PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All the Ministers of the Crown, wiffi the exception of the Hon. G. Fowlda (who is accompanying his Excellency the Governor on his farewell tour oi: th» West Coast) will be 'in town to-dayl • Field-Marshal; Lord Kitchener will o> rivo here from Palmerston North by inotor-car - this morning, and will leave for the south''this evening. The/ Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for Education, who .is at present accompanying his Excellency' the Governor on hisfare> well visit to the West Coast, is expected to return to Wellington on Sunday mora, ing. Notice is .given in the' latest General Orders of the [appointments of 0. "IV. Williams, as Hon. Acting-Captain of Ko. 3 Company Wellington College Cadets, andof 0. R. Fennell as acting-lieutenant of St. An tip's Defence Cadets..! Mr; W. G. Dnthio, who has : been enjoying a holiday in the south, is expected to return' on Sunday next. The Earl of .'Heath, whoso name haa been closcly associated with the Empire Day movement, is at present the guest of the Earl of Dudley, at Melbourne. Ho is to tour the colonies, and will take advan, tage of the opportunity of speaking on the movement he instituted. : It has been announced that Mr. Frederick Shipman, last in Wellington! with Bengough, the cartoonist and raconteur, will manage Melba's tour through America, which begins at' Montreal August of this year. '■ Herr Benno Scherek has returned to Australia from South Africa, in advanca ,of Madame Carreno, the great Spanish pianist.. Mr. Do Latour was appointed a marrv ber of the Gisborne High School Boara by Cabinet yesterday. Mrs. George Kilsby, of, Ohariu Valley, mother of Sir. G. Kilsby, of Koputaroa, and one-of Wellington' 6 earliest settlers, died on Monday, aged 83 years. Deceased (says our Levin arrived in Wellington in 1856 by the ship Oliver Lang, and has rosided in Ohariu Valley over since. Mr. T. W. Stringer, Crown Prosecute of Christchurch, and Mr. George Harpet of Christchurch, arrived in Wellragtar yesterday. Mr. H. N. Holmes, general secretary of the Wellington Y.M.C.A., is expected back on Friday from a visit to Auckland. The Ber. W. J. Williams returned from the Muth yesterday.