PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 780, 1 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister is at present in Otago; the Hons. Dr. Eindlay, J. Carroll, and A. Ngata are in Wellington; Hon. G. Fowlds, en route to Gisborne; Hon. J. A. Millar, en route to Australia; Hon. D. Buddo at Kaiapoi, Hon. E v M'Kenzie at Dargaville, and Hon. T. Mackenzie in : Dunedin. The Hon. J. T. Paul arrived in Wellington yesterday on his way to Auckland. ■ Mr.. T.M.. Wilford, M.P., returned yesterday froni a visit to Christchurch. The Hoi. Dr. Findlay has accepted an invitation from the Manawatu Philo;sbphicaliSociety>to ileclnre under its aus: pices at PalmerstOn NOTth on April 21. The subject will lie "Legal Liberty." Dr. Vindlay will probably, speak at Whangarei before Parliament meets. ■" : ' Major Eri Johnston eldest son of the Hon. C. J. Johnston, M.L.C., Wellington, who has' been granted furlough from his regiment (tho North Staffordshire), in India, arrived- from Sydney by the Warrimoo yesterday accompanied, by. his wife. ' ■" Among the passengers to arrive, from Sydney yesterday by the-Warrimoo was Mr. Harvey L. Duncan, Deputy-Postinas-ter-General of Madras, India. Mr. Duncan (who is a cousin of Mr. George Wilson, of Wellington) is the son of the late Captain Duncan, who entered the service of the East India Company as a young man, and remained in India for the rest'of his life, dying at the advanced age of 92. The present visitor,, who was. born in India, is enjoying a year's furlough, and intends ■to spend about three months in New Zealand.'..' Mr. C. C. Cox, of Masterton, will leave for Dannevirke next week to open up a branch of the Bank of Australasia in that town. ■ Mr; Dignnn, manager of the Ashbur- . ton .branch'of the Bank of New Zealand, and formerly of the Masterton branch, leaves this week' on a holiday trip to Europe. '.', At the bank last week l Mr. Kobertson,' on behalf of the ■ staff,'', presented Mr. Dignan with a. suitable souvenir. ... .' ■ ■ Mr. F. E. Flavall, of Apiti, leaves soon on an extended tour of Europe and America. Sir William Jukes Steward was a passenger from the south by the Victoria yesterday. i Mr. George Stephenson, well known for his connection with theatrical management, who has acted for several years as auctioneer for the firm ■' of Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., at Gore, has severed his connection with the firm in order to settle in Sydney. Mr. Charles Macmahon, the well-known | theatrical manager, returned to the Dominion by the Warrimoo from Sydney yesterday. ■ The Hon. T. Mackenzie visited Maungatua and Berwick yesterday. Dr. Martin returned from Martinborough last evening. ■-. The friends of Mr. George Johnston, of tho Wellington Woollen Company, will regret to hear that he passed away on Wednesday afternoon at his residence in Irigestve Street after a long and painful illness. He underwent a serious operation some mohths ago, and after a few weeks, gradually became weaker. Tho deceased leaves a wife and daughter, for whom much sympathy is felt. Mr. G. A. Troup returned from the south yesterday. Mr. i\ H. Chunibe'lain, who was tho first engineev to the Christchurch Tramway Board, returned by the Warrimoo to Wellington yesterday, after a trip to Amerioa, and went on to Christchurch last night. At the March land surveyors' examination fourteen candidates presented themr selves, of whom the following four completed their examinations:—Messrs. Robert Black, Wellington; Arthur Hastings Bridge, Christchurch; John Berry Cuthbert, Napier; and Henry .Godfrey, Port Levy. •__ _^