PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12106, 11 June 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

According to a Melbourne cable, it is rumoured that Sir William Lyne will bo offered tho High Commissionership in London.

The Rev. J. Gillet, rector of St. Mathias, Padington, Sydney, while on a visit to Melbourne was run over and killed by a motor-car at St. Kilda on Sunday. Mr. W. P. Monk is at present in town forwarding all arrangements for tho season of the Julius Knight Company, commencing at the Opera House on Wednesday, June 19th. Mr. George Humphries, of the Press Association staff, who has been stationed in Wellington for the past eighteen months, resumes charge of the Association's agency at Cable Bay, Nelson, relieving Mr. Russell, who comes over for the sessional work.

Constablo William R. Irwin, a member of the police force in Wellington, died in the hospital on Sunday after a short illness. He was operated upon some time ago for an internal complaint, and recovered so far as to be able to return to duty. He took ill j again on Wednesday, and -was admitted to the hospital. Deceased, who was a promising officer, only joined the force last November. In view of the illness of the ActingPremier, Sir Joseph Ward has decided, instead of returning to the colony by ■way of tho Bluff, to travel overland to Sydney, and return to New Zealand by tho Maheno, which is due. here on the 26th inst., tho day before the opening of Parliament. A good story is going round of the inventive p-enius of Lord Kitchener. The distinguished Commander-in-Chief desired, on the occasion of the recent visit of tho Ameer of Afghanistan "to India, to lay out an artistic garden for his gratification. Rare exotics and flowers of great variety of colours tropical and sub-tropical plants were brought to make the garden beautiful. One thing was lacking—there was no grass to give a finishing touch of verdure and the few days available did not permit of procuring it. Then Lord Kitchener's resourcefulness came into play. The garden was sown with mustard and cress seed, with with the result that them •was in due time a delightful greensward effect which astonished all the visitors, and not least the Ameer himself.