PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 598, 28 August 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. D. Bnddo, Minister for Internal Affairs, leaves to-day on a visit to the' Auckland district. 1 Mr, "Jt, S, Abraham, of Palmerston North, wlio has boon away on a" six months' trip to England, is expected baclc in New Zealand about September 21. , Mr: P. Kelly, one of tho Sydney TJnivorsity football team, who jiro at present touring New Zealand, is a son of Mr; T. Kelly, of M'Kenzio Terraoo, Wellington. Ho is aa old boy of St, Patrick's .College and. St, Ignatius, Rivcjview, Sydney, and is : now studying medioino in Sydney. Amongst • the passengersfrom Melbourne by the Manuka- yesterday was Mr. J. G. Smith, general manager for Australasia of tho International Correspondence Schools, who has been on an eight weeks' tour through Australia and Tasmania, • inspecting the various : agoncios of the schools, and opening fresh agoncios. ■ ; : The death is announced of , Mr. Robert Joseph Kennard, of Linton, ono of the district's prominent young settlors. .Mr. Kennard, who was 30 years of age, was apparently in good heajth till last week. He entered a private " hospital on Sunday to undergo an oporatioii, apparently for appondicitis, whon it was found that he was suffering from ;a jsovoro, attack of pneumonia, from the effects of which-ho passed: away, in the early hours of' this morning. Ho was' very' tyelf known in this' district, and was pno of the iiinest rifle shots in • thp Dominion,, having competed for years past with, great success at • tho ohampionship uioekassut.lWthaia.