PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2132, 25 April 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

According to tho latest advices tho Prime ' Minister (tho Hon. '-W. F. Ma'ssey) is at Waipu (north of Auckland) ; tho Hon. James Allen is in Duncdin; and the Hon. R. H. Rhodes is at tie military camp at Kowai (Canterbury). The Hon. Wm. Fraser is in Now Plymouth, and the Hons. F. M. B. Fisher, W. H. Herries, A. L. Herdman, H. D. Bell, and Dr. Pomaro aro in Wellington. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher leaves for the south to-night. He will speak either in Cliristchurch or some other Canterbury centre, and will then continue on south to Invercargill, visiting several of tho Southland centres, and returning to Wellington via tho West Coast. Mr. W. A. Kennedy, local manager for the Union Steam Ship Company, who has been on a holiday trip to Tahiti, is a passenger tho Aorangi, due here to-day from San Francisco via tho Islands. Mr. W. 3J. Morton (City Engineer) left on. a holiday trip to Sydney and Melbourne by the Willochra last evening. . Tho Rev. Father Hickson Is making a rapid recovery from tho injuries he sustaiued in a recent motor accident. Mr. ,E. Wright, representing the Eastern Extension Cable Company in Sydney, is at present visiting New Zealand. Ho'left Wellington last evening on" a visit to Wakapuaka, and will return in tho course of a day or two. Tho Rev. Percy W. Clarkson, whoso ■work as financial organiser for the Bible-in-State-Schools Leaguo is well known, is afc present visiting Wellington upon financial work in connection ■with tho leaguo. The appointment of Mr. James Mackenzie, Under-Secretary of Lands, to bo a member of tho Board of Land Purchase Commissioners, vice Mr. J. Strauchon, retired, is gazotted. Mr. H. Bcauchamp left for Sydney by tho Willochra yesterday. Mr. J. M. Lightfoot, manager of tho Carterton ;brancn of the Bank of New South Wales, who is leaving on transfer to Blenheim, wa3 met by a number of bank clients after closing hours on Wednesday afternoon, and presented with a purso of sovereigns as a token of appreciation. Messrs. John Adair and Frank Tout, of Gisborne, are visitors to Wellington. Mr. Talboys, tramways engineer to the Wsinganui Borough Council, leaves for Wanganui to-day after a brief stay in this city. Whilst hero Mr. Talboys inspected the new electric petrol motor wagon, which so impressed • the City Council authorities that '.thrco have been ordered for tramway auxiliary work in the city. •

Another old identity of this district in' tho person of Mr. R. E. Harcomb ' passed away, yesterday at the age of seventy-eight years, says our Masterton correspondent. Deceased arrived in Now Zealand in 1874, and had'lived in Masterton for .thirty-four years. For twenty-five years ho occupied a. clerical position in tho Agricultural Department. He leaves throe sons. Mr. J, M. Dickson, . of Portobello, who.contested tho Chalmers seat at the last election as a supporter of the present Government, will, says a Press Association telegram from Dunedin, be a candidate • for. tho seat this year in the Reform Party's interests. . • •. J Mr. W. A. Given has resigned his position of assistant at the Thames School of Mines, having been appointed a Director of the Karangahake School of Mines. ■ Tho! position of assistant health officer at Auckland, which has been resigned by fD/;? 'Monk,-, iias -'been .filled fey the appointment- 'of -'Dr. '''"TV : J. Hughes. " Dr. Monk is at present spend; ing threo months in tho Islands. " ' Mr. D. Russell, secretary of the) ' Otago Acclimatisation Society ' for' the I thirty years, died in Dunedin on j '.Wednesday. ' . Mr. Cecil Marcus Wright has been appointed an assayor of gold for the purposes of the Gold Duty Act. Additions to the list of officiating ministers under tho Marriago Act ;have been made as under Presbyterian, Mr. 1 W. H. Holloway. Methodist, Rev. 0. Burnet, Rev. J. H. Cable, Rev. • N. Knight, 8.A., Rev. A. Livers edge, Rev. ■T. R. Sullivan, and Messrs. T. Blight, J. Crawford, A. Fitchett, J. S. Fletcher, E. Foote, P. B. Strongman, W. K. Water, and A. J. Webster. ■. Surveyors licenses have been issued to Mr. William Augustus Hutton, Greytown: Mr. Fritz Langbein, Otira; and Mr. Charles Barnett Stephenson, Dunedin. Mr. A. E. Lawrence, who has occupied the position of editor of the "West Coast Times" for several years past, was farewelled yesterday evening by' Hokitika pressmen, who made him a presentation (says a Press Association telegram). Mr. Lawrence, who left in the evening for Oamaru, was recently appointed to tho position of managing editor cf the. "North Otago Times." Mr. W. T. Mills, who has acted as organiser for the Social-Democratic Party in New Zealand for some time past, left. for San Francisco by the Moana yesterday. ■ . !

A very important case concerning Maori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi a matter listed as Waipapakura v. Hempton—will be argued in the Court of Appeal, Wellington, shortly. Tho matter was recently argued before •Mr. Justico Edwards in New Plymouth, and the rc-argumeut here will tako placo towards tho end of the present session of - the Appeal Court, or may be set down for nest session. Thoy were members of tho same amateur dramatic society, and a rehearsal was going on. During tho progress of tho play at one time, • while their'preeonce was not needed on the stage, they snt together behind the scenes. And .is they sat waiting fe> felt that an opportune moment had arrived. "Marie." he said, "you may not hare perceived my liking, but I cannot delay. I—l want to ask you to-to be—" ■ Just then the prompter called Miss Flannery's name, but she never stirred. ■ "That's your eiie." faltered tho faint-hearted one. les,' she answered calmly enough, laying her hand on h.is arm; "but never mind the cue. You seemed very earnest just now. Whit were you going to Bay ? . Tho death is announced, at' the ago of <2, of the R<!v. Nathaniel H, Shaw, who hacr spent 34 years in the Italian Mission pf-tha Baptist Society. » ■