PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 220, 10 June 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Premier and all the Ministers of thfl Crown will ;be in Wellington to-day except the Hon. J.- Carroll, who is at Gisborno, and the Hon. J. A. Millar, who will bo on his way to Christchurdh from Dur ; edin. Lieutenant-Colonel Hume, Inspector of Prisons, left for tho North'yesterday. The Hon. J; A. Millar, Minister for Labour and Marine, is expected back from tho ~ South to-morrow. The Rev. R. Inglis (Onslow) was unable, through indisposition, to attend the meeting,of the Presbytery yesterday.. ' ' Mr. H. R. Spence,' of the Customs Departmont, Auckland, has been nominated' for election to the Public Service Superannuation Board. : Mr. G. F. Johnston, of tlie firm of'Johnston and Co., Ltd:,-of Wellington, who has been -on a visit -to Australia,- returned to , Wellington by the Papanui yesterday. Mr. G. L. Coolc, M.lnst.C.E., engineer of the Public Works Department in charge of the' Stratford-Ongaruh© line, to Stratford yesterday from a week-end visit to Wellington. ■ Mr. G. Mr. G. Payling is'attending the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's Conference as chairman of, the Christchurch liospital Board/ Mr. and Mrs. Payling are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. V. Price, of Christchurch, arrived from abroad by the Papanui yesterday, after having spent six months in England ' 'and on the Continent.- Mr. and 1 Sirs. Price left'for Christchurch by tho Monowai last night. .

It is expected that the Premier (Sir Joseph Ward),.who arrives back from tho South this morning, will leave for Gisborno to-morrow. It is possible that he will afterwards visit Kawhia and other places on; tho West Coast. • : A Dunedin Press Association telegram states that Mr. H. R. Roberts, of tho " Prince Chap" Company, who is a native of Dunedin, was officially received by the May>r at tho Town Hall yesterday. There was a <'66d gathering of citizens interested in theatrical mutters. Mr. C. E. Carter, who has been in ind-'fr ferent hoalth for some : time past, leaves shortly on a visit to the Old Country." Tlia' General Committee of tho Wellington Industrial Association granted him seven months' leavo of absence last evening, and decidod to write wishing him bon voyage. • A dinner was' tendered to Air. .0. Hum.?, for some years resident secretary of tho Aus trahan Widows' Fuud, by a lew friends at tho Wellington Club last' evening, to s.-iy good-bye and wish him prosperity in.li.ib promotion to tho head office, Melbourne. ,Mr. J. G. W. Aitlcen, M.P.,, occupied the chair.

Last evening, the Brooklyn Baptist Sunday' School toachers made a presentation of an afternoon tea table to jVr. «ind Mrs. Jshri Graham, on tlio occasion of their i»»rn*BO. Lily Boavis, who is to be married, van plot oiaed with a .basket chair, 'l'ho Rov. A.. Dowdncy made tlio presentations, on beh»i' of the teachers. '" '