PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2120, 11 April 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister) leaves to-day for Auckland, whore ho will spend a few days. Tho Hon. Jas. Allen left last night for Dunediu. He will deliver a speech at Milton on April.ls, and' cspeots to get back to Wellington about April 17 or 18. Tho Hon. R. H. Rhodes left for the south on Thursday night, to spend Easter at Christchurch. The Hon. H. D. Bell leaves , to-day for Hokitika, where ho is to unveil a memorial to tho Wostland pionoers , on Tuesday next. He will return to Wellington on Friday. The Hon. W. Fraser is expected to arrive to-day from tho north.' Tho Hon. W. H. Horries and the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher are at ■ Auckland. Tho Hon. A. L. Herdman and the Hon. Dr. Pomaro are in Wellington.

A Press Association message records the death at Gisborno yesterday of Mr. Alan R. Muir, proprietor of the "Poverty Bay Herald," and a newspaper man who is well known-throughout the Dominion. Mr. Alan ' Mmr, who is a hrother of Mr. "William M. Muir, of Wellington, was the son of the late Mr. James Muir, "the first printer of the old "Wellington Independent," of which lio was at one time proprietor. The late Mr. Muir, who waa seventy years r,f age, learned the printing business on the ''Independent/' and.was.for many years a resident of Wellington. In 1883 he went to Gisborne to assume the proprietorship of tho "Poverty Bay Herald,", one of the "beat" papers "outside ". tiie' nentres. Mr. Muir has been hi poor health for a year of two Hβ leaves an adult family, including Messrs. Leonard and Stanley Muir, who have controlled the literary department f the "Herald" for many years past. Archdeacon C. A. Tisdall, of Rotorua, has been offered by the Auelican Bishop of Auckland tho living of Ellerslie, which has been vacant for some months, and has intimated his acceptonce. A native of Auckland, Archdeacon Tisdall ha 3 been in Rotorua during the past ten years. Professor H. P. Pickerill and Mr. T. A. Hunter, of Duncdin.Will represent the Now Zealand Dental Association at tho Trionnal International Dentil Conpress, which is to bo hold in London. Professor Pickerill has already left for England by the Suez route, and Mr. Hunter will sail from Auckland, by the .Niagara to-day. Tho Wellington Education Board announces the following appointmentsMiss L. Thompson, assistant, mistress, Epurii; Miss M. Neumann, assistant, Nowtowri; Miss W. Hunt, assistant, Clyde Quay; Miss W. Smylie, assistant, Maranui. Mr. P. G. Mftce, of Messrs. Mace and Nicholson, contractors, and Messrs. Mace left London on Tuesday last on their return to the Dominion, and hope to arrive in Wellington on June 3. Mr. _ and Mrs. George Swan, of Wanganui, left on a trip to England on Thursday. Mr. Swan is a relative of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, the distinguished' English meutor (now eighty-six years of age), who patented the carbon or autotype process of obtaining permanent photographs, and invented bromide- paper and several'other valuable plioto-mechanical processes. Strangely enough, Mr. Geo. Swan's late , father, who was mayor of Napier for many years,, was originally'a photographer, and when ho first came td Wellington in the fifties had a studib on the site now known as Stewart Dawson's Corner. Sir Joseph Swan, the lato Mr. Swans's brother, was perhaps better known to tho world as ths> inventor of the incandescent light, which he first exhibited in 1879. Subsequently his [latent , was merged with one of Edison's, and tho now lamp became the "Edtswan." Mr. Georgo Swan is now proceeding to England in fulfilment of a promise made to his father. Dr. Arnold Izard, Chief Medical Officer at Tonga, is at present recruiting his health in Wellington. A few weeks ago ho contracted dengue fovor, nnd was critically ill for somo time ; . Ho intends to stay about a month in New Zealand. Mr. E. Pcrio Bush, son of Mr. Thos. Bush, of Wellington, who has been, associated with the "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" Comedy Company since its initiation in, Australia, is believed to bo suffering from appendicitis. Mr. Bush, sen., who with Mrs. Bush loft for Sydney on Thursday, stated that no decision as to whether thero should bo an operation would bo made until they arrived in Sydney. . Mr. Bush has proved himself to bo ono of tho luckiest and most successful aspirants to tho comedy stago that Wellington has produced. Miss Helen Gard'ner, of DuncJin, has been engaged by the Royal Choral Society, Wellington, to sing tho part of Maritana in tho performance of the opera of that name (in concert form), to bo given at tho Town Hall on May 28. 'Iho members of George. Willoughby's "Aladdin" Pantomime Company, who havo been tho North Island, left Wellington for Lytfoltou on Thursday evening. Tho staff of tlio Bnnk of Australasia on Thursday presented Mr. F. C. Walton with a handsome clock, suitably inBcribod, on tho occasion of his forthcoming marriage. The presentation \yas made by Mr. Bceston on behalf of tho staff. Tlio Rev. H. J. Allen (Clitircli of England) has be<>n gazetted an officiating minister under tho .Marriage Act. Mr. W. R. Haseldeii, S.M.. has been appointed chairman of the North and South Island Railway Boards of Appeal.