PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 918, 10 September 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

';,'•.:;; ; - ; '-.' : ■'■' .;--Vf'' r '- : ;-^ :: -.v--.j '"'■'.The'i-Hbn.'< J;.' Marshall,' M.L.C., land, has been granted leave, of absence until the- ; end: of 'the. session, oh;ac-, count of ill-health.-; Leave of absence for a week ha-s : been' granted -to .■; the .Hon'. Captain Tucker, on private business. ■■''■.;'- ■'■• ■"'■ ■;- : ; ■;; ;"•.:-- ! ;■'.:!-.'.-:'

Mr.-James',Grove,; ah old settler in New Zealand, died on.'Thursday ah the: residence of his: .eldest; son,. Mr. J. Bond, Grove, Ghuznee Street. The deceased, who was a native of Birmingham,; arrived in' Nelson over .fifty years ago) and for some .years - conducted ;a school;in the district. 'Later on he settled in the Lower Huttj and: still more recently resided.' in Wellington; ,;. The deceased, was 81 'years, of; age.'•''■ ■ ■■

'■ ■. : Mr.' Wiliiani Brown; head -of; the, firm. of-Laery andCo.,.of this.city, .is enjoying a ; yery comprehensive tour,of the United Kingdom.- For he purchased a ; 24-30-horse-power ' Hiimber motor-car, '"op which Mr.:. Brown "and party had already , covered 3700 ) miles wuen..'the Inst mail 'left. ■ The advantage of touring : by motor-car' was the; facility with, which -they.'; could .-,'■'. visit picturesque out-of-the-way .places, remote from' the great-tourist highways,* aid a budget of postcards received'by Mr. Harold Brown shows the car and its' occupants in' some old-world villages. They had. already toured'England.'lreland,, and- the greater, part of Scitland; and-were-about 1 to : leave for. France.. Mr. Brown has made arrangements' to leave London for Australia .by ■':' the Orient liner Osterley (the steamer in which he travelled to London), and expects to arrive in Wellington about the middle of January hejd. .'''■'; .' Mr. Alan Spicer, photographer, ; of Invercargill, having sold his business to, Mr. Muir, of Dunedin, has decided to settle in Wellington. He has purchased the business lately conducted" by . Mrs." Herman, 'at the corner of Cuba and Dixon Streets, and intends.opening ; tho studio on September 14.. '.-;