Personal Items.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5246, 14 April 1908, Page 2

Personal Items.

Mr R. Ward, of Patangata, aooompaniad by Mrs Ward, leave on a trip to England this week. The Hon. Mowbray Bt. John and Mrs and the Misses St. John, who arrived from England by the Tongariro, are staying with Mr A. H. Russell, of Hastings. The present intention of the party is to settle in New Zealand. Mr J. 11. Chapman, headmaster of tho Arthur street School, Dunediu, met with a painful and serious accident. It appears that Mr Chapman was striking a wax match when the head flew off and landed in one of his eyes. The injured eye had to be removed. It is understood that tho operation was successful. Mr D. B. Harris, of Palmerston North, received the distressing news by cable on Friday of the sorious illness of bit sou Victor, who is studying at the Royal Academy in London. Mr Harris cabled asking particulars, and he received tho roply—“ Moniugitis.” Yesterday afternoon Mr Harris received another oable, but as it was in code very little satisfaction was got out of it, as it oould not bo deciphered then. The following interesting paragraph appoorud ou 2nd Maroh in the cable columns of tho Natal Mercury The representative of a London music hall, who was despatched to Morocco to seoure Kaisuli as a music hall turn, writes that llaisuli is not the man that people think he is, but a holy man belonging to the lineage of the prophet, and who thinks himself even greater than tho prophet. He passes his time in religious exeroises.