PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 January 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tho Primo Minister will bo at Timaru today. Tho Hon. J. A. Millar, tho Hon. J. Carroll, tho Hon. Dr. Fiudlay, and tho Hon. ' "A. W. Hogg'aro-in town. The Hon. G. Fowlds is nt Half Moon Bay, Stowart ls- \ laud, tho Hon. D. Buddo at Rangiora, tho ! Hon. R.,M'£enzie at Takuka, the Hon. T. ' Mackenzie, in Otngo, and the Hon. A. T. Ngata'en routo for Gisborne. . ' I ' Lientenant-Colonol Humo, Inspector of | Prisons, returpod from Qisborno yesterday. The Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Publio | Health, loaves his home at Rangiora to-day. for a visit to Chcvioi i The Hon. T. W. Hislop returned from a . holiday visit to tho south, yesterday inorn- , toe- , ' Mr. T. Hyde, a member ol tho Hawko's Bay Land Board, leaves next month 'for i England .via Australia on a holiday tour. ' "Messrs. E. R. and A. Wylie, sen., of this city, left for tho south on Monday \ evening, and will bo absent on business for a Tho late Mr. Georgo Lauri, comedian, who oommitted' suicide at' Manly, Sydney, recently, was within, a few weeks of 50 t of ago I ' , 1 Messrs. Rot Muir, of 'Wellington; and O'Reilly, of Hastings, who are proceeding to Edinburgh to study medicine, leave for England by the Rimutaka to-morrow. Mr. H.' W. Bishop, S.M., who has been in Wellington attending the meeting of tho Public Service Superannuation BoaTd, left ■last evening to return to Christ-church. The Hon. D. Bnddo informed a "Lyttolton '' Times" reporter that he has not at present decided to take up his residence at the seat of Government, but will.retain his home'at Rangiora. and Mrs. Robert Inman, who haro severed their connection with "The Squattor's Daughter" Company, are in. Wellington awaiting tho departure for Sydney of tho Maheno (on Friday nert). , Mr. and Mrs.' F. W _ JEfeybittlo end their two daughters havo arrived Lα Melbourno by the Tyser liner Nerehaua. Tho'steamer comes on via Sydney, Auckland, and the v East Coast, but it is possible that Mr. Haybittle msy come by a more direct route. Mr. W. S. Short, chief clerk'of the Roads Department, will hold a commission at' Blenheim on February 1 to apportion among eight local bodies tho cost of construction of a ■'bridge"over tho Wairau River it Spring Creek." ' , '"" Lieutenant H, T. C. Knox (late R.N'.) ar- ■ rived' from Nelson yesterday morning,' having'thoroughly enjoyed his trip from Christchurch, via tno Otir'a Gorge and the West Coast. Ho next proceeds; to s Now Plymouth, • / where he will deliver a Navy Ltagne locturo. Both the Elretahuna , County Council and the Eketahnna Borough Council have deoided to send a congratulatory message to Mr; A. VI. Hogg on me recent appointment to the Cabinet.' It is'-undorstood that■Mγ. Hogg is to be tendered a complimentary banquet at Hnfamni, at en early date/by a number of settlers. • ..._.•... * - , I Mr..R. l M'Nab told a Christehuroh reporter that he was not quite certain what his next step ronld bo after the" publication of ■ ' his book dealing with - New'Zealand history. • i His present intention >was to visit Australia, and possibly England, but & s good deal might depend,on deTelopuiMitJ in eoaa«etiott"'«rith the' Thames seat. / ' ' ' At a' meeting of "subscribers to th# W. T. "Wood testimonial fund, it was reported'that . a large sum had'been'collected for presentation to the late member (says a* Press As- ' ■ Booiation message from Palmerston North). ,Tho Premier wrote accepting the invitation ,' of tho committee to make tno presentation, i, which is to tako place at an'eaxly date. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Tai Te.Tau will regret to hear of tho death of their second son'"Rangi," which occurred afrtheir residence, Lansdowno. The deceased," who was only twenty'.years of ago, had suffered • for some'months past .from consumption, and ' recently went to Pioton in the nope that change of.air might prove beneficial,. The funeral will take place to-morrow. i ■ ' . a „_! :-.j.:._ iL_./T..."_ • .3't "

A communication hes''been received from the.Hon Jas. Carroll advising that as soon as his Ministerial duties at .Wellington will permit be intends nuking an eztonsve tour through. Waikaremoana t tJrewera, and the i baekblocks of the distriot. On the occasion of this visit,he hopes to participate in the rifle m«toh, , ,Govenunent v. Opposition, which js being organised by Mr. < «■ Crawford.— "Poverty. B»y Hertld." ■ , Sir Joseph and L*dy Ward, who hive been visiting Eldersjio as the guests of Mr.'arid /Mrs." John Reid, will le»ve Oamaru to-day for' Timaru. They will tako part in ' tho South Canterbury jubilee celebrations, and . they intend-to go on to.Fairlie to-morrow' ' afternoon', , and thence to proceed to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, which they expect to ' reach on Friday. The nearest telegraph office to the 'Hermitage is Lake Pukaki, 39 ' miles distant. -_

" -A special meeting of the Wanganui Presbytery was held at Turakina yesterday (says , a Press Association message from Wanganui), when the call addressed by First Church, InvercaTgiU,/to the Rev. R. 11. Rybuni, of St. Paul's, Wanganui, was considered. After discussion the! call was placed in tho hands of Mr. Ryburn, who accepted it. / A resolution was carried placing , on record tho Presbytery's appreciation of Mtt > Ryburn. as a minister ana a man. The pastoral tie will be severed on January 31. The death of Mr. William Edward,Downey, ' the famous royal photographer, occurred in London in December. Hβ and his father , , Mr, William Downey, sen., who still controls the business, although he is more than eighty years old, have tho portraits of more royalties and celebrities than any one save the Queen. The late Mr. W. E. Downey, who was fifty-four years old, was closely associated with tho Royal Family-front the day , when, ss a boy of twelve, he accompanied his father to Balmoral to' take the late Queen's photograph. For more than forty years a procession of royalties and famous porsonBges constantly pawed before Mr. Downey's camera. The most popular picture Mr. Downey took w«e, perhaps, that of Queen Victoria at the ,time of her Diamond Jubilee. The portrait, which w»s taken by epeei&l commend at Osborne, showed the late Qu««n Bttted.- Mere' th»n a million copies of this , pittuM, which xnt picked out-and'Signed by her Mijesty, were seld ill over, the world. The l»st f»moue photograph arranged by Mr. W, B. Downey was a royal group taken, at SaJidrmgham htst year. > - ' \ M. Albert C. Pmard. Consul-General' far France, died suddenly at Sydney on January 6, as the l'esult of an apoplectic stroke. Very few peoplo knew that tho French Consul was a novelist, a journalist, and,a poet. . Ho wrote'a tragedy in verso—"The Son of David " It was. founded on the stoiy of King David's sons, as told in tho Bible. He wrote several novels —"Madame X," "1/6 , Cocher Etienne, m and others; and a book of short 'stones—"Lβ rubin do Lucie." After leaving the University of Puns and the " Bibliothcque National"—the French equivalent of the British Museum—where ho held some office, he took to writing for political newspapeis Hβ travelled all over Franco as a special reporter when M. Gambotta was I speaking through the country; he was for a / time in tho gallery of the Chamber of Deputies of the French Parliament, 'writing political sketches' for several Parisian papers. He was a tthole-lieartcl patriotic Republican, and wioto sircpssnek for tuo oi threo papvis of hij. oiMi political viowe. To Sydnfv M Vinnrcl «p,s appointed from Manila ill 1005 R<> bnrl ken in Uo BiHish posts bfrfon>, rmd ■sau] that th> good fiicndslups he hnrl formed in tin r c po'.itions nas a happy . aoinftiir to him 'Hk wife' and daughter, who i, no* 16, camo to Australia m 1906. fliny wtni buck to France two years ago, and M Pinnr'l \»ns to hrive returned there in a month or two 31. Pinnrd was a Knight of the .Lespon of n Knight of Isabella of Spun, and a Kuii;ht Commandorlof the Nicham-if-Tihliai (Tunis). i