PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 328, 15 October 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tlio Primo Minister and other member* of tlio Cabinet are all in Wellington to-day cxcept tlio Hon G. Fowlds, who left jesterday for Auckland. A Napier Press Association telegram states that tlio Governor arrived at Napier from Palmorston North yesterday by motor-car to attend tlio jubilee celebrations of the Scinde Masonic Lodge, and was slightly delayed by muddy roads and a tyro mishap. His Excellency leaves on the return journey to-day. - Mr. H. Baillie, City Librarian, returned from America by tbo Mahono yesterday. Dr. Hopo Lewis, of Auckland, was a passenger from Sydney by the Maheno yesterday, Mr. John Duncan, of Levin and' Co., returned from Australia by tho Maheno yesterday. > ' Mr. Alf. Linley, of tlio Royal Picture Syndicate, returned from a visit to Sydney by tho,Mahono yesterday. Mr. R. M'Callum, tho well-known Marlborough solicitor, returned from a visit to tho Old Country yesterday. Mr. i M'Callum camo by way of Canada. . Mr. William Gordon Bell has been appointed to fill tho vacancy in tlio Inspection of Machinery Department caused by tho death of Mr. A. Ramsay, of Dynedin. Mr. R. B._ Williams, the well-known local" solicitor, arrived at Fremantle on Tuesday by tlio 11.M.5. China. Ho is expected to arrivo back in Wellington on Wednesday week. . ' .Dr. Renton, of Hokitika] who has 'taken his final dental degree aPhiladelphia, returned 011 a visit to the Ditminioii, by the Mahono yesterday. Ho will afterwards praotiso his profession in tho States. '• Dr. Guy Haskins, a former 'Christcjiurcb boy, who has attainod distinction 1 in Arbpricaas a champion runner, returned? on .a visit to his old home yesterday by the MaWo. Ho intends to settle finally in, America', Dr. R. M. Coulter, permanent liead"of tho Canadian Post and Telegraph Dcpsrtihent, is leaving Vancouver ,by tho - Ma^a'nm; to. confer with the New Zealand and Australian Governments, on behalf of the Canadian l Government, in the matter of an VAU-Rod mail route. ' 7

Over 1200 New Zealanders had r recorded' their names in the visitor's'', book ' in-th«j"" New Zealand pavilion at the Franco-British' o Exhibition up to Sep. 8. Tho callers include : - r,J Mr. Charles Carter, tho tenor singer, ?ior- iTO merly with Pollard's Opera Company, in-New. Zealand and now touring Englaad withjithe Moody-Manners Opera Company; Ii Kitty, another popular ex-member of "tile Pollard Company; Mr. George Clutsam, fato of Auckland, now, a well-known figure in the musical world of London; Mr. Herbert Babhage, the New Zealand artist; Mr. Wm. Webster Hoare, the founder of Port Darwin in tho late "sixties," who spent some happy months in New as an artist; Mr. George Dean Pitt, late lieutenant in the Ist Waikato Regiment, who was in Now Zealand from 1848 to 1851, and again from 1863 to 1867: Mrs. Staveley Gordon (nee Stafford), of Wellington; Dr. A. C. do Renzi, of Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Hurst Seager, of Christchurch; Mr. Edwin Hall, secretary of the Auckland A. and P. Association; Dr. E. B. R. Prideaux, formerly of Auckland and Christchurch; Mr. J. Reid Burt, of Dunedin; Mr. H. 0. Craddock, of Christchurch; Mr. M. A. Scott (Bay of Islands), Mr. Joseph Chivers (Christchurch), Mr. Herbert King (Napier), Dr. A. Osborna Knight (Auckland), Mr. J. 'Wilton Craig (Napier), Mrs. Binney, Mr. Roy Binney(Auckland), Mr. R. A. Anderson (Invercargill); Mr. J. C. Spedding (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gossett (Leeston), Mr. and Mrs. Tisdall (Wellington), Mr. Hy. Lauder (Ashburton), Mr. Hamilton Gould (Christchurch), Mrs. Pulton (Christchurch), Mr. Newman Hall (Christchurch), Mr. J. N. Ortaistou (Auckland), Mr. Robt. Ryburn (Whangarei), _Mr. Wm. Lock (Nelson), Mr. A. P. Malthus (Christchurch), Mr. Geo, Blatcher '(Willin'^tbii'and'Palmerston North), Mrs. Ranken and daughters (Invercargill).