PERSONAL, ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1248, 5 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL, ITEMS.

His Excellency tho Governor will arrive here to-day from Napier. Sir Joseph Ward was reported yesterday to Iμ making a good recovery from the bronchial trouble which has kept him confined within doors for tho last few days, but it is hardly likely (hat he •will be seen in his place in Parliament this week. Sir George Clifford was a passenger by tho llaori lor south last evening. Mr. P. Marnier, member of Parliament for Marsden, is scsriou'slr ill, and has l>eon admitted to a private hospital. Somo time ago Mr. Mander had to take a few days' respite to recover from an attack o£ tho epidemic which has accounted for tho absence of many members this session. Ho returned to his duties too soon, and hae now suffered a serious relapse. A Press Association messago from. Dunedin announces the death of Mr. William lSridgeinan, aged eighty-lhrce, who was several times Mayor of Cavershani before its amalgamation with Dunedin. Included in the passengers booked to leave by tho Tainiui for England to-day is Captain C. Albertsen, lato master of tho Ul-fatcd Danish barquontino Carla. Tho Timaru Presbytery yesterday nominated the Rev. A. Cameron, of Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, as mod-era tor for tho General Assembly.—Press Association. Th« I?ev. George Tregear, president of the West Australian Alliance, .arrived yesterday from Australia, to make a lecturing tour of the Dominion in connection with the No-License movement. Mr. Tregear leaves this morning for tho Wairarnpa, where ho will spend a week, afterwards going south. Mr G. IlalHday, of New Zealand's Bislev team, returned to Wellington yesterday. Messrs. T. C. Crease and W. Christie, of Wellington, returned from Australia by tho Moana yesterday. Mr. W. H. Wanklyn, of Christchurch, also, was among tho passengers. Doctors Buteman (Dunedin), Barclay (Christchurch), Leahy (Hawlie's Bay), Valintine (Hospitals Inspector), Edgar, and Porritt, who attended the recent medical conference in Australia, returned to New ZeaJand by the Moana, which arrived in Wellington yesterday morning. The Koman Catholic 'Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Oleary) is a passenger by tho Mararoa, which arrives from the south this morning. Captain Pearson, whose death at Sydney was cabled yesterday, was between 50 and 60 years of age, and was a well-known figure iu tho intercolonial trade. He was captain of tho scow Whangaroa when that vessel was totally lost at the Islands some months aqo, and was complimented for averting any loss of life on that occasion. One of his several commands was that of the barqucntine Pelotas, now a wreck at Wanganui. Mr. Henry Geo. Hayroes, ono of tho pioneers of tho West Coast goldfields, died suddenly at Kuinara, on Tuesday. The deceased was born in Devonshire, England, seventy-height years ago, and went out to Australia when a young man. After following several gold rushes in Victoria, he came to New Zealand, landing in Otago, and was among tho first lot of men on tho Gabriel's Gully goldfiold. Prom there he tramped to Hokitika, tho journey occupying a fortnight, aud after meeting with varying success as a miner in that part of the colony, he went to Kumara. TJiat wns thirty-five years ago, and ho remained in Kumara until his death.