PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

_ Tire Prime Minister ?vHI leave -Wol- i li-iigton on Saturday or Monday nest on a visit to Canterbury. The lion, Jas.'Allen is at New Plj'-mo-utlj, antl the Hois, Dr. Pornaro is en rotito to other Cabinet : Ministers arc in Wellington. Thy Hon. W. H. HwieS raturiied from,-Nelson last everting. A largo and representative gathering of parisidoiicts was held in the Catholic i'rt'sbvtorv. Hill Street, last night., tta devise ways, inyd means to fittingly recognise the -gfforl work done hero by tho llev. Father Hieksott, who has been, administrator of the Thorndon Parish for the past five years, and wh:o hasJ Itecii transferred from Wellington. _ Col- J one! Collins presided over last night's: /neeting, white the Rev. Father T.vmons, wlio succeeds Father H.iekson, was also uresent. In oponing the meeting. Colonel. Collins referred to the good \vork of tno departing priest, and said it, was only' fitting that such work should be recognised. , There wore ftther speakers, and as. the outcomo" of the mooting it Was' decided that tho presentation io F«!hcr ■ jlic-ksoii slrduM taßo;:;thi9\fcrnV ; of a jiurso of sovereigns and ffili iftumiftatcd address, A eoavmiHee was seketod to: draw up subscription lists-, -and reseivo contributions. .Mr, P. Yorsdiifildt was appointed secretary, and Mr. "W. Gasquoiiw was appointed treasurer. 'I'iie presentatttn will bo made _ i ; n the ■ftuilfwd Street- Schoolroom during the in Juno. Mr Allan .T. Hill, sisu of Mr, h. Bill, of Wellington, lias been appointed secretary 'of the Stratford A. and P. Association. M.Vs 11-ill was formerly on tho local staff of tho Land Tax Department, and was moio Torentlv in tho Valuation Department; a-.t Auckland, Word has just been received <?f the death ili England of M®. j. 11- Logan, widow al the late Mr. J. R. Logan, who Wa6 a partner in the firm . of Messrs, Macky, Logan, Caldwell, Ltd. Out of respevi to her memory tho various branches of the company throughout Xciv Zealand will he closed to-day. Representations have been made to Mr, Alfred Seifert. to stand for the-

DiakLseat at tho gcnefa.l elections. Ho .is to give a reply in a tew days. Mr, 0. S. Il.islop, local manager for Jffes»s.. Stewart, JJawssm and uo<, ; to- ' turned from a trip to Australia hv the. Wiilochnv yesterday. ])r. Skeats, fcriiieiiy of Cliristcliure.h, 13 now' ship's' dootof ( Oi} tho AVilloehra, which is cngagod in (the San Francisco serrice. ' Mi'. J, C. Quinkn, instructor of teleftvaplty at the Department's rvjiool in: Wellington, has been appoimed po>t■inaster art Tuakau, 111 the Auckland slis-; tfict. Mi\ James Eoir, jiosipiasicr at Weilingten North, Iras been transferred to Eketnluma. Sergeairt-Major fiiilay. of liTo. 0 Company Garrison Artillery (I'etone), has hoci; given a commission, as lieutemint of that eoinpaiiy. with whiclt .he lias i been connected for twcmy-tliree years, scveiite'en as 5f.0.0. QuavteniiasterSorgeant Cruiekshnnk., of the same compaiiy, has been promoted to h.e seißeantinajor, Sergoant. K.niciu. to be quarterrocister^ergcant, sii-. IJ. SJoy- has. acte-jj-tcd tW po-sitioit of eoiiduelor of tlioiWeHiiigtoit Orphans Ckib Orchestra, ' " ' 'iho death occtirrM in JEeltjourno oil

i n-' 7; ■' .uwaej, emtor ot tin? insurance and Bankiiig l{eacrd," Of Melbourne. Tiie demod was a;pronune.)it'figwra for a minjher of years fti business Circles in hrst of alt in connection with commercial jmrstt'its, and Inter (n\ through his association with financial joicnir.lism. JlO; for ■& liiimtjG'r of years ccinilnercmi cdH«r of tiio "Argus." Tho Key. 3. I), joucs, M.A., 8.D., of Bournemouth, England, is, an exchange statv.s, en Iris way to i ho i3oniiiiioii as « spwii'.l commissioner .from the ; Coiigregatioiial Union of liigknd and Wales, te> tiie Ooftijregntional Cilmrelies o»f Ivow Zealand and Australia. Pr, John T; Bowie, medfeal tnissMJnftry of tlic Prosljytevifta Clnivch of New o.ifawi iso,!.! al liicf .iiniiryin crai)- : tioir, iv,turned to Hiuiedin last wcri; after sis weeks iti tlic Cold Lakes district.' lie is still iu bad hoaltJi ivml will' hayo to tako tltrngs wry easily .for some tiMio to 'come, During tlio past week Mr. W. 11. Morton (City Engiiifte'rt ims Iteftn. at .' Adelaide 'inspecting t!u» abattoirs, tran.- 1 w.t.vs, and o'thor f.mi.iiiripal rniprpvises. . Miss Ivllon Terry, tlie !:um us iic.rt'ss.. who is dvio to arrive in Auckland early ■ :in June on ft to»r of New Itiis ■ i;ad 'to pftsipOttc lier (iepartnvo troni Sydney for si Week, aooortfiiig to a cablegram recoircd by tiio Auckland Town Clerk OH Tuesday, iim ine&sngn indiratcd that Miss '1 erry had lieen ordered b.v her doctor to rest befovo stavlittg Iwr Now Zcaliind tetrr. ■professor Norwood, _ tlus Amcrkan hypnotist, aud' his wi:i"o are through passmigcrs to Sau Praitciiseo by tlic \V iilochra..