PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1596, 13 November 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

-.' : 1 ■''•'■'../'.* ■'.-.' .■■■.• VICE-R.EGA.Ii., His Excelleijcy the Governor opened the .atinuai exhibition of 'the'' Dunedin Art Sbcietjr yesterday, iifternidoii, In the everihg Ho -inspected the boy scouts and o.gened the new Y.M;C.A, building. Today hevwilble tiou by.tiie- returned New.Zealand.cadets, and in "the evening, he foil) Open the local branch;of the Overseas Club—tress Asso-. elation. . Hi's Excellency fa* Governor is' to be. the guest of honour at the' New .Zealaiid;. Chtb's iun'cWn on Tuesday next 'Lady Islington, accoinpanied by Miss Stepletep-Cotfoii and Captain MacdPugal, A3.C'.,. prltod from the south yesterday hio.rmng.- ■• , Tie Prime Minister, is at Auckland, .and the flbii, Jos.. Allen .at Duncdju, The Hon. R.; It Rhodes left CliriStctoch .for Wellington last evening. The o'aer Cak inet.Ministers are in. towri. The Hon*. W. Fraser is,to leave for Ihiiicdin on Friday nest.. He will go. through to Clyde and attend the jubilee .celebration of thd Diinstaji tush. Mr., Fraser bxttectis to return to Wellin'gtea on Sunday,. ..November 2i, The Hon. W, H. .-itferrics intends-to : leave for Auckland on Sunday night-next., in order to attend, the banquet which is..: to be 1 tendered to Mr., Massey on Nttvera,:ber lit. On the following day Mr, Her■;nes;iyjll attend the opening oJE.fhfi-jiefr post office atAuckland, and oft Noyeni.bef tI.W will open a post office at Wailibii in his bfrn clectbrato..' Mr. .fieriics. expects to'return to AYellington/bn. Novelhy b.eir 22,, and. afterwards will niakc his headquarters here. until Christinas, when, he will again go to Auckland. The Minister! will spend the early part of Januai-y in: his dsvn electorate, . ' The Hon. P.- M. B. Pisher will go to. Auckland at the end. of the week, and ; will attend, the citizens' recep'tiorii at w,hioli' the Prime Minister is to be entertained.:' ' • •' It is -stated that Sir Joseph Ward may leave 1 shortly on a trip to England. Mr, Justice Chnpiiian has returned to Wellington from Blenheim. Dr. Martin returned from, a, visit to Collingwood yesterday morning., 'Mr. K. G. Borradale.-.'frell kitbwn in amateur, theatrical circle's in .Auckland,., has been transferred to Ohristebutcli-, ..■' Jlr. Ernest Parkes,, formerly a leading l baritone in Wellington,, played the (Sip-; ■tain/ in a perforinanfp of "H.M.S. Piiin- ■ :fore"' at Dunedin last week, . Gaptai'n Higginson, the British Army ■ aviator, is to "lea'V.o fp'r London by the ■Ruahine to-morrow* ■ Mr. Wesley Spragg, of Auckland, is a' visitor to ''Wellington'.'.' Mr. P.. C. Turner has been .undni.tn6.usfy eledted Mayor, of Ekc'tahuna by the cb'un-ci-l-iV to; fill the vacancy caused by "the resignation of Mr. Page,;'who lias been appointed :a. stipendiary 1 inagistfnte.-'pre'ss issqeiatio'n. ,' Str; A. H. Grinling; of the staff of the "Otagb- Daily Times, * is a visitor to Wellington.; '~Mr- J'..%. Black, who has been employed duritig:. the. past eleven or twelve' years, in, the' head 'office of the Pub.li'C.Works Be'panment, at Wellington,, has beentransferred to. Watiganui, in tlio capacity of chief clerk. . .' . ■ The following appointments have been' made ' by', tho Wellington Education Board :—lraiuin<' 'College, assi6,taut, Mr. 1 - IX C.. Bowler j ■Ma6.tertbn, . assistant ■■mistress, Mrs. G. JII. Banks s.Mikiniikij sbl'b teacher:, Miss P. Thomson; Dyer,,solo teacher, Mr. C. Grant;. To Whiti*. sole teacher, Miss L. Robiiispn; Waihoarigay. solo teacher, Miss A. 'Eobinsoii'; Takapu, sote teacher, Mr. W. J, Clnchan; South Wellington, assisiant mistress, Miss E. void Ifeisenberg; OhaU, assistant inislrcss,. Miss B, Hurrejl. Dr. W. T. Brigham, ourator of the Bishop Museuuij at Honolulu, was in Wellinirbon; yesterday. AcconvpanM 'by liis secretary, 'QTr, Wilson) he left for Itofo-' rua by the Main Trunk express j-esterday . at mid-day. , Miss Ldnmor, principal of Nelson Girls'. College, received intimation by cableCTtun yesterday of the death in. England of Miss Jli Khto'n, first assistant mistress'at the collegia who left in April fot-, ,v' holiday toiir in -Ettrflpe. Miss Kir'tori ivas a dau..s;L ter of Mr. R, Kirtpnj formerly chief ,po'stmaster at Nelson, 'and j'iow ■.residing' at New Plyniduth. Siie graduated.at'Cant'ei'-' bury. 'Coiic'gc, and had been on. .the staff of the college for ten, years. The hews of her untimely death ■ came as .a great shock to her colleagues arid pupils,' bv wlioiri she was held iir■■affectionate regar<l. "Press Association, -..A Press Association:, message from Ixiildon states that Miss 'Doris Carter, a Victorian sln'ee'r; made: a. successful appear- : «a«ie »t tt Queeii'ft Hall ballad conceit.