PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 205, 23 May 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

* — : The Prime Minister and the other members of tho Government are all in Wellington today, except the Hon. 11. M'Nab, who is due in Christchurch to-night from,Otago, and tho Hon. Dr. Find lay, who will probably return to town to-day from Wanganui." Archbishop Redwood • returned to Wellington' yesterday, from .the South; , Mr. John Campbell, Government Architect, returned last night from Pahners'ton North.-. Mr. E. Tregear, Secretary for Labour, left yesterday for Auckland, : in. connection with tho tramway strike.' ' The Hon. J." Carroll, Native Minister, .is steadily improving in health, but is not yet able to rosume his Ministerial'duties. . Detective Cameron, who has been attending the sitting of the Wellington Supreme: Court, returned to Christchurch last night.- ■ Mr. A. R. Atkinson left by the Maori last night to deliver an address at a No-Liconse Convention in Afjhburton on Monday night. Mr. P. R. Sargood, of Dunedin, and Mr. T. Finlayson, directors of Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen, Ltd., are at present in Wellington. ■ ' . The Hon. J. M'Gowan intends to leave for Gisborne next Monday or Tuesday for the opening a section of the Gisborne-Motu railway. . . Tho. Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Labour, intends to leave for the South early nost week. Ho will address his constituents at Dunedin .next woek. ■ • Mr. Guy All on has received a presentation in tho form of a set of silver-mounted mili-1 tary hair-brushes, .'from the Choir of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, on. the. eve of his departure for England by tho lonic. Judge Fisher, who lias been attending a sitting of tho Aotea Maori Land Board at Wanganui, returned to town on. Thursday night, tho Board having adjourned, to meet. again in Wellington next Tuesday. Mr. Jas. F. Larng (son of Mr. Montagu Laing, manager of Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen in London), of tho staff of Messrs.W. and 6. Turnbull and Co., will leave on a trip to London in the Turakina on June 6. ; Mr. Eliot Roseoe Reeve, solicitor, of Auckland, ; has been appointed a Judge -of tho Native Land Court. Mr. Reeve was born in New Zealand,' and is about forty years of age. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar School, and was called to the Bar in 1897, and has been practising as a solicitor- in Auckland, since 1897. A Gisborne Press Association telegram states that at a Mayoral banquet Mr. C. A: Dolatour paid a high tribute to Mr. Justice Sim in his capacity as President of the Arbitration Court. Replying, Mr. Justice Sim said tho position certainly was not an easy one, and in fulfilling the difficult duties involved it was not possible to please everybody, or perhaps anybody. All that could be done was to do one's best.