PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 396, 4 January 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

•. -.■■■'■'■[ ~r~. —- 6 ' :,--:■'/■■ ' Tho IMme Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) is , on his way to the capital. The Hon. Dr. Findlay is in. Canterbury, and ■ all the other Ministers are in Wellington. .\ ;. .... 1 The Hon. J. M'Gowanj the Hon. 6. ' IWlds and Mrs. I'owlds arrived from Auok- ■ land;by.the , through train last evening. ' ' Mr. W. H. Westbrooko, formerly secretary ' of the Wellington Trades and Labour Goun-' • ci], commences his new duti'es to-day as a , temporary clerk in the Labour Department. i The Misses Amy and Dulcio Murphy, of . the "Blue Moon" Company, have completed I their engagements with Mr. J. C. Williamson, and intend to return to Dunedin, short- ■ Jy. ■ :v :- ~;■-■ \... ' Mr. Geo. Allport, secretary of the Marine 3 Department, who has been on a tour of ) inspection of the southern lighthouses, is expected to arrive back in Wellington next [ Thursday. . . l Judgo H. Duubar Johnson, of the Native Land Court, who has been sponding a short ■ holiday in Wellington, is about to return to - Taranaki, where he will resume the sittings 1 of the Court which he hae been holding in c that district for several weeks past. Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L., Litt.D., author of "Italy and her Invaders" and other " historical works, and a prominent' member . of the Sooiety of Friends, will probably visit . New Zealand within the next few months. It is hia intention to arrive in April and spend about three months in the Dominion. 8 He will be accompanied by some of tho - members of hia family.