PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 747, 21 February 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) and the; Hons." J..' Ai; Millar and T.. Mackenzie, are: at- Dunedin to-day, the Hon. James . Carroll: is at; Okaiawa (near Normanby), Hon. G. Fowlds at Hawora, Hon. R. M'Kemie at Nelson, Hon. A.T.Ngata en route from Napier to Wellington, ; and other Ministers in town.

i Mr, T. Y. Seddon, M.P.,. was - a passenger from, the' south; yesterday by tho Maori.,

The Rev. I)r. Tudor Jones and; Mrs. Jones will leave for England via Australia on Friday, next.': Dr.,' Tudor' Jones been! appointed to tho charge.of. Upper Chapel 'Street, ' Islington, London. His 'successor at tbe-.Umtariui iQhurchi' -Wellington, has not yet been appointed, but : arrangements are being made in England, to fill the vacancy.

■ Mr.' A. J. 'Patcrson, of the city engineer's. ,staftV jvho has been :• appointed engineer, to the : Gisborne Borough Council, .will leave for. the East Coast toivn to-morrow.. Mr: Paterson will be the recipient o'£ a presentation from his comrades 'on;the corporation staff to-day.',,

: Mr. - and, ; jfrs. S. • W. Fitzlicrbert are leaving Foilding .in about , three -weeks' time. It is their intention to leave Wellington: a: fortnight later- for England, via Australia,; Whilst, at HomeMr.Fitzherbert intends, studying' social" and political questions in England and on ;the Continent of Europe. ; Mr. Fitzherbert was originally resident at' Hutt;,but has been for,some years m^business^at'aiding as a. solicitor; ' . \ Mr. Neil-Tonks, of. .the ; commercial itaff ,of. the. "Evening Post,*', . was ■ presented on Saturday with a travelling tyunk and a case, of pipes, prior, .to.leaving the • service. of 1 the '"Post" ; to live in Auckland. • . - •• : Mr. F. T. Moorei representative of Makara County on. the Hosnital Board' of. Trustees, will be a candidate to represent tho combined districts o£ Makara, Johnsonville, and Onslow, on the Hospital Board to be elected under the new Act next month.' The: Rev. J.. R.' Glassori. has; returned from, attending' the meeting Of the Australasian Congregation TJunion at .Hobart. The Rev. J. D., Russell, vicar of St. Augustine's, Petone;.. has. accepted tho position of . general secretary of, the New Zealand branch (if • tho Church i of England 'Men's Society. y-He _:will:. also, for tho present,' act as' provincial secretary.' , ' '/." : y' Mr. W. H. George has left for Sydney, on a three .months' business. trip; . . . Mr. T. R. Roydhouse, a-Sydney. journalist and originator of. the Boy Scout, movement in New ; South Wales,. who arrived by. the Maiwa on Wednesday, is spending a -few. days -• at "The Oaks," Mauku, tho' residence of Mr. DPiraui. Mr. Roydhouse is accompanied by his wife and eldest daughter. '-. Mr. Wilfred'. Badger,: of Christcliyirch, who has been to London oil Privy Council and other 'business, returned' to' fe Zealand by tho Tainui on Saturday , lasi. A very old readout of . Marlborough*, passed. away, on: Thursday morning : at itedwoodtown in the person of Mrs. Ellen Barry, relict of the lato Mr. John Ban \, a pioneer sottler. , The deooasod lady Arrived in Nelson, some 46 years ago in. the ship Violet, and later camo : on to, Blenheim, where she has resided for somo 13 years. - - - :

Mr. YT.II. ltobinson, manager of the "West Coast Times," leaves Wellington to-day for: Kotorua, to attend tie annual meeting of; the Press Association.. 1

An old resident of Petone, Mr. Samuel It..Johnson, died at tho Wellington Hospital on Saturday evening after a brief • illness. Deceased was'born in : Wellington 65 years ago, and assisted in the formation of the patent slip; at Evans Bay. . At the age of 30 he .went toPetone, where he opened,'tho first grocery store in the district. 'Deceased was a member of the old Petone Town Board, and subsequently was elected Mayor of tho first borough council,, He was' also a justice of the peace and. one of the promoters of the Petone' Building So-' ; ciety, and' a prominent member of tho Oddfellows and -'Masonio Lodges. Deceased is. survived by a widow, two sens, ■ and . two daughters. The . funeral. will . leave the Hutt Road for Taita' Cemetery' 2' o'clock to-morrow afternoon.

_ Sir John. Batty .Tuiß, an. eminent Sco& tisli medical . authority, . was a passengßT.' by the Tainui, which■ arrived from Lon- ■ • don Saturday afternoon. He is on a' health trip, and will be; in New Zealand about a month, Tetnnring to England by tho Tainui;: Bailing m MarcL . Sir John, who "celebrated 'his 75t& birthday, oil January 9, has not bean in .New ; Zealand for many years,'and : was nafcur-? ally much struck with tho growth of Wellington since he last knew, it. ■Ho • , served , as practitioner; in medical of troops m New Zealand from 1857 to 1860,, and was surgeon of colonial troops' for 'the following three. years. In ISSS he. became superintendent;of:the Rfo" and Kinross ■ Asylum, and was snbs©- ' quently in practice in, Edinburgh, special- ' isingin mental diseases. HewasM-E. for Edinburgh and St. Andrew's ■Universities since .1900, but did not contest the seat ,at .the recent election. r :<i : \

"■ Mr.', D. A. Eberlet, who wont by the '■ Tainui on a teginess. trip to England in June last, reinrned to Wellington by tim same vessel on Saturday. ' While in tho ■ Old : Country Mr. . Eberlet spent most of ... his time in the great 'manufacturing centres, and was rather impressed witn the dullness of trade; at present timfl. Tariff reform ivas; the burning' Question ; at' Home,.;.and while-' opinions for:.: andagainst the question would fill a volume, Mr. Eberlet formed: tho. opinion that: many, of the industries in Sheffield, - Birmingham, and Manchester were ■ languishing .merely for the want of a protective tariff.' V. '■[ -y ./' 'Mr. ;W; 'Wallis,'manager/of tie' New,.', Zealand'/and 'African • Steamship ' Com-:, pany, left, for Christchurch' by the Mara- . roa on Saturday night. 1 /He will be abBent in the south, for a- few days. . .Mr." and Mrs, Davidson, "who joined, the Tainui at Hobart last Tuesday, are'* on, . their: way. to Monte .Video,' whither . they : proceed,in .the Aravra,'leaving here on , Thursday. ; ..