PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vicft-RcfiAt. ... His Eswlleney tho Governor and tlie Countess of Liverpool returned k> Wellington on Saturday. They Suave for liarotmiga ens Friday by tho Willod.ua. Tlio Hon. W. H. He-wios is at Nelson, tho Hon. fir. Poniare nt Auckland, and the Hon. Jas. Allen leaves to-tlay for Wanganui. The other Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington, Tlw lien. >!fas. ADen did not go north yesterday, as he liad intended. Ue will set out for Wangaiiui to-dav. Sir Walter Bttchanaii, M 1 ,,, and Mr. G. 11. Sykcs, M.P., visited Wellington Vesteidriy on business coiinewtct'l with t'heir districts, and returned to the Wnirarapa last evening. /

Tiie death occurred at Vogeßov/n on 1 Sunday of Mr. Patrick Grieve Howdeii, a WollinstoH resident for ti.'irty ycariSf Mo was for somo years ill the servwu j of tho Cunard Steam Ship Coinpany. i He afterwards settled in tho Argentina \ and Inter camo to New Zealand, where '10 was for i'ow years in the service of UlO Union Steam Ship Company. After leaving the »a lio joined his trother, Mr. D. B. Howdon, as 0110 of tho proprintors of the AVcllington Bisewit Company. 'J'ho lato Mr. Howdcn., wlro was 73 years of ago, leaves an adult family of one sob and six daughters. The death is reported at CMsfelraroli of Mr. D. li, Bowie-, a prominent ness man, avid «t one tune n partner iiv tlio firm of Messrs. J. Uallantync and Co., of Ch-fistelrarch. Mr. Bowie, who was the fatJiM- of Mr, C. :B, Boftie, \V*-eI : lingtaii rcrpreseiitotive for the Katapoi Won-11-on C'-ompanyj arrived at Lyttelton ii) the ship Mystery i.n 1862, and with , tlio execptiotj ef thfee 3-enrs spent in Timani has resided in Christohurcli ever since. Ho iras a pitLar of the .IVosby*torian Clnircli if-s tho Catlt-cilral (Sty, and on. several qccasimls was reproacutative to the Presbyterian General Asseinbly. The following appoiut-nients hjvo been annonucc:! by the Public Service Commissioner: —M.r. C. K. Archibald, at pfcSftiit a clerk in the Land and §ur> My Department, at New Plymouth, lifts been appointed chief ckrk at Dunedhl. The ])osition of chief .draughtsman _ at llokitika h.as been oouferrod upon Mr. I A. SI. Harrop, at present a district i suryeyo* on tljs A\>st Const. Mr." AD. Burns, at present in tho Lands awl Survey Offleo at Hlc-nbeiw, lir-s been appointed chief draughtsman at Nelson.

Mr, Wffl. Hill, theGm-ertimei.it Resident Officer at Eatorun, arcoin panted i)V Mrs. Hill, arrived in Wellington on Sunday morning fro-m Cliristclrtirefo, whore they- have been on ft short visit. Mr. Hill is on annual leave, but while tare will tako the opportunity of trans* acting some Departmental business, lie is staying at the Hotel Windsor.

Captain P. Hall Ttin-mpsen, who is to command the- training-ship Philomel, and act a.? Naval Adviser-to tlao Nc\V Zealand Government, is duo to rend) Sydney hy the stonier Ost-erJny on Jwbo 1-8- The Minister of Defence *(the Hon. Jas. Alien) stnted yesterday tiiat ho had written to Captain H«l! Thompson, requesting him to stay for a wWlo iu Aus-tralin, i fl order to make inquiries into the system «f tinvftl trftininfx which is being on rrictl out there, So that ho may be able to report to. tho Now Zealand -Government as to tlie system best adapted ta kenl requirenionts. The Philomel is ta be taken over by tlio G-OTerfHHoilt in Jwly.