PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 148, 17 March 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

' His Excellency the Governor left for Ngartiawahia - (Waikato) - yesterday ; morning to bo present at ; tho Native regatta to bo held there this week. , lie is also to attend' a-big Native meeting at Waliaroa, where tho Maori petition to the King is to be discussed. Lady Plunket will leave, for t-lib north to-day. - '' .- - . ; - V,-. 1 , Tii-day -the Prime Minister (Sir;\Joseph Ward) 'arid the Hon. <T. Carroll will bo at Ngaruawahia,' the Hon. J. A. Millar atHon. Dr. Findlay, the Hon. J. ; M'Gowan, the ..Hon'. 1 W. Hall-Jones, >' the' Hon. R. M'Nab,. and tho Hon. G. Fowlds at Wellington. '-, ' , , Mr. L.' Gcstro; has been appointed ranger, for tho Makara County Council.-; p.. : .' ..' Colonel Ward and- Captain Rhodes, officers; of the Imperial. Army, are .visitors'- to Wellington. , .'; ' ' . ; Detective ' Rawle,' who has : been -.transferred to Gisborney left for the' East Coast port.yesterday, by^.theWaikMoVj U\ \- ' ! Mr.-.James Ashcroft, who has been seri-' ously. ill ..for - some,,weeks;,past,., was* able to. leave, his. bed: oii Sunday ; for-.a lew hours.,,, Mr. Cyril Ward, eldest son of the Minister, who was • successfully., operated on a fow days -ago by Dr. Cahill, assisted by Drs. Ewart and Miisorn, is making an esccllent recovery; ~ '• V, .

!; The: ■ Wellington Cricket, Association last evening decided to forward'' a- letter of condblonc'o to' the "family'of, the late Mr.' C." W. Benbow, who was for many' years a valued vice-president of tho Association; U v Colonel R. J. Collins, who bccame suddenly indisposed : at ;tho' Trefttham' rifle camp on Thursday, last,; is almost': himself, again. It'is • understood that the Colonel suffered slightly' : from 'ptomaine poisoning througheating tinned 'food!'.', ''.'. , ! ; •■' : '( .) . ■. : ,: The accident to Mjijor Wardill, secretary of, the Melbourne Cricket Club, i was caused through'his falling in'a fit off .the -dummy of a- caulo. car when ' travelling along, the Domaili Itoarl, South Yarra.: Ho sustained injuries to the head' through I the. fall,' but 'tras, progressing towards recovery , at . last advices. *.'

: Mr. P. R. Le Couteur,, aged 22, of the Queen's College, .^-Melbourne,... has : been selected as the Rhodes scholar for this year. • Tho only' other candidate was Mr. G. Hazlitt,' a well-known . cricketer,. and son of Mr. James I-lazlitt, here recently, as stage manager .; for. " Byewster's ..Millions'" Company;

The Wellington Spiritualists I '; Association held a special memorial service in the .New iCentury Hall ,on • Sunday.evening out-of re-, .to the memory .of .the late ?Mr. Isaac who was at one 'time secretary and. treasurer and also vice-president of the Association. , Addresses • were delivered by : the President (Mr. William M'Lean), and Mrs. Georgia Gladys'Cooiey.

v,(Yesterday morning the i Prime Minister (Sir 1 'Joseph'!, Ward): left for the Waikato, where lie* attends'the-Maori carnival to-day it\ Ngarua\yahia.'. He was joined at Paimorston, North • by;.. the,, Hon.. J. >.' Carroll from' Napier His: Excellency • the Governor alio journeyed ' with - the' Prime Minister,, and' will be'present at the : regatta '* to-day, and; at the .Native meeting to-morrow,.' when a petition for presentation to the King is to be discussed. , .'' •

Mr.' Edmund Cowan,, journalist, died in Cliristchurch rHospitalon;, Thursday night last of acute pneumonia. Tho Jato Mr. Cowan, was born at .Thames, Auckland, educated at Napier, and was at various times connected with, the literary staffs of a: number of Now Zealand and Australian papers; In his youth deceased was a prominent figure ■in Napier, rowing, amateur athletic, and football circles, and earned a wide ; reputation as a sporting writer under, tho pen'riamo of " Buff and Black." He leaves a wife and two children. ' ,

Tho Trado XJnion' movement, that showed ai'first somo natural suspicion of tho wild blood in tho Labour party, has decided at last that there is more to bo hoped for from wild blood than from pile water. In short tho Labour: party' has won Trade- Unionism .from Liberalism.—"Now. Age."; All ladies desiring to beautify their iiair, aleo 'render it glossy and in good condition for ths.jVanons, balls, etc., during tho coming leason ' should now :,book appointments with Urs. Rallestan, Hair Physician; of 3 Willie Street (oyer Carroll's). Courses of treatment, inelndinr necessary l»ti»ns, frem SSs. Acltim free. Tel. ISSB , v ■ . riSi

The'TTellingt-jn Gas Company, has received, by the Rimntaka, GO Fletcher, Russell, and Richmond gas ranges, which it claims to be the it lias ever imported. For the sal?e of immediate clearance, the ranges will' be sold at a reduction of 10 per cent, on the net lauded cost, making their prico ieS.Sa,