PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13050, 9 March 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Tlie i'rinie Minister received a cable message from the Premier of New South Wales (.Hon J. M'Goweii), says tho "New Zealand Times," stating that Mr, Mc-Farlune, Controller-Gen-eral of Prisons, will visit New Zealand to report on tho tree-planting prison stations, the employment of consumptives at camps and tha treatment of inebriated by the State. Mr Macfarlanc proposes reaching Auckland by the Moldavia on March 15, and the New South Wales Premier's cable message- requested that the New Zealand Government should grant facilities to onablo these inquiries to be effectively prosecuted. Sir Joseph Ward replied that everything will lie done to assist tha visiting officer in his mission . The London correspondent of the 'New Zealand Herald" says: — Sir William and Lady Russell are going abroad to escape the early months of the year, which are usually so. treacherous in England. They wiK be in town during the season, and they have taken a house in On slow Gardens. For some months past Sir Wililam and Lady Itussell have been living at Lewes, in Sussex, and the other day ;he former delivered, in a neighbouring Sussex village', an address on Nfw Zealand. He had a good audience, and in interested one, quite half the listeners ultimately expressing a wish to go out to the Dominion, though Sir William declares that he, endeavoured rather to under-cstiraate the attractiveness of the country than to present too highly-coloured a picture. In Lewes, this we-ek, he spoke on thenooessity of universal military training, under the aiiivpier.i of the National Service League, and a more than usually good muster turned up to hear him on the subject. The speaker managed to get the ear of his audience, and ho more than satisfied the promoters of the morenx'ht.