PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day tlio Primo Minister (Sir Josoph iWard) and tho Hon. R. M'Nab will bo, on i route to Dunodin from Central Otago; tlio . Hon.'G. Fowlds at Dunedin, tho Hon. J. Carroll in North Auckland, tho Hon. 'W. Hall-Jones, tho Hon. J. M'Gowan, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, and tho Hon. J. A. Millar'at Wellington. ■ ' The Hon. C. : C. Bowen, iM.L.C., arrived from '.tho yesterday morning. ■ The Hon. 0. Samuel, M.L.0., of New Plymouth, is a visitor to' Tho General Manager of. Railways and heads of Departments returned • yesterday . from'an' inspection of the.Southland lines., Mr. H. P. Taylor," of t-lya Auckland hardware firm of, John Burns and Co., is spending a fow (Jays in Wellington on.business. • Mr. H.' C. Tewsloy, director of Messrs. ■ Bar-good,' Son, and Ewen,'Limited, left Wellington yesterday on' a. business visit to Nelson. ' • Tho Rev. John M'Konzio; of Christchurch, . who.has boon spending a few days in Wel- ! '' lington, returned- south',. by ' last night's ■ otcamor. :• ' • ■' 'Mr.' G. Hogbcn, Inspector-General of . Schools, who has been visiting, tho , South Island for somo-weeks, returned to Wellington yostorday.' ••. The Wellington Law Sccioty has dqcidod to :hang : an' enlarged', portrait of the late Mr. Hugh Gully on ono of the walls of the Supreme Court Library. ..... ... Sir 'Joseph -Ward's .itinerary-in . the; South enables him to spend to-morrow in Dunedin, and lie is booked to visit . Lawrence with the Hon. .R.'M'Nab. - .Tho'locations of Messrs: W. D. Blair and ' G. the newly-apppinted Government veterinarians, who arrived from Scotland on Thursday,-: have not.'yet-been fixed. Mr. Massey (Leader of the Opposition) arrived in - Wellington last evening from Auck-. land. Mr. Massey; who is in excellent health, will 1 romain.a few days in Wellington. ,At a meeting of members of tlio Post , and Telegraph Rifles, held after parado last even- ': ingJvCplour-Sergeant ;Bolton'was unanimously electro"junior subaltern' officer of the corps. . ;Count Griirielius, :'by .. ; Mrs. and. Miss Maiyer-Leider, of Frankfort (Ger-. many),' left .for. the South , by, the. Maori last evening. They intend ■ visiting. 1 tho • Duller Gorge, Otira, Mount Cook, and the Cold .'.Lakes District, • :The:Wellington Ministers' Association have passed; the following, resolution in regard to ■ tho departure of the Rev. P. W. Fairclough v'from ithis .city" We, .the membors of .the .'Association, .desire to place on record our ap-.' preciation of Mr. Fairclough's manly Christian'character and.-his moral earnestness. Wo have much enjoyed tho thoughtful and studious papers which ho has from time to.,time ' read before the. Association. 1 He has always ... shown' % fine..brotherly;.spirit,, and ,wo trust . that in the-soTvico of the church to which.be has'consecrated'his■ lifo ho may still havo the blessing of his Master resting upon his work as preacher, pastor, and leader." 1 . ' A .'Press "Association - telegram- from -'Auek- ' land states thatj at tho Chamber of Com- , merco, yesterday , afternoon, , Mr. ,D. W. ' Duthie, meager Vof .jthq.j Auckland brancj) of vthe.National Bank, of New . Zealand, was pre-- : sented by a. number, of his, Auckland friends. witji-a.'handsome;illuminated address and a ~.cheque, .on the occasion of. his.departure for England, on a twelve months'- visit. The ..-presentation .was made,< by,- the ; Mayor of Auckland (Mr. A. ,M. Myers), who referred in-...highly - eulogistic terms to Mr. Duthio's . sterling qualities, .and..to.the. estisem .in which he was held by his .friends.- Mr. Duthie .' leaves , for England on -Monday nest. , .