PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 October 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The location of Ministers to-day is as follows Hon. G. Fowlds, in Auckland; Hon. R M'Nab, returning from Hawora; Premier and other Ministers, in tswn.

Sir William Steward, M.P.,, will leave on Tuesday for the South. ■ >

Mr. John Campbell, Government architect, leaves to-day on a visit to Auckland.

Mr. George Callender, advance representative for Heller the Magician, has arrived in Wellington to make arrangements for a season here.

Mr. E. G. Allsworth, of Onehunga, and ono time of New Plymouth, has been appointed managing editor of the "Taihape Daily' Times." .

Mr. W. - Morley, • managing diroctor of Mason, Struthers, Limited, arrived from Auckland last night, and went on to Christchurch by tho Maori,

Dr. Bell. Director of the Geological Survey, who has been occupied for some weeks at Thames and Auckland, is expected back in "Wellington next Friday. From there ho will go to Nelson.

A Duuedin Press Association telegram states that Mr. C. C. Graham, who was in active service as Stipendiary Magistrate at Dunedin until recently, has been appointed to act at S.M. at Wanganui for a month or two, and will leave for tho north on Monday.

Mr. Alexander Ross, of the firm of A. Ross and Co., who has been travelling abroad for the past year, left Marseilles on Thursday by tho s.s. Himalaya oa his return journey. After an extended tour of the United States and Canada, Mr. Ross spent some time in London and Colchester, visiting friends, and then proceeded on a tour of tho Highlands and other parts of Scotland., ' On the return from Scotland, ho spent some weeks in tho Midland provinces, and came to London again to see the Exhibition, and " then spent some time on tho Continent. ,

The- Hon. A. R. Guinness, • Speaker of tho House of Representatives, was presented yesterday by the messengers and or* 'derlies of the Parliamentary Buildings with two silk umbrellas, mounted and engraved, for himself and Mrs. Guinness. Mr. F. Davies mado tho presentation, which was associated with the following addross: —"To Hon. A. R. Guinness, M.l'., Speaker. We, the undersigned sessional messengers and orderlies, bog to tender you . our sincere thanks for the kindly interest you , hava taken in our welfare during tho session just come to a close, and beg you and Mrs. Guinness to accept this little present as a mark of tho esteem and goodwill in which wo hold you both." Mr: Guinness leaves bv tho Arahura for Westland to-day.

Mr. G. A. Troup, Office Engineer of the Maintenance Branch of the K.uhvay Department, returned' last night from a tour round the world, undcrtaKcn for tho sake of his health. Mr. Troup went first to South Africa, where he had a serious recurrence of his illness. After a while, however, ho was able to roach London, whero lie consulted tho famous physician, Sir Thomas Lander Drunton, who advised a sojourn in the Highlands. Scotland did a good deal for Mr. Troup, and then, by tho great doctor's advice, he woiit to Canada, 'crossing tho continent by easy stages. Mr. Troup went Home with a loiter of .introduction to Sir Thomas Brunton, and curiously enough the surgeon on tho boat in wlrlch he went to England was Dr. Lang, a brother of Mr. Andrew Lang, and nephew of the physician, who furnished him with a second letter. In Canada Mr. Troup met "Ralph Connor," Mr. Troup's impressions of architecture and other matters m«it with on his travels would no doubt bo interesting, but as a Civil Servant he preferred not to bo intci dewed. He has been medically assured that if ho is caroful for a yoar or so his health will bo as robust again as ever it has been in the past.