PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1968, 27 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. H. D. Bell is in the Atteklaiid district, tho Hon. J. Alleii is 111 Dui'.edin, and the Hon. W. Fraser. goes to Morton to-day. The ether Ministers are in Wellington. .

The Hon. F. ST. B. Fisher returned to Wellington from Darmevirke last evening.

Tho Hon. IV, Fi-ascr leaves to-day for Murton to meet Mr. Edward Newman 011 business connected with tli-o Hangi.tikei electorate. Ho will return to-nior* row, Next Tuesday he leaves for his projept-efUrip to W'liidi will occupy live' or six days.

Mr. B. M, Wilson, General Manager of the Tourist Department., who has heeii' over the Wakati-pu-Milfard track; is expected to arrive back in Wellington from the south to-day.

Commissioner lliehards, of the Salvation Ariiiy, will return from tho north to-morrow, and will proceed to D-unedin next week.

The City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Moiton) is attending a meeting of tho Plumbers' Board fit Aue-klniid. He is expected lo return to Wellington tomorrow.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Young, _of Christeliurcii, who ha-Ve boon visiting Wellington in connection with the death of Mrs, yotmg'B brother (Mr. Harold I'limmer) weiit, South last evening.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Fairbairn, or tho Occidental Hotel, have returned to Wellington after an extended tour of GreatBritain and the Continent.

Mr. John Sheridan, of Gisbenve, motored throiigh to Wellington via .Mnrcre and Waikare-moana on Friday and Saturday last, and though he had live punctured reports that the roads right, through were not at all bad. Mr. Sheridan lei't far Ohrietclmrch last evening,

The illness of Mr. J. 0- \Y. Aitken was mentioned a t last meeting of tlio Wellington City Covnicii. Tho Mayor (Mr. J. I'. Luke) expressed i'.ho hope tliat Mi'. Ait-ken, who wiis now recovering, would soon ho completely restored to health..

Mr. A. R,..Atkinson, who is liw on liis fray to Europe, hits been granted six Months' leave, of absence from tho Wellington City Council, of which body he is a ineinber. Councillor M. !' • Luclde Was elected to fill Mr. Atkinson s place on the special committee set up to deal with the corporation leases.

Mr. Flwood Mead, the eli-airmaii of the Victorian Water Commission, frill leave Melbourne on February 5 to jein the s.s. Sonoma for San Francisco. It is his intention to obtain a release, if possible, from liis agreement, to accept the professorship of rural institutions at the University of California, in order that, he tiwy ho free to continue his work in Victoria.

Mr, Williain Redmond, Nationalist member of t,l» House of Commons, will sail from Sydney on the Mai\inta, bii February 9,' for Vancouver, in order to reach England for the Homo Rule debate.

Mr. W. Butter, organising secrets i-y of the Saimu-ang Exhibition, arrived in Sydney from Java Inst wools. Tlift object of his visit is to endeavour to ii'i l duce New South Wales to feeogttise tho importance of afTk'mrt at n decision as t.o representation at the Exhibition.

Mr. T. A. Browne (Rdtfo Boldrowood) had been serinusly ill at his home in ■South Yari'a .for some days last week. A welcome ehaiigs in his <Kmditron was reported when the mail left. Mr. Brown® is 87 yews of age.

Mr. King Salter, of the Chatham Naval Yard. linS been appointed manniw of the Coiluitoe Island Naval Uocltvjird at Svdnev, at a salary oi £l/oO per annum. ' Mr.' King Sailor, who has had years of servico in tho Adiniralt\. lias excellent credentials, and since 1007 lsas occupied the post ef constructor at Chatham. . .

Captain A. SI. RfISS) of Uif West Yorkshire lteginnMiii boor. appointocl instructor hi .'tactics flt tlu i luvval Military College, at a salary of £450 a .year. Miss Beatrieo -Grimshaw, a well, ltn'owii writer on New Guinea, w«* a passenger aboard the steamer CobloHss, which "arrived Jit Brisbane last week. Sll<- had been travelling in German New Guinea, aiiil wished to rpluiii to Papua, but lio boat being availably shfl Was forced to. proceed south, awn nwiiit the arrival of a suitable, stemtter.

jjr. W. J. Speight has decided to accept- the position of diocosij.ii for Auckland, *'W-ch was olfoiMid. t<i l\im some tiiiio ago on the retiiemmit ti{ Mr, Cocfirarie.