PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Hon. W. F. Massey, the Hon. It. H. Rhodes, and the Hon. Dr. Poniare are at Auckland. The Hon. James Allen is expected to return to Wellington to-day from Wangailui. Tho Hon. W. Eraser is at Clydo. He is expected to return to Wellington on Sunday.' 'Tho Hon. F. M. B. Fisher will open the Dunedin Industrial Exhibition to-day, and is due to return to, Wellington on Tuesday next. Tho Hon. it. L, Herdmsin and the Hon. H. D. Bell are in Wellington.' Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, who has beon absent from Now Zealand for a year and a half, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from Auckland, and left in tho afternoon for Dunedin. Mr. J. Campbell, Government Architect, who went to Auckland to attend the opening of the new General Post Office in that oily, is expected to return to Wellington to-day. Mr. J. Maughan Ikrnett has been, appointed president of the Auckland Society of Professional, Musicians. Tho Hon. Wm. Pitt, architect for the new Manners Street Opera House, leaves for Melbourne by the -Maunganui to-day. Ho will bo represented on the Works by Mr. Albert Liddy. ' Mr. W. Fordham, of the Public Trust Office staff, leaves on a trip to Sydney by the Maunganui to-day. The flag over Messrs. Johnston and Co.'s warehouse was ilown at half-must yesterday, out of respect for the late Mr. Samuel Taplin, whoso death is reported from Palmcrsloii North. Mr; Taplin. has been a traveller in the employ of the firm mentioned for about thirty years, for the greater part of that timo on the West Coast of tho North Inland, where he was well known and highly respected. He leaves a widow, six sons, and a daughter (Mrs. F. Maxwell Lcclcie). A Press Association message from Sydney states that Sir William M'Millalv, after rovoral years' retirement, will return to active politics.'