PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7079, 17 March 1910, Page 7

PERSONALIA

Field-Marshai Lord Kitchener, who has been motoring through the North Island, arrived in Wellington yestexday morniiig from the Wairarapa, and lunched privately with the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph" Yard) and Lady Ward. A further opportunity was taken to discuss matters relating to tho defence of New Zealand, and his; Lordship, who is travelling alone (his aide-de-camp and secretary having left for India) took his departure at 3 p.m. by the Mokoia for Karotonga and Tahiti. He was accompanied to the wharf by Sir Joseph Ward, his movements being so unostentatious that few were aware that the di&tinguirehed military commander was in the capital. Lord Kitchener will tranship to the Mariposa at Papeete for San Francisco.

Dr. Pollen, port medical officer, returned to Wellington yesterday by the_ Moeraki. via Sydney, from his short trip to the Old Country. Mr W. H. F. Barber will not be a candidate at the Wellington City Mayoral election. The only candidates in the field up to the present are Messrs T. M. Wilford and C. J. Crawford. Tho death occurred at the Napier Hospital on Saturday of Dr Appel, veterinary surgeon, aged eighty-three years, a rresident of Napier for the past seventeen years. Prior to settling in Napier he resided at Hokitika, where he was m business for about thirty years. Mr P. Hally. Conciliation Commissioner for the Wellington district, leaves for Napier to-day to preside at a. conference there to-morrow in connection with the tailors' dispute at that place. Mr J. H. Triggs, Commissioner for Canterbury, left for Christchurch last evening. Mr T. Harle Giles, Commissioner for Auckland, leaves here to-day for that place. Mr J. G. Gilbert Lodge, a director of Noyes Bros., Ltd., Sydney, accompanied by Mrs Lodge, arrived in Wellington vesterday bv the Moeraki, on a holiday tour of the Dominion. It is their intention to go on to Dunodin and Christchurch, and thence through the Otira Gorgo to Nelson, where they will probably stay for a week before returning to Sydney.