PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Charles Tandy, coach-builder, leaves on a trip to England on Friday next.'

Mr. It. B.' Williams, solicitor, leaves for Sydney by the Mooraki on April 3 en route to Amorica. ' i .'Mr. and Mrs. James Moore, of the Missions to Seamen, who haye : been: spending: a holiday at Paekakariki, returned to town last evening. . . .. \ : , "x r n . ■ 'Mr. John. Fitt, formerly., : Mayor ' of;.Par--nellj .died. at. Auckland on■■; Saturday, .after a three months': illness.{Deceased r was sixtythree years of age. Mr. 'WiKiam Miller, of Miller's Cornor, Gisborne, is about to take a trip round the World;' Ho will visit the Orient' before pro-' cepding to England.* The Itev. N. R. Gilmour, after a sojourn of many years, in New Guinea,- is revisiting New Zealand.' He'will arrive in' Wellington to-morrow ovening,, with, a' native "boy."

:, : Mr. andy,'£irs; ; Lycett Green and Miss, Green, iwho have: been touring the Dominion for some weeks past, intend to leave . Wellington on their return to England on April

Mr:. Justico:'Chapman, who conducted;the .recent /periodical /sittings of :■ the .Supremo Court- at' Gisborne,. returned to /Wellington yesterday: > He will preside at the forthcoming sittings at Nelson.'

Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Bright, Mr. and Mrs. A.' Bright, and Mr. Charles James, all of Otaki) leave for Sydney by the Warrimoo on, Friday cn route for England. ..Mr', and Mrs. AT. Horno, of ; Feilding, also leave Wellington' by tho same steamer.

To-day, tho Prime Minister (Sir Josoph Ward) and the Hon. J. Carroll will bo at Waharoa, tho Hon. J. A. Millar at Napier, tho Hon. Dr. Findlay, tho Hon. W. HallJones, tho Hon. J. M'Goivaii, tho Hon. ;G. Fowlds,'and'the'Hon. R.Jl'Nab'at Wellington? ' r--

The Hon. Dr. Findlay (Attorney-General) 'leaves/ to-night' :for' Christchurbli. / row afternoon ho .will proceed to Hawarden .to attend a'small function in regard to agricultural matters, and- afterwards will journoy . on: to Cheviot, 'where ho will represent the Government at . a -banquet of the Cheviot Agricultural and Pastoral Socioty in the evening. Th'o Minister ( will' arrive back in Wellington on Sunday.'.

. 'Sir John Gbrs.t (says'; "M.A.Pw),/who is writing' an account of his-visit to New Zealand, was long tlio enfant .terriblo/of the Conservative party; and though he will never see seventy again,-,, there, is, still; about him a delightful .boyishness and originality.. He first went to New Zealand more than forty years ago,intending', to; be' a missionary, but circumstances and a charming young lady on board the steamer altered his ; plans. He learnt the- Maori, language With marvellous quickness, and, actually, edited' a<Maori news-: paper; which. he ° called " The, Lone, Sparrow on the Housetop,'- a skit on a;Native paper with the ponipous title of A'The Eagle on the Mountain.'!. But his paper only "ran" for six numbers,' because: the ; irate Maoris " burgledtho office 'and took< off - all thotype, which thoy meltod down into bullets I When he returned to Now Zealand last year, the Maoris welcomed him with great honour, and sang weird Nativo songs round him. .