PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1556, 27 September 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vice-Regal. His Excellency the Governor will leave for Palmerstoil North by tho New Plymouth express this morning. He will return to-morrow, and will bo .present at the final korero of tho Savage Club, to bo held in tho Coliccrt Chamber iu tho evening. On Monday evening his Excellency will give a Parliamentary dinner at Government' House; on Tuesday afternoon ho will open d bazaar at St. Thomas's Schoolroom, Newtown; and the same evening will presido at the annual meeting of tho Society for Protection of Women and Children. His Excellency will leave for Wanganui on Wednesday next to lay tho foundation stones of tho new Y.M.C.A. and Orphanage buildings on tho following day. On Friday ho will proceed north to Mount Egmont, to presido at tho opening of a new hostel or mountain house. The next day he will proceed on to New Plymouth, where under tho auspices of the local Agricultural Society no will deliver an address to tho farmers of the district. This will be his Excellency's farewell visit to tho district. On October 7 his Excellency is duo to arrive back in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Duncan, Miss Harcourt, and Mr. Vavasour dined at Government Houso last night. Commissioner Henry T. Howard, who hns been appointed chief of the staff of tho Salvation Army in sucoession to Mr. Bramwell Booth, 'lias been an officer of the' Army for thirty-ono years. Ho progrossed rapidly as a man of Soupd ideas and quick cxecutivo capacity, nnd in 1884 was appointed Commissioner for Australasia, a position ho retained Until 1892. Ho then became-Director Of Field Work in Great Britain and principal of tho Army's International Training College at Clapton. Sir Joshua Williams arrives from the south by the Maori this marnitig. 'I'lio death is announced ot' Air. .Walter Henry Scott, aged 83, who came to New Plymouth in 1854, and served in the Militia throughout tho Maori War, receiving the New Zealand war medal. He took a great interest in local affairs nnd was mainly instrumental in establishing New Plymouth as a municipality.—Press Asso» ciation. Mr. Justice Chapman reached Wellington from Gisborfie last night. At a me3tine of tho Wellington branch of tho New Zealand Educational Institute, to be liohV this evening, Mr. 11. A. Parkinson will move: "That the N.Z.E.I. ishould adopt as tho objective of its futuro efforts t the establishing, of a council of education with administrative, not merek advisory, powers, and. that pending the attainment of this object the Government be .urged to extend to the teaching profession the benefits of a classification scheme on the same general lines as that proposed for the Civil Service." Mr. Henry Carlsjn, one of Dannovirke's first residents, and a pioneer of the sawmilling industry in that district, passed away at Auckland yesterday morning. Deoca sod loaves a wklnw and a grown-up family. He had been ailiug some time and went north in search of health.—Press Association. ~M r .\ Hempleraan, borough - engineer, Feilding (late of .Wellington), was offered the appointment, of foreman of works for the Gisborne Borough Council, out of a large number of applicants. Mr. llrmpleman has decided to remain in Feilding. The Rev. If. J. F. Bickerstclli, who has been apmnnted chaplain of the Melbourne Ciutrch of. England Grammar School, was a passenger for Sydney by the Mnknra, which arrived at 'Auckland on Tuesday. Mr. Bickerstotlv has come straight from Christ's College, Oxford, to take up his new duties. ' Mr. Ernest A. Belcher, 8.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford, nt present assistantmaster and house-tntor at Clifton College, Bristol, has been appointed headmaster of Christ's College, Christcliurch. Mr. Alfred Warbrick, who hns for many years acted as a guide in the Government service at Rolorua, hns been appointed launch-master to the Department of Tour* ist and Health Resorts. ■ Mr. H. G. Ell, M.P., lias been appointed a member of the C'liristchUrch Licensing Committee. Mr. W. G. Dnthie hns returned from a trip to England and America. Lieutenant W. H. Meddings (adjutant 12th Regiment at Nelson) hns been appointed assistant-adjutant and ! quarter-master-general for the Canterbury Military District. Colonel the Hon. Jas. Allen, Coast Defence Commander at Dunedin, has been transferred to the Reserve of Officers, i The Rev. G. N, N. Watson is gazetted an officiating minister under tho Marriage Act. Mr. Ji. Basil Jones, manager for Frimlev Canning Works, Hastings, is in town for !i few days, and is slaying at tho Grand Hotel.