PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1626, 18 December 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Pwsongcrs arriving at Auckland from Vancouver by tho Makura ycsteTuay included Cnptain Shaw, A.D.C, who joins the Governor there.

Tho Prime Minister 'the Hon. W. P. Musseyj and the Hon. !•'. M. B. Fisher left for Auckland yesterday morning, and tho lion. W, FruW is at Napier. All tlio oilier Ministers me in Wellington.

Mr. T. Bedford, for many years a prominent active incmbiT of the Star Boating Club, whs made tho recipient of a prov.'iilal.ioii from his fellow members at llii' Stiir shwls last evening. The special ri.a-xm for Iho event was that Mr. Bedford is lo be married next week. On behrJf of tho club, Mr. A. 1). Bayfield, captain, handed over the presentation, a ease of culler.v, and extended congratulations and good wishes.

The Hon. Algernon Borthwick, ono of tho principals of Thos. Borthwick and Sons, is visiting New Plymouth.

Mr. G. T. Milne lias been appointed British Trade Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia, in succession to Mr. C. .Hamilton Wickes, who has been transferred to Canada. Mr. Milne is at present completing an inquiry on behalf of the Advisory Committee to the Beard of Trade on Commercial Intelligence into (he conditions and prospects of British trade in Central America, and will proceed to Australia early next.year.

Madame Kirkby Lunn, the English contralto, will arrive from Christcliurch tomorrow morning in order to be present at tho final rehearsal of "Tho Messiah" by the Royal Choral Society to-morrow evening.

Memb-.Ts of the Australian football team which recently toured America reached Auckland by. the Makura yesterday.

A Dunedin telegram records the death of Captain Mitchell, ex-Superintendent of the Dunedin Fire Brigade.

The London "Times" of November 8 records the death at Leeds of Mr. John Darks Enys, who for some years had the Castlo Hill Station, in Canterbury. .The

"Times" says: "Mr. Enys was the representative of a family which had been sealed at Enys (Penryn, Cornwall) since the time of Edward I. He was born on Octoter, 1837;. and educated at Helston. Ho resided for many years in New Zealand, where he was a magistrate from ISGS to ISOI, and in 190G he succeeded his elder brother, the late Mr. Francis Gilbert Enys, Deputy Warden of the Stannaries, in tho family estates. Mr. Enys was unmarried."

The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, Minister for Customs and Marine, received numerous congratulatory messages on Saturday morning—the first anniversary of the second ballot elections of 1911. The Minister appreciated the pleasant reminder by the senders to reform. He tolegraphed during the day his best wishes for the coming festive season.

Mr. J. Fahy, A.1.M.E.E., chief electrician and railway electrical signalling expert, is at presint in Australia on extended holiday leave. • It is his intention while there to visit the different States and make a personal inspection of the electrical signalling systems.

Yesterday was the last occasion on which Mr."A. D. Thomson, S.M., presided over 'the Palmerslon North Magistrate's Court, prior to the assumption of his new duties as a Civil Service Commissioner. Members of the local Bar presented him with a metal tray and silver salver.

Mr. Richard Brown, Masterton, Mr. Ch.uies C Vacksnu/ .■■vi'l>::traiiota and Mr. Thomas Mass, >;e\vmarker, are candidates for the vacancy on the Wellington Education Board, causal by the resignation of Mr. Arthur Vile, as representative of Wairarapa Ward. The time for receiving nominations will expire at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Ballot papers are to be issued to members of the'various school committees interested before the holidays begin, and the result of the election will bo announced on January 27.

Says our Feilding correspondent :—Tho Prime Minister (the Hon. W. F. Masssy) had quite a "rally" on tho Feilding station as he passed north yesterday afternoon' accompanied by the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher. Mr. JlasMy.made a littie speech of thanks, and got a send-off of cheers.

Mr. Andrew Black, tho English baritone, a:id Mr: Walter Whyie, tenor, wjio are to sing in "The Messiah" in' Wellington on Friday, arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Sunday.

Mr. J. Baragwanath, Mayor of South Melbourne, arrived in Auckland by the Maheno on Sunday last. Tho visitor is the president of'the.-South Melbourne Cricket Club, whose representatives ■ are now touring New Zealand.