PERSONAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 64, 17 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr J. T. Kerslake, of Palmerston North, was a visitor to Dannevirke yesterday. The Rev. Mr Grant returned from a- visit to Wa.nganui last evening. Miss Hopper, matron of the hospital, who has been in Wellington' on hospital business, has returned to Dannevirke. Mr T. M'Laughlan, one of Auckland's prominent business men, is at present spending a holiday in town. Miss Sibyl Gregg, of Auckland, who has been visiting friends at Gisborne and Tahoraiti, left for Wellington to-day to take up duties 'at the Wellington Hospital.

Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Compairy, arrived at Auckland yesterday from Sydney. Mr P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, will arrive at Napier by the express to-night, in connection with the tailoresses' dispute. Barns, the bookmaker who failed to pay out after the, W'angaiiiui Stakes the other day, amd his olerk Coakley, have been sentenced to two months' and a month's imprisonment respectively. Field-Marshal Lord' Kitchener arrived in Wellington from nis overland trip yesterday. He lunched at Awar ruia House with the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) and Lady Ward, and left in the afternoon by the Mokoia for the Eastern Pacific Islands. At Tahiti he will join the Mariposa for San Francisco, proceeding thence through the United States for London.