PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 435, 18 February 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister is: at Rotoru'a to-day, tho Hon. R. M'Kenzie at Kaih\i, Hon. Dr. Findlay on the express from Ohristchurch to Dunedin, Hon. G. Fowlds at Gore, Hon. T. Mackenzie at Milton,. Hon. A. : T. Ngata atWairoa, Hon. J. A. Millar at Christchuroh, Hon. J. Carroll at Kaikohe, and Hon. D. Buddo in Wellington. Mr. C. Goro will bo a passenger for Sydney. by tho Maheno to-morrow. . Tho death occurred yesterday at 35 Bolton Street, of |Mrs. Caldwell, wife of Mr. ,T. A. Caldwell, of Napier. "■ ..." Mr,; (Tames Doyle (City Inspector), • who has been indisposed for some weeks,.' was ablo to go down to his office for an hour or livo yesterday. ' Mr. E. Sedding, architect of, the new Anglioan Cathedral for Dunedin, has arrived in the colony. He comes to prepare for. the commencement of.building operations. • Mr. Stanley Kingsbury, formorly of the literary staff of the Brisbane "Courier," and now J associate editor of , the "South China Daily News," Hong-Kong, is a visitor to Wellington. ~ k Mr.' H. E. Williams, general manager of !;thq National Insurance Company, arrives from ' Dunedin . this morning to attend the annual conference of tho New Zealand Underwriters' Association. . .. Mr, Theodore Harper, ' a . New Zealand mining engineer, who has settled in Siberia, arrived in Wellington -with Mrs. Harper, by tho TJlimaroa from Sydney yestorday. In tho afternoon lio Went on by train to Palmerston North. ■Mr. .Harold Ashton, manager of "The Red Mill" Company, goes south to-morrow even* ing to pick Up the Tittoll Bruno Company; with which he leaves tho Bluff for Melbourne on Monday next. Mr. Stewart will arrive in Wellington next. Week. Mr, R. -T.-Noble Beasley, of Austin Streot, yestorday received news of tho death of his ■brother, Rev. T. C. Beasley, of Dallington Vicarage, Northampton. Tho Rev. Mr. Beasloy'was years of age, and had been vicar of Dallington for the past thirty-five years. Mr. John Marshall, ono of "Coromandel's oldest and most respected citizons, died on Saturday afternoon after a leiigtliy. illness. Mr. Marshall was commissariat officer at tho Chatham Islands when To Kooti and his followers cleared out from that place in the -eohoouor Rifleman. Ho leaves a widow and .£rown-up family of sons and daughters.

Mr. J. Lomas, Chief ; Inspector of Factories, returned from tho south yesterday.

Tho Hon. A. W. Hoggj. Minister for Labbur, was at Waipukurau yesterday.

Mr. T. Ronayne, General . Manager for Railways, left: for the south last night. .

Mr.. J. Burnett, Chief Engineer of the Railway Department, Js expected back tomorrow from Nelson. ■

A Press Association telegram states that Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., was re-elected chairman of tho Napier Harbour Board, defeating Mr. A. E. dull by seven votes to six.

Colonel Knight, Provincial Commander of the Salvation Army, and Colonel Graham, of tho Melbourne staif, who is holding meetings throughout the North Island, left'for Bay yesterday. .

Staff-Captain Colvin, tho new editor of the "War Cry," arrived: from Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday, and left for Christchurch in the.evening. Tho Hon. Dr. Findlay, Minister for Justice, left for the south; yesterday. .He will attend the .citizens"'reception' to • the- Hon. J. A. Millar at Dunedin to-morrow night.

Tho Hon. D, Buddo, Minister for internal Affairs, returned from the south yesterday. He will attend the_ annual conference of the New. Zealand Medical Association, which' opens in Napier on February 22. ,

The Hon. J. A. .Millar left for the south yesterday. He will spend to-day in; Christchurch, transacting departmental business, and to-niorrow: will go to Dunedin, where a civic reception is to be tendered him in the evening. Accompanied by' Mr. T. Ronayne, General Manager, for Railways, tho Minister will then spend about; ten days inspecting lines in Otago and Southland, after which ho will go over/lines in Canterbury and on the West Coast.: r

. The Anglican Bishop of Auokland (Dr. Neligan), Mrs. Ncligan, and. their who are on board the Tongai'iro, arrived at Hobart yesterday.. The, Bishop: is expected, to reach -Wellington , on. Sunday next, ,and to arrive in, Auckland on Wednesday or Thursday,, according to which route he elects to travel by. /.-Preparations' are being made in Auckland by a committee of ladies and gentlemen for a reception to the Bishop, will take* place .at the Choral Hall on Thursday evening next..,; ; .. -• ; •-..

i An Auckland Press Association telegram states that Mr. Geo. S.; Titheradge, of :-the; J..C. .Williamson Dramatic Company, now 1 in Auckland,; who has been ailing for -some days; was pronounced^to; bo suffering from: appendicitis yesterday afternoon. Mr. Titheradgo was admitted to a private hospital. His medical, adviser states that''he hopes an operation may not bo necessary. The popular actor's illness necessitated a sudden change of programme ; at His ' Majesty's " Zi S" heing.hastily, substituted' for "The Silver King." .