PERSONAL ITEMS,

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 235, 27 June 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS,

■ His Excellency tho Governor, accompanied by Mr. H. C. Waterfield (private secretary) and'Captiin,Lyon, A.D.C., will arrive from Palmerston North by to-day's midday train. The Governor will dine at the Wellington Club, where he will stay, and will attond the test football match between England and New Zealand at tho Athletic Park in the afternoon! He will dino with the teams at the Grand Hotel in tho evening, i The fact that His' Excellency has mado arrangements. to : '6tay at the Club is. taken as an indication that Lady Plunket will not visit Wellington. for the. opening of Parliament on Monday; next. Owing to tho lack of accommodation; for the public, the opening will be less ostentatious in character than is usual, and there will probably be a curtailment of those social amenities that tend to prolong ap well as .brighten a session, on account of the, keen, desire of the majority of the .members to get. back to their electorates well before the date, of the general election.

All the Ministers of the Crown are in town for the opening of Parliament. Mr. A. T. ;Ngata, M.P., returned from the North last night. • ■ : Dr. Pomaro, * Health Officer to tho Maoris, aas returned, from Wanganui. Mr. W. Dinnie, Commissioner of Police, has left on an official visit to Auckland. . .Judge Roseoe-Reeve, of the Native Land Court, arrived in Wellington last ovening. , -The.' General Manager of Railways and heads' of branches .havo■ roturned to Wellington after inspecting Gisborne lines. , , ''••i'Mr'j T. E . Donne, who has been in Auckland in: connection with the' projected visit of the Ainerican fleet, arrived, in Wellington last'evening. He will return to Auckland on Tuesday nest. ' < C. Oriiiiston Chant, the engineer who has erected the new Wellington refuse destructor, has been laid aside for some days with a rievoro attack of rheumatism. Ho will probably be unable to resume his duties for anotlifcr week or so. Mr. C/N. Nugent, of England, who camo out'some months ago with the intention, of buying land in New Zealand, left here yestorday. iby the Maitai ;on. route to Queensland on an inspection of. Darling Downs properties. Mr.. r Nugent states .that ;ho .'thinks that"'NeTO.Zea[aiid f ,farm, .lands are at preBent rathw'above their value. 'F. Jacßeon, the. Anglo-Welsh footballer, , who has,.been suspended by the English ;Rugby< Union on a charge of professionalism, served 1 all through the South African war, which:'he entered as a, private in the ranks, and finished with a commission. - - Captain ' Hope-Johnstone, qousin of thd late Lord Linlithgow, who has just concluded anotiteresting caravan arid, automobile excursion. ■ through New Zealand, is to leave here/next i month for , Tahiti. During the p&st month,'the captain has accompanied tho' British football team, on its travels, and has displayed'a most kindly interest in its welfare/ ■; ■ i . ;• ' Mr.- James Wall, t late of the Wairarapa, who has just returned, from a visit to Queensland,, where he has purchased a considerable, area'of property, with his partner, Mr. Lord, states that amongst those who are at present; inspecting property on the Darling Downs are Messrs. 19. Fraser (Rangitikei), : Parson■; (Wanganui), .Watts (Hawke's Bay), Ronaldsoh (Canterbury), and Williams •(Timaru)i

Genfcral Sotnervilla Hoggo intends to leave New, Zealand for; Great Britain in January next. . The General, who lias' resided at Oliero and at' Auckland, states that at one time the Dominion was without an equal for fishiiig facilities, but that lately the sport baa been largely spoilt through illegal trespassing; General Hogge has the reputation of ..being a first-class big game shootist in •India. He is now seventy years of ago.