PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 815, 12 May 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. Br. Findlay (Minister for Justice), who had to curtail his visit fo tho north owing to the death of King Edward, returned to town last night.

Among visitors to Wellington at present are Mr. Billon, M.P. for Hawko's Bay, and Mr. It. W. Smith, M.1 , , for Eangitikei.

Mr. Hine, M.P. for Stratford, is at present in Wellington on business con-, nected with his constituency.

Mr. Graham, M.P. for Nelson, has been appointed a member of ffie Victoria College Council by the Government.

Mr. James Mackenzie (Commissioner for Crown Lands in Wellington) is still suffering from a severe attack of influenza.

An ex-acting detective of Wellington, Mr. James Gantling, died in the Palmerston Hospital last Friday, the cause of death being heart failure.

Mrs. Wilford, who is at present in Glasgow, has booked her passage out from Homo by the Orient liner Orsova, which leaves London on May 27.

In our report from London yesterday of academic honours won by New Zealanders at tho Edinburgh University it was stated that Mr. S. Harcourt Arthur had secured second-class honours in surgery. Letters received in Wellington state that Mr. S. H.' Arthur (a son of Mr. T. Arthur, late traffic, superintendent for the Railway Department in the North Island) had obtained firstclass honours and first prize in his surgical section. Mr. Arthur is now in his fourth year at Edinburgh.

Mr. F. Pirani, chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, is at present visiting Wellington. •

Mr. Kobert Angus, general, manager for Thomas Cook and Sons, in New.Zealand, arrived from Auckland yesterday. He is proceeding south on his annual visit of inspection to agents and eubagents.

Mr. S. Gilchrist Thompson, of Marton, for Cape Town; Mr. W. Hose, of Nelson, for Colombo; Dr. and Mrs. Stoneham, for Sydney; and Mrs. and Miss Mahon, of Feilding, for London, leave for Sydney ljy the Moeiaki to-morrow.