PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Priiire 3lmisto -(the Eight Bon. }V. F, Massey) will visit Caiiterbttr>' this \veeli, aikl leaves for tlie south te-ilight. H.o lias accepted a« inyrtiitiDit from tin?. Ivlaniioi-o Koad Board to pevforni the eeremtuiy of driving the first pile of the new Mafigere Biitlgts, on June 20. Mr', Mfessey ivill V cfltertnined at a social gatiioriiij; in tko Mangeto Public HnlJ m\ the piwians evening. TJio Hen. A. h, Hordiiian will go south either to-night of to-jnofrow night. Tim other Cabinet , Ministers, with the oxcopfcion nf. tlio Son. Dr. Poteaw, yrhe is at iho Gook.lslands, arc iii \Veßiiigtoli.

General Sir lan fiamilton will : te tho Ruest of Mr, and Mrs. H. ]$. Bt«tham, at Branecpctli., Wairaißpa, this eveui.tifi. He will jwobaWy retain to Wellington to-nionw. Mr. Ernest; H. Querce, of Willis Street, has been tofifiiwicl to bee] for several weeks through inttispositfon. Mr. F. H. tfaM, Assistant Inspector of P&si Offices, is iiboU! to retire- o« Siiperannuatton. 3tfr, Dodd lias boon an officer of tlio Department fei- forty years, during whish time lie- Iras oceii* jjioi several impoftaJSt positfoiis, inqliut- , ing those of effifeof in charge si V?frkn* puaka, ofer in shergo of the telegraph office, at Kapior, .and cliief nostiirastw pi Weitport. Hβ has been assistant inspect-O;- since October, 1912. Mr. James Haitnay lias retimied to VV«llraKt«m from ,> visit to AiieMaftsl.

The health of Sir James Carroll is Raid io have benofited. eoitsjdcrabJy by his .feeeitt Etay at Rotonta. Ho' Wft tliere for To Aroha on Friday last, Mr. J.- H. PpJloolc, liaiulieapper to the WeJliugtoii Eapkig Club, is" -■wfferii)K from a slight iiorvous brealtdoivs; and is not likely to be about for a few days, Mr. James Kerr, wlio has Ijccn transferred from WeMmgtsm Nortli h> EkotaIran. , '. as postmasto, was' entertaiiwA on Friday evening fey tho iHifanekai Jrfjdge of Freemasons. During the ovciti»g ho was (in-sonicd by Mr. 1 , . 'C. Wiitt, cm behalf of the. members, with a gold-iftountad cane fts a t.olten oi' '-ostoom. On Saturday rnovinug Mis Q. J|. Huigh, of the Magistrate's .Cotirt stß.it, Wellington, who has ireea tmn.sfc.ited to Clvristclweh, was preson toi'l ivitli ,-in , inscribed cricket bat by :]ii§ nssosktos. The prosaitition was i-nado by Mr. WG. Wn\M\, S.M., on behalf of"the staff, ] and in doiijs so lie «sf©r»fl to t!ie regret ] that was felt at the departure of so popular an. o&e&x. bfr. D, M. M'liitGsli, H'}).o has licet, stataouod at Oainani for some time, has been appointed cliief telegraphist H Masterion.

Mr. W. H, Dempsey, postmaster al I'auiatua, has just completed forty Vciirs in the service of tJie Posts) IKtrtjnent, Mr. Bobert Fletcher, chairman of tltt Unrbaur Ikr.rd, has ilmdwi. to allow himself to.be ljon'iinnktl a* a candidate for Hie WeUinglom Csintral Ecat at the general election in the Liborjl interest. ;