PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency Admiral Sir G. F. KingHall will arrive from Lyttelton_ at the end of the week. H.M.S. Drake is timed to sail from Wellington for Sydney at 6 p.m. on Wednesday next.

The Hon. W. F. Massey arrived in Wellington from Auckland yesterday morning. The Hon. -J. Allen and the' Hon. Dr. Poniare are at Dunedin, and the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher and the Hon. R. Henton Rhodes at Christchurch. The other Ministers are in Wellington.

The Hon. W. Fraser leaves for the south by the s.s. Maori to-night en route to Dunedin. He will attend one of the series of banquets being tendered to the Hon. J. Allen by the electors of Bruce, and he will return to Wellington on Sunday.

The Hon. A. L. Herdman leaves for Auckland to-night to commence his projoctecl tour of inspection of the prisons of the Dominion. He will visit Mount Eden Gaol at Auckland, also the two inebriates' homes at Roto Roa and Pakatoa Islands in the Hauraki Gulf, and the tree-planting camps at Waiotapu and Waipa. Mr. Herdman will be back in Wellington in a few days.

The Hon. R. H. Rhodes, PostmasterGeneral and Minister for Public Health, will arrive in Dunedin to-day by the first express from the north, and will immediately proceed to the hospital grounds to lay the foundation stone of the new women's ward. On the following day Mr. Rhodes will open the Kaitangata post office,. and on Friday will attend the banquet to be tendered to tho Hon. .Tames Allen at Lawrenoe.

• rMajor-General A. J. .Godley, C.8., Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, arrives from tho south to-day. Ho will bo accompanied by Captain Spencer-Smith, his staff officer.

Bishop Julius, who has been, on a visit to tho Old Country, and who arrived at iYemantle a few days ago, will spend about a month in Australia before returning to New Zealand. He is expected back in Christchurch about January 1 or 2.

The Anglican Bishop of North Queensland. (Dr. Frodsham), whose resignation of the See takes effect in March', 1913, has found it desirable, to get relief from his responsibilities before the end of the year. The citizens of Townsville have decided to give him a public send-off. This is likely to take place on December ll in connection with the opening of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, with which the bishop was closely identified. He hopes to leave for England in th© Orama a couple of days before Christmas. Mrs. Frodsham will be a passenger Ly the Osterley, leaving Sydney on December 7. The Townsvillo committee to arrange for the bishop's send-off consists of two Roman Catholics, a Presbyterian, and a Methodist.

The Kaiapoi Presbyterian congregation extended a call last night to the Rev. Mr. Laislcy of the Bluff.—Press Association.

Mr. Thomas M. Shakespeiar, of Sydney, secretary of the Australasian Provincial Press Association, who has just completed a month's tour of the North Island, arrived in Wellington by the Main Trunk train on Tuesday, and is staying at the Hotel Windsor. Mr. Shakespear leaves for Sydney on Friday.

The Government Meteorologist (Mr. D. C Bates) has left for Auckland in connection with the extension of eorno of the North Island meteorological stations. Mr. J. H. Lowe, formerly chief engineer of the New Zealand Railways, who retired from thp Service some years a?o and has been resident in England, arrives today from England via Australia by the Maungamii on a visit to his friends.

Mr. Belcher, the new headmaster of Christ's College, Christchurch, who arrives in Wellington on December 11, will be welcomed at a dinner the same evening by College Old Boys.