PERSONAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13043, 9 April 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Lord Kitchener ■ has arrived at San Francisco. He expressed a desire to he treated as a. private citizen during his stav in America'.

Sir Joseph Ward arrives in Wellington from the south to-day. He leaves for Gisborne on Tuesday, next, and will be accompanied on his northern trip by Lady Ward. Whilst in Gisborne the Prime Minister will formally open the maternity home which has just been completed. . The death is reported at Gisborne from typhoid fever, after a very short illness, of Mr Lionel Gordon Saxby, in his thirtysixth year. Mr Saxby was the eldest son of Mr G. H. Saxby, recently •of Napier and now of Auckland. Ho was born at St, Lawrence station, Hawke’s Bay, and educated at the Napier Boys’ High School and Wanganui College. He was an ardent footballer and a. first-class athlete, having, a; a member of the old Hawke’s Bay Amateur Athletic Club, won a number of high jump and hurdle events, proving himself the champion of the club at this form of sport. Mr Saxby had resided in the Poverty Bay district for the past eight years as manager Of the Mangatikapua station. He leaves a widow, (a daughter of the late Sir James Hector) and oiic child.