PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 233, 25 June 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All the Ministers of the Crown will be ifl ; town to-day, ■ Mr, Hubert Mitchell, editor of the; Christchurch "Star," is reported to be serioubi.r ill. ' • Mr. A Hamilton, Director of the Dominion Museum, • has returned from th« ■ North. ■ /-v Mr. Wm. Kaufmann, of Geneva, and Mr. J. Butzbach, of London, are visitors to Now Zealand. ■ ' ■ - The Very Rev. Dean Harper, of. Christ- ■ ohurch, arrived in Wellington, from Sydney . , yesterday,' after a six-months' holiday :in- -. Australia. /iS '' ''' ■ Mr. - Neil. Galbraith, - of. the I .Council , of the New l 'Zeal!ihd v ßugbj f Unioh/'Will accom-' y: pany the British football team''on its;'tour • 1 •; .of the..North Islajid. .. ; 'The HonJ'G. FoWlds,Minister for Educa- •»*+ tion, was at Palmerston North last night on his way.,back from, Aiickland. He will arrive ~... in Wellington to-day. ■

Mr. G. M. Johnston, of. Palmerston North, returned by tho Moeraki yesterday, from a visit to Sydney, and wont on to Palmerston ... by tho afternoon-express.' . Mr. Justice Cooper expects the Napier , sit- , f tings of the Supreme Court to conclude oil. Monday, in : which event he will return -to Wellington on ihe, following day. Mr. R. W\ A. Barclay, who is interested in tea-planting in Assam, and who has been sponding'a holiday, in Wellington, leaves for Sydney, on route to 'India, on Friday. ■ Mr. D. 'Caddie, Dairy Commissioner, re- . turned from Europe by the Moeraki yesterday. He leaves for Palmerston North today to deliver an address at the Dairymen's Conference.. ' Mr. Gladstone Ward, third son' of the Primo Minister, who has been'attending the St. Ignatius College, Riveryiew, Sydney, ar-, rived hero by the.Moeraki yesterday to spend the winter vacation in Wellington,,/

Mr. Leopold lAcland, who suffered isevere ; injuries duringYa tiger hunt • in: ; lndia ,re- >; cently, arrived by, the Moeraki yesterday .-He has now-quite; recovered from his injuries; - . Mr. Aciand leaves ,in ; a day or two for Can- - torbury, where ho intends to reside.; •

Mr. •?. Rowley, of the Federated Malay States civil servico, who tjas been spending his furlough at Blenhoim, leaves for . Sydney, en route to Penang, to-morrow. / The Rev. J. Flanagan, who lectured at' the Town Hall last/evening, leaves for Sydney to-morrow by the Maitai. ,Mr. J. Lachman, of Wellington, who has been staying in Sydney for some time pftst, .returned to Wellington .by the Moeraki yes- ! terday accompanied! by his daughter, Mrs. Schlosh. Mr. Lachman has been Suffering severely from cold arid asthma in Sydney, and was still very poorly on his arrival here yesterday. '■ : ■ ; . Dr. Cockayne, F.L.S., has returned to\Vellington after visiting the' North Island Govornment, Experiment Stations in connection with his plant-breeding, experiments.. After a week's stay in this city, Dr.; Cockayne will spend a couple of months in Cliristehurch, during which ho will write his. section of the work on the sub-Antarctic Islands, which is to bo one outcome of the recont scientific expedition.

Tho following changes in the lighthouse ser. vice are announced:—Mr. Powell, of Wellington, who has just joined the service, is to go to Cape Campbell, vice Mr. Tumor, assistant kcepor there, who has been promoted to bo principal keeper on Stephen's Island. Mr- Greig, jn charge at Stephen's Island, is to bo transferred to Waipapapa Point, Southland, wliore he will replace Mr. Gwynno, resigned; Mr. Trudgeon has joined the service, and will become an assistant keeper at Farewoll Spit, vice Mr. Harvey, who is to bo moved to Taiaroa Head, where ho will rcplaco Mr. Clarke, resigned.

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