PERSONAL MATTERS.
Hifl Excellency Lord Islington is at present in Blenheim and will leave for the West Coast on. Thursday. Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister, was a passenger from the South by the Mararoa this morning,'and after spending a'busy three hours disposing of departmental work left again ;by the Main Trunk express for Taumarunui. Tomorrow morning he is to open a new bridge at'Taumarunui, arid in the afternoon he is to turn the first sod of "the branch railway from Te Houra to \*hangamomona and Stratford, hi the evening he will deliver a public address at Taumarunui, after which he- is to •be banquetted by the residents, leaving immediately' afterwards by train for Pukekohe. On Thursday, morning he will be at Pukekohe, and in the afternoon proceeds to Patumahoe and Waiuku, and will speak at the latter place on Thursday evening. Friday and Saturday will be spent in the Auckland district. On Sunday Sir Joseph leaves Onehunga by the s.a. Rarawa for New Plymouth. . On' Monday afternoon he will deliver a short address at Norman-, by, and will speak at Hawera in the evening. In the afternoon he is to lay the foundation-stone of the new District High School at Stratford, and he is also to speak at. Inglewood. The Prime Minister returns to Wellington probably on Wednesday next. By the Main Trunk express to-morrow Colonel Johnson, Director of Ordnance, wi}J leave for Auckland. On Friday Major-General Godley, Commandant of the New Zealand Defence Forces, will leave for Auckland, accompanied by hia staff-officer, Captain Thornton. Mr. W. F. Ma6Bey, Leader of the Opposition, arrives from the South tomorrow, and leaves by the for Palmereton. North, at which town he' will deliver a public address tomorrow evening.
Major T. W. M'Donald has returned from a visit to Auckland.
Mr. J. Lomas, Secretary for Labour, is visiting Auckland in connection with the erection of workers' homes there.
Mr. .R. R. Martin, Opposition Organiser, arrived from the South this morning, and left for Auckland-by the Main Trunk express.
The Hawera Star states that Dr. Maclagan, who practised at Kaponga, and who is now in England, is entering the Anglican ministry and will come back to New Zealand.
It is stated by Elder 0. D. Romney, head of the Mormon Mission in New Zealand, that it is not Jos. F. Smith, leader of the church, who died recently, but John Smith, patriarch of the church. Messrs. R. Tingey, J. Northover, and G. M'Culloch, the. Weraroa veterans who were injured in a motor-car accident near Wanganui on Friday, are all making satisfactory progress towards -recovery, "
t Mr. Wesley Spragg, who was injured in a buggy accident at Auckland yesterr day is, according to advices received in' Wellington to-day, making satisfactory progress towards recovery, ile wae cut and bruised, but no bones were broken. During last practice of the Berhampore Baptist Choir, ]VL\ J. Osborne, on behalf of the choir, presented the choirmaster (Mr. H. Gladstone Hill) with a silver-mounted baton. In making the presentation, Mr. Osborne remarked on the improvement made by the choir since Mr. Hill had been in charge. At a meeting convened by the Mayor of Tiiharu it wasft-esolved to give a citizens' farewell and a purse of sovereigns to Archdeacon Hat per, who, after thirtysix years' residence in Timaru, leaves for England next month, and is resigning from the charge of St.' Mary's Church. The Ministers' Association will take part.
PERSONAL MATTERS.
Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 123, 21 November 1911, Page 7
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