PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 10 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister), the Hon. J. Allen, and the Hon. It. Heaton Rhodes are still in the south, but they are expected back in Wellington tomorrow morning. The Hon. A. L. Herdman, who is in Auckland making an inspection of prison camps, will not arrive here until Thursday morning. The Hon. W. H. Herries, the Hon. AV. Fraser, the Hon. H. D, Bell, an dthe Hon. F. lit. B.' Fisher are in "Wellington to-day. The Minister for Defence, the Hon. J. Allen, is to be banqueted to-morrow night by the local branch of the Navy League and the Universal Military Training Committee at the Hotel Windsor, Sir Robert Stout, Administrator of the Government, will preside. Mr. Allen leaves on Friday by the Moeraki for Sydney, . en route to London, The Hon. H. D. Bell, Minister for Internal Affairs, leaves to-morrow for Dunedin, where he will present the prizes at the Otago Boys' High School—his own old school. Rear-Admiral Boss, late of the United States Navy, will be present at. the New Zealand Club's luncheon to-day. Tho guest of honour will be Admiral Sir Georgo King-Hall; who is to leave Wei lington for Sydney en route to England to-morrow. Eeferring to the late Rev. Father Costello, who died suddenly in Palmerston North on Saturday afternoon, the "Manar watu Daily Times" said: "Not only was he so dear to the young people of his parish that the school children all liked to be near him, but in his pulpit his remarkable eloquence was tempered with a kindliness of spirit and a simplicity of diction that always went to the hearts of'his hearers. He had a great longing to make his people's worship practical, and to that end he built up remarkably large attendances at the Communion services. Another great aim of Father Cos- ■ tello was to, build. .-newrrSt,, Patrick's : Church at Palmerston, and after a period of stirring mission services here last month a fund for this purposo was started under most encouraging circumstances, munificent donations being immediately forthcoming." , Dr. Herbert was on Friday last operated on,for an acute attack of appendicitis. He is .'progressing favourably and expects to bo out again voTy shortly. , Mr. Orton Stevens, general manager'for the National Mutual Life Association of Australia, is due back to-morrow from a visit to Australia. Mr. Frank Heaton, M.A., B.Sc., was yesterday appointed headmaster of the Napier Boys' High School, in succession to Mr. A. S. Poison, who resigned to take over the headmastership of a secondary school in Ballarat, Victoria. Mr. Heaton has for the last six years been on the staff' of the Auckland Grammar School.—Press Association. Mr. Robert Triggs, now Chief Accountant to the Australian Commonwealth Postmaster-General, will not arrive in New Zealand to take up his new post as one of the Public Service Commissioners until the end of the year. The Commissioners take up their duties from January 1. . Mr. Reynolds Denniston, late of the Plim'mer-Denniston Company, and Mrs. Denniston (Miss Sidney Valentine) are duo to arrire in Dunedin on a holiday visit on Saturday nes.t. Mr. Denniston has been seriously ill for several months past. Mr. Lavington Bonython has been reelected unopposed as Mayor of Adelaide. Mr. Lionel Hitchings, late of the stuff of Messrs. Moorhouse, Hadfleld, and Newman, has entered into legal partnership with Mr. Oliver Prouse, of Wellington. The new firm is to practice at Tauinnmnui and Owhango. The Very Rev. Dean Regnault and Rev. Fathers Hickson, Bartley. J.. Herring, Hurley, and A. Herring, left by the Main Trunk train yesterday to attend the obsequies of the late Rev. Father Oostel'lo at Palmerston North this morning. . Mr. A. Reed, of the Feilding branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has received notice of his transfer to Kawakawa, Bay of Islands. Mr. Robert Hannah, of Wellington, is due to arrive in Wellington, from England on January 8. • Messrs. W. Gow, W. E. Reynolds, H. ■ Harraway, and a representative of the 1 Dunedin Stock and Station Agents' Association (yet to be appointed) will repre--1 sent the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce and Dunedin business men at the confer- ' ence at Christehurch on Thursday, which is to consider the question of reciprocity ■ with Australia.—Press Association. Mr. F. V. Waters, Chief Clerk to the Post and Telegraph Department, has bceu definitelv appointed Assistant-Secre-tary, vice Mr" W. R. Morris (now secretarv). • It is probable that Mr. Waters will be sucoeeaed by Mr. J. C. Williamson (second clerk). Sonor Don Cesar Montera Bustamente, late Consul for Uruguay in New Zen. land, has been promoted to the Consul at Berne, Switzerland, whero he at present resides. Herr Louis Hattenbach, the well-known 'cellist, has left Melbourne on a visit to ids mother in Vienna.