PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 603, 3 September 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

_ The only Minister, of tho Crown who will bp absent from Wellington to-day will botha Hon. D. Buddo, who is in ,tho Botdnia district.;

Tho Hon.' G. Fowlds, Minister {or Education, loaves by. tho: Main Trunk express ix> morrow bn a visit to Auckland, .

Captain G. S. Richardson, Chief Instructor of Artillery, is. at present in Lyttoltoh.' •

Constable Dcmpsoy, of Dunodin, has been transferred to Wellington. '.

■-.■Mr. L. S. M'Lcrnon has been appointed an acting-lieutenant of No. 2 Company, Napier High School Cadets.. ,•, .. : '

.Mr. C. Laishloy, formerly accountant to the Union Bank/ returned from' a trip to the Islands by. the Manapouri yesterday.

Tho Hon. D ; Buddo, Minister for Internal ■Affairs, who is at present in th« Rotorua, district, is expected to return to Wellington nest Friday,. . . , ''' '' Mr.,N. Galbraith, of tho Now Zealand Shipping Company,, lias been confined to his home during tho past couplo ofdays suffering from influenza. :

At yesterday's meeting of tho committe* of the Wellington branch of-tho,St. John Ambulance Association, Mr. 0. P. Pow'ea was unanimously re-elected ohainnon for a further period of throo years. ; ..• , Among the passengers "who are to ieavo for .Sydner by. the Ulirnaroa this afternoon are- Mr.: E. J. Riddiford, of the Hutt; Mr. T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay: and Mr. W.E. Bidwill, of tho Wairarapa. , Among, tho passengers to arrivo from America yesterday, by. the Manapouri was Mr. John Cook, formerly superintending engineer for the Union Steam Ship Company, and now a member of the firm of Cook and Stevenson, of Dunedin..