PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1751, 16 May 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister, tho Hon. W. P. Jlassev, left Wellington for Christchurch last night. Ho will probably return on Sundav morning. The Hon. W. Praser is at i'aeroa, the Hon. W. 11. Hcrries at Greymouth, tlie Hon. A. L. Herdman at Auckland, the Hon. R. H. Rhodes at Christchurch, and tho other Ministers are in Wellington. Tho Hon. W. Praser has, states our Mastcrlon correspondent, telegraphed that he will visit Masterton on Wednesday next, and proceed to Pongaroa, returning thence to Eketalmna. It is expected that he will be accompanied bv Dr. Newman and Mr. A. E. Mabin, chairman of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Tho Hon. IV. H. Merries, minister for Railways, returned from his visit to tho lteofton line yesterday afternoon, and received various deputations on local matters. Last night he was entertained by Greymouth local bodies at a complimentary social, at which there was a very largo attendance.—Press Association. Mr. D. H. Guthrie, M.P. for Oroua, was a visitor to Wellington yesterday. Mr. W. D. Murdoch, second-assistant engineer in the Wellington City Engineer's department, has been granted six months' leave of absence on full pay, alul has also been appointed the accredited representative of the city at the International Road Congress, and at the Imperial Motor Transit, Conference, to be held at London shortly. Messrs. Hugh Gillcn, J. H. Greenwood, and \\V 1!. Simpson have bcou appointed members of tho West port lliiibuui lloard. ' Mr. W. H. Morton, City Engineer, has been appointed -a member of the Plumbers' Board, under the Plumbers Registration Act. Mr H. D. Edwards has been appointed ! Deputy-Registrar of Births, Deaths, and I Marriages at Olaki. Messrs. Charles Sloddart, of London, and Stuart Nicholson, of Edinburgh, two regular visitors to New Zealand, who have been trout fishing in and around Lake Taupo for the past threo months, left for England yesterday by the lome. Tho death occurred at Brighton Beach, Melbourne, on Friday last, of I'll old resident of Christchurch, Mrs. Lucy Ulu«on, arjed soVenty-eight. She was Iho widow of tlie Rev. Henry Glassou, 13.A., chaplain of tho ]?oy«l Navy, and nl one time vicar of Avoiiside. Tho deceased lady leaves nine children, thirty-eight grand-children and several great-grand-children.

Mr. P. W. Burbidge, an old boy of Clio Jlomit Cook Boys' .School, has been successful in winning- an ISSI Exhibition Scholarship, and will leave for England I*ll Jul v. At the Mount Cook School ho gained"nil three scholarships for which ho competed.' Theso carried him to Wellington College, where he was twico dux. At that institution he won a Senior ishitionnl Scholarship, heading the list for tho JJomillion. ■ This scholarship took him to Victoria College. 110 was afterwards successful in winning tho Sir uooigo tlrev Jacob Joseph, and Government Research Scholarships. Tho Exhibition Scholarship entitles him to tuition at Cambridge University for a period of two -1 T pleasant gathering look place in tho hoard room of Hie Colonial Mutual Lite Assurance Society, Limited, on Wednesdav. when tho members of the outdoor slaif of the Wellington division of the •wietv's industrial department met to welcome their new superintendent. Mr. A. \i-labii" Jlr. P. T). Leslie, the resident secretary of the society, oceunied tho chair, supported by Mr. H. 11. Rouse, assistant resident secretary. E- 1 - Wray chief superintendent of the n'tnistrinl department, welcomed Mr. A'fW"'' lo his new charge on hohfui ot tho Nelliny ton agents and himself.