PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) leaves this morning on a. brief; visit to Gisborne, where lie has promised to formally open the Ben- maternity home there on Wedwlnv Ee will be accompanied ..y Lady Ward. ■. ■ : ;Str. W. P. Kassey. Leader of the Opponon is at present in Wellington. The Hon. J. Carroll, Minister for Native Affairs, leaves on a visit to Gisborne to-day. ■ . . : It. W. C. Buchanan, M.P., who returned' to his home at Tupurupuru last week, is' making a very satisfactory recovery fro-m the injuries ho received in the molor accident. He is able to get about a little, bnt finds it necessary as yet to secure as much rest as possible. . ..-..': •The Hon.'D. Buddo, Minister for In- , J* , ™?. 1 Affairs, returns from Christchurch , to Wellington this morning. Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., has been nTlct another term as Mayor of The appointment of Mr. -J. K. Newton as agent for the Public Trustee at Kawhia is gazetted. '■■' .•■ The death occurred, on Sunday of Mrs.' Mary Mwards, wife of Mr. Riohsrd .H. Edwards, and a well-known resident of' Wellington East. The deceased lady-was 56 years of age. ' ' Mr. Stuart Bobineon will be a candidate for the seat on the Miramar, Borough Council rendered vacant by tho resignation of Mr. J. Brodie, who ie standing for the borough Mayoralty. general secretary of the Employers' Federation, is in Gisborne in connection with a sitting of the councilin that town. - " -. Mr. C. F. Johnston, of Kimbolton, will leave for London by the lonic on Thursday week. Mr. and Mrs. D. Kemp, of' Woodvillo, and Messrs. C. and A.'White-' head, Palmerston North, will also be pas-' eengers by the same steamer. -.■■'■ Mr. James Eoberte, of Messrs. Murray,' Roberts, and Co., Dunedin, intends 'leav ing for London by the lonic.' ."'■ Mr. Maitland Gard'ner, who died at, Dunedin on Thursday night, was welli ■ and widely known in.musical circles as a gifted musician and a talented teacher.' He was born in England in 1844, - ani came oat to New Zealand in 1883, when he commenced his colonial career in Christchurch. Later he came south to Dunedin, where, after a residence of ten years, the name had become almost a household word. The end, though sudden, was very peaceful, and not altogether unexpected, Mr. Gard'ner having been in failinghealth for some time. Deceased leaves ! three sons and four daughters. •■■•

Tho Bishop of Christohurch has a> pointed the Rev. Gerald H. Horse, vican of Te Kuiti, in the dioeese of Auckland,, to the, vacant enre of the parochial district of llethven. : . ■.

The Hon. :E. M*K«nzie, : Minister for' Public Works, will turn tho first sod of the Tauranga-Te Pake section of railway to-day. The Colonial . Auxiliary Forces longservice medal has been forwarded to the O.C. No. 4 Company N.Z. Engineer Volunteers for presentation to Quartermaster- , Sergeant IS. J. Piercey. ■;:■,-.■ ■. :'..• Colonel Bauchop, O.C. the Wellington Military District, is at present on a visit to Wanganui. "■.'■./.. •.-.■Mγ. ■.Gaston Mervale, , the well-knomi actor, who has been in bad health for some weeks, , underwent an operation at Melbourne on April 6. '." , -. United States Consul-General W.; A. Prickitt, who has been stationed in Auckland for tho. last four years, has been ; granted leave of absence by his Government for the-purpose of enabling him to -pay'a.visit to his homo in America. Mr. Prickitt, who will be accompanied by Mrs. nnd Miss ■ Prickitt, sails from Auckland by the steamer Talune on Tuesday next for jTahiti, where he will join the steamer MaripoEa' for San Francisco. '■■'■'■ ': Mr. Arthur Kempthorne, one of the oldest settlers of Poverty. Bay,; has died of pnoumonia. He-landed in Auckland in 1542, and was educated at the Auckland! Grammar School, under Dr. Kinder, and was afterwards engaged for three years under. Bishop Williams, the first Bishopof Waiap'u, in teaching at the NativeTraining College at Waerengahika. Hi took up_ land near Ormond in' 1865, andhas resided there ever since. He leave? two brothers in New Zealand, the Bey. J. P. Kempthorne, of Nelson, and Mr. B. Kempthorne, of Timarn, and also a sister, Mrs. Kissling, of Auckland.