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PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, returned yesterday from the northern district. slr. W. Dinnie, Commissioner of Police, returned from ' Auckland yesterday.

[) r Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, is expected back from Now Plymouth' to-night. ; . ; Lieutenant-Colonel Hume, the Inspector of Prisons, left Christchurch last night for Weilington. ', Mr. W. Pryor, Secretary of the Employers' Federation, returned frpiu Pplmgrston North last'night.

' The Hon. T. W. Hislop, Mayor of Wollington, returned from Auckland by the 1 arliamentary special train last night:

Mr. J. M'Lachlan, M.P. for Ashburton, who lias been suffering front pneumonia at Auckland, was reported to be much better on Saturday. ' .

The Postmaster-General (Sir Joseph Ward) will endeavour to attend tho annual dinner of the' Wellington lotter-carrierd• staff on Friday next.

Mr. W. F. Massoy, Leader of tho Opposition, who returned from the North on the Parliamentary "special" last night, is suffering from a rather severe attack of influenza, and will probably be unable to attend to his Parliamentary duties for 'a day or two.

Mr. P. W. Sampson, representative in the North Island for tho "Fiat" automobile, is at present a visitor to Wellington. Travelling from Palmerston North in a 15-20 horsepower car on Monday, the journev was- accomplished in less than five and a naif hpurs (including a stoppage for luncheon Levin), despite the greasy condition of the roads foi the greater part of tho distance.

Mr. J. Cr. Gilberd, secretary of the .tyu'ted Firo Brigades' Association, who .wgnt to England for medical advice, writes to a Palnierston resident stating thftt the .specialist has informed'him that his complaint .is pot serious, but he will require a lengthy rqst, and this will probably compel him' to relinquish firo brigado work*. Mr. Gjlberd intends leaving for New Zealand pn October 2.

Theatrical "stars" are having rather a bad run in tho Dominion at the present' time. Mr. Charles Saunders, tho English tenor, is suffering from an inflamed throat, and several performances in various.towns have had 'to be postponed on that' a< count. That brilliant little artist, Miss Bottv Olils, of "The Merrymakers," was only able to "make one appearanco ill a five nights' season in Wellington; and now it is reported that 3ir. Bert .Gilbert, the London comedian, whose name !""■>«->•» "+ ihr> bead of the cast i "Humpty-Dumpty," has been soriously Injured by a kic* mule. .

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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 6

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PERSONAL ITEMS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 6

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