PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1650, 6 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■ 'J'Jic ftiglit Hon, W. 1 ,, . Masses woe alite to spend the major portion of yesterday 'downstairs, so that ho is at least app-rnuchiiu; convalescence. As soon as, lie ia wp.il enough lo travel ho will proceed to Auckland.

• .. Tlie Ministers id town this morning ?rc: Tho Kigirt Hon. W. F. Mastey, theHon, H. D. 8011, ami the lion. H. H. llliodes. The Hon. W. 11. Worries, tho Hon. I<\ M. J3. i'istier, and the Hon. A. L. ileuhn.iu are in Auckland,, the Hon. J. Allen is at Dunedin, and tlio Hon. W. Frasor is at ChrUtchurch, en routeta Hokitika. '

The Uoii. W. Fraeer, Minister of Public Works and Mines, left last night for Clirisfcchnrch, en routo to Mokitika to 'attend tho West Coast Jubilee. He will return to Christcliurch at tho end of tiio week.

The Hon. 11. H. Rliodes, PostmasterGeneral, will remain in Wellington until the end of the week. Hs>. will' probably leave for Ciimtchurcli, there to accompany tlio Hon. W. Frnse-r on his proposed trip to Lake Coleridge and Akaron.

Tho Minister of β-ailvrays mid Nat-ire Affairs left Auckland by the Rotorua express yesterday morning for Tirau, where lio opened a new post office in the afternoon. After visiting Rotorua tho Minister will return to Auckland about tlio end of tho week.—Press Association.

Tho Hon. H. F. Wigram. M.L.C., and Mrs. Wigram arrived by the Willochra fit the Bluff yesltrday, from Sfelboiinie. They aro procee'dijig Iβ their homo hi Canterbury.

Colonel. Hoard went to Auckland to fticot General GodJey, «)» arrived back from England by the Sydney boat which arrived in Auckland yesterday. General God Icy is expected back in Wellington in a few days' time.

Sir Robert Stout, Chancellor of tlie University of New Zealand, leaves far Dtmedin <ifc the cud of tjio week to attend tho sittings of the Senate there,, which commenco on January 17.

Captain T. H." Lam.pcm, Xe-w Zealand Staif Corps, accompanied by Mrs. Lampen, will leave- this week for England on private btrtiucss.

Mr. M'Gregoi- Wright, an ex-Mayor of Woolstoii, formerly of Wellington, has returned to Wellington, and will remain here for eomc. time.

. Mr. A. Simpson, Official Assignee, is nt p'Urvilte Islam!, spewling bis annual •holiday oil! liis property there

Mr. D. JWbertson, Public. .Service Commissioner, returned to Wellington from Stratford last evening.

Mt: Beit ltoylc, New Zealand repro.» seiitativo for J. 0 Williamson, Ltd., left, for Chrhtcjuiich Inst ln»h.t to attend tho Conciliation Council on Jmiti« dry C, i» the matter of the Stage Sands* dispute. Ho' proceeds to Dunodin o» January 7 to attend a. similar case there in thi? interests of his firm, and will probably arrive back in WeHiiJEton oft Saturday morning next.

Mr, David T, Fleming, of Bafelutha, who was , recently appointed to the position of organising secretary of tho New Zealand Political Reform League m Otago ami Southland, is preparing to enter upon an extended tour of- the districts mutor his charge.

Consequent upon his appointment, as editor or "Tho Sun," tho. new Christ.Simrcli evening paper, wliitfh makes its first appearance- at the end of this inmnlt, Mr IS. 0. Httio lias resigned his G.iueKil connootion with the New Zealand lo«tical Itcforra League tm& tsis scat on tho national executive of that organisaMr. A. E. Maiming, Mayor t>( flnmiltoii, Iw-s (umouneed ttat he will not seek re-election at tho expfry of tlie pi-osfftit teriii. AnotliW' : 6' ftlte bl diilpiilitics «f C,am-hrid"-o has passed away b.V tlie death or Robert at tho ase of 78. l)o----poawd was one of the eld. militiamen, and for many years lie lived on his fifty acres on tho Hamilton Road. Mr. 15. Clifton. Director of Experimental Stations under the Agricultural Department, leaves for America on January 17, and while 1» is m the; States 'ho will act as representative of the NOW Zealand Gorwiimont m con-, iicclion with the Panama Exhibition, to l>e opened in Saw Francisco early ip 1915 It is aiidersiood tliat, although it has not lreen deckled exactly, what Now Zealand will send to Iho Exltihition. some arroiißoments arc bemft ma* to secure tho showing at the Lxlnbiti'ftn of samples of our fitaple products. 7n view of tho growth of trade bol.wo.Mi New Z?alailfl and tlm Pacific Coast, sHeli a showing or our staple products u doomed advisable.