PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 575, 2 August 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

With the exceptions of the Hon. J. Carroll, tho Hon. D. Buddo, and tho Hon. R, i M'Konzie, all the. Cabinet Ministers are in town. Tlio! Hon. J. Carroll, Acting-Pinne Minister, left for Taumarluiui, Otorohanga, and To Kuiti bj\Saturdayis Main Trnnlc express, for tho purpose of attending soveral . Native meetings. . Ho, will return to the capital s in about ten days. . .' Sir. Wv P. Leader of' the .Opposition, returned to'. the north,by Saturday's through I 'express. Mr. A. Simpson; who has been indisposed, hopes to be able to resume his duties as Official Assignee to-day.' . Our Hastings correspondent' states f Captain Russell/'son of Sir William Russell (of Flaxmere); and his sister, Miss Russell, are leaving Wellington on August 12 for a trip t>) England. ;' They leave by tho Manapoun, and travel via Tahiti and San Francisco. Mr. poratio Nelson, of Nelson, Moato and Company, Ltd.', left by the .Ulimaroa' on Friday for Sydney, where. he join-s the Orient steamer Omrah, en route for Ceylon.- After inspecting his firm's branch at Colombo,' Mr. Nelson will paya visit to Calcutta, and attend the tea sales in- that' city. / The Wakapuaka cable station advises: At a social on Saturday evening, tho.Eastern Extension staff took advantago of the occasion to say farewell'to the Government operators, who depart on Slonday for their respective stations., Fitting .'roference w ir.ado .to the harmony; that had always existed between the two staffs, and general regret was expressed at r the i ; Mr. 0. Mewhiriney, formerly' private sec?-' rdiMj^io'<M?'' k lL. W,.Hogg, and now in the Land Purchase. Department, is l to retire under' |" tho.' Government's, retrenchment, schemo. Mr. Mewhinnoy's'. experience as a' 'Ministerial priva-to'secretary comprised-more than fourteen years,' ho having served in'that I capacity' under the late Sir John M'Ketizie and the Hon. R. M'Nab. He left the chief clerkship of tho Land Purchase Department ' -to .become private ' secretary to Mr. Hogg last January. ' On Saturday the. Hon. Dr. Findlay (Minister for Justice), returned to Christcuurch from Timaru, and left' by the- evening's steamer for Wellington. The Hon. D. Buddo (Minister, for Internal Affairs) also arrived in Christchurch from' Dunedin on Saturday evening, and. left for, .Rangiora. He returns to Christchurch: to-day, and leaves for Wellington in the'evening;. The Hon. R. M'Ken-jsio."(Minister-for. Public Works), who arrived >. in Cliristehurch from -Wellington yesterday, leaves by the second express for. Timaru today^—Press Association-. -