PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1744, 8 May 1913, Page 4

$ Tho Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minis-1 ter), tho Hon. W. Fraser, the Hon. R. 11. Rhodes, and tho Hon. Dr. Poiuare are iu Wellington. Tho Hon. A. L. Hcrdman will leave to-dav for Auckland. Tho Hon. 11. D. Bell is at Auckland, and will return to Wellington on Monday next. Tho Hon. W. H. Herries is at Jlamner Springs. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher will reach Auckland by the Niagara from Australia to-morrow. The Prime Minister will preside at Iho lecture which is to b? delivered this even-' ing by Dr. T'ruby King. The now General Manager of Railways, .Air. E. H. Hile.v, is expected to reach tho Dominion on September 1. The present General Manager, Mr. T. Ronayne, will continue to hold office until his succcssor arrives. His Grace, Archbishop Redwood, returned from a visit to America and Europe yesterday by the Ulimaroa'. Dr. Averill, Bishop of Waiapu, is a Sassenger from tho south by tho Mararoa, ue this morning. > The Rev. J.'<ean Regnnult is returning from tho south by tho Mararoa this, morning. Tho Commissioner of Police (Mr. J. Cullen) left for Autkland yesterday. Mr. D. Buick, M.P., denies tho report that he will not seek re-election as member for Palmerston at thu close of tho present Parliament. "You can give the rumour the most emphatic denial," stated Mr. Buick to a Manftwatu "Times" representative. "I' have no intention of retiring for the next twenty years. I will stick to my seat until I am defeated."

Mr. W. G. Wickham, British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, is visiting Auckland and will make a stay of some weeks. Mr. Wickham intends to make himself acquainted with the leading business men and trado conditions ill tho northern city. Dr. Trilby King (Superintendent of ■ Seacliff Mental Hospital), accompanied by his wife and daughter, will sail for England'by the liangatira on Saturday. Dr. King will act as doctor to the Raiigatira on tho parage Home. _ While in England ho will represent New Zealand at an international conference on infant mortality, which is to sit in London during August. The party will bo absent from New Zealand for about nine months. Mr: .T. Gee, a .member of West's Pictures Proprietary, arrived in Wellington from Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Mr. Gee is on business connected with the firm's interests here.._ Soino years .ago ho was a resident in Wellington as 'manager of the Theatre Koyal during Mr. I'. R. Dix's regime. ' At the annual meeting of the Now Plymouth Harbour Board yesterday, says a Press Association telegram, Mr.. .1. B. Connett was rc-elpcted_ chairman, a position he has occupied since 1902. Ho was n member of the fifst board in 18(5, and has been on the board almost continuously since thc-n. Mr. N. Golbraith. of tho local offico of tho New Zealand Shipping Company, who underwent an operation for appendicitis on was reported to bo progressing favourably yesterday. Sergeant Edward George Saker, one .of the finest riflo shots tho State of Victoria has ever produced, died at _A\ illiamstown last week. Born in 1851 in Dover Road, North "Williamstown, he was in his 59th year. On two occasions he carried off. the V.R.A, Queen's Prize, in 1895 and 189". Ho twico visited Puglaud with the Australian riflo teams, shooting at Wimbledon iu 1886, aud at Bisloy in 189 G. Many well-known Australians are journeying to Vancouver in tho. Niagara, which calls at Auckland on Saturday on her maiden run. Included in the number aj'O' Mr. Harold Ashton (of J. C. Williamson, Ltd.), Lieut.-Colonel Ramaciotti, Mr. Andrew M'llwraith, and the members of Mayne's cricketing . team, which' is to visit'tlio'TTnited States. Messrs. G. H. 'Mason, F. T. Evans, and G. Scott, Canterbury Rugby Union' delegates, arc passengcrs_ from Lyttolton by tho Mararoa, duo this morning. Dr. Silvestri, the Italian entomologist, passed through Sydney last week, en route from West Africa to Hawaii with parasites of the-fruit ' fly. Mr. George Douglas Hamilton, one of tho pioneers of electric lighting in Sydney, died iu Sydney Hospital last week after a short illness. . Mr. Henry Best, who was SI years of age, died at Great Wostern, Victoria, k«t week. Mr. Best was one of the iirsc to visit tho goldiields, reaching Baiiarat in ISSI, as well as Beudigo and other centres. In IS6G lio settled at kreai Western, and established the Crreat s\\estern Vineyard, and also laid out tno Concongclla Vineyard, ono of the jargc:c at Great Western. Colonel J. W. M'Cay has resigned from the position of Director of Intelligence in tho Commonwealth Defence Forces, and has been transferred to the unattached list. With his retirement the position has been abolished. Dr. Kate Hogg, of Wellington, returned from Sydney by the Uliniaroa yesterday. Dr. Wilbur Chapman, Mr. C. Alexander, aud the members of their mission party, leave Auckland for Vancouver by tho 'Niagara on Saturday. Mr. F. Murray, Government stock inspector, died in a private hospital at New Plymouth on Saturday last. The "Era" states that Mr. Hugo Goriitz, who is well known ,in New Zealand, underwent a serious ' operation in London a few weeks ago. At latest advice ho was progressing rapidly towards recovery. , Dr, Drake, of Dannevirke and formerly of Pahiatua, lias purchased a practice ill Suva, wliero ho is at present. Mr. F. T. Wimble, of Sydney, is at present paying a visit to tho South Island. . Father O'Beirne, who for sonic time past has been stationed in New Plymouth and who has just been appointed to tho charge of the Inglewood Parish, was presented by the congregation of St. Joseph's Church with a purse of sovereigns on Sunday night. Mr G- P. Morris (manager of tho Union Steam Ship Company Pieton branch) was a passenger for Sydney by the Mnheno on Monday on holiday leave. Dr. Jessie Scott, M.D., D.Ph., formerly of ChrMchurch, who has tyen resident in England for the past nine years, arrived bv the R.M.S. Mararna from \ ancouver oil Tuesday. During the last two and a half years sho has been a member of tho Public Health Department of the London County Council. It is the intention of Dr. Scott to commonce practico m New Zealand. Dr. Doctor, at one time surgeon in the Union Company's fleet, was a passenger to Wellington from Sydney yesterday. Dr. M'Evcdy, of Wellington, was a. passenger for south by tho Maori last evening. Mr. M. O. Johnston, 8.A., from Ohio, U.S.A., arrived in Auckland by (he R.M.S. M.irama oil Tuesday and reached Wellington last night. Mr. Johnston, who has been engaged as evangelist by the Church of Christ, Vivian Street, is accompanied by his wife. Mr. Conrad, who has been settled in Wellington for same weeks, has !>een enpaged to act as advance representative of the Plimmor-llamilton Dramatic. Co., which is to tour New Zealand during June and July. Mr. W. Low will bo in charge "in front*"with Mr. 11. Dimmer as general manager. Mr. T. W. Butcher, of Wellington, is leavini on Friday for Sydney bv the Willochra en_ roule to the Old Country, He will be joined at Sydney ]jv Mrs. Butcher. The trip is purely a business one. One of the best-known figures on the waterside in Sydney, Sergeant Robert Multitude, the oldest member of tho Water Police Force, is retiring after S3 years' service. Mr. P. R. Ellis, of tho Carterton po?t Office staff, left to take up a position nt the Unit on Tuesday. Before leaving ho was presented by Mr. D. G. postmaster, on behalf of the stall', with a travelling companion. Mr. 11. Fane, sen.,'of Holiitika, died on Monday morning, aged 82. Mr. Fane had been iu business in Hokifika ever since 1805.