PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2156, 23 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

V1.C8.-Rjsnji.ii. Ills Escplteue v v the. Governor and tl» Countess <>f Uvo-rpou! left on a visit "to tlte Cook Group by the AYiiioehfii, wtedi sailed at 10.40 last night, tiio steamer is duo nt Uaroiengit on Wednesday next, airf tlio-R. the \ r ico-jJcgaj .party will emJwHi on . the Government steaJlicr Tutanekai far ft- wlk's oriiko among tli.ii islands of the gfa%. Tiieiir KxcAw-ies will return to Wdi.iitEto.n by ilio Moana on Jung 18.

.All the Cabinet; Mini store .are iti town to-day, except the lion, fir, i'omft.K. 'jfe Prime Minister may leave for the north fco-ii!«ht, but it m more probable thai pressure of business will compel him to driay his departure until Monday evwuiiij. The- Tutrmekai.. with the lion. Dr. ; Poaiare, 51 r, F. Twiss {officer itt ehargo af ilio Cook Islands Department), Mi*. '.Poison (sewetwy to tho Hon. I)r. Poinarij), and Press re.preseiita-fc'fcM., is timed to reach Auckland oh June 28, : Tho Ho.iv F, M,,8, Fisher will ad2rc»S a meeting at Kctv Brightoit (Callsterhury) on Wednesday. The. Ji'oii. A. h. Herd-man will speak at MEetlwcn uojjt Wednesday (ivenfag, nnd will ho present- 'at tho dinner »?? tho Farmers' Union at Gl,vri.s:teh.urc!i tho following evening '(according .to tho Ch-ristc.hu.reh "Sim"). Mr.. _ Hcfdmaij will speak at Haffarfi.'i.i.i -on Friday &fu.vnOfi.u 5 and at Amberloy tho s&me ingTho Hon, J. Alien will IcaW© for tiio south on Monday evenmg., mi on tho

following 'Thursday lie 'will address bis ■eo.iistitatonts at Lawrence Mr. iF* H. Dodd, Assistftntwlnspoctor of Post Offices, is aliosis to'' reltiro on sttpsranmjat'ion after fortj' gears'' sch vice, during wlileJt time Ire lias. dcouiplod several important jpositiojis, .inehidiitg those of officer in at Kafcipuaka, officer in charge of the. telegraph office- at Napier, aiitl ..chief postmaster at W'cstpo.rt. ..Fr'ojn ■thois.sts mentioned po.siti.dn M : r. sßodd Was jtfoin.oted in October, 1912, to be Assist-ant-Inspector. Sir. I>. H. GntWo, Chief -Govornmmt Whip, did not get away .yesterday M Im had intevded, but will leave for Fielding to-day, Mr. it. Myers lias? booii.. appointed f ico-Consul of Denmark, at vke Mr. AV. U. D. Doll, M'J. 1 ., who has resigned. Tho -death of another, of jSew tnTa.ml's pioneers in tilt!, person of Mr. ■Edward "Watts, sheepjahner, 'O.tano.i Bay, at t'lio' tips a.go of 83 tali's, is i'Cpbft'ecl.. Ho arrivedjih WcJ'Mngton to. tiio ship o'rient.al in 1841,. and tools ttp tho land •Oil which 'lie 'resided at .ih.e time of his death 'insty yeitf-5 ago., Uokig tho first to..'ljralct a iioniostead in til* di'stj'iot. Tljo lata Mr. IVatte wa.s a luoffibor (if the r.a- N tmiKata Road. ISoarfl a.nd otljer -loeal Votlins for mafty years. He .leave*, is widwv- and family of ■eight soil's, fcliroo ■of witora nw of the firm, of Messrs, Watijs Bfo*., tailcters, of this city, and two .daughters. Mr. a'ttd Mi's.. Erie tticldiford, of Lower Ildt-t, left on a tif{> to i3y.dn<?y yesteiday. T!wy were aceonipaiiied bj iliss W.. Mi'le4. '/ Mr, F. J. Moi-gain M.So.j hoaimftsto of tlw Stratford District High' School, lias boon appointed s.ci?nco master at the \VioliKngt<lllfwtng.©)lteg;c. . Tiio lohg-servico aiid gootUcoroduet medal has 'beeft awarded to Seiiftcaiit Vi. Cnff. R.NJ„i\- • Qwartcrnjastttf. .Setueawt C. Gre.enbend has hecft swarded the Colonial Ansi&.ry Farces' long-, so.wfc.o nictlai Tiio latter has had .over iwotity-fchres jears' strvicfii Niijw D. Murray '(nimttaelied lirt) has ijad tho Co](i.n,ial..iAilsiriar.v FiW'cefl oili?6)"s dr/edra-iioii IctiilfqTi'llSd' «rii iiiiH. Slaff-SfM-geaiit Ma|o : r J, Thomson, of tire Now Zo.alMid I'oi'Miaticiit Staff, tms been awarded tiio longvsMV'ies i.ii'edul. T'iw oliairmaii of the- WctliugtfMi Kducation Board (Mr- Robert Lee) iiitiiftaj.» ed to that body at yesterday's niftnthi.y nt.eetin;gj that his resignation would take effioct vis from July L Mo wowld., liowevc.r., Ifto to bo wlievod of his dijtics at oitoe. Oil tlits hint XJ'r. J* /Kehbel'l p»posed that Mr. J. G. AV, Aitke'n ho olejileel ■act}«g- , ehatrmo.:>v. , a , !!d thefo l)ei)t« ■no other honiiiiatkinj Mr, Aitkcn tra.s <lu}y elected to tiis pasition. It wa-s ■the'latter i;entifinia'ijS -.fot a.ppearanco at a. 'bonrd iji-eetiirg since, his reee'nt serions illness., a'nd hands we.ro ••ofttstretoh■ed ftorn -every aiMjlo af' tho taldo tt> jcreet tiio convalescent, as he teok liis vs.eat. Tiio lnisiives.s of the board was ■interrupted for a few seconds,. .dSriw* ! which üßie Mr. Lee Remarked that tho ' Mioinbelvs of t-hns board were glad to sbo Mr, Aitkeii at-his seat at tho table onco mo*e. Mr. F. A-'Alien, F.t.A.N.2-, A.LA.V-,, of tiie firm of Messrs. H. 'F. A'llen niid San, Wellington-, has btftn nwnrded fii*b prizio in a I'eoi'iit essay cdftipetitioji of the A-ccouiiiants' a Students'' Society, Vict-Oija-. The subject Wa.s "Be.parthEWital Accoiiijts," The Hon, J, E, Jenkinson, U;h£,, who has been iit tho Souitii Manjl for the past nio'wt.h on Avbitratipn. 'Ckntft biisinesSj/reiiilTncd to 'Wellington, b* tho Waiii,lio yesterday morning, After tiio -sturfc-iji-s' eaiirival; at flio Town Bail last evening,. Dr., Ki'n.g'ion iryiik) Wixfi presented liy fclro • sfcudtnts with a Riiver-nvoiinted haton, iji'rccogni> tion of his services in coWficctjoii with th.o nvusifliil section. Of the carttfeal. Mr. H. J...11. Blow, 'Uiider-Socj-etairy ■ftir i'tthlje- Works, left Wdiingtoii 'by tiio Wiltehrn for Pjipceto. yesierdfty, Mr. A.-, 'Deiiiiis'ton., of AuoklajKi., was a 'passenger for Papeete, -by the- Wil* iofehr-a yastcrda-.y, sfr, J. IJ'., JJ. CoateSf general man* ager e;f the. Jvavianft'l Bank of Jfow K.cataei.. who k prflijoeding'to Loudon., left Weilington far gah francisoii by tho Wifelira last ,