PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 491, 26 April 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prinio Minister and all tis colleagues, oxcept the, Hon. G. Fowlds,. who is at Dunedin, and tho Hon. A. W. Hogg, wild is at Waihi,;arb in . Wellington this morning.' I. Madame Melba arrived from tlio. south yesterday. . The Hoti. Dr. Findlay, Minister for Justice, who has ; boon visiting Najjlblv returned to yesterday by motor car. ■The Son. T. Mackenzie, jlinist'er for Agriculture, leaves for the south to-iiiglifc. Residents of Mosgiel will entertain him at a banquet, on Thursday., . Thb Hoiir A. T; Ngiita gOfes to Otaki toda.V to attend a Maori Council meeting, and will proceed thenoe to Patea in order to keep it sihiilar engagement on- Wednesday. Tlio Rev. G.P.Davys, vicar of St. Peters, preached his farowbll sermon last night. Ho leaves on' a trip to England via Siberia on Friday. ' . . ' . Tlio death'occurred yesterday of Sirs. F. B. M. Harvey, of Hob son Street. The deceased lady was,tho eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Stuart, of this city. Mr. : H. P. Murray-Aynsley,- chairman of the Now Zealand directors of tho New Zealand Shipping Company, is taking a trip round the coast on tho company a steamer Euapehu, which left Port Chalmers for the north on' Friday afternoon. In Tiie DoiMinion printing-hoiiso last;niglit the staff of the department gathered round tho "stono" in listen while Mr.; W'. W. Todd, foreman printer, felicitated ono of their .number, Mr. S. Rastall, on his approaohihe marriage, iind presented him oil their- behalf with a handsomo silver cake basket. , Tho Primo Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) ledves.for- thb ,south to-night. At Duhedht on Wednesday lie will distribute prized in cbiiiiectibil with tlie Associated- Board of Music, and on Thursday lio Will rbceivo a deputation rbgarding the stoppage of the Lawrence-Roxburgh railway works, and atteiid a banquet to the Hon. Ti Mackenzie at Mosgiel.' Friday will sea him at Outram, whero lib has been invited to a social in celebratloii of tho installation _of electric light dnd . power in the township from Waipori Falls, fie niay, howbvbr, go bri to Invercargill iiistead, aiid iii that' centre! either bii Fridav or Saturday, but Saturday, ho will deliver his specch on iinanbos of the Dominion and the Governfiicht's policy. Ho espccts to bo iii Christcbiirch again in time to attend a social to Mr. Wi W. Tan her, bx-M.P. for Avon, to-morrow ..week, and lie will then return to Wellington. V