PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day tho Prime Minister will be:'at Auckland;, tho Hon/J. Carroll in,t\ieKing Country; the. Hon. R. M'Nab at Seddon; the 6on. W. Hall-Jones, the Hon.' : G.' Fowlds, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, tho Hon. J. M'Gowan, and the Hon. J. A. Millar at Wellington..,- . •-''Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., is a visitor to Wellington. ' ' \ Dr. and Mrs. Albert Martin arrived back from a trip to the Old Country by the Mahenoyesterday. ' Mr. Hogan, SI.P., Wanganui, is at present visiting Wellington on business connected with his constituency. , ■ •Mr. R; ,W. S: Eastwood, Assistant Editor of' the- " Weekly Pross," who has been' to Auckland on a holiday tour, left for the South by; the Maori last, night.' ' Captain- von Clrunelius, a retired officer of the German Army, arrived in Wellington by the Maheno yesterday. He intends to spend somo time in deer-shooting in the Wairarapa and other districts. ' .

The'following appointments to. the. honorary medical staff of tho Wellington Hospital have been made by'the Board of Trustees: —Honorary surgeons—Drs. Collius, M'Lean, Faulke, Young, and James; honorary physicians—Drs. ;Begg, Gibbs, Henry, and Herbert; opthaimic surgeon, Dr. Hartz; consulting physician, Dr. Adams; dental surgeon, Mr. Didsbury.

Mr. P. S. Laurie, superintendent of the Koe Guam Steamship Co., Penang, arrived from Sydney by the Maheno, accompanied by Mrs. Laurie, who ,is a daughter of Mr. S. Gilmer, of the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. Laurio has been in poor health for some time, and has just returned from a holiday trijj to Great. Britain, making a short stay at Penang on his way, out. His health has greatly improved, but he will probably remain .in New Zealand for several months. '. .' :

Mr. Jaines Mitchell, one of the oldest,settlers in Wellington- (aftor whom Mitchelltown, at the head of Polhill Gully, is named), died between 8 afad 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr; Mitchell arrived in Wellington with his parents in the ship Gertrude in 1841, and he and his two brothers, Mr. Henry Mitchcll, still a resident of Wellington, and Mr. William Mitchell, who died sis years ago, fettled in the wilds of Polhill Gully, wliprtf they carried on the business of brickmajdng, and it was from their bricks that of tho earliest buildings ,in Wellington wero constructed. Mr. James ?U%cliell subsequently retired from theJtfSsiness,. aiid went' in for farming at Ta?:?. Fiat, an employment which ho' soon /abandoned, and, returning to town, inpJiH-itnd a carrying business,'which'he conducted until somo ten years ago. Ho had been ailing somo time, and finally succumbed to an attack of bronchitis, brought on by the recent sudden change from 'mid-summer weather to that usually associated'with midwinter. Deceased' was eighty-five years of ago. Mr. Mitchell left a family of four sons and three daughters. Two of tho sons are in Oamaru, anothor is in Wellington, and another in Ashburton.- The daughters are Mrs. H. Frico, of Upper Willis Street; Mrs. W. J. Williams, of Karaka Bay; and Mrs. Greig, of Falmorston North. At tho anniversary meeting of the Donald M'Lean Street Primitive Methodist Sunday School last evening, the Rev. J. Dawson and other speakers referred to tho great services to tho denomination of Mr. Mitchell, who was one of, tile fathers iof the church.

Justice Chapman returned to Wellington from Nolson j'esterday. Mr. F. Y. Lethbridge, M.P., of Feilding, paid a visit to Wellington yesterday. Mr. -T. Hamer, Under-Secretary for the Mines Department, roturned from Australia by the Maheno yesterday. Dr. Vahntine, Inspector-General 'of Hospitals; has left on a visit to Christchurck. He •is expected back about Monday. Capt. T; W. M'Donald, Adjutant of the Forces for the Wellington District, returned from an extended ; visit to Tasmania (his native place) and Australia by the Maheno yesterday. . \ Mr. W. Scott, Secretary to the Employers' Association at Dunedin,' who will conduct the* case for the employers in connection witl the Drivers' dispute, arrived in Wcllingtoi yesterday. ■ '■'•: ; .■ Mr. L. G. Cranna, Assistaiit-Secrctary . te tho Y.M.C.A. at Sydney, who has been spending a holiday in New Zealand, leaves Wellington to-day by the Manuka for Sydney, via Auckland. ' Captain T. W.,. M'Donald, Assistant Adjutant-General, Wellington Military District, who has been od a holiday trip to Tasmania., returned, to Wellington by the ■Maheno;yesterday. ■ ' ' Mr. and Mrs. Edw;ard Reeves returned to Wellington yesterday by the Maheno, after an absence of eight years in England. They are visiting their sons and daughters in this city, and they intend to settle down, again in' New, Zoaland., . ; 1 The Secretary of tho new Y.M.C.A. building at Hobart; which 1 was opened recently by tho Premier, is Sir. Cecil Jones, who -wai Acting-Secretary of the' Wellington Association during the absence of 'Mr. H; N. Holmes in America. • ■ ' Among, the passengers who arrived from Sydney by the Maheno yesterday was Mr. Fritz Krull, son.! of, the ; late Mr. F. A. Krull, formerly pf,Wel'irpton and Wanganui. ■Mr. Krull has boon firming in Queensland, and has just sold out satisfactorily, and io revisiting the .Dominion, possibly with. tha idea of residing here again/ '