PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 23 April 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward), the Hon. W, Hall-Jones, the Hon. R. M'Nab, 'the Hon. J. A. Millar, the Hon. G. Fowlds and the Hon. J. M'Gowaoi'are at, present in Wellington; the Hon. Dr. Findlay at Botorua.and the Hon. 'J. ; Carroll en route to Wellington. Mr. J. Campbell, Government Architect, is expected to arrive back from Mount Cook to-morrow. 1 ' ; ' The Hon. C. M. Luke, chairman of the Hospital Trustees, returned from Taranaki 'on Tuesday'evening. Messrs. T. Ronayne, A. L. Beattie, and H: Buxton, of the Government Railway Department, left for the South last, night by the Maori. ' ..' Miss Geraldine B. Broad was appointed to 'the position of sub-matron of the Victona Hospital by the Trustees at their meeting yesterday. - Mr. J. H. Greenwood, tho newly-appointed Physical Director of the Wellington Y.M.C.A., arrived in Brisbane by the Jfoana on Monday, and leaves Sydney on Saturday next for Wellington. ; . Mr. W. S. Short, Chief Clork of the Roads Department, is suffering from an indisposition, which will probably keep him from his o£co for a week or more. Captain Barclay is acting in his place. . Yesterday was the third occasion on which Mr. F. G. Bolton has basn returned as Mayor of Eastbourne. Ho was opposed at tho first election, but has been returned unopposed for tho last two elections. . A Press Association tologram from Christchurch states that Mr. Geo. G. Stead had I a vory restless night, and his friends will regret to hoar that there was no improvement in his condition yesterday. Tho death ocourred at 6.20 last , evening of Mrs. Hoskins, wife of Mr.' Paul Hoskins, senr., of Wellington, and mother of Mr. Gil. P. Hoskins, manager in Wollington for tho Messrs. Fuller. Mrs. Hoskins appeared to be perfectly well yesterday, death being caused suddenly through hoart disease; whilst in tho performance of her ordinary domestic dutios. . Mrs. Hoskins was a resident of forty yoars' standing' in Wellington, and her death will bo deeply deplored by all who knew hor. The deceased lady was sixty years of ago. The interment will be privato.