PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12550, 18 April 1904, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Judge Keskt left for New Plymouth by the Rarawa yesterday. :- Mr. F. E. Claude returned from Sydney fcytheWaikare last evening. " Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Donnelly, of Hawke'a Bay, are leaving on a trip to England.''.' ■""■'- , ■■& Lady Chermside, wife of the Queensland Governor, leaves Brisbane this month for London. ■ A v Captain East, of the Tyser Line, was a passenger to Napier by the Tarawera on Saturday.; ■'-.••,-■ . - • Signer Bragato, - Government Viticultorist; left for Napier by the Tarawera on Saturday, and iroceeds on to Wellington. • Mr. John Wyllie, of Kilmarnock, Scotland, who is touring the colony, has left Wellington for Botorua via the overland route. •, '' .- . Captain George Holford, late of the Bakanoa, is temporarily in charge of the Te Allan, now running in the Lyttelton-Wel-lington ferry service..'}-; : '-'■ Mr. J. S. Larke, ; Canadian Trades Commissioner, who has been touring the colony in business connected with his office, left Wellington for. Sydney on Saturday. . Lord Monk Bretton, who has been touring New Zealand during the past three or four weeks, and who arrived in Auckland on Friday last, leaves for Sydney by the ] Mararoa this evening. ' • .- Mr. A. G. Dallas, head of the crockery and ironmongerv department at the D.1.C., Wellington, is to leave for California, with Mrs. Dallas, by the steamer Ventura, which leaves Auckland on May 20. Mr. and Mrs. o. Smith, Mr. W. M. Smith and Mr. Thomas Davis, of Blenheim, left Wellington by the Moeraki on Saturday, on a trip round the world. They join the B.M.S. Himalaya at Sydney on April 27. A Press Association telegram from Greymouth states that Mr. Hambleton, manager of the Despatch foundry, received a send-off on Saturday night prior to leaving for a trip to the Old Country. The Mayor presided, and there were about 70 leading citizens present. During the day Mr. Hambleton was presented by the employees of the foundry with: a travelling bag, gold-mounted pipes, "arid a Mosgiel rug. ~ Mr. Gee. Brown, who has filled'the position of ; foreman-machinist for a period of < about 25 -; years at the Thames ,■= Star I) Office, but who is now severing his connection with the office, was on Saturday the recipient of two handsome gifts,'one from the proprietor (Mr. Wm. McCullough, - which took the form: of a beautiful gold pendant) and a pair of heavy gold sleeve-links from the employees.'