PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

* To-day tho Hon. J. Carroll, the Hon. D. e Buddo, and the Hon. T. Mackenzie will - be in Wellington, the Hon. ,f; A. Millar 1 in Dunedin, the Hon. P.. M'Kenzie at '• Whangamomona (Taranaki), and the.Hon. I A. T. Ngala at the East Coast. r The Hon. G. Fowlds will leave to-day . for Wanganui to attend a dinner which has bc-cn organised in connection with tiia Y.M.C.A. building scheme. To-morrow he - proceeds on to To Awamutu to inspect t the site of Ihe proposed Central Mental Hospital, and afte-.wards he goes to Auckc land. £ Sir George Clifford was a passenger for Lyttelton by the Maori last evening. Major-General A. J. Godley, C.8., . General Officer Commanding tho New ' Zealand Forces, will mako an official 1 tour of the Taranaki district, commencing - en Wednesday at New Plymouth, where i. he will inspect the local territorials, and addrass the men. He will go on to Stratl ford the- following day, and visit Hawera on Friday, and Wanganui on Saturday. a Ho is due back in Wellington on Monf day next. Colonel E. W. C. Chaytor, Officer Com- >, mandiug the Wellington Military Dis[t trict, has gone to Tauninrunui on official : business. s Mr. W. D. Lysnar, Mayor of Gisborne, 0 underwent an' operation for the removal of one of his eyes, which was performy ed by Drs. Harty and Garcia Webster ' r last week. Some months ago he became .. aware that the eye was blind, and went ~ to Dunedin to consult Dr. Lindo Fergu- „ son, who advised him that there was j nothing ho could do, at that juncture, ,f but if inflammation set in to lose no time s in consulting a specialist. During the rey cent election campaign at Gisborne inJl flammation set in and after the election L . Mr. Lysnar hastened to Wellington where the operation took place. Ho is still confined to a private hospital, where he ', is doing very well. He hopes to be i- about again before tho end of the week. s His brother, Mr. George Lysnar, of Gisborne, left for home yesterday. e Mr. Orton Stevens, general manager of j. tho National Mutual Life Association, left on a three weeks' visit to Auckland s by yesterday's Main Trunk express. He was accompanied by Mrs. Stevens and the members of his family. Dr. W. A. Dunn, who recently returned from England in the Kaikoura as ship's surgeon, has received the appointment of senior house surgeon to the Dunedin Hospilal. j_ Mr. J. Kilmister, of Belmont, is leaving for a trip round the world, after living in New Zealand for GO years. , a Mr. J. R. Barlow, an old resident of '" Wellington, died at Petone on Sunday. v For many years Mr. Barlow 1 resided in k Boulcott Street, being at one time an ie employee of the lute Mr. E. H. Crease 0 and subsequently the proprietor of a c " fruit shop on the corner of Willis Street E ' and Old Customhouse Quay, in the prea raises recently demolished to make way : s for Mr. Covordale's building. The busi5 > ness.was a well r knowu one (o all old ;o Wcllingtonians, made locally famous by n a very wonderful talking parrot, which 6 tho late Mr. Harlow used to bring down 0 and take home every day. Abut twenty d years ago Mr. Barlow sold out and took a up laud in the country. He did not x find the life over congenial, ' and later '■ on settled in Petone where he resided until tho day of his death. He was a e member of the Petone Bowling Club'and t . was very popular among the fraternity. e Mr. Barlow leaves a widow and two chilB dren. t The secretary of the Festival of Emi- pirc Sports Committeo (Mr. B. A. Guise) i- has received a cablegram advising him of l- tho safe arrival in England of Malcolm n Champion, the Dominion's, representative <■ swimmer. •• Mr. Chas. Nixon, Collector of Customs, ■■; who is at present on sick leave in Aus- ° tralia, has been granted a further " month's leave of absence. [ ( Mr. Robert Wardrop, agent for Messrs. n Johnston and Co. at Motueka, died on y Saturday evening in a AVellington private " e hospital, after undergoing an operation a on his throat. Deceased was secretary a to the Motueka Harbour Board, and a ,1 member of the Motueka Lodgo of Freet. masons, as well as a member of many ~ public bodies in the township. He was (1 fifty years of age, and leaves no relatives in Now Zealand. The funeral was to have taken place in AVellington, but the " Motueka people desired that the interlV ment should take place there, and that '" arrangement will be followed. ~ Captains Smith and Pilkington left n Wellington for Lyttelton by the Maori last night. u Mr. Charles Berkeley, advance reprc--0 sentative for "The Whip" Dramatic Comc pany, lias arrived in Wellington to make „ arrangements for the season, which coin- ,(. mences on Thursday week.