PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 337, 26 October 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Ministers in Wellington to-day are tho Hon. W. Hall-Jones, the Hon. R. M'Nab, and the Hon. Dr. Findlay. Tho Prime Minister will be at Winton to-day, and the Hon. J. Carroll at Pohu, in tho Gisborno electorate. Tho Hon. J. M'Gowan is still at tho Thames, the Hon. G. Fowlds at Auckland, and tho Hon. J. A. Millar at Duuedin. Major Lovcday was a passenger for Nelson by the Rotoiti yesterday evening. Mr, Justice Williams leaves for Dunedin Mr. Justice Denniston for Christchurch tonight. The Rev. Rupert Fairbrother, Vicar of Inverell, New- South Wales, is at present on a visit to his Carterton relatives. Mr. A. J. Redgrave, of Nelson, who has been on a holiday visit to tho Old Country, returned to Wellington on Saturday by tho Paparoa. Mr. H. C. Kerrj tho Taranaki walker, who competed in tho Olympic sports at tho Franoo-British Exhibition, returned to Now Zealand by tho Paparoa on Saturday. Mr. Samuel Coleman, a well-known Canterbury settler, died on Saturday (states a Chr'istchurch Press Association telegram) at Riverside, r.ear Amberley, at tho age of 83. The Hon. Mr. R-. M'Nab, Minister for Lands, is to proceed south this afternoon for Mataura, his own electorate. It is understood that the Minister will remain in the South Island until after the election. Having agreed to the request of a number of electors to contest the Timaru seat at the coming election as an Opposition candidate, Mr. W. D. Campbell has resigned from the editorship of the "Timaru Herald." ■ The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) will address his constituents at Winton tonight. - He will visit Stewart - Island on Wednesday, and will speak at Bluff that night, and at Tcmuka on Friday. On the following day he will open a new post office at Geraldine. A Press Association message from Christchurch states that a privato cablegram received yesterday announced the death at Chepston, Monmouthshire, Wales, of Mr. Sidney Buckland Harris, for many years a resident of Littlo River and a prominent figure on a number of -local bodies. Mr. James Mackenzie, Commissioner of Crown Lands, returned on Saturday from' a visit of inspection to. the Lands for Settlement estates in the neighbourhood of Martinborough. Mr. Mackenzie will remain in town until the Land Board meeting, after which ho will continue the tour right through the Wairarapa, being, away during the greater part of November. Mr. W. Hill, a Christchurch woolbrokcE, who has been on a six-months' business trip to England, returned to Wellington on Saturday by the Paparoa. There was a big slump in wool when Mr. Hill left the Ola Country. The Now Zealander's explanation of the downward trend of prices is that slackness has temporarily followed a spell of excessive prosperity. Mr. F. Adcock, the genial steward of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Paparoa has just completed his forty-sixth voyage between. London and New Zealand. Mr. Adcock, who _ commenced his career as a farmer, drifted into the Navy, but for the past '22 years, with the exception of one short break, has been trading to New Zealand, - Mr. _ George Smith, late .of Auckland, champion footballer and hurdlo racer, who is now playing- the Northern Union Rugby game for Oldham, spent several weeks with Mr. H. Kerr, the New Zealand champion walker, during the latter's .stay in England. He also spent some time schooling the other New Zealand representative, Murray, over the hurdles before the Olympic games. It is reported that Mr. Smith was married at the end of July. Mr.'W. K. Hulfee, a very old settled, who may be regarded, as the father of the dairy industry, .is , dead, . aged, 89 years (says a Press . Association . message from New Plymouth). He , landed /at 'Wellington in ■ 1840, and introduced the fast milch cows to that 1 settlement. He had a small dairy farm and market garden near the present suburb of . Kilbirnie in 1842, and erected the first flour mills at Wanganui and New Plymo.uth.