PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13974, 7 August 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

- Information has been received by the acting-Premier that Lord ivitcnener has accepted this invitation or Government to visit New Zealand. • 'ms nonour J usi/ice M actingChief Justice lor the Dominion, : accompanied by: Mrs "Williams, went so'uvii yesteraay by the hrst express. _ tier Excellency ijady Plunket, passed through "Timaru by the first, express lrom tlie north yesterday, en; route to. Dunedin and the- Bluff,, to meet His Excellency the Governor. Mr Otwaj'i for some time manager of Messrs Scott Bros, business in Timarli, loft for Christchurcli yesterday,, having accepted a position in West-land. l . It is nob yet definitely known who. his successor will be.

The London correspondent of the Wellington "Post," writing on June 2-) th; says:: —It- is probable that Mr Magnus de la Laing: (Timaru). son-of Mrs Laing-Meason, will give a pianoforte recital in London in the coming autumn.

• Mr Bernard Tripp, of Orari Gorge, has returned from Queensland. During his absence from-- New Zealand: Mr Tripp, visited New Guinea, Java, and some of the other islands lying to the north of Australia.

Mr G. A. Lamb, who for the past five years lias been chief engineer of the Pareora freezing works, lias resigned his position,: and on Wednesday last was presented with a travelling case by -the-employees in his depart-ment;-as an indication of -their esteem •for - their .-superintendent. Mr Lamb was formerly engineer- at Fairfield Treessinjj. .works; and on:-the. establish ment of the Pareora works was on 'trusted with the difficult task of setting. up the very complete machinery plant, that these works contain, and it is well known that he-has: managed the engine-roe"-* and the frosting operations very capably during his term of engagement. Mr® Lamb was also r>rorented with a gold-mounted greenstone brooch. ... .