PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2015, 24 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon W V MassQ (Piime M.iiibter) will jouniej to-day to Cinikt. rluirdi from the Wobt Coast The Hon. J«» Allen and (he Hem A L Heril--1 man aio nt Rotonia, tho Hon. "\\ II Homes nt Gjsboinc, and the Hon V. M B l'Vher m the Wouarapa distuct. TJk- Hon n 11 Rhodes is en route to VuiUlimd The Hon W Finsei, HieHon H D ]jpi| nl|f ] t j, o H ol , Dr. lomare are m Wellington Dip Hon R H llliorlos (PostmasterGeneral and Minister of Publip Health) will lea w> for Auckland by the midday pioss to-daj to ropiosont tho Go»eniincnt to-morrow at the coioiuoiij in mnneclion with the opomw? of the AiicUind drainage works Iho Pnine iMniibtcr liad hoped to attend, hut fois engagements in tho south lmo made I? imixifcsiblo lor him to .do to V\o Commies onor of Police (Mi. J. Cullei) is at present on a visit to tho Olago district Ho is exr-ected to rotmn to Wellington about ten ficncc Superintendent Ellison is Act-ing-Commissioner. V Crimean war \etoran, and i vary old settler in \cw Zealand, in the n«rswti of Mi Micliael John Laiidus, (lieJ at Ins rey'donrn m Bute Stieet, on Sunday morning, Mr Lamlers-nas ei(;hl>ono >oau of ngo at the time of hii death Ho joined the o"tli Rogiincnt ("Tho Diehards") at LimencL in ]fis4, \vlien lie nan only eighteen, and Infer in that jear ho voiit out to thaCnirea. He oiio of the surM\ois of tho Battle of Inkerman In lfiTO be landed in Malta, and remained thoro for two •vears affnrnaids going to Ind'a, \ia 'J ho repimeni spent two jo.ns Hi the Fast, and was then ordered to Not. Zealand, which it reached in Januar>, 1861 Mr Landers -went through tho Maori War and completed his term of sen 100 at To Awanuitu m 18G0 Ho aftonvards Ined in Waiiganui iindl 1880, and then removed to We|bng ton. I'or more than tbuty jeors ho Has in tho sen ire of tho Wellington Harbour !?oardi and Mas able to continue his wortf on tho uharies until six or eigbt weeks ago, when lllncbs overtook him Ho leates a «ido«, .i slcpsqn (Mr T W Drue,-), and >i foster daughter 'lhe funeral, R milltai,v one, will take plaeo to-dav

' Mr, F W. Rowley, Sccretar) for Labour, ha* 'eft for the «mt]i for the iiurposo of inspecting branches of the labour Dopartmeut and dealing with business connected nith ncrWfc' dwellings. Mr, P, Hally, Conciliation Cqmimssionor, is al present on a visit to fJr<?,"mouth in connection with the niino oiißinc-dnicra , dispute, Ho will pro Imbly airivo back here about the cud of tho. present ncok.

Mi. Sydney Augustus- Burnett, of "iVanganui, nas. admitted as a solicitor nt the Supiemo Court yesterday morning. Mi. Jl, F. Luckio made the application for admission.

Mr. II Triggs, Assistant Pubho Scrvioo Commissioner, is nt Nelson, and will return to ■Wellington on Friday. Mi. A. D, Thomson,, iho other Assistant Commissioner, is at Grcymouth villi tho Public Serwce Board, "of Appeal. Ho is to accompany tho board to Christchuich, and will bo absent fiom Wellington for some time

Mr H J II Bio*. Undoi-Secretary lor Public Works, uho is on a wsit to Mailboioiifili, is c\|)poted to leturn Ut Wellington to-mouow.

Regiet wat expressed at tho annua' iDPornipf of the Greater Wollinelon Municipal Elcotois , Association last "ciiniK that the president, Mr. J G W Aitkon, was pi oven W by iljnem from being present. Mi. A Leiuh ivlio pioEidcd in Mr. Aitkdi> fi .it 0 . 0 /. . S HV o(^) c '<" m] ' WO,K tl'at tiie lattoi had dono for tho association, and stated that ho had leroivcd a message fiom lijin that dry to the effect tlnjt no nns mailing Lipid progiess towards lccoioiy, and hoped hoon to he nmoiißsi them a G ain Mr Aitkcu n,is ro-elcoted in his ofiko, and tlio following resolution was passnd .—"That the nicmtais of the Greater 'Wellington Munieipal Electors' Assouation, m peneral nicotine ai>seinbkd, t-etjclei tjipir host wishes to their president, Mi J. G. \\\ Aitken, for his sjyjody and torn plet-c recovery,"