PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 596, 26 August 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Son, J. Carroll, Acting-PrimeMini-Bter ( returned to town last night. All tbo i?£ n ' B^ers are now in Wellington, and they will probably remain boro until the session, i JJ' nc » for Egmont,' is on a visit, to Wellington. i Mr, and Mr». 0. Laing-Meason returned from Australia by tho Moana yesterday. Mr, Thomas Brown, of CJiristchuroh, is a through passenger by tho Moana, wliich ar* rjvod from Sydney yesterday. 1 Mr, Bongough, the famous cartoonist and entertainer, and Mrs.' Ikmgongh, arrived from Sydney yesterday by tbo Moana. Mr. C. L, Burgess leaves to-morrow to Mho up work as an Anglican'lay reader in tbo Aramoho and Waitotara districts. - Mr, Hugh M'Ncil, of tho firm of Briscoe and Co., Ltd., was a passenger from Sydney by tbo Moana yesterday. Mr. Val. Johnson, assistant general manager of the Union S.B. Company, returned from Sydney by tlib Moana yesterday. Mr. E, Waito, curator of the Christchurch Museum, roturnod from a trip to Australia by tho Moana yesterday. Ho was accompanied by Mrs. Waito. Mr. Bernard Hall, general manager of tb« New Zealand branch of It. G. Dun and Co., arrived from Sydney by the, Moana yesterday, ■ . .. In our paragraph of yesterday annotmcing the death of Mr. Herbert Hill, the name of Mrs. Albert James, of Wellington, should have been mentioned as one of tbo daughters of the deceaecd. v Mr. J. Ilott, the well-known advertising agent, met with a rather serious bicycle accident on Monday evening through his skidding. -His collar-bone was broken in two placet],' bnt he is progressing as well as' may bo expected. . Mr. Frederick Cliffo, who is the travelling examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Col'ege of Music, is timed to reach Auckland oa September 12, and # Wellington on October 23. The entries this year number 2000—a record. ;:. "■ Mr. Geoffrey Nye arrived from Auckland by tho Main Trunk express yesterday, and will leave for Cbristchurch this evening to inaugurate a. tonr of New Zealand of tbo picture "Drink," to be conducted under the ioint management of Messrs. T. B. Taylor, ALP., and Henry Hayward. Mr. G. B. Dall (son of Mr. Dall, Inspector of tho Post and Telegraph Department), who has besn attending the London University School at Hampstead, arrived from London yesterday. Miss Dall is at present in London her vocal studies under Madamo Minna Fischer. Mrs. Dall intends to return to New Zealand towards tho end of the year. •

Mr. E. W. Dinnie, of the finger-print bureau of the Police Department, anda'soo of: Police Commissioner Dinnie, who has been on a visit to England, returned to' Wellington by the Moana - yesterday. While at Home Mr. Diiinie was married, and as Mrs. Dinnio; descended the vessel's gangway yesterday afternoon, she was. smothered with confetti by tko friends and relations of the bridegroom. t Among the passengers to arrive from Sydnoy by-the Moan a. yesterday ms Mr. 0. Goro Adams,' civile and mining'engineer, » fonnor director of the. ' Thames Mining School and .a brother of Mr. Arthur , H. Adams,; the well-known journalist, now •of Sydney. Sinoo he was last in New Zealand, Mr. Adams, lias been in England, has : reported on mining-fields in .Columbia (Central America), and at latest was engaged in the same work ■ atMajor's Creek, New South Wales. Mr. Adams intends to spend a few weeks with his friends in Wellington before taking up any freeh work;