PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1957, 14 January 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. W. H. Herrics is.touring bis electorate. Hβ arrived in Waihi yesterday from Tβ Arolia, and went on towards Tauranga to spend tlio night at Kaitikati. Ho will reach Tauranga to-day and To Puko to-morrow. On Friday ho will go to Rotorua, where ho will attend tno annual dinner of tho Chamber of Commerce. Ho intends to roturn to Auckland on Sunday morning, and to leavo for Wellington on Sunday night. Tho Hon. H. D. Bell will probably leave for tho north at tho end of this week on acclimatisation business, visiting Taupo and Rotorua. It is possiblo ulso that he may arraugo to be in Auckland early in next week, when the first party of boy immigrants brought out by tho Government aro expected to arrive there. The Hons. W. Fraser and R. H. Rhodes visited Akaroa yesterday.— Press Association. ■ Mr. Edward Newman, M.P. for Rangitikei, has booked a passage from England by tho Rotorua., which Bails next month. Tho Solicitor-General (Mr. J. W, Salmond, K.C.) returned to Wellington: yesterday, after spending a holiday in Otago. ' Mr. G. Allport, Secretary of the Marine Department, will bo in Auckland this week on business connected with proposals to build bridges across tho uld ;aud Motion's Creeks}, with tho. object of decreasing the distance between Point Chevalier and Grey Lynn. Captain D. C. Spencer-Smith, formerly staff officer Major-Gcneral A. J. Godley at General Headquarters, Wellington, and latterly with the'"43rd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, at Fothard, England, has been appointed as adjutant to tho 6th Brigado of Royal Horso Artjlle'y at Trowbridge. Mr. John Farrcll, representing J. C. Williamson, Ltd., arrived in Wellington yesterday to complete arrangements ror the production of "Tho Count of Luxembourg," to be staged on Wednesday next. Dr. H. E. Gibbs is at present confined to his house as tho result of an accident to his knee. Mr.'G. Hogben, Inspector-General of 6ehoo)s, loft for Dunedin last night to attend the University Senato meeting. , Major-Gcneral Godley, C.8., returns from Dunedin this morhing. Ho has been to the . southern city lo see the Minister of Defence (the Hon. J. Allen); Tho Victorian Agent-General (Mr. P. M'Bride) etitortained Sir .Arthur Stanley (tho newly-appointed Governor of Victoria) and Lady Stanlev at luncheon at the Automobile Club. Amongst those present wero Mr. Lewis Harcourt (Secretary of State for tho Colonies) and Mrs.' Harcourt, Lord and Lady Sydenham., Lord and Lady • Sheffield, Lord Enimott (Undor-Secretary of State for tho Colonies) and Lady Emmott, Sir Reginald Talbot (ex-Governor of Victoria), Sir Hartmami Just (Assistant Under-Secrctary of State for tho Colonies), Sir John Anderson (Permanent Unucr-Secretary of State, for tho Colonies), Sir Charles Lucas (late head of.tho Dominions Department, Colonial Office), Sir John' Taverner, and many Victorians. Sir Arthur and Lady Stanley leave on January 21, joining the Osterley at Toulon.—Press Association. The death of a well-known settler, Mr. M Hartigan, took place at Dyervillo, near Maryborough, on Friday night. The deceased, who had been ailing for some time, was in his 49th year, having been born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1865. He arrived in the Dominion about 18 years ago, the last seven , years being spent in the, Martinborough district. / ) ,.2''br l (sey,eralrjy i ears ho was a director of the Otaraia, Dairy Company, and for a period acted, as chairman to that body.. . He leaves a widow, .two ■(laughters, and ono son. ■ : Mr. M. Watteeuw, of Sydney, is to bo provisionally recognised as Belgian Con- J sul at Sydney for New South Wales, Queensland, and Now Zealand, and British possessions in the Pacific, pending- tho receipt of tho King's exequatur. The Chief Railway Commissioner of New South Wales; Mr. Johnson, will definitely sever his connection with tho New South Wales railways on Saturday next. ' .. Miss. Christine Robertson, who died at Auckland on New Ya'or's Day, is stated to havo been the first European girl born in Auckland, the birth certificate being dated May 18, 1841. Mr. W. H. Leighton Bailey, an old Australian journalist, one of .the pioneers of North Queensland, and founder and-first proprietor of tho Sydney "Sunday Times," was, when the last mail left London, an inmate of tho Royal Eye Hospital, being treated for blindness. . , . Sir Hartman Just, Assistant Undersecretary for the Colonies, is visiting Australia and New Zealand—on a similar mission to Sir Charles Lucas in 1909 —to .gain direct colonial experience. He will arrive at Albany from South Africa on March 13. Perth will bo the first capital to be visited. Ensign C. M. Rixon, of tho Dunedin , North Corps of tho Salvation Army, has been appointed to the editorial office of tho "War Cry" at Wellington. Mr. Seizaburo Shimizu, the new Japaneso Consul in Sydney, arrived'by tbo Japanese liner last week. He joined tho Japanese consular service- 20 years ago, Honolulu being' the first post. For the past five years ho has occupied a responsible position in the Japanese Foreign Office. Mr. A.' R. Coatos, chief of the Immigration Department, Fiji, arrived at Auckland from the Islands by the Navua on Monday. Mr. C. H. Poole, ex-M.P. for Auckland West, arrived with Mrs. Poole by tho Navua on Monday morning from Suva, lifter an absence from New Zea T land of nearly two years, a great part of which period was occupied in a lecturing tour through tho United States.