PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. A. L. Herdman will arrive in Wellington by tlio first Main Trunk express to-day. Tho Hon.' J. Allen is at Dunedin, the Hon. 11.I 1 . M. B. Fisher at Dannevirke, and the other Ministers are in .Wellington. The Prime .Minister of Tonga (tho Hon. T. B. Tuivakano), with his secretary, arrived in Wellington from Auckland yesterday, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. I?. V. Roberts, formerly Auditor-General of Tonga, who has just returned from an extended tour < of Great Britain and Europe, also arrived from Auckland yesterday, and is staying at tho Hotel Cecil. Mr. C. D. Boweii, son of Sir Charles Bowen, is at present on a visit to Christchurch. Mr. Bower, is a magistrate in Malay, and is at tho present time home on furlough. • Mr. Stanley Rankin, of Brooklyn, is lying seriously ill :in Wangauui. Latest advice is that he is progressing favourably. The Rev. P. W. Clarkson, lecturer and financial organiser for the Bible-in- , Schools League, has just returned from tho East Coast and Gisborno tour, and is proceeding to Wairoa and thenco back through Hawke's Bay province on work in .connection with the league. ) It is the intention of Mr. W. J. / Moffatt, who stood as an Independent Liberal at tho' last election, to again contest tho Nelson city seat at tho • forthcoming election. ■ Mr. F. N. Hill, a nativo of Auckland, who for many years was a purser in tlio employ of tlio Union Company, died at Melbourne on Sunday last, after a long illness. The trustees of tho Nelson School of Music have appointed Mr John Tait, A.R.C.0., to be teacher of sinning, organ and musical theory. Mr; Tait lias just arrived in Nelson from Edinburgh. ! Mr. T. Adair, of Gisborne, is visiting Wellington, and is staying at tho Central Hotel. . Mr. T. O'Byrne, the secretary of the Southland Sawmill Workers' Union, left Bluff on Monday for Australia, his .mission being an endea*our to bring about a oclia no of reciprocity between the timber workers of Now Zealand and those of the Commonwealth. He will visit, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wal.es, and possibly Queensland, and will be iibsent about six weeks. 1 Mr. Alexander Wright, who was ono of the most popular commercial, travellers in the northern part of tho Dominion; died at Rotorua on Monday. He'was for over 20 years tlio senior representative on the goldfields and in the Waikato for Messrs. A. J. Entrican and Comjwijfi Limited. For over two years Mr. Wright had been in failing health. 1 The late Mr. AValter Steward, who was killed by falling down the hold of the Tainui at Timaru a few days ago, was a brother of the late Sir William Steward. ' « A rumour has gained currency In the southern portion of the Asliburtoii electorate to tho effcct that the sitting member, Mr. W. Nosworthy, intends to contest tlio Selwyn seat at the next general ■ election. . Tho Christchurch . "Press" states that there is no founda-. tion whatever for the . rnmour. Mr. Nosworthy has never even once.thought of doing so, and he will againcontest the Asliburton seat, 110 matter who, or bow many other, may come forward as candidates. . ' ' " ' ' Captain Head, tho well-known Alpine elimber and explorer, is 'at the present time carrying out sorno observation work: in .the Dart Valloy. ' In a. letterdated January 16 lie says:—"We have gqt.about five miles up tho Dart from "P ''J' -t ' ,e : .;V"iver' at' f Chinan{HiVS'; L Bl((fi ! . and have V.'Been here 'now ton days. The glacier "■ notion is wonderfully marked all round, .The weather;is awful —nor'-westers one after another. It is now raining hard. ~Th? record'so.far has beeii fcy.ir inches in' 2-1 hours." ■ A very old Southland resident, in the person of Mr. Robert Cqupland, passed •away in Invercargill this week at tho advanced age of eighty years. Tho. late , Mr. Coupland arrived in Dunedin on ' March 5, 1859. and .coming south the same year Was one of the early settlers of.-'iho Invercargill district. He was for many years n director of the Southland Frozen Meat and Produce Export Company, and was also on the directorate of the Southland Pioneers' Association. —. ~ I