PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1675, 15 February 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vioe-Keoaii. His Excellency the Governor and tho Countess of Liverpool aro to give a garden party in tho grounds of Government Houso this afternoon.

On Monday tho Governor will lcavo for Tanmaruuui for the purpose of. viewing tho scenery on tho Wangauui River. To do that effectively ho is to 1m rowed down tho river from Pipiriki to the Native settlement at Jerusalem in a Maori canoe, returning tho samo evening to Pipiriki. On Thursday he will conch from Pipiriki to Ohakuno, and will arrive back in Wellington on Friday morning.

During tho first week in March their Excellencies will tako up their rcsidonco in Government House, Auckland.

His Excellency the Governor and Conntoss of Liverpool and suite'while in Marlborough paid a visit to T'Ua Marina, and inspected the site of tho conflict with tho Maoris in 1813, and aftorwards visited the Cemetery Hill, where stand tho monument to those Britishers who fell oil that occasion, and tho monument to tho Marlborough men. who fell in tho South African war. The Earl and Countess of Liverpool both addressed the school children, who were nsseenibled with their teachers. Tho vice-regal party was received by tho headmaster, Mr. H. K. Fisher.

. Tho Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister) expects to remain in Wellington for at least a fortnight. Ho intends to visit some parts of the South Island next month. His Grace Arohbishop Redwood does not expect to arrive back in Wellington from EUropo until after Easter.' Ho.travelled across tho Atlantio in the Celtic, which carried 1100 passengers, ; and celebrated 1 Masi in the third-class saloon before a congregation numbering GOO. . #'...■ The Hon, W. Fraser is at Gore, and the Hon. R. H. Rhodes at the Hermitage. Tho Hon. Dr. Pomnre will leave to-day for Wangijnui. The other Cabinet Ministers aro in Wellington, ...; Constable Scriiilcr, who has been mounted constablo for four and a half years at Gore, has been transferred to iWaikaia to replace Cdnstablo Herlihy, -who has been transferred to Wanganui in cliorgo of tho Waikaia. Station.—Press Association.

Mr. A. Allan*, late manager, of the Pctone E-ailway Workshops, who has been touring England for the past :Jrear, paid a Visit.to Petone yesterday.' Mij; Allan will probably reside in Wellingtcii. ,

Messrs. Erie Knight and, Alexander M'Hardig, of Danncvirkei lefll for Sydney yesterday by the Ulimaroa, ijn route for London. .-,).'' .'■ ■>■" . 'The Auditor-General (Coloiool E., J. Collins) and Mrs. Collins are- paying a holiday visit to Auckland. ■'' The Rev: Father'A. T. Herring, S.M., of St. Anne's, Wellington South,': has been appointed to the Maristi missionary staff, and will take up his dv(ties as soon as his successor, at. St. Atuie's is.appointed. ' .! A Press Association telcgralh last evening states that Dr. Margaret B. Oraickshank, for the past sixteen'! years the partnor of Dr. Barclay, hbsp tal superintendent at Waimate, on the occasion of her departure on a twelve uionths', Visit to England, was on Thursdavjcvcning the recipient from the community'of a purse of a hundred sovereigns and,[a handsome gold watch and ohain. There! was a very large gathering attho ceremony. ■

'A Pres9 Association telegram from Nelson announces tho death of [the wife of Mr. J. H. Nicholson, artist.,[■ Mr. P. H. Putnam was yesterday admitted by Mr. Justice Chapman as a barrister of the Supreme Courtil Mr. G. Hi Fell appeared as counsel, 'it .-