PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1033, 24 January 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

_ # . — Prince Leopold of Battenburg, cousin to his Majesty King George V, who is travelling round the world unofficially, passed through Wellington yesterday. He is accompanied by Dr. M Ilroy, his friend and medical attendant, and Miss Chirnside, of Werribee Park, Victoria, who is a well-known lover of the Dominion and its trout streams: The party 'dined at the Grand Hotel last evening and left for the south, by. the-Maori. They proceed to Dunedin and the Cold Lakes,-and later return•• north to-gam an acquaintance with Taupo and the: thermal regions round Eotorua.

Her Excellency Lady .Islington rode out to the camp at Sputh Karori on Monday morning, and with His Excellency the; Governor, and General and Mrs. Godley, watched the manoeuvres of the Ist Infantry Battalion of the • Wellington Territorials.. , Her Excellency interested in the work, and'before leaving personally inspected No. 5 Company Field Ambulance, of which Captain Harty and Captain Elliot were in command. Her Excellency is honorary colonel of tho New Zealand Army Medical.Corps. Lady Islington expressed herself as. very much pleased with tho smart and soldierly appearance of the men.

Sir Joseph Ward, and other Ministers —with tho exception of the Hon. Dr. Findlay (who has gone south to lecture in Dunedin), the Hon.. G. Fowlds,'and the Hon. A. T. Ngata—will be in Wellington to-day.

Among "tho. passengers by the Warrimoo.'which arrived at the Bluff yesterday from Melbourne was the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr. Lowther Clark) who is on a.short visit to the Dominion. He is going to Rotorua.—Press Association. . ■ ' - "'••'■

A well-known Auckland business man, in the person of Mr. Henry Edmonds, died on Friday at his residence, Haumoana, Northcote, after a short illness at tho early ago of 50 -years. Mr. Ed-, monds carried on the business of a gum merchant in Customs Street for many years. Up to a week .before his death he had enjoyed excellent health, but was attacked by pneumonia on January 16, and never • rallied..-. He was widaly esteemed by a large circle of friends. He leaves a widow and six sons and three daughters. Deceased-was an active member of the Bercsford Street Congregational Church, and was. keenly interested in. Teligious movements. !'•■■■

Mr. S. T. von'Goes, who has been Consul for Sweden in-Glasgow for four years, will shortly arrive in Sydney to take over the Consulship of New South Wales-and Queensland. ; The new.Consul, who is the head of a Swedish noble family, was born in 1863, and is a barrister, by profession. After holding consular appointments successively in Liverpool, Lubeck, Shanghai,. and Newcastle--6n-Tyne, as well as at a district judicial Court with headquarters at Stockholm, ho became Vice-Consul at Glasgow in 1906, and in the following year no was raised to the full rank, being the first paid Swedish Consul at Glasgow.

Mrs. G. M. Thomson, wife of the member for Dunedin North, is dead, states a Press Association- telegram from Dunedin. .The death..occurred at. Melbourne.

Veteran John Wood, late of H.M. 70th Regiment, passed away at'.the-Auckland Hospital, on January 20, at the age of 75 years. Tho late Mr. Wood, who went through tho Indian Mutiny with his regiment, had been 'for a considerable time a resident of tho Veterans' Home, Three Kings, and was very popular among his comrades. Some time ago. he was stricken with paralysis, which necessitated his removal to the hospital, and he had never sufficiently recovered in health to return to the Home. . The deceased veteran was a, widower, two married daughters surviving him, one living at Coromandcl and the other, at Purii.

Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P., returned from Auckland and Eotorua on Saturday.

The Hon. D. E. M'Bryde, who acted as Minister for Public Works and Health in the Bent Ministry of Victoria, is at present at Eotorua.

Mr. ,T. W. Fletcher, a well-known citizen of Wellington, died on Saturday night at his residence at Oriental Bay. Mr. Fletcher came from Bowdon, Cheshire, where ho was in, business as a builder. As a member of the Manchester Liberal Club he had ,the opportunity of making the acquaintance of the late Mr. Gladstone and Mr. John Bright. He took a prominent part in the political, reform movements of that day. He also took an interest in church matters" and was an old member of the Taranaki Street Wesleyan Church. A man of a kind and cheerful disposition, he will long be remembered by all those who knew him. Ho leaves n widow and grown-up family of ten children and also nino grandchildren.

Mr. H. F. J. Tewsley, manager of the local branch of the South British Insurance' Company (says the Wanganui "Chronicle"), is about to proceed to Wellington to take charge of the company's business there for sis months, during the absence of the Wellington manager (Mr. Hammond) on sick leave.

Mr. Haunui Tawhiao, son of the late King Tawhiao, and brother of the present King Mahuta, contemplates standing for the Western Maori electorate district at the. riest general election,- as a supporter of the. Government. Mr. Haunui Tawhiao is popular amongst the Natives. ' ''" •-••--