PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1775, 13 June 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho only Cabinet Ministers out of town to-day will be the Hon. A.' L. Herdman, who is at Greymouth, and tho Hon. B. H. Khodos, who will leave New Plymouth to-day for Awakino. He remains thero .until' Sunday, when ho will go to Waitara, which placo l ho leaves for Wellington on Monday morning. Tho Hon. James Allen will probably leave for the south to-mor-row evening, and the Hon. W. P. Massoy /Prime "Minister) will-go south on Monday. Tho Hon. W. H. Herries will probably pay a visit to Marlborough next week. Mr. James Harlo Moore, representative of the Now Zealand Government in the Argentine, is, according to tho "Gazette, granted the honorary rank of second lieutenant. Sir James Carroli is reported to making an excellent recovery from his recent serious illness. He is now able to 6ce a few of his frionds occasionally, and hopes to bo well enough to leave his bed next w-eek. Dr. H. W. Robertson has resigned his position as senior house surgeon at the Wellington Hospital. A letter of appreciation of past services is to be forwarded to Dr. Robertson. Dr. Mitchell has been appointed junior house surgeon. Mr. Neil Galbraith, acoountant at tho locol office of the New Zealand Shipping Company, who recently underwent an operation, returns to Wellington by tho 1 Binvutaka on' Sunday, and will resumo duty on Monday.

Mr. Stanley Brown, of tho firm of S. Brown, Ltd., accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Samuel Brown, left on a trip to tho Old Country by tho Athenio yesterday. Before leaving tho members of tho Wellesley Club farewelled Mr. Brown, and presented him with a serviceable travollingrug. Mr. Brown was also handed a similar rug for Mrs. Brown, Tho resignation of Dr. M'Gavin as surgeon on tho honorary staff, of thu Wellington Hospital, was received with regret, at yesterday's meeting of tho Hospital Committee. Colonel Banchop and Major Grant, of Dunedin, are in Wellington, and aro stay ing at tho Royal Oak Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nelson, of Woodville. who have been staying at tho Royal Oak Hotel for tho last ten days, left by tho Auckland express yesterday. Tho death is announced tn his seventyeighth year of Mr. Alexander Naismith, senr. of Rona Bay, an old resident oi Wellington. Mr. Naismith was in tho laundry business horo for many years, having founded tho Victoria Laundry 26 years ago. He leaves a widow «nd a grown-up family of eight—six sons and two daughters. ' The eldest son is Mr. Alexander Naismith, shoro superintendent of tho Union Company at Home. Other sons arc Mr. James Naismith, chief, engineer in tho Shaw, Savill and Albion Steamship Company, Mr. Charles Naismith, chief engineer of tho s.s. Kapun l ', Mr. Frank Naismith, second engineer o'f tho lvarori. Mr. Willie Naismith, second engineer of the Mararoa, and Mr. Walter Naismith, managing director of tho Victoria Laundry Company. T'lio daughters are Mrs. Agnes Young anil Mrs. Tod, of Kona Bay. ' i The folMwing are gazetted as officiating ministers—Mr. B. P. Evans (Presbyterian), the Rev. J. B. Suckling and Mr. J. Webb (Methodist). Mr. J. J. Grealish, who leaves for Sydney to-day, to take up a position on tho staff of tho "Daily Telegraph," was farewelled by his colleagues on the Evening Post" yesterday. On behalf of tho staff, Mr. Grosley Lukin, editor of tho "Post," offered Mr. Grealish all good wishes, and presented him with a suit-case. Mr. Olio Shannon, representing unattached journalists, also made a presentation (a travelling-rug) to Mr. Grealish. Tho death occurred on Wednesday evening of Mr. Richard E. Hewitt, ono of tho original Now Zealand Land Company's Bettlors, who came to Wellington. 73 years ago in the 6hip Adclaido (aftor which Adelaide Road is named), and was a fel-low-passenger of the lata Mr. T. W. M'Kenzio. In th# day» long boforo thero wer« any suoh solid structure* as tho Queen's or King'i WhariM, and the sals uui t« li« out in th« bay, the lata Mr. H«witt pli«d th« sailing of & waterman, and was well-kn«wn to all the old«r r«sid«*t« *f infait fl« a1«o owned tlio cutt»r Flying Fnh, and wai a great onthuiiait at the r«gattaa of old. H« w»« a promin#nt number of the Britannia Lodg», M.U., 1.0.0. F., which was repmnntcd at the funeral. Tin deceased had been bedridden for tho past fourteen years. After tkirty-jeven year*' > err ice, SeniorSergeant Darby, late of Wellington, and new stationed in Nelson, will retiro on superannuation on July 7. Mr. W. J. Ralph, of the Taupiri Coal Mines, Auckland, is at present on a visit to Wellington.