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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3515, 29 April 1905, Page 2

Personal Items.

Mr John Stevens expects to be in Foxton in the churse of a few days. At the general election Mr C. L. Russell will be a candidate for the Lyttelton seat, now held by Mr G. Laurenson. M. Pokotoloff, Director of the RussoCbinese Bank, succeeds the late M. [ujjsar as Russian Minister at Pekin, V r L. W. O’Sullivan, a member of the New South Wales Legislature, i# at present on a visit to this colony, study ing political methods. General Booty * he gf ea Sa . lv ?Jf“ Army leader, arr.V.dy-Maym We - lington, and was aflcO rae JJ ty ra „ 7 I welcome by the Mayor, M r J- G> w * Sir Joseph and Lady Ward atkpded a ball at Government House, SydtlOJ'i on Thursday night. Lady Ward was present at ft reception given by the Lady Mayoress. , A .. King Edward has arrived at Ajaccio (Corsica). He is to dine at the Elysee (the Presidential residence) at .rails on Sunday, and will return to Louddtj on Monday. „ The Government has appointed Messrs W. H. Field and A. W. Hogg, members of the House of Representatives and Mr J. Straiichon, Commissioner of Crown Lands, to be School Commissioners for the Wellington district. _ The complimentary dinner tendered to Sir Joseph Ward and Captain Seddon, at ths Hotel Australia, by Now Zealanders in Sydney on the iglbinst., was upon an elaborate scale. The menu card read :—“ Haeremai! Haeremai I Dinner to Hon. Sir Joseph Ward. K.C.M.G., Minister for Railways.' Colonial Secretary, PostmasterGeneral of New Zealand, and Captain R. J. Seddon, tendered by their brother New Zealanders in Sydney, New South Wales, at the Hotel Australia, Wednesday, 19th April, 1905, at 8 p.tn." The menu was elaborately printed and embossed, and neatly bound with the Empire’s colours.