PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13377, 19 March 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Right Hon. the Joseph Ward), accompanied- by Hislop and Matthews, private tarics, arrived in town yesterday •"*' was seen by deputations on sOT«T matters. After attending the < xm K*y mentary social to Mr G. L»£«g, M.P., nt Lyttelton, ho left for *«>*{ ton by the Mocraki. 'vl} . The Hon. Geo. Fowkte, Education, attended the Bave^fQ

* ~ ,r«t«rtlor. In the afternoon ho Kansior». where ho stajrd **"!« nieht. Mr Fowlds cora« on to ft* ™Ti ~r<"i thU afternoon, and to''*%tZ Ch vili visit tlu. Institute for 2°T\lut« at Sunnier. He returns to in il* evening by tl:t> Kmffl Jamie*™, the prwidviit of : • 3[ r r-lnterlmry Society oi Arts, 11 rut Jk--1 ?js%ttbe Exhibition of tho Sowcty Minister for Justice (the Hon. 1 Sindlay) arrived iron) WeJjington ♦ friar inoniiii«. and went South by Sis evening Kivte a lecture * «io"n reform, at the invitation of Prison Reform A«ocia- ' *?» -^p r j.'i n jjay returns from the **",!, by the first express, to-morrow, f$ kares for Wellington by the early E. C. J. Stevens, -Air J. .'fed ond Colonel Robin loft for K*ak«" ,e, iß' C «*-tt«l Chief ! Gorernment Vi-terinarinn as from iK 2!ZtZJ£ Macmilinn TJrown wn.d a JS&rI»S tlw U«*™ ki » ua * ni « l,t for Faulks. of tlu- Dunlin tek««nh office. who hjLS 1 ProT.oto.l Plcheck clerksliii. ut Cliri.stch.irch, « the recipient «f n yokL albort iroin iSeUff'ae a token of tlw i-nc in which ho is held by tho.n. *Vt Cyril Ward. w>n of tlio Prinio -Minister, who is to tal.e up ani uppoiiu- , reside in Inveronrßill. *m,rfrii-nd» of Mr Ritchie, In.spccw of Schools for the North CantorrL Education Hoard, will regret to taifn that he is seriously ill. i farewell eocinl w:m tendvrwl Ly the residents of Kaikora (Hawko's toy) on Thursday week o Mr and Mra j Graham, prior to their <*parturo fox Lincoln, Cunterbiiry, to which placo «, Gmham lia* just bceji promoted, ' ietotionroaster. Mr and Mrs Graham wre nrceented with n liamlsomomarblo 3S suitably inscril>e<l, and a purso rf on bohalf of tho rcsiSrts and an oak and silver tray on Shalf of tho Anglican and PresbyJJriaa choirs. Opportunity was taken to welcome Mr MdSherry, Mr Graham's

;^aTsTmeeting of tho Hawke's Bay Tfreebyterr yeaterdas, it was reported «,»t» tbe "Rev. George P. King, under £ll to Waipawa, hud' requested theCongregation to stop procedure, as ho bad elected to accept a call to the Sarae of Pleasant Point. Canterbury. ; MrW. Bess will be relieved of his "iatiea at the Ashburton railway station on Monday and, intends leaving OH Wednesday for Petone to take tharge of tho railway station there. Jlr Bass is one of those who will in fete than a. year retire from tho ra.il»ey service on a well-earned' superannuation, nod bis present intention ia to eettle in the North Island. Tho Governor's recognition of Hwang Yung Liang as Chinese Consul for Now Zealand is gazetted.