PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1762, 29 May 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All tho Cabinet Ministers will be in town to-day osoept the Hon. Jaa. Allen, who arrives at Auckland on Juuo 3. J.ho Hon. \V. H. Herries returned yesterday from Mastcrton, and tho Hon. F. M. D. Fisher from Marfcon. Iho Hon. 11. JJ. Bell leaves for Dunedin to-morrow. IJio Hon W. F. Massey (Prime Minister) and tho Hon. W. H. Merries ..will leave ior Auckland on Monday, to attend the welcome which is to bo extended to tho Hon. ,Tas. Allen on his arrival from \ ancouvcr on Tuesday. Both Ministers intend to return to Wellington after a very brief 6tay in the north. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes, who leaves for Auckland on baturday, will spend some days in the north. He will attend the welcome to the Hon. Jas. Allen at Auckland, and before returning to Wellington will visit the mental hospital at Tokaanui, and the Cambridge Sanatorium. If Rhodes will pay a visit to tho h aikato show at Hamilton. Tho Hon. W. Frasor stated yesterday that advertisements inviting tenders lor the erection of tho new Parliamentary Buildings would almost cortiunly appear in tho newspapers of tho four centres tomorrow. - , His Excellency Admiral Sir George King-Hall and staff will not leave Australia until the arrival of Kear Admiral Tatey in H.M.A.S. Australia, duo in Sydney about tho end of August.

Mr. A. J. M'Curdy who has held tho position of Town Clerk to tho Upper Hutt Town Board since its inception eomo ftvt, years ago, is resigning tho positron as from August 31 next. t Mr. M Ciirdi is to be asked at tho expiry of his term of office, to contest a probable vacancy to be provided' on tho board. , Mr. G. Davidson, of the firm of Messrs. 'Davidson and Co., Wellington, will leave for • Auckland to-morrow preparatory to entering upon an extended trip to Jaf>nn. He will bo accompanied by Mia. Uaviilson. Mr. D. Hogarth, of Sydney, has been appointed a Fellow of tho Royal Astronomical Society of England. This is following on his visit to England last rear, when ho interviewed Sir Robert 801 l in reference to having stations in tlio Aictic rontons to warn stations lower down of the departure of ice islands, and thus prevent such disasters as that winch befell tho Titanic. Sir Robert Ball was much impressed with tho suggestion, as was al«o the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich. 'Mr. Hogarth has also been nominated for fellowship of the Royal Meteorclogical Society of England. Dr. MacFarland is retiring from the mastership of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne.

The Rev. F. E. Harry, of Auburn. Victoria, who is well known among tlio Christian Endeavoured of Australia, has accepted the invitation of the Baptists of Perth to become their minister.

Mr Evelvn Wrench, honorary organiser of the" Overseas Club, was due in Svdney 011 Monday last. A Sydney brancn o'f the club was inaugurated a. week ago. Mr. S. J. Swindley, formerly chief inspector of 'schools in Victoria, died l£i=t week, aged 69. He joined Education Department in 1857.

Sir. Lancelot Booth, who had for many years been associated with the Australian theatrical profession and who had also been identified with thd press, died in Sydney Inst weekNews has been received of the death of llerr Carl Ilngenbeck, aged G9. the world-wide known dealer in animal lite. His private gardens at Hamburg are unique of their kind, ami are finite a revelation as to how natural rock work can lie imitated, all wooden buildings, and iron bars, largely being done awav with. Many other Zoological i-octeties are now imitating what .lie first thought of. The new Zoological Gardens at frame were also erected bv him. His dealing in animals wero very. extensive, having, agents in most countries where animal life was to be-obtained. The business will still be carried on by his two sons and son-in-law, but it will bp many ycaTS before the name of Carl Hagenbeek is forgotten amongst thoso interested in Zoological societies. Captain H. T, Mance, nn old and wellknown resident of Sydney, died last week, lie was for many years commodore of the Old l'Vrry Fleet.

Sir. Harrison Allen, of Sydney, has been appointed adjudicator in the elocutionary section of tho Dunedin Competitions Society's annual eisteddfod, to lx> held in Dunedin in August.

Sir John Vindlny was a passenger from Wellington to N'elsou by the Pateena yesterday.