PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1985, 16 February 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Eight Hon W. V I.lasscj, »ho Hon W H Homes, and the Hon Di I'omare aie at Tauranp;a, the Hon Jas AUfen at Napioi, and the Hon T JI B Fisher at Roxburgh The other Cabinet Ministers are m Wellington

Hie Hon W Ifiasor will-nofbe able to pa\ his piojoclcd %»sit to tho South Island quuo 50 sooH as ho hid intoiided lmpoitant businebe will detain him 111 Wellington until l'cbiuiry 28, but lip expects to leave for Dunodin on March 2 H.i«= itinnan mil include In\cicdirill and !ns own electorate of Walntipu He will inspect some of tho iirijr-ition areas in Cential Otago, but probabt) v ill not hive tune to usit Ida Valloi On his naj hick I l\o Ministei will pay a visit to CautctLurj The Cintprbury Law Socictj' entertained Mr Justice Stiinger at a faicwell dinner on ibaturday night, Ihe Hon T K Wmchcombo, JI LC , of bvdifv, who aimed >n Auclcland the Jliiania on Fudaj, is coming to 'YWllmgton bj the Mam liunk trim this altcinoon Tin follow nip clwiifits in tho staff of Uic Post and 'lelograph Department me notified —Mr J J I'ickett, chief posl- « astei , TliAmcs, is to succeed Mi \\ II Henuer, cluet postniarbtei, Gisboino, win is about to letire ill P P \Mnte postmaster, Hamilton, vs\l fill tlio vacancy at Thames Mi J T \\jlifl, postmaster, Manon, will sue/cod Mi AVhito at Hamilton, Mr R A BajlifTe, postmaster, Wanoa, will succeed Jlr Wjlie, M) J J Franco, postmaster, lairhe, 13 to bo Innsfcrro'l to Picton -Mr \V. Canning, postmaster, Ohakune, is to succeed Mr, I'iauco Mi R P Wnid, who is to succeed Mi \. H llolnws pa Oik of the Magistrate's Couit in Wellington, was felicitated last week on Ins promotion at a large gatheimg of the Har of Dunodin, uheie ho has occupied a similar position The death is reported fiom Adelaide of Mr C A. Schullz, formnlj of tnifiton and hler lesidont scci*tar\ foi South Aiibtialia of the A M P Sooioh M>, &ohult7 ifltiirned 111 No\cmbei last floin a holiday 111 England, and he had bo<Mi back m Adelaide a month wh«n ho had a paialjrtic seizure. He did not ieco\or, and lui) death occurred last Mondav Mr T Bu\ton, MP for Tenmka, told a Chiittchnrrh ' Pi ess" repoitei on Friday tli it he had not made up his mind vet whether he would again stand foi tho Teinulta seat

Mr. A. G, Cunniiigbamc, of Taihape, is announced as a candidate in tho interests -of tho Labour Party for tho AVaimarino srat, saj3 the Auckland "Star."

The doath orcurred yesterday at Kilbiniio of Mrs, Jalie Hcginbotham, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Homy Hcginbotham. Tire deceased lady, who was 83 years of ago, was ft very old and esteemed resident of Kilbivn 10.

Mr. and Mrs. Staples-Browno (neo Jlaggio Papakuia) are at present holi-day-making in Ceylon.

Sir. ■&■. ■Walker, .local surveyor, to Lloyd's Register, has-been , ; advised of the appointment of jlr, \\Vestcott' S. Abel, Professor of Naval Architeqhi.re, at Liverpool UntvcTs-it-y, to s.iicccied tiio , late Dr. §. J. P. 'fhepio in tile '.office of chief ship surveyor to tit© soeietvi iVlr. Olias. Biichanaii) who ..ivfts. Dr. Thearlo's senior assistant, has ; at tho saino titna been promoted to tho position of pfjfyfeipal of tho ehiel shij? siii' yoy-or's staff.

The Rev. H. Allan, formerly a curato in Hampshire, who has latterly walked in Liverpool, loaves England next month to take up duties in New Zealand. Mr. H. L. Duncan, who left ■Wellington for Sydney en route to Calcutta on Friday evening last, is a cousin of Mr', Geo. Wilson, of Messrs. Aitkcn, Wilsoii, and Co,, and has for nianj years been a prominent officer in tho Indian Postal Department. Ho has occupied posts all over tho Indian Empire, and quito leceiitly has been notified of his appointment as officer in chaigc of Burma, nith hcadqnai tors at Rangoon. Mr. Duucnu has wo sous in New Zealand. Ono is studving agriculture at Lincoln College, with a view to taking up farming in iS T ew Zealand, and tho other is one of tho Inds who pnssed for admittance to the Duntroon Military Collrpo in Australia in Deei>mbor last. Mr. Duncan, on bis retirement in about thro years, intends to sottle in New Zeiland.

Mrs, Sayles, uifo of iho Into Mr. in In,, Stylos, who dropped drad 'i.i Christc-luirch a week ago., left for Sydney on Friday. .Mr. Hany Thomas, htage door-keeper at tho Opera Hou.se who <\imo cut to Australia m company nith the- late comedian as a mombe'i of tho Hicks-Sawyci Minstrel Company, slaw.i that Snj'le* ua& olio of fho fust pirrmmmy teams to bo soon on tho state m Amnion. He- camp out to Austialia under tho inanaKoment of Ohas. 13 Hicks, in 1889, and on that, oceapum B<v\e tlio first exlulnUons- of basobaj] in Niw Zealand. When in Wellington, tho team at the Darin Reserve am] Sajles was the first pitcher seen in notion in Wellington. Mr. Thomas slate tuat Saylcs must have been about 4S jears, ol aj;e. It is a lathcv stianee .MiiUKlenco thnt three. o£ tho oiip;innl nirmbcrs of the Hicks-Sawyer Minstrels hive died suddenly in Now Zealand, .lack Connor, one of a team of acrob.its, who subsequentlv lived in Welluißton, «ns tMsen to the Hospital ono dnv and died within 18 hours. Little Dixie, tho diummer, died siiddonh in his room ,it Napier, and Snylcs dropped dead in the street m Christdiuiclt,