PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 209, 28 May 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister will be en route to Wellington fronl Not Plymouth to-day, arriving in the evening; this Hon. W. HallJones and the Hon. Dr. Findlay are in Wellington ; tho Hon. G. Fowlds at Auckland; the Hon. R. M'Nab at' Ohingaiti (returning in the evening to Wellington); the Hon. J. Carroll and the Hon. J. M'Gowan at Gisborne. , Mr. A. R. Atkinson returned from Asbf burton yesterday morning bv the Maori. ; Dr. Elizabeth Guhn returned from Sydney by the Monowai, which arrived last night. Mr. W. R. Wilson, of the "Now Zealand Herald," Auckland, is at present in Wellington. . Mr. T. C. Norris, secretary of the NorthCanterbury Charitable Aid Board, was in town yesterday. Mr. G. Fenwick, managing director of the " Otago Daily Times," arrived in Wellington yesterday. Mr. P. Selig, general manager of. the " Christchurch Press," is at present on a visit to Wellington. . . Colonel A. W. Robin, C.8., Chief of the General Staff, was a passenger by the Maori for tho South last night. Mr. A. : Nicol, of Pahautanui, returned by the Monowai yesterday from a tour of the principal cities of tho Commonwealth. ' . Mr. Stanley Brown, one of. the directors of Samuel Brown,/ Ltd., returned by - tho Monowai from an extended tour in Australia. Among, the passengers by the Japaneso mail steamer Nikko Maru, which sailed last week from Sydney for the East, was Professor Jtfacmillan Brown, of Canterbury College. ' ■ Mr. W. A. Clarke, of Messrs. Isaac Clarke and. Son, builders and' contractors, Wellington, returned to Wellington by the Monowai yesterday, after a business trip to Sydiiey. ' ' . " ; A San Fnancisco newspaper of a late date refers to the serious illness of Dri Starr Jordan, of the Stanford University, who lectured in Wellington last year. He was reported to be suffering from appendicitis. Mr, John Maslin, who died at Mitcham, South' Australia, a few days' ago, was one of the best-known squatters in that State. •In conjunction with Mr. Barr Smith, he purchased Bundaleer station for £250,000 from fchfi) late Mr. C. B. Fisher, and was subsequently solo owner of Bundaleer, Wan-a-kimbo, and Wilpeaa,, stations. He was liberal to the surrounding farmers, and gave geiierpusly to various charitable and religious institutions..The "Melbourne Argus's" Sydney correspondent intimates that -Mr, Watson, M.H.R.) has indicated that his political life was rapidly drawing to a close. He stated to the correspondent that, while he was not anxious to resign at the close of tho current session, it' was practically certain that he would not M>ek're-election for South Sydney by the timo the next appeal to the electors came round. Ho anticipated that his private business would bo sufficient to occupy all his timo!.