PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13110, 8 May 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Hon. R. McNab, Minister for Lands, returned from the South yesterday, and left for Wellington by the Maori.

Archbishop Redwood will pay an official visit to Kaikoura on Sunday.

Dean Harper, who has not been in tho best of health recently, left yesterday by tie Moeraki on a two months' visit to Sydney.

Arrivals in town yesterday included Messrs H. O. Ghidgey (Sydney), JnoS. Swan (Wellington), H. H. Oxlev (Wellington), J. Edgar (D-unedin), E. Cunningham, D. Nimmo Scott (Blenheim). Wm. Roualtisou (Hororata), and Goo. Rutherford (Dalethorpe).

Mr and Mrs A. W. Lane, Miss Lane, and Mr Harold leave by the

Mararoa to-night to join the s.s. Tongariro, which leaves Wellington for London on Saturday.

A cable nieeeago his been received in this city from Mr Leo A eland, who, it will bo recalled, met with serious inju-ries whilst tiger shooting in India earlier in the year, to the effect that ho has reached Colombo, and is bettor in health, but will have to undergo an operation, which it is surmised will be slight in character. Mr and Mrs H. M. Beeves, of this city, left yesterday by the Moeraki for Melbourne to meet Mr Acland.

Mr Solomon K. Ziman, of Auckland, the Dominion Rhodes scholar for 1908, was entertained at Wellington on Wednesday by several of his coreligionists. The Rev. Van Siaveren (Rabbi), and Messrs M. Myers and F. E. Baume, M.P., and the Hon. T. W. Hislop (tho Mayor), were among those who congratulated Mr Ziman, Mr Baume stating that the selection of o Jew was a source of satisfaction. No distinction of religion was made by tho late Mr Cecil Rhodes, but from one portion of the Empire to the other a search was made for good men, whether they were Jew, Protestant, or Catholic- Mr Ziman, replying, said that he hoped he would not disappoint the expectations which had boon formed as to his career.

Tho Napier "Daily Telegraph" announced last night that after many years connection with that paper, Mr E. W. Knowlos has made arrangements that will shortly relieve him of tho activp. ir,anagenion.t of tho business. Mr D. Neven, of tho reporting etaff of the Auckland "Herald," has accepted a position on the literary staff of the Sydney "Sunday Times."

Mr N. C Staveley, a momiboT of the offico staff of the Christehureh Drainago Board, who is about to be married, was presented with a sot of solid silver dessert knaves and forks by his office colleagues on Wednesday. The presentation was made by Mr E. Cuthbort, engineer and secretary to tho Board.

Mr , Gnskin, who was reported in the Press cable messages last week to have been drowned during the hurricane off th;> West Australian coast, which destroyed a number of vessels omploycd in the pearling industry, was a son of Mrs Gas kin, of Grey mouth. The Nelson "Colonist" adds that Mr Gaskin, whose father, the Rev. Mr Gaskin, was drowned at inkaka many years ago, was an old Bishop's School boy.