PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day tho Prime Minister will bo at In. vorcargill, the Hon. R. M'Nab and the Hon. 6. Fowlds en route to Wellington, the Hon. J. Carroll in North Auckland, the Hon. Dr. Findlay at Wairakei, the Hon. J. M'Gowan at tho Thames, the Hon. W. Hall-Jones and the Hon. J. A. Millar at Wellington.

Mr. Tom Mann's New: Zealand visit will extend over three months:

Mr. 6. Allport, Secretary, for Marine, re. turned yesterday from a visit to tho South. '

. Inspector Ellison, who has be&n on a visit to Nelson, returned to Wellington. yesterday morning. 1. " ■

Mr. and Mrs. H. 0. Corßon, of New York, who are at present on a tour of Now Zealand,. intend spending a short holiday at Rotorua. :

M. Vladimir V. do Sviatlowsky/ Professor °f Economy in the' Imperial University of St. Petersburg, loft for. Sydney in the Maheno last evening,

Mrs. Annie Besant, ; president of the Theosophical Society, is coming to' New Zealand. A fuller announcement appears; under the heading of the W omen's

,Tho Rev; S. J. Serpell, tho new minister of Taranaki ■ Stroot AVeslcy .Church, arrived, from Timaru on Thursday, and'will conduct 1113 first Sunday services in Wesloy Church to-morrow. . , ,■ ■ '

1 His Excellency tho Governor arrived from Christchurch on Thursday morning, and left for' Auckland by express the sanie day. Captain. Lyon, A.D.C., left for Auckland yesterday morning.

■ Dr. L. Cockayne, F.L.S., left for Christchurch on. Thursday night! He 'will return early next week to Wellington, jwhere he has been preparing his report , on the botanical survey of the Tongariro National Park. • ■

Mr: Justice Cooper left, on Wednesday evening for Auckland, where'; he intends spending a week or so. The other Judges; of the Supreme .Court will probably, remain ' in Wei lington during the current legal holidays; i-:. : ■ ■ ■ .".v.-;.-. V"

Mr. W. F. Massoy, M.P.'j 1 , Leader of the Opposition, returned to Wellington' from Hawke's Bay on Thursday night; He - pro-ceeds-immediately to tho South, -remaining probably for a, few days at'Christchurch on his-way to Dunedin. . ; '

Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief. - Inspector of Fisheries,, returned yesterday from tho South, after , depositing -in : the: specially-made hatchery at Lake TeAnau tho l Atlantic salmon ova brought from Canada by Mr. C. Aysori. Tlio ova reached th(j' lake in good condition. Mr. Ayson will leave for Anck-1 land in time- for tho opening of the rock oystei season on May 1. \

Mr. Charles Cathie, principal of Messrs. Cathie and . Sons, i manufacturers, Victoria Street, leaving for-England nest week on a business 1 trip. Mr. .Cathie, whb is a member of the Karori Borough Council, lias been granted' seven months' leave of, absence. " It is, Mr.;. Cathie's ' intention to' travel through Canada. V - • ••

A : pleasant, function occurred, in .the: Opera House on Thursday night. - - I ''After the evening performance the" house . staff gathered together to show their esteem for one of their departing comrades,;, the .fireman, ; Mr. S. Murray. Mr. Rbyle (the New Zealand representative :pf Mr.' J.' C. Williamson), on behalf of; the staff, presented the. fireman with a diamond tie-pin and silk tie of 'thov Murray Tartan. ' >■>>;:i ■.'.

Mr. J,. S.. Larke, Canadian Trade Commissioner, arrived from the South by the Maheno o ; i: Thursday, and left for Sydney by the'same vessel yesterday. 'Eta expressed himself as pleased with the: results of his tout in New Zealand.; Tho Chambers.of, Commerce/ in Christchurch, Eiunedin, ahi Invercargill, like those. in the North Island, gave him sympathetic : meetings," and passed resolutions in support of his'advocacy 'of improved communication and transport,between Canada and Now Zealand.

' Mr. .0.; D. Morpeth, the,'.well-known publio accountant :-, and ! average j adjuster, has received advice from' Sydney that he has been elected, a -Fellow' of/the newly-formed Australasian Corporation of Public: Accountants.Mr. E. 'W. Hunt, of the firm of Barr, Loary, and .Williams, of this city," Has ; been elected an Associate. Messrs.- L. L. ; Oordory' and S. W. Thornton, of Christchurch, have been elected Fellows, and Mr. R. Davis, of Palmiorston North;: an Associate. The Corporation, is composed sobly, of public practising accountants , and their ■ clerks,: no other person is eligible as a member, and its membership comprises most of, tho leading publio accountants in Australasia. Mr. Morpeth is the . New Zealand representative of the Corporation.

■ Mr. Jack London, tin popular novelist, who had reached. Samoa in his private yacht • when'tho last mail left, will take in New Zealand in the course of his cruise ''in tho South Pacific. ' Mr. London was born .'in. San Francisco in January, 1876, and though 1 still a young man has beau,.; a sailor, gold-miner, tramp, writer,- lecturer; journalist, 'and Socialist. In his search for. adventures among the marine. population of Sari Francisco Bay he soon ;lost ; his ideal romance and replaced it; with realities. !H6 became'in turn a salmon' fisher, an oyster pirate, a schooner's deck hand, a fish; patrolman, a iongshoreman, arid" general ~ adventurer. t When he was seventeen ho shipped. before the, mast as an able seaman and went to Japan 1 and engaged in seal-hunting on the 'Russian 'side of the Bahring Sea! , Becoming > interested in sociology and economics, he went-y on-tho tramp in the United States arid Canada, and was' '.'jailed' 1 more, than:once, for having, no fixed place of;abode and no risible means of support. Later on he repeated his vagabond' career-in the East End of London. -He want over tho Chilcoot Pass with the first rush to the Klondike in 1897, and was a, war', con respondent in' Japan, Korea, aW Manchuria in the Russian-Japanese.' .War.- In 190G he started.oii. a-.cruise of, the world ini a fiftyfoot ; ketch-rigged-: yacht; which is now;>bririging- him across the Pacific. His publications include "The.Son of the \\Volf," ,"Tho God of His Fathers," !% Daughter of the Snows," "The, Call of the Wild,'! "The Sea:' Wolf," "Moon Face,""White Fang," ".Iron HeeL" arid "-Tlio Road." -