PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 672, 24 November 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor left for Lyttsl • ton by'the Mararoa last night; > , Lord Plunket has, states a Press Association telegram from Bltkaiu, acceptedhtbe invitation of the Now' Zealand AxeraenV'HssociatiQn t« attend : the, annual carnival. to be held at Eltham v on December 27 and 28. Ho will also * open, the. Salvation Army. Boys' Homo en Do.' comber 28. .Lady, Plunket will bo unable tt attend. ■-'.-."■.. . '-. ■'■'■■ '/■ • * Included among, the passengers arriving from Lyttelton by the' Maori this morning arc Sir Geo.; M'Leari, : M.L.C., Hon. C. Louisson, ' M.L.C;, Hon. C. C. Bowep, M.L.C, Hon. E. C. J,; Stevens, M/LC, Hon. H. F. Wigram, ' M.L.C., Hon. G. j; Smith,: M.L.C, Hon. J, Barr,' if;L.C, and Mr. H. H. Rhodes, M.P. | ', Mr.- John''Bollard,. M.P, for Eden, and Mr. \ H. J. Okey, M.P. for Taranaki, returned by J tho Main. Trunk express yesterday from a t short.,visit.' to Auckland."'-V./' _ '> "Archdeacon Williams : is a passenger by the J Maori, which left Lyttelton for Wellington' , last night.'-: ■;::'/-;V ;"■:' '"•'■■"■,' , > ■■'Mr."', Will Crooks, the: well-known Labour leader and M.P. for, Woolwich, left Auckland i 'with Mrs.. Crooks for Botorua yesterday morn- ) ing, wheroastay of a few days will bo made > betore proceeding to Wellington. Mr. Crooks will, in turn, visit; Christchurch, Dunedin," and ', InvercargiU, and then leave.tho Bluff en routo ( , for .England' ony Deooinber 6.—Press Associa-; tioii;-;._.: : ..:..: : :'.>/, ■:■_ .;•';,.. .'-""-■ ■/.-' ■ /Football ■'■ players:.'will regret to learn, that Mr. "John. William .Campbell, of Luxford ' Street, Newtown, ,and club captain of tho ' Southern Club; is leaving Wellington to take up residence' at\ Havelock, Marlborough. Mr, Campbell has: taken a lease of tho/Havelock Hotel.. .As a .good club player, ho will be missed' 1 in-lbcal: football. :■' ■'. >Mr,/T. Crosse,: of. 1 Hawke's Bay, who, with his family,: ; has; been onion extended trip to the Old; Country; is returning to New Zealand by the Athonic,' duo next week. [ Mrs!" Mocdohald, wifo of the Hon. T. K.. Maedonald, is.returning to Wellington by the Athenio, whiuh' is due from London next .freek.'-'.;,.;'.■,'•' ;'.- • ."■■' / Mr. R; Herdman-Smith,: art instructor of Christchmch,' is among the passengers coming from London { by tho Athenio next week. I Mri'P. F./Grady, jun., of Wellington, is returning,. from a trip to the Old Country bj ' the. Athenio," which 16 due x hcTe on Tuesday ' next.,";'//./';.:.' " < '

: ,; :Included..ambng the' passengers arriving from London.by:the Athenic:next,weok :! aro Mr. J. S.; Handyside, of Hawlro's Bay, and'M,r. and Jkhv J: .Maudsley, of;' Hawke's. Bay..' 'Mr.H; Beckett arid family, of Marlon, era' returning to Now' Zealand by the Athenic, due - next. Tuesday, froai,London.- '..'.■; ■.-',/,'■.': , ■ Tho Jdayoral reception 'to ; ,Mr. W. Crooks,. the! English. M;P,, Rnd.Mnyor of' Poplar) Lon-don,-/is to take place in/the Concert Chamber ;at eight o'clock on : Friday, evening. :; ••; .Commissioner Hay, of .Melbourne,'"officer com- v manding''th'Ki^alVatidh. ; ' Army;'in Australasia, rod^Mrsv.Ha'Y/fiirb/expMtsd.-'to"/pay. a visit i to/Wellington during/January.; ■•'■.;-.' • -."- c 1 -..,'!.-.• k-'H ■'••>«i-'■'.'''. <■ .■■•'!■',•-• '.'■' ■* I (-'.: V ' '}'-A-, PrSss' AsWciatton' telegram •'from' Dunedin 6tatcs:—"Mr. vS. . C. l : Phillips,' ex-Governor of the';'Dunedin J Gaol, : is dead,-the'cause being ;heajrt.>/afleoti6n," - Tlio late Mr.'' Phillips was borii -iri- : at,. Beading, Berks,'/England,* , where, he, was .educated. He was apprenticed to n• tailor;in'; London,/but finding .the oocn- . pation'/uncongenial, enlisted in. 1853 in tho Os- > manli Horse Artillery for service' with the Turkish destined .for.. Scutari, ntar Constantinople. ! When peace was proclaimed in' 1856,: he returned-to: London, and niter- ' wards went/to Canada;. In the following year, ho:joined the,looth Hcgimcnt-of'Foot, ordered to India to.»assist in,:quelling"the'; _Mutiny. Pcacd:being: declared, he returned. to "England, ' and later Gibraltar, where he 1 loft tho 'Army. and' entered the convict prison service, jrf which he Temairied until, the abolition of • the' department in ,1875;':■ Transferred to England; he. was'appointed tb Pentohvillo prison. /JiVithiniafew niohths hereceived the. appoint ' ment -of /.'gaoler ' at/' Lyttoltori, with general supervision over, the Canterbury.-'.'gaols, and arrived to take; up'his'duties in M ay, 1876 In 1882,, he'was, transferred, to Durieain; While gaoler at Lyttelton. the prison'buildings now in uso were, erected by prison labour. Tho Rovsii F. W. Isitt and A. Donll arrived from Auckland by tho Main Trunk railway yesterdaj 1 . i , Captain llorris and the crow o£ tho lost barque Hipoalos arrived from Picton by tho Takapuua at 1 o'clock this morning.