PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 565, 21 July 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Exoellency the Governor, is to attend the .Wellington 'Racing Club's' meeting at Trentham' to-day,' and the race-ball ;at ;the Town Hall to-morrow evening. On Friday afternoon he will preside at the' opening of tho Presbyterian Orphanage at Brooklyn, and on Saturday evening will.b'e present at tho .Wellington Savage Club's "ladies' night." Tho Hon. R. M'Kcnzie is expected to rive from Picton ,this morning. / ; ...,\ ', ; The Hon. J. D. Ormond arrived in Wellington last night by tho express, arid he will be at Trentham to-day. , . Mr.' Harry Price, of H. Price and Co., Victoria Street,, will ; loave on a trip to England or. Friday:next.' - [

; Sir William/Russell is a visitor to; Wellington in connection with the Wellington Racing Club's Winter mccting\ and tho Racing Conference. i : , \ .

Tiio Rov. A. T. B. Page,' Vicar ot St Luke's, Groytown, who has been staying in Wellington for a fortnight to attend tho Ariglicah'; Diocesan Synod, will roturn, to Groytown by the mail train this morning. ,

Mr. R. B. Magee,' k. popular: oflioer; of the local Telegraph Office, who has ..just been transferred to Auckland, has been presented with ahandsomo drosßing-case.as a mark or tho esteem ia «'tich ho is held by his fellow, officers. '. ■

• Professor T. H. Laby, ' who has been appointed to the Chair 'of Physics at Victoria . College,vis ■at present 'in Sydney. Owing to an attack of influenza, ho did not loave for Wellington by the stedmer, which is duo to arrive' to-day, but postponed, hit departure until' the following week.'

The death occurred on Saturday, last,' at Oamaru, of Mr.'Andrew! Thompson,, for many years inspector of police .in,the North Otago district, and father of Mfc'!P.° S. Thompson, 'of'tho National Bank," Wellington. He emigrated to Victoria in the. days 'of'the big gild rush, and later joined the Otago .Provincial Polioe, under Inspector Branigan. Tho dcoeased was 77 years of age. '