Personal Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3562, 19 August 1905, Page 2

Personal Items.

Queen" Alexandra visits Copfen- R hagen shortly. Mr G. W. Russell will contest the Riccarton seat at the general elections, andris said to have good chances of success. - : ■

At Wairoa two men were fined £i and costs for exposing liceinfected sheep for sale. The case of the man NeWall, of Shannon, the small-pox suspect, is not considered serious, and sotiae doubt exists as to the real nature of his affliction.

Miss Nora Breen lias been appointed an instructor’in' buttermaking on the dairy service of the Department of Agriculture. Miss Breen, who arrived in the‘Colony a few months ago, holds the diploma of the Munster Dairy School, Cork.

Mr Eli, M.H.R., asked the Government if it would hold the remainder of milling timber land and establish State Sawmills for the purpose of supplying the public at the lowest price possible. The Minister lor Rands replied that it was feared such action would not"Y improve matters, and would be -*' inimical to the interests of the large number of men now employed in the milling industry. t Mr Donne, h«ad of the New Zealand Tourist Department, has reached Sydney from England. He expresses the belief that his visit will result in a complete and interesting representation of the arts and mrttir:fayfnj-pq of the Old, World at the Christchurch Exhibition, e proposes to mendations to his GbvernmenlJ l the best methods of attracting desirable settlers.