PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) returned to Wellington by tho s.s. Tutanekai from tlio south yesterday.

The Hon. D. Buddo lias postponed His intended visit to Cambridge indefinitely. v

The Hons. Geo. Fowjds and Dr. Findlay havo cancelled all remaining engagements in connection with their Auckland visit in consequence of the death of the King. Sir. Fowlds left Auckland.for Wellington last night, and Dr. Findlay will return to-night.—Press Association. • , .

Mr. G. Bisset, Editor of Publications of the Agricultural Department, who was taken seriously ill on Saturday, was .a little better yesterday.

Mr. .Arthur Hob.v has received word that his son Kenneth) who has been studying dental surgery for the last three years at Guy's Hospital, London, has passed his final 1 examination for the degree of L.D.S. (Licentiate in Dental Surgery).

Tho members of Williamson's Grand Opera Company leave- Sydney on Saturday next for Wellington.

Mr. G. W. Frier, A.1.N.Z., on severing his connection with Kirkcaldio and Stains, Ltd., to take up a position with tho ' North Otago Fanners' _ Co-opera-tive Association, was on., Friday evening last presented with a gold watch by., his coll-saguos.

Mr. W. Carter, Government diamond drill.expert, has been transferred from Waihi "to Orcpiiki,' Southland, ..where lie will conduct operations in. connection with oil-boring works.

Mr. C. A. Loughnan, Crown Prosecutor at Palnierston, was thrown from his horse on Sunday, and received very severe injuries to his head. He is making fair progress towards recovery, in a private hospital.

Colonel Brengle, of the Salvation Army, who has boon holding a mission throughout New Zealand, left Auckland for Sydney yesterday.'

Colonel Knight and Brigadier Bray, of tho Salvation Army, are expected to return to Wellington from Tauranga, Opotiki, and Auckland to-day. -

Mr. William John a. member of the fourth and eighth Now Zealand contingents, died last Wednesday afternoon. He served through Rhodesia in tho fourth contingent as quartermaster-* sergeant, seeing active service, and upxn his. return to New Zealand he joined the eighth as lieutenant. After the settlement of tho war ho took up farming in Northern Rhodesia, and also undortook some trading, being one of tho first white men to .penetrate beyond Lomagtmdi on tho Zambesi. Ho camo back to New Zealand, and entered tho Survey Department as 1 computing draughtsman at Now Plymouth, a position he held until the development of consumption forced him to ; give up active occupation.—"Taranaki Herald." Mr. G. W. Ravimhill, of Auckland, is a cousin of Baron Islington, the Gov-ernor-designato of New Zealand.

Mr. H. Michel, of Hokitika, is a visitor to Wellington. • .

Miss Eri Thomson, tho Stowart Island vocalist, whose voice . commanded the attention of Madamo Melba at the close of last year, is at present in Oamaru, en route to London, whero Miss Thomson intends to undertake a further courso of training in voico produotion; Miss Thomson speaks in terms of the warmest gratitudo of: Madamo Melba's kindness to her wliilo in Melbourne, and of tho encouragement she received from tho groat diva. In Melbourne Miss Thomson had the great misfortune to break down in hoalth, her nerves suffering sevorely from the strain of travelling and unwonted publicity,. so that slio was unablu to tako the fullest advantage of the opportunities afforded by tho tuition of Horr Petersen and Madamo Melba. But already tho improved methods assert themselves, and Miss Thomson leaves for .England. with good reason for optimism. —Oamaru ''Mail,"