PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1631, 24 December 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

-■ » Vice-Beoaii. His Excellency tho Governor and Lady Livorpool will be prosont at tho opening performance of "Oet-Rich-Quick Wallingford" at tho Opera House on the evening of Boxing Day. Tho Primo Minister (the Hon. W. F. Mossoy) and tho Hon. Dr. Pomare will be the only Cabinet Ministers in town during tho holidays. As nil tho Departmental offices will bo closed, they will attend only to urgent telegraphic business and correspondence. Tho Hon. A. L. HoTdnvan (AttorneyGonoral) will spend Christinas in Wellington, but on December 27 ho loaves for Dtinodin, whence ho will travel through Central Otago to Qucenstown. Ho will spend a short holiday there and then lie intends to inspect the gaols ut Invercargill, Duncdin, and Timaru, and also the tree-planting camp at Hanmor. He will be absent from Wellington about a fortnight. Tile Hon. W. H. Hcrries, Minister for Railways, leaves for Auckland to-day. Ho will stay in Auckland during tho holiday season, and then ho will visit his constituency (Tauranga). Afterwards he will go on to Whakatane and Opotiki, and ho intends to return to Rotorua on January 12. It is not certain yet exactly when ho will bo back in Wellington. Tho Hon. H. D. Hell, Minister for Intemal Affairs, accompanies Mr. HeTdman on tho trip to Quconstown, but ho will return to Wellington after the holidays. The Hon. W. Fraser, Minister for Public Works, leaves this morning for Auckland. '. Ho intends to remain in Auckland province for about a fortnight. The Hon. R, H. Rhodes, PostmasterGeneral, has already left for Christchurch, where ho intends to spond Christinas at his own homo. Word has been received that Mr. Robert Stout, M.8., B.S. (London), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), who has been for some time Resident Obstetrician in Guy's Hospital, London, has passed his examination as M.D., London University.

Mr. Kobert Triggs, one of the newlyappointed Civil Service Commissioners, is to leave Melbourne for Wellington on December 30. Dr. H. E. Gibbs has'left for Nelson on a ten-days' holiday trip. A Press Association telegram from Palmerston North states that Mr. James H. Stevens, an inspector of post offices, has decided to retire from the service on March 81. He has been granted three months' leave from January 1, and has arranged to take up work of a special nature for a mercantile firm. An old resident of 'Wellington, in the person of Mrs. W. Mowbray, died at her residence, Waterloo Road, Lower Hutt, on Sunday night, at.the ago of 7G years. The deceased arrived here from the Old Country with her husband by. the Midlothian in 1559, and for some years took a very keen interest in musical matters in thoso days. Mrs. Mowbray, who was loved and respected by all who know her, had, with her family, resided at the Hutt since 1884. The late John Saxon, whose death at Koputaroa occurred last week, was - a very old settler in New,.Zealand, and was held in wide respect. He' was born in the town of Bruton, in Somersetshire, England, in 1837, aud was educated at the Edward' YI Grammar School, Bruton. He come from one of the oldest county' families of England. His father was a noted exhibitor of stock. John Saxon came to New Zealand with his father and family in 1853, in the ship Maori. They settled in the Nelson province, and Mr. Saxon began surveying under the late Mr. Cyrus Coulter, but leaving that work ho went into sheep farming, and. managed a run for the late Mr. Ward, of Blenheim; Later he married, and came to the North Island, being one of the early settlers on the Manchester Block, Feilding._..For..the last twelve years he had been farming at Ihakara Reserve, Kereru. Mr. Saxon married the third daughter .of the late Major. Hornemau; J-P'. of Nelson, and formerly captain in the Hon. Artillery Company, London. He leaves three sons and three daughters, Arthur Saxon, of Shannon, Conrad, of Kereru, and Joskin, of Kereru, Mrs. Franklin Webb, of Levin, Mrs. Duncan, of ihakara, and Miss Florence Saxon, of Kereru. His eldest son, Fred, went to South Africa with the 4th contingent from New Zealand, but died at Biera of fever. ■

The wedding of Miss Beatrice Holloway and Mr. Eobert Greig, both members of the "Get-Eich-Quick Wallingford" Comedy Cnmpany,' was arranged to take place in Svdnev.oii Friday last. The members of the company left Sydney for Wellington on Saturday last.