorslio, where ho luis remained ever since. \ great family gathering wns WW yesterday at ernoon to celebrate the aged couple':, golden wedding, nnd numerous telegrams and letters of congratulation wero received. Iho two daughters (Mrs. Percy Ward and Mrs. (,rant) wen- present, nU Nn -eu grandchildren, and Mr. Waid. Tho I!ev. J-. U./Walker, of Ellmslio, attended nnd admiuiflered Holy Communion In the members of the fnmily, which «•«« deemed pmfeunWe to reppntinu the sowlw mi. fornaod fiftv j-enra ago-