PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

~,--.TW.rutaou.r;Of of .. Commissioner of , : bqen received in southern papers. When seoa • yqsterday;,by:a'DoMnuoN .reporter, iii. , r- again i.omphatically; denied it.' ; j pfpsooutibn of- the- idea of- Hossrs.YThos: '■■■ir'tCoek- and;". Son'"'.tha- their/.Australian-"officials •'should, havo an-, acquaintance with the chief ...tcenic .resorts of Now, Zealand, Mr: 6. S. Robin- , f son,, of. the-Sydnoy oSice, has just complotcd a : . . 'trip over, the West-Coast tourist routo, via tho Otira and Duller Gorges. He was surprised and -S impressed with tho wild beauty of primitive ;vt nature .ofetbo.iWest ; Coast,:';Mr,,. Robinson .left for..pydhey;by-,the .Ulimaroa yesterday. .. lecturer-. ■ Mr. •: C. \V;-Pnlm6r, • socretary •of the 'Navy . League, , ;thanking,him for.a cony of-the annual report, »nd eulogising the work ofi the Leigue in new ■ Zealand. -Mr. - Fraser 13 expected to bo present ;u-,i;io at/the Trafalgar Day entertainment in Wei'?v;lington. ■ ) Mr, Moses. White,, who lias been .manager of y -;thfe-New,-.. Zealand ;Loan - Company j at-: Timarti V'f-.rV Since 1002,'. and - was\ previously. dcednntaht. from 187A'. has resigned, and., will be Relieved: at the end 1 of the :-month. : s;He ; will'be succeeded /by :;;;K;-^:'Mr.;,:F.-i'Bai , kaSj i manager at ...Wellington.; Mr; White-has been prominent in commercial mat- . ■ ters andiin the- Jiowling l Club.—Press Associa- ■ n-;,ti«n.i-i-■ J.: 1 •; = v.u' -. ' kr. . Claude .vWhaitc,, advance agent for t >>^yandeyijle' Company, l arrived in ,Wel':"litfg(bn!: lisf evening. ,'tb : make' arrangement ■ ati. the-lOpera House. i".' ' : -!,f ; Lady -Plunket- visited -the- Christchurch Hos- ;;- pitalr yesterday - afternoon, 1 and was : escorted : aiffereiit' wards.—Press Associa-

Mr,. L, H. B. Wilson, the chairman of the , Wellington Stock Exchange, was yesterday af- ; , = .with alpursb of, sovereigns by :;>■ .;-, : ,'he,; , members of the Exchange at tho formal .'opening, of 'their new quarters. .v.;:/-;;,;!:.;: ;;■:,, ''J.')-Stuart, : onq of. the..founders of the .Vv.Wellington'StockExchange, was the.only guest " .; members at;,their-.house-warming, furic-' tioii yesterday- afternoon.. staff of the San ;.';i-;,'>vTfi>BoisdO;2"C i aH;V''i'aWved'''Dy.i-c rthe.cHauroto yesterday to .pay his second visit .'to New. Zea--larT''tf® ™ 1 remain', a feiv days in "Welling-:-'-:'-:'V:-ion,;-ahdt-''aftetvtakin({'a' run through the Do-. - f !will:crbss to Australia; • Mrs. Wyatt'Js withj.:him^;. : '"7;:-/"'.y - ''i. ; Mr. J.; Owen, Wellington manager for Messrs.!. Sharland. and Co., is on a visit to • Auckland. . :.(l»te ~M4ybr ot Palmerston Nofth) ; ihd .Mrs. Essex .returried'from a trip ;.> ; to, Englahd;aiid -America;by the H4iirbto jres-* today.morning. . ; ... . ' has-been. elected, a .... . director -of the Wellington, Trust: Loan and , , Investment. Society,; Ltd., vice . Mr. C. Tring.../•hbm, resigned; . iy./j : "o■r.Mt. Jacob_ Jl'Eidowney,. who for., the past '-' j , TOn . 3" Car ,^ 1 has been head of ■the.' Manchester .;.:v;.aepanW6nt in Messrs; Logan,^".Caldwell. ...... ■-Juo„,l/Oi a .warehouse, .Wellington; has resigned iE™., £ ? rni 8 c ™P'oy. To .mark -their esteenl ;' the' Stafr .presented Mr. - : M'Eldowney, with . a '. .a;; ;silyer-mbuhted, walking , ' EtiCK, tne pfespritatioii being.niade in felicitous ■;. f; fccrms by tue 'local' manager, Mr. Thompson.