PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2333, 15 December 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

■"•■ The Hon. W. H. Hemes, Minister of Railways,;will: return from' the north this- morning. Dr. _Barolay, the - newly-appointed medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, will take.up his duties on or about February 1. '

Mr. Peter Dawson,.the well-known concert baritone, is due to arrive'here . to-day from Sydney. ; After singing here in "The Messiah" he is-to make a t<mr of New Zealand under the management of Messrs. J. and N.' Tait. ';. On Saturday afternoon last the death occurred at the Wellington Hospital of Mr. Charles Callis, formerly a wellknown resident, of Wellington. Mr. Callis, who was 71 years of age, was born at Meads, Ashbyy' Northamptonshire, England, and came out to. Australia in 1871. For-several years he Was a commercial -traveller with the firm of Messrs. George Wilson and Co., of Melbourne, ;in ; which capacity he used to t visit New Zealand every .year. He. acted as secretary in New Zealand for the Exhibition held in Sydney in 1879-80, and for the Melbourne Exhibitions of 1880-81 and 1889. In 1885 he was appointed secretary of the Wellington Industrial Exhibition, held on the site now covered'by the old Drill : Shed, the Arcadia Hotel, and other . buildings in the block bounded by Stout, Ballance, and Maginnity Streets. In the following year he went to England to lecture on New Zealand under an arrangement with the Government. On his return ho went into business in Wellington aB an accountant and com-, mission agent. Some years ago he sustained an injury to one of his legs through being caught in the bight of ,a steamer's rope on the Ferry Wharf, ' since when he could only get about with difficulty. Mr. Callis-was also secretary of the Wellington Industrial 'Association, and the Horticultural and Florists' Society at one time,. Dr. Mortensen, the _ Danish scientist, who has been on a vigit to the outlying southern islands of New Zealand, 'has returned to Akaroa by the Gov- ■ ernment training ;ship Amokura. Dr. Mortensen will arrive from the south either to-day or to-morrow, and will proceed to northern lighthouses by the Hinemoa, which'leaves port at 3p.m. to-morrow. Dr. Chilton, of Canterbury College, also,leaves Wellington in company with Dr. Mortensen for the north. ; Mr. and Mrs. Graham Moffat and the members of their comedy company leave for Hobart direot to-day by the Warnmoo. _ The following are recent arrivals at the Occidental Hotel:—Messrs. D. Guthrie, M.P., Feilding; 'G. Sykes, ■M.P., Masterton; J. M'Masters and A. ?r' M '. Maste rs, Wairarapa; Captain Maxwell, Superintendent, Shaw, Savill Co. ;.H. J. Richards, Levin; E. Eagle, Carterten, and E, Tancred. New Plymouth. ■'..■■.■