PERSONAL ITEMS,

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 768, 17 March 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS,

His Excellency the Governor, who ia now .paying a farewell visit to the West Coast, is expected to arrive back in Wellington on Sunday next. His next trip will* be to Canterbury, Otago, and Southland.''

. . All the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception. of. the Hon. G- Fowlds (who if at Holdtika), will be in town to-day.

Dr. Pollen, port health officer, who has been on a trip to the Old Country, returned by the Moeraki yesterday.

Mr. Eobert Fenton, of the staff of E. W. Mills:and Co., has on the eve of his marriage been presented by lus fellow employees with a handsome tea anil coffee service. Complimentary references were made to the recipient by Mr. J. F. Mills, who made the presentation. .

Mr. J. G. Gilbert Lodge, a director of Noyes Btos., Sydney, • accompanied- by Mrs. Lodge, arrived from Sydney by th« iMocraki yesterday. It is their intention to go on to Christchnrch and Dnncdin, returning to Wellington via the Otira Gorge and Nelson. •••: . Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P. for Wellington East, intends : to remain at ChristchnrcH for a week or ten days.

' Mr. Wm. Wood, of ChristchTiich, is a passenger by the Wimmera, which arrives from the south .this morning.

Captain J. Sbott, formerly of the Union Company's service, was killed on thj railway liri© at . Geelong, Victoria, last Saturday. Deceased ! was a brother of Captain E. Stott, the Union Comply s marine superintendent at Wellmgton, and was well known throughout tie Dominion. At the time of his. death he wao master of \the steamer; Pitzclarence, which was loading at. Geelong for Europe.

Mr. S. Kirkcaldie, of ■ Messrs. Kirkcaldio and Stains, Wellington, was at Napier ' yesterday. He leaves there ' to« day for Taupo. ' 1

Mr. W. B. S. Macdonald, M.P. for the Bay of Plenty, ia at present m Napier.

Mr. H. Snter, the well-known eoncholo. gist, is preparing a manual on New Zea» land mollusca. for the Government. Ha left for the south last night to study th« collections of in the museums, at Christchurch and Dunedin.

Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener reached Wellington from Waikanae yesterday morning. He ■ lunched at Awarua; Housfl with.-the Prime Minister .(Sir Joseph Ward) and Lady Ward.. In the afternoon lie sailed by '.he Mokoia for Tahiti, wher< he 'will join :the.; Mariposa for San Francisco, en route, to London.

• A complimentary dinner- is to be. given to Riflomin G. Halliday, winner of: the Dominion' rifle championship, at, the Hotel 'Windsor next Monday .'evening. Particulars of-" the arrangements will ba found in our advertising columns.