PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 265, 1 August 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. Mason (Chief Health Officer) returned from the South yesterday. Mr. W. A.'Konnedy, local manager of the Union S.S. Co., returned from Dunedin yesterday morning. Mr. Alec Verne, representing Meynell and Gunn's Deatty-M'lntosh Company, left for Duriedin by the Winunera last evening. Mr. William J. Damson,'financial secretary of the Christian Endeavour Home for Seamen at Nagasaki, is a visitor to. Wellington. ' Inspector Hugo, Government Fire Inspector, has returned to after an official visit to tho northorn. portion of tho Island. /,. Mr. Gjgrton, son of Colonel Edward Gorton, of Bulls, who has been farming in tho Argentine, arrived from London by the Rimutaka on Thursday afternoon. On the occasion of his retirement through ill-health fron) tho service of the A.M.P. Society; Mr. James Wisbart was yesterday the recipient of a token of esteem from tho staff of the local offico of the society. Mrs. Annie Besant,' tho wellknown theosophic lecturer, arrived in Wellington last night. She will leave on Monday; night for Christchurch' and Dunedin, and," 1 after visiting Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth, she mil return to Adyar (Madras). ALONG THE MAIN TRUNK LINE. ' _—— : ENTERPRISE OF WELLINGTON ' FIRMS. tBI TEIvEGRAFH. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Auckland, July 31. An Auckland business man, who has recently returned' from a tour*over the Main Trunk line as. far as .Wellington, speaka vory despondently in referring to the inroads that are being mado by southern commercial travellers into what ho considers is Auckland's; legitimate trade. - All through the King Country, lie says, he* found all but Auckland merchants pushing, business. In one boardinghouso in tho, south ho found fifteen travellers from various commercial houses, but not one of them was from tho North, ' "The .first I met was at Taumaruuui," he said, "and on making inquiries I found that it was not the custom of our morchants to send any further. Tho enterprise of tho Wellington people is shown by the fact that they have agents following ,up the works as they proceed. As soon as there is a section opened tho Wellingtonians ari there looking for business."