PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1178, 13 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Their Excellencies gave a dinner party at Government House yesterday evening, when the following hail the honour of receiving invitations Mr. and Mrs. Chns. Wilson. Mr. L. 11. B. Wilson, Major and Mrs. Hume, the Hon. C. Johnston and Mrs. Johnston, 5Jr. and Mrs .A. Duncan, Mr. Kebbell, Mr. and Mrs. Elgar, Mr. Coatps and Miss' Contes, the Hon. Dr. Collins, the Hon. T. Mackenzie and Mrs. Mackenzie, Mr. H. D. Bell, IC.C., Major 0. Knox and Mrs. Knox, Sir Joshua and Lady Williams, Miss Payne'. Tho Governor (Lord Islington) will pay a visit to Auckland about the end of next week. . His Excellency, who is the president, ex officio, of (lie Auckland Savings B.vak, will formally open the bank's new premises on Saturday, tho,22nd ilist. To-day tho Acting-Primp Minister (Sir James Carroll), t:he Hon. A. T. Ngata, tho Hon. .1. A. Millar, the Hon. T. Mackenzie, the Hon. R. • M'Kenzip. the Hon. 1). Buddo will he in Wellington, and the Hon. G. Fowlds in Auckland. The Hon. H. M'Kenzie returned from Nelson and the West Coast yesterday. The funeral of the late Mr. P. Hunt will leave the mortuary chapel of Mr. K. Morris, Taranaki Street, at 7 o'clock this morning for Ihe Thorndon Station, en roulc for Marlon, where the interment takes place at 2.110 p.m. to-day. A Press Association message from London states that the estato of tho late Mr. James Laughland, of Laughland, Mackay and Co., has been sworn at ,C3li,oCo . Mr. Behrend Van Staveren returned from a visit to Australia by the LUimaroa yesterday.

The Hon. W. Pitt, M.L.C., of Melbourne, n well-known architect, arrived from Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday, lie is to consult with the directors of the Wellington Opera 110-ise Company in regard to alterations proposed to !» made to the Manners Street theatre.

The How Father Fanning arrived from Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday.

Mr. A. 1). liobertson, manager for Messrs. Dalgetv :intl Co., died on Tuesday at Jlainil(on. where ho ha? been residing for a few weeks past lor the benefit of his health. The deceased was manager for Mime years at lilciiheim. and subsequent to that was head nf tile produce branch in Wellington, lie was well known as a member of the Thorndon Bowline Club. His death at a comparativoSy eavly aye. is deeply regretted by a large circle ot friends.