PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency tho Governor loft for Tar* naki yesterday. . :

Mi\ .1. Hopkins, Government Apiarist, has left Wellington to inspect Otago apiaries.

, Sergeant M'Guire, District Clerk at the Lambton Quay police-station, resumed duty yesterday after three weeks' holiday leave.

i Mr. R. W. Holmes, Engineor-iu-Chief to the Public Works Department, left for the north yesterday.

Mr. ifM'enty, of Messrs.-Penty and Blake, 'architects, and Mr. Martin Kennedy and tho Misses Kennedy are due in '(Wellington to-day from a.'.trip to the Old Country. l/ieut;-Uolonel Bauchop, C.M.G., officer commanding the Wellington military district, has returned to Wellington after a visit of 'inspection to Wanganui.

Mr. J.I:D. Ritchie, Secretary for Agriculture, and E. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock, .left yesterday Co attend the Nelson Show. ■"■' . t - '•

Mr. J. A. Gilruth, Chief Veterinarian of the Agricultural Department, leaves this morning for New Plymouth, where ho will deliver a lecture. r

Mr. D. "M'Laren, General Secretary of the Now Zealand Waterside Workers' Federation, has returned to Wellington from an official visit to Napier and Gisborne. Sir James Mills, Managing Director of the Union Steamship Company, and Sir Georgo Clifford, will arrive from the south this morning by the' Maori. Colonel Robin is also a passeuger by the 'Same steamer.

Mr. H. j'. H. ! Blow, ■ Under-Secretary for l'ublic Works, leaves for Auckland this week on depart'nionta] business. He will bo absent for about ten days, and will return via the Main Trunk lino. /■

Brigadierl'Albiston, officcr-in-chargo of the North Islan]t district of. the Salvation Army, aiicl Brigadier Bray, of ■ the . Headquarters Staff, Melbourne, who is in chargo of tho Army's social work in- Australasia, will arrive from -Auckland to-night. ,

Mr. Kenneth V. Hume, of the Sydney office of the' Union Steamship Company, and formerly of. Wellington, is to be .married to-day at Sidney to Miss Garde, of that city. The honeymoon'will be spent.in.Nev Zealand. Mr. Kenneth Hume is a son of Lieutenant-Colonel A. Hume, Inspector of Prisons. . \, ■ The ShawSavill steamer lonic,'duo from London on Tuesday next, is bringing tkfollowing ■ amongst her -.passengers for Wei lington:—Mrs. El D. Qrawford, Mrs. Earp Thomas, Mr.-T. H; Lawry, Mrs. Dowdesw&ll. the Hisses. .Dowdeswell,, Kov. C. Isaacson, Mrs. Isaacson, Mrs. E. M'Ardle, Mrs. Lomas, Miss N. Loniax. The Auckland bookings include Surgeon Major-Goneral P. S. Turnbull and, Colonel A. L. Bayley. .

Captain Richardson, Director of Artillery, returned from Duncdin yesterday morning.

Mr. and\Mrs. J Lord will sail by the Mooraki tomorrow for Australia, whero they intond taking up their 'residonce.' Mr. Lord, who lias been connected'hvith the Dresden Piano, Company for a number of years, was presented with a handsome souvenir in appreciation ! of vthe happy relationship that has oxisted botwqen him and,tho employees. ; Captain Cashman, of the'Uuipit'Company's steamer Karitane, was formally; presented yesterday-, with' a medal awarded by tho Italian Government in recognition of the bravery displayed by the'captain in rescuing four Italian fishermen from drowning in Cook Strait,-, in January. At that time Captain Cashman was in charge of tho s.s. Rosamond. He has since been absent from New Zealand for s6me ; time. Hence tho delay in handing over the' f modal. Tho presentation , was mado at tho ofiico of the Italian consul, ;JMr. R. T. Robertson.; \ i

An old and much-respected citizen, Mr. Edwin Jones, passed away peacefulljV yesterday morning at .the residonce of Jfr. HillBeckett, Cresivick Terrace, Northland, aged soventy-four. The late Mr. Jones had been in Now Zealand for thirty-three years'. He was one of, the originators of the Yt'oVking Men's Club, and for a long time took an active interest in its management. A Staffordshire], man,by birth, he was a brother cf tho late Jones, R.N., Inspector r.f Machinery at .Portsmouth; but had no, relatives in the Dominion.

air. T..E. Richardson, Chief Clerk ofotno Prisons Department, with which he has been connected for some twonty-two years, .retires on >a\-. pension at the end of the years' Air. Richardson arrived from England in the*' , Durham about twenty-seven years ago, on " which occasion he travelled from Home with Colonel Hume,.-who was appointed, and still is, Inspector of Prisons. After serving for some tim6;on"the staffs of the Property Tax and Uailivay Departments, Mr. Richardson succeeded .to the chuir he lias occupied for so long iri'.Wio little "Prisons" room, on.t'io third flqor-n'of the Departmental Buil'lings. Mr. Richardson purposes to return to England next'ypar, to look up his friends and relatives in his native county of Durham.