PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph AVnrd) returns to Wellington; tho Hon. W. Hall-Jones, .the Hon. J. M'Gowan, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, the Hon. R. M'Nab, tho Hon, J. . A;. Millar', and tho Hon.-.6; Fowlds -.will all bo in Wellington. J ; ' ; ' |.■ To-morrow, the Bon. G. Fowlds. leaves for Christchurch arid Duncdin.' '" • Sergeant'Rutledgo, of Lyttelton, is retiring from tho Police. Department on an annual pension of £131 Bs. /';/ t -The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward), is expected, to arrive by the Monowai from Auckland'this morning. •' • -v ■' Mr. W. 1). Lyon/who has been indisposed, has resumed his duties again, as secretary to tho. Stewart Timber Company.' i ..?i- : ;. Mr. T. iW. Young, who was injured in tho tram -accident ion/'Saturday, is making excellent,,progress towards complete recovery.. i Tho General Manager of , Railways and | heads', of branches left last'. night by., the Maori on an-official inspection of the Southland lines. ; ' Mr. It. W. Holmes, Engineer-in-Chief of tho Public Works Department;'leaves to-day for the inspection of tho Main Trunk' railway and works in the' Auckland Province. •, , ' Mr. A. R. Holdslnp, solicitor, who has returned from Sydney, after, a, trying illness there,. following an .operation for. a throat trouble,, is again practising his profession' in Wellington..; ■ -■ ■■ ; Captain Richardson, Director of Artillery, is; at. present; in Auckland, supervising the annual: service class-firing of the A Battery, which was postponed some' time ago; owing to the prevalence of smoke from the bush fires. ■'. _) '■ vv. Mr. S. S. Brown, chairman of the 'Wellington Rugby TJnion, will \ leave for Sydney on, Friday, en route to Pqfth,. on business. Mr..'Brown; expects to be'absent from Now Zealand for about two months, and has notified his intention of resigning his. position on the Union ho leaves. . ■

Mr/David 1 Butcher,;a clerk in,the Marino Department; iwho, is ' leaving to join the;,Cus-v toms'. Department, 'was' the recipient of,; .a presentation from his .fellow-officers yesterday; afternoon. Mr. G. Allport, the .'secretary,'made the presentation, and, lin-doing so, referred to Mr. Butcher's past services, saying that if ho did as well in'the new as in tho old office, he would be sure to got on in the service! and, on behalf of the staff, ho wished him every success. 1 ■ ■ v<

• Mr. Nelson Illmgworth, has completed m clay the first of the series of Maori busts which ho is executing to the order of tho Government. By assiduous industry, Mr. Illing'worth has finished this work,-with tho exception of putting, it into.plast-er,, in eighteen days from his return to Wellington. ;, The features of: the old Auckland- chief. :from whom the sculptor took sittings have been considerably ennobled for the artist's, purpose, wliioh was the. commemoration, of.ian ancient type rather than the performance of an individual likeness. v'.,

1 There iB 110 advertisement, like sending ■ your goods abroad. When Steffan, the Martinborough deer-stalker's guide, went to Europe ;to revisit his native Tyrol, a couple' of years, ago,; he took with him several stags' heads which ho had shot in the Wairarapa. iThese were seen on exhibition in Frankfort by Captain F. von Grunelius. So struck' was ho'with the' beauty of the heads that ho resolved to visit Now Zealand, and to-day ho is in the Wairarapa in readiness for the opening .of the, stalking season. Captain Grunelius and his party wilT afterwards make a •tour of the Southern lakes.

Mr. Daniel Wong, who took charge, on its establishment' five or sis years ago, of tho Anglican . Chinese Mission, in \ Frederick' Street, diod aftor a prolonged illness on Saturday. Mr. Wong was born in China, and,, coming as . a youth to Australia, was educated! at , tho Anglican Christian Mission School at Melbourno. Before coming to Wellington, ho did useful work among his fellowcountrymen in Westland. •' His active conduct of tho local mission, which he had carried on most successfully, terminated about'a'year ago, owing ,to Mr. Wong's illness, and : Mr, Dai Chum took up the work. Mr. Woiig leaves a widow, a quarter-casto Chinese,, but no ohildrou. Tho funeral took place yesterday.. ; '