PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 206, 25 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho locations of Ministers to-day aro as follow: —Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) en routo to Taranaki; tho Hon. Dr. Findlay, returning from Wanganui; Hon. G. Fowlds, in Auckland; other Ministers, in this city. Mr. l'ringle, general secretary of tho Y.M.C.A. at Singapore, was a passenger from Sydney by the Mokoia, which was due at Auckland yesterday. It is possible that Dr. P. F. M'Evedy, the vice-captain of the British team, will remain in Now Zealand at tho end of the prcsejit tour. Ho is a native of Nelson, and has i been studying in England for about eight I years. .'

Tho Hon. G. .Fbwlds, Minister 1 for Educar tion and Health, left for Auckland on Saturday. Included in the passengers who arrived from Lyttelton by the Maori yesterday .wero Sir James Mills and the Hon? R. M'Nab. Tlio Prirao Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) leaves to-day on a tour of Taranaki, during which ho will visit Patea, Eltham, and New Plymouth. , ' Mr. .AY; S.; Talbot, secretary of the Wellington Rugby Union, returned to Wellington from' Nelson, by'tlio Mapourika oil Saturday . Dr. S. Thorpe-Lewis, who. was a passenger to Wellington from London by tho Athcnio last reek, will-take up.his residence in Auok-.i bind shortly. ■ . • Mr. T. E. Pearson* head gardener of the Tourist Department, has been appointed to tlio position of landscapo gardener for the city of Auckland. Tlio alterations and additions to Mr. j. Strang's house at Palmerston North a.ro pro-' ceodiiig apace, and it js expoctcd that the Governor will be ablo to take up his residence in the,house by Juno 13. , Mr. E. Clifton, Chief Stock Inspector'to the Department of Agriculture, arnved in Auckland on.Thursday, and left next day for tho AYaikato. He will return to Auckland 011 Iriday, and leave for AA'ellington on Sun day or Monday next.. N Mr. and Mrs. P. Allen, who, with their lamily, are leaving by tlio lonic, have. lost' very heavily by the fire which took place on that vessel. All their books, pictures, ajid furnituro, which were being sent, as ordinary cargo, lvero unfortunately placed in the hold where tho flax ivas stored,' aud practically everything has, been ruined by water. An Aro Street car from town got off the lines just before 7 o'clock on Saturday night, close ,to fot. John's Church, and .very soon close on a dozen cars were blocked through the mishap. ' More than half an hour elapsed before traffic could be resumed, and meanwhile the passengers' of all the cars , abandoned them, and took to /walking in . the pouring rain. ;; '■ . '' Among the visitors tci'Dunedin at present is Mdlle. A'oii Eodt, of-Berne, Switzerland. This lady is an authoress of .considerable noto in . Europe. Among, her .works a large. illustrated volume, entitled " : A Tour .of the. World,"y "Through Centraland South America,". "Cairo and Egypt," "Palestine,'.', and. "Greece and Sicily." Mdlle. Von Rodthas travelled very extensively, through nearly every part of the globe., In the course of a. recent visit- to South America, sho spent some time in the island of Juan Fernandez, of Robinson Crusoe fame, where her brother, Governor' for twenty-seven jtears.