PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 985, 28 November 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Murdoch M'Lean has returned to Otira, where he expects to remain for about three weeks. A Press Association message- from Brisbane- states that the passengers by the? Vancouver liner Makura, for Australia include .the Earl . of Harrpwly and his son, Viscount Sandon, and daughter, Lady Francis Ryder. Major-General Godley, the recently-' appointed Commandant of ■ the New Zealand Forces, has arrived at Brisbane by the Vancouver steamer, en route to tho Dominion. ' Dr. Martin, whose recent serious indisposition compelled him to tako a rest in the country, has now returned to the city quite recovered from his illness. •■■■•... Tiio New Zealand manager of tho 1. and Or. Mutual Life Company (Mr U A. Marquis) was entertained by the members of. the Wellington 'staff at an enjoj'able "social" evening at Godpor s, Cuba Street, on .Thursday even- '"& ■ District Superintendent, Mr. J. Ji. btokes, also being present. Tho success of tho evening was largely contributed to by tho-efforts--of'Misses I ark, Munro, Walsh, and Parrant, and Messrs. Stevens, Carson, Roberts Kobbins, and Wolfe. Captain C. M'Arthnr, of the Maoriland Steamship Company, was a passenger from the south by the Maori yesterday. Mr. G.C. Baker, secretary of' the Otago School Committees' Association dropped dead on.Saturday morniu", states a Dunedin Press Association telegram. He was just in tho act of putting a contribution into a Hospital Saturday collector's box. Tho death is announced, at tho ago of 70, of Mrs. Ellen Cronin, a wellknown resident, who had lived in .Wanganui for forty years.