PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 22 April 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister and the Hon. HallJones, the Hon;.R. M'Nab, the Hon. J. A. Millar, the Hon. G- Fowlds, are in Wellington, the-Hon. Dr. ifinrHay Rptorua, and th-s, Hon. J. Carroll, tho Hon. J. M'Gowan en route to Wellington. " ;

Dr. L. Cockayne, F.L.S., is expected to arrive back from tho South this morning. '

Mr. John Roberts, of Duncdin, arrived from tho South'yesterday by .the Monowai.

A Press Association message from; Christchurch states that Mr. G. G. Stead was much better yesterday, '<■

Mr; Frank Pope;manager for the, : State Firo Insurance Department at Duhedin, is paying a visit-to .Wellington.

Miss Kate Devoy, a relative of the Very Rev, Archdeacon Devoy, of. tljis pity, arrived from Homo by tho lonic yesterday.

, Mr. J. B. Roy, barrister and solicitor,, of Now Plymouth, is, with Mrs. spending the Eastor holidays in l Wellington.

Mr. G. F. Luttrell, of Oxford, arrived-on a visit to the Dominion by the..lonic yesterday. Ho .is to return to London by the same vessel. - -

Dr. A. G. V. Elder, late, of the Orient liner, Orontes, is the medical officer of tho W'hito Star liner lonic on hpr present trip to . New Zealand, i '

Mr.'. J. W. Pemberton, son of Major-Gene-ral Pemberton (retired), Was a passenger from London by the lonic, which arrived in port .last evening.

Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, • will probably leave 011 Friday for Auckland, in connection with the opening of the ropk oyster season.

: Captain C. B. Etclis (of the Ist'East. Sort rey Regiment) and Mr. St. M.. Ai Smith (a son of ono of the principals in the wellknown London banking business associated witn tlio name) were passengers • from Londoii as far as Hobart in the lonic. After visiting Melbourne arid Sydney, they are ccniing on to.New Zealand, and are to pro-, ccei back to London by the same steamer.

Mr. Murdoch M'Lean, of tho firm .of contractors which is to pierce the Otira tunnel, arrived back at Auckland from London on Sunday. Somo of the machinery ordered by Mr. M'Lcan when at Home has • already come to hand, and consignments are arriving by each direct steamer. There are between 200 and 300 men at work at Otira; at present, ' The death is recorded from Auckland of Mi\ Harold Light, an organist of considorablo talent, and a son of Mr. William Light, of this city. As a boy ho showed extraordinary musical talent, and lias on many occasions given organ recitals in Nelson, Wellington, and other towns. Mis musical education was completed in London, where ho was admitted as a Fellow of tlio Guild of Organists. Latterly lid has been acting as organist to the Pitt Street Methodist Clinch (Auckland), whero his musical gifts were grpa% appreciated. Mr. Light was only twenty-fivo years of ago. Tlio Bartholomew Estate will bo sold tomorrow at Lovin by Messrs. Swainson and ■Bcvan, Ltd. This is a flue strip ofxlnmi, well siui(Uv<l, and. bo divided up that it should suit aiur reamremeuts. . ■