PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1730, 22 April 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. Vice-Regal-Ili3 Excellency tho Governor went from Eotorua to Okoroire on Saturday last. On Friday noxt ho will open a chrysanthemum show at Cambridge, after which ho will return to Okoroire. Lord Liverpool will visit tho Thames on April 28, and will arrivo in Auckland 011 tho morning of April £o—tho day of tho arrival of H.M.S. New Zealand.

Tho Hon.. W. F. Massev (Prime Minister) leaves for the north this evening., fho Hon. W. H. Herries will journey today from Invercargill to Queenstoivn. Tha Hon. W. Fraser left last evening for Christchurch, eii route for tho West Coast. Tho Hon. Dr. Pomaro is at New Plymouth. The other Cabinet Ministers are in. Wellington.

The Prima Minister will leave for the north bv this evening's Main Trunk express. To-morrow Mr. Massey will, proceed to Matiere, and thence to'Otansiwai, where' there is to be n gathering of settlers, returning to Maticro in tho evening to attend a "social." On Thursday the Primo Minister will drive to Nihoniho and afterwards to Ohura where ho is to open a new post office. On Friday the Minister will visit Aria and proceed by way of Piopio to To Kuiti. On Saturday lie will leavo To Kuiti for TV'aiiniha and from the latter place will drive to Tangitu to inspect special settlement?. The Primo Minister will transact public business Rt TaUmarunui in the evening, and on Sunday will join the Main Trunk express for Auckland, arriving there oil Monday morning. Mr, MasFey will spend two or three days in Auckland before returning to Wellington.

Tho Minister for Railways (the Hon, W. H. Herries) continued his lour over tile Nightcaps and Orcpuki railways yesterday receiving several deputations. Ho spends to-day in Invercargill.—Press Association.

Mr, T. L. Churchward is to receive a presentation from the Wellington Bowling Centro on Thursday neit, in recognition of his five years' service as secretary.

• Mr. W. M. Scott, one of the pioneers of Bnllarat, has, at tho ago of 87 years, bocomo ail inmate of tho Benevolent Asylum, of which he is a life governor, lie was n member of the committeo for half a century, and lias occupied the position of president. Mr. Scott, who is enfeebled 'by his -advanced age. was persuaded b.y his friends to enter'the institution in tho Interests of w<hich he has worked so hard. Some weeks ngo ho severed his connection with tho Ballarat Water Commission as one of tho Government nominees. Ho was for 50 years a water' commissioner. He has been four times Mayor of Ballarat Bast, and has filled the principal offices in of the local charitable and other organisations, besides being a Freemason and an Oddfellow of 65 years, ohd holding high positions in both Orders. He was partly instrumental in establishing nine Masonic lodges in Ireland, America, and Australia. i Mr. William Condie Renwick, a resident of tho-Richmond River, Now South Wales, for a auarter of a century, died last week, nged 75. Deceased was a brother of tho late Sir Arthur Renwick, and formerly conducted u large business in Pitt Street, Sydney. A copy of the will of tho lata George Richard Rignall, moro generally known as George Eignold, actor, who died on December 16, has been filed in tho Victorian Probate Offico for sealing purposes. The testator left property in New South Wales valued at .CI 1,136, personal estate. In Victoria his personal estate is valued at i£37lf. He had also property in England. • ' Dr. 2\orvis, of Melbourne, who recently resigned hi? position as director of Federal qr*santiae in order to take up the appointment as head of the Commonweal tlrßilreau in London for the medical inspection nf emigrants, will leave Melbourne for England on April 23. Mr. William Listen, for over 30 years sporting editor of'the "Tasmanian.Mail" and Hobart "Mercury." died recently at tho age of 58 years. Ho wrote under the nom de plume of "Tam O'Shanter," and was recognised throughout the Stato as its leading turf authority. Captain J. D. S. Phillips, of tho M.S. Zeaiandia, was presented with an address and a clock by the officers and somo friends when tho vessel was at Honolulu on her recent voyage from Vancouver. The occasion of the presentation was tho last trans-Pacific voyage of tho Zeaiandia for the'Canadian-Australasian Line. Mr. G. H. Blanch, head master of tho Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, who proposes to visit Europe in the course of two or three months, was last week appointed by the State Cabinet as Victoria's representative at tho Hague' Education Conference, to be hold in September. ■