PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. W. F. Maasey, tho Hon. iu< D. Bell, the Honi E.' H. Rhodes, tho -, Hon. F; M. B. Fisher,' and tho Hon. Dr. Pomaro are. in Wellington; Tho Hon. A« . L. Herdman is to arrive from the eouth to-day. ' Tho Hon. ■W. Fraser and the Hon. W. H. llorries are at Tauranga< ii Tho Prime Minister leaves for To Awoj , m mutu to-morrow. ■ ... . Tho Hon. H. D. Bell returned from, the south yesterday morning. . -.- .Tho Hon. A.'L. Hordman is due to on rive this morning from Chri6tohurch, The' Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, Minister foi Customs, has been advised by the RigM Hon; Mr: Fisher, Primo Minister of th« Commonwealth, that lie is unablo, to mak« his'intended tour of the Dominion. - The Hon. 11. D, Bell, K.C., having r©< signed, his Beat on tho' Victoria . Council as the representative of the Pro-. . fessorial Board, . the Hon. A. L. Hordman 1 •was nominated for. tho vacancy. . As no, other nomination'was received, Mr. C. IV Powles, returning officer;' declared' Mr> Herdmaii to be duly elected; . ■ ; ' Tho Hon'.' R. II; Rhodes leavts tr.r' tw ! morrow night's express for Rotorua, where he: will attend to a: number of matters coming Under the control of, the Tourist' ? "and Health Resorts and Post and Tele* t graph Departments.' . While at, Rotorua,, I ; tho Minister will open the recently-erect/ •: ed college and fever hospitals. On Mon« day, ho will proceod to Aueklaaid, and : on Tuesday; January 15, he will attend , the: lunche.in.which is being given by the Pacific Cable Board, in the Town Hall at ■ ■ • 'Auckland, to celebrate tho opening foi traffic of the .Britnsh Empire oable con< ... necting Auckland with Sydney. . > Mx. H. W. Capper, who has been Chief i Postmaster at Timaru since 1908, will. , retire on. ,a pension at tho end of the l v present month. : Ho has been noarly forty-.'! two years in tho.Service. : Tho Very Rev. Dean Mahonov is _ 4 , passenger from London by tho Molojo, duo at Auckland on January 17. ;■> ~... Mr. J.. Campbell, Government Architect^ will i-etuVn from tho Auckland districts where ho is at present ■ spending holiday. leave, towards the end of the month. , Mr. R. B. 'Rossi ox-member for; Pahiw tua, is .on a, visit to Wellington. y'V, !l Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hannah and th« ' Misses Hannah, who have been in Europe* for 6omo months, aro;on' board tho'Maunganui, duo in Wellington from .Sydney?'.;": .to-day. 1 • v;: ■ -,i.' . Mr.'- : Martiii , "Ji!Kilgo\it ! ,!Wh<) , r6tired ]«»#.••• , > year from tho Civil Scrvico, and wont ofl i •• a holiday vtrip to. tho ,OhU Country, is »■■■•■ < passenger Turakina, duo here from ixmdonnext 'Monday. v., ':'k£''PcW-'Woodroffo, reorotary. that : .Civil Service Club, leaves for Australia o» : .Friday ne?tt,-on a holiday visit to his,paw cuts in Melbourne. A- Press Association message from Meli •bourne states i that Professor-, Archibald, , .the English meteorologist, is en route to Rotorua on a health trip, ; i " V .Sir Rider Haggard is to' meet tho other '.members of,tho Dominions Royal Commie* sion at 'Colombb on February 1, and so with them'to Now Zealand. Ho oxpcciq to return' with .the Commission to EngJ l«nd from New Zealand and Australia in July next., : • ; Mr. J., H. Stevens, who acted as chiof • : • postmaster at Napier for some time, and; ittisw 1 intends rotiring from the .service,, will join the well-known firm of Messrs. Abraham and Williams. ' ; ' i. Mr! Frederick Butterworth, 'of Opu* nake, who was; injured'in th©. collision, between a niotor-car-and. antral®' at. Nor- • mnnby on New, Year's Day, and has been • lying in tho Ha\vora public hospital eve*-. ; • •• since,, lias .regained consciousness, and li s ■making good progress, towardß recovery. , ' Mr. J. M.- Franklihj a well-known Tarai naki Rugby enthusiast,; has' been ' trans- . .. ferrpd from tho Manaia .to - the. Palmerston North staff of- the Bank ; of Ncwi :' - , Zealand. In Taranaki Mr.' Franklin Was - connected with the noted Waimate Football Club. ■ ' . . ~ ~ • - Mr. and Mrs. MaseDeld, of Akarou, hare , received word that thoir-cldest-son (Rob- . -, ert), who is stationed in ludia, has quali-* fied for the rank,of .nujor in. lho. King's . 'Shropshire Infantry'.;: Major, Mascfiold, nt ,the time,';of on-rtting, was in, camp, at, v., Sccunderabad, with the. battalion, j.,* t( Mr.-J. W. Poynton, S.M., occupied the: . Bench -for: the first time in Palmerston oa ~ Monday-morning.-. '