PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1983, 13 February 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Right Hon. W. F. Masse,}- (Prime Minister; and the M&n. AV. H. aci'i'ies are in the Ba.y of Plenty district, and the Bon. I'YM. B. Fisher is. in Otago Central. Tho Hon. H. H. Rtodes ar, rived yest-Efdey aftfifijodn from Auckland. The oflier 'Cabinet Mhiistere tiro in WelliiigtoM.

J)r. W. W. Jfoorc, of Napierj leaves to-day for a trip to Ameriea.

Jlr. T, C. tfftoKcS, solioitor, of Strat.ford, will shortly leave oH a trip to Kn gland.

A meeting of delegates representing tho Canterbury A. faad 1 , . AsSotifttrojis and Oaiiterburj- Sheep Breviers' Assbciatiaii was held yesterday ix> noiniit(ite a member for "tho Board -of _ Agriftulture, provisions for the election of which were marie. ,by Govefnnient last. year. Mr. 1), B, Mncia-rlaite, a wellknown pastondist., was nftmln.atcd'.—' Association.

M-r, W. Douglas, of Wellington, ceneia.i Mitiiager fur the BrcniMii-rullor Vaudeville Company in New Zral mil, is being tmisferfec! to Sydney, fiom winch contra the New Zealand circuit is to ho controlled for the future. Mim will regret to learn of the. departure of Air Douglas, who has been gfceath esteemed by all with vwlwtn lip canio '» contirt during his residence in Wellington Mr Harrington Waters, late of the Dunodm King's Theatre, is to come to well"*!?ton as manager of Eis Majesty ? llioatre.

Mr. John Griffiths, touring..manager of the Paul Dufault Concert Company, Mr. Phillips., of Sydney, M*\ C. N. Baevertz Mr. E. A. Burke, of Prcj'' mouth, and Mr. F. Blaxall, of Westport, are at present staying at tnq Albert Hotel. The "Gaiscttc" notifies that Caval.icre Emilio Elcs has been appointed Italian Consul at Itelbourno _ with Consular jurisdiction in Australia, Now Zealand, and Fiji. Mr. M. MattooMv has been appointed Belgian Ctaisul a.t Sjr-dnoy i'or tlie States ef New Spiitli AViVles .And Qufionsland, tho Domiition of No* Zciltind, and the British possessions in tho Pacific. Mr. \ym. B-uthanaii lias heon ed Bcgistrftr of 'Birtiis and Bcntlre of M'.wi'is at Napier. Mr. A, A> Huitii, well known in New Zealand in connection ttith .tcehiiical p(Uwftti<jn, who has been out Kas.t.f'or the past eighteen months, having held t.lto position of Director of Tocih.nical Kdweatioii ta the Federated Malay States, is visiting Gisliorno, and may settle there. Mr. L. J. Thompson, who lias been iii tho Cnstoins service for many years,, h.as retired, in order to cuter the legal pto-' fessioii at Fqilding. Ho left Aucliland by Tuesday evening's express train. During the past, five years Mr. Thompson has been a laiuWns waiter ni AucKi land, and prior to Ivis "departure lie ivas met by a lltimbroue gathering of Cu;stomshottso agents, importer;,, and reprosentaUves ef shipping interests, on'behalt ©f whom Mr. R, Gcsorgo presented liim with a pui'Ee of sovereigns.