PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2122, 14 April 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tlie Right Hon. W. F. Masscy (Prime Minister), the Mo})., W. 11. Merries, and th« Hon: Dr. Poniare are at Auckkitd. Tho Hon. Jas. Allen is at Bmiedin, the Hon. F. M, B. Fisher at. Roiorua, the Hon, 11. H. Rhodes at Ghrotchurch, and the Hon; S- D. Bell at Ktimara. The Hoii. W. Fr&ser and tljo Hon. A. L. Herdman are in Wellington.

Mr. Duncan Nflvin lias resigned froto tlie theatrical firm of George Willougliby, Ltd., with whom ho occupied tho position of general business manager.

Mr. M. U..Carpenter, manager of tho Jtangitikei Sawmillers' Association, is on a visit to Australia.

Mr. I!. E. B, Franklin, for three years manager of tho Commercial Bank Australia at' Hawthorn, is leaving Victoria this week to take up the mauagou.cnt of the bank at- Duuedio,

Fermuia Forest, tho inventor of tho explosion motor-engine, Hied on board the. Gazelle, tho world's first motor boat, from embolism of tho heart, tlio result of shock sustained after striking, on a rook at Monaco. —Press A-ssoei&t.ißn,

Alderman J- H. Grtoiwado, J.P., lato Mayor of Ipswich, Iffngl-and, t accompanied by his daughter, arrived in Auckland on Friday via Bombay, Ceylon, trad Sydney. Mr. Grimwadn is stay-hip with ill's brother at- Takapura, and will return. to England ia a few weeks through ■ Canada, after visiting this sights of New Zealand and tho South Sea Islands.

Among the visitors at -present in Sydney is Mr. H. W. Kempster, a commis* sioncr, representing the British South African Chartered Company, which is tlio governing -body of Khotlesin. _ Mr. Kcmp-ster has -conje to Australia to study tho land laws, and methods of settlement. Ho has already visited all the other States, and from Sydney will proceed to New Zealand in a few weeks' time, and thenco homeward via- Canada*

Mr. W, M. Hughes, the well-known Australian Labour M.P., was at a meeting; Of the Allied t'ltums Conference in Sydney presented by the vire-preskieut (Mr. E. (J-rayndler) with an ijhirainated address, expressive of tho appreciation of thfl brilliant worit pertornied by liitn in ceniioction with tlie New Zealand industrial crisis, in its relation ,to Australiaii tmiouisra.

Sir Hai'tmanu Just., Assistant UnderSecretary •of Stats for the Colonics.) at present i.ii. Australia, is permanent seweta.ty to the conference of Prime Ministers Of the British Empire, which will meet in London nest year. Sir Hftrtntann was torn ill Bristol, where his fatter was a German 'master at the gratisiiiaf sc-kool for over 3D years, Sir Hnrtoanu's itinerary includes Sfluth Africa., Australia, Fiji, and Canada. Heintends to mskO a stay of tb.reo months in the Coramaiitvealtli and three weeks iii New Zealand, and arrive bacli lit England about Aiigjafei