PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 22 August 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. A.; D. Kennedy, of Wellington, waß 6 passenger for Sydney by the Mokoia yesterday.

Mr. AV. F. Y. Stewart, Telegraph Instructor, is at present Acting-Postmaster at Petonei

Tho Hon. J. D. Ormond, M.L.C., and Mr. Tancred, tho well-known sportsman, left for Sydnoy by the Mokoia yesterday.. ■ ' , Mr. A. W.. Bishop,' solicitor, a son of Mr. H. AV. 'Bishop, S.M., Ghristchurch, left for Sydney yesterday by the Moeraki. on a holiday trip.

Messrs. D. Goldie, C. Rhodes, Matthew Clark, and Joseph Miller have been elected the Auckland members of the executive of the New Zealand Employers' Federation. I Mr. T. Shailer Weston, a member of the local committee of the Talisman Consolidated Goldmining Company; leaves Wellington this morning for the purpose of visiting the mine.

■ Dr. Nowman and his son left for Sydney by the,Mokoia yesterday. . After Dr. Newmail has seen his son (who is returning .to Oxford University)-off, ho intends to pay £ '.visit, to, Queensland. :

■. Mr. Claudo.M'Kaj;, of Mr.'J; 0. Williamson's sefcretarial staff, left for Sydney, by,,the Mokoia yesterday. Mr. M'Kay. will, probably accompany' Miss Ada CrOs'sley on her tour of New Zealand.

. Mr. H. H. Vassd'i, the international Rugby footballer, who has been staying .in Wellington since- the English team left for Australia, left for Sydney yesterday by tho, Moeraki, en route,'for London. '

~ Interviewed at Napier,' this Grace' Archbishop Redwood (who-has been on a tour to Australia' and the South Sea Islands) intimated that in all probability lie would leave that town for AVellington on Monday next.

Mr. D. M'Laren,'secretary of the AVellington AVharf - Labourers' Union, told a Dominion reporter yesterday that he had not yet definitely decided whether he would contest tho Dunedin Central seat, against t-h« Hon.- J. A. -Millar. . '

■ The Anglican Bishop of Auckland (Dr, Noligan) has informed his Commissary, Canon M'-Murray, that lie' mil leavo London foi Now Zealand by the Tougariro, accompanied by Mrs. Neligan. «n November 26, and will arrive early in 1909.

The Hon. Mr. Sinclair, of Dunedin, , met with an accident while stepping off a tram car last evening. He fell and cut his head slightly. On returning to his lodgings, medical advice was obtained, aud it was found that he had, luckily, escaped serious jujury.

,Ensign Robert Emmet, a great-great-grand-nephew of tlio Irish patriot, wjs amongst tha officers of. the American Fleet which visited Auckland recently. "Whilst, tho Fleet was at tho Northern port Sir. Emmet was entertained by a gathering of Irish citizens, who presented him with a gold sovereign. ease, bearing an inscription: - To Robert Emmctj from Irish citizens in Auckland, 1908."

Tho Hon. James Carroll, Native Ministor, was tho recipient of a presentation on Thursday evening from his Parliamentary friends who desired to show esteem for uieir colleague on the occasion of his fifty-first birthday. In replying 'to the kindly words used in making tho presentation, . Mr. Carroll stated that ho was in good health and had no intention of retiring from Parliament at present. ■