PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 176, 20 April 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

— Sir Joseph Ward (Prime Ministor), the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, tho Hon. J. A. Millar, the Hon. R. M'Nab, and the Hon. G. Fowlds are now in Wellington; the Hon. J. Carroll is in North Auckland; and the Hon. Dr. Findlay and the Hon. J. M'Gowan will be en route for Wellington to-day. Police - Inspector Gillies, of Christdhurch, u at present in Wellington. Mr. T. M. Donovan, manager of the Royal i Pictures, is ill in a private hospital. . The Hon. R. M'Nab, Ministor for Lands, ah'ivod at Wellington yesterday from Southland. Dr. T. James left Wellington on Friday for Sydney,- where he intends spending a month. '' . Mr. Justice Denniston left Wellington for Christchurch on Saturday evening. Ho will probably return next Saturday morning. A Press Association message from Sydney states that Commissioner MfKie's term as head of tho Salvation Army in Australasia has been extended for"a year! Our Christehurch correspondent states that Mr. T. G. Russell has been appointed Crown Solicitor at Christchurch during tho absence of Mr. T. W. Stringer, K.C., ih England. - .: Mr. W. Jeffrhs, the Opposition candidate for tho Geraldino electorate, arrived in Wellington on Saturday on a, business visit. Ho will probably return to the South to-morrow or Wednesday. Mr. F. Harris, a member of the Gisborne Harbour Board, accompanied by Mr. H. Miller, a business man, is at present on .a visit to Wellington, after having made: a holiday toUl 1 ' through the ' North Island. ■ ' I■' ' 'l'he Very IWv. Dean M'Kenna is leaving Masterton on Monday Oil a visit Kotorua. The Dean has been in* very indilforent health of late, and it is. hoped that two months spent there will restore him to good health again. , . : . Tlie Hon. G. Fowlds (Minister .for Health and. Education) returned from his visit to ■ the' South on Saturday' mOrning. He will be in Wellington for some time. Mr. Fowlds's present private address is the Hotel Windsor.' . ' The Prime Minister (Sir-Joseph Ward) re-; turned to Wellington from Lyttolton yesterday morning. He' will remain in Wellington for at least 'a week: On or about May 5 he will attend the ceremony in connection' with the ..first work in ■ tlio, construction of tho Otira Tunnel, on tho Midland -Railway, Mr. R. Meredith, who sat in Parliament for some years as. an Independent Liberal, and as representative of' the Ashley - electorate, which has sineo. disappeared: from the' was a passenger to Wellington by, tho Rotoraahana on Saturday. He has been requisitioned to; stand for Hurumii (which in-' eludes much of his former constituency) qt tho cOming electiohj'and also fbr Selwyn, but it is understood that ho does not intend te. re-enter political life.