PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 194, 11 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

To-day the Prime Minister is at Westport, tho Hon. J. M'Gowan is at the Thames, .and the Hon. Geo.. Fowlds is at Napier. .The other'members of the Cabinet are in Wellington. The Hon. Dr. Findlay arrived back from the South yesterday.' The Hon. C. H. Mills arrived from Pictonon Saturday night by the Pateenaj Mr. D. F. Skinner, of the firm of Townsend and Paul, is reported, to be seriously i 11.,' . ..." ■_ ■. The Attorney-General, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, returned from the South yesterday by the Waikare. Mr. Bulter has been succeeded by Mr. Upto'n: as, instructor of'seamanship on. the Amokura. , Mr. TJpton was fourteen years in. tho British Navy. . . . ' Mr. Clias. S. Pees, of Wellington, was among the passengers by the Moeraki for Sydney on Friday,. It was his intention, to go on to ..London, returning in October. ' Mr. W. R. Richardson, of the local staff of tho Bank of New Zealand, who has resigned t)o join Messrs. Dalgety and Co., received - a, presentation from his fellow-officers prior to. leaving.' . Mr.'- D. Kinsaland,. the gentleman who once drove coaches in New Zealand, aud who has risen to be one of the greit cattle kings of the Argentine, left for Monte' Video by the Tongariro on Saturday. ..' J .\ Don Augusta Rusoli, son of the; Duke of Fiano, is a passenger by the barque Salamanoa, which arrived at ; Dunedin on Saturday from Marseilles. The Italian nobleman int<mds : : touring,New Zealand.: : , y . Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Employers' Federation, returned from the South by the Maori yesterday morning. On Thursday,- he leaves for Gisborne in • connection with 1 an important case 1 to be heard by the Arbitration Court,. On Saturday morning the associates to the Judges of tho Supremo Court, presented an upholstered arm-chair to Mr. George wlin i'« rftlinquittbingiJthriaprikition of oner and custodian* at the Court,'which ho has hold for twenty-two years. ■ . • i 'Among the visitors to Wellington; staying I at tho Empire Hotel are R. Mackay, S.'O.'-Hodges, aiid H. A.: Johnson (London)/! Mr. ■ W.! Martihdale, (Capetown), Mr,. ;'E.; A.; Lindsay (Sydney), Dr. J. Innes .(Blenheim), and Mr/ J. C. Caldwell ; (Auckland). A Press Association message states that tho Hon. George' Fowids ; arrived in Napier on Saturday evening froto Hastings. To-day wili . have a number of public matters brought before him by. deputations, and jater ho will visit the Hospital and schools. Ho intends to leave Napier tomorrow. . V . .' ■Referring at St. Mark's Church last evening to the Hadfield.- memorial hostel for divinity and. other students, tho Rev. A. M. Johnson said that Wellington owed a great , deal .to tho late Bishop Hadfield. On > one occasion ill the oarly days his influence, his power, and his tact prevented a Maori rising, which would; have meant the. destruction of this city. ~ ... ■.. .. ,Dr. Edward, Cohen, ; formerly of . Wellington,'a'brother of Mr. Leon Cohen, of this city, Mr.. Maurice. Cohen, of Palinerston North, arid; Mr. Louis Cohen, of Wang'anui, arrived from London yesterday by tlie Paparoa, of which vessel,he js ship's • surgeon. Dr. Cohen has been absent from Wellington for about twelve years, six of which he has been practising'in Croydon, London, in partnership with Dr. Hugo. , The .Dominion bowlers made merry on the trip of, the 'Wimmera' between Napier >and Wellington on Friday night. Mr. Waddell, president, was presented by the team with a handsome 'illuminated address. Mr. R. 0.. Bishop, of Christchurch'/ desoribed as "the skipper of skips," was the recipient of a solid silver, smoker's companion; and Mr. F. Wi Johnson, leader of tho war , cry arid other bowling fiivolities, was presented with a gold sovereign caso to mark tho, end-of : a \.tour to the enjoyment of. which ho had contributed in no ordinary measure. The late Mr. Anders/Andersen, of "Duncroft," Featherston, has left under his will a number of bequests, writes our Wairarapa correspondent. Thb trustees of tho Method-' ist Church at'Greytown and at;Featherston, and the South Wairarapa Hospital at- Grey- ! town, benefit to the extent of, £100 each. There is another bequest 'of £100 to the trustees of the South Wairarapa Hospital for' funds towards the erection of a new hospital, whilo a, portion of tho estate, after payment of bequests, is to be handed oyer towards the same- institution ■. It if believed , that the sum will run into several hundreds ■ of pounds. A clause in the will refers to another bequest for a home or hospital in the Wairarapa for incurables. If'there oe no such institution in tho Wairarapa, + he sum is to bo devoted to the home in Wellington, preference to be given to Wairarapa patients in proportion to the amount ,of help given to tho home by Mr. Andersen's bequest. . .