PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 21 May 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr F E. Hyman left, for Wellington b/]ast night's ferry steamer. Mr P. Selig was among last night s departures for Wellington. The Hon. H. F. Wigram, M.L.C., left for the south by the eecond express yesterday. Mr J. Dickie M.P. (Selwyn), left for the south by tho second express yesterday.

Mrs Naldcr, of Nova Scotia, who has been travelling and lecturing in the interests of the Pandita Ramabai s Mnkti Mission to the child widows of India for ten years, has arrived in Christchurch. and is accompanied o}* J£re Blair-Mason, secretary for the Mission in Dunedin. They intend holding a seriee oi meetings hero in aid of the mission work.

Tho churchwardens and vestry of Holy Trinity Church, Greymouth. have .Archdeacon York nine months' feavo of absenco to pay a visit to tho Old Country. Archdeacon York, accompanied Hr Mrs York, will leave New Zealand about the middle of August, and, together with the Bff*o* of Nelson and Mrs Sadlier, will travel by the Orient Line to Italy, and thence by way of Switzerland and France to England. The Bishop is sending tho Rev. J. A. Rogers, 8.A., to act as Jocnm tenens at Groymoutb during tho Archdeacon's absence, and two theolo-friea-1 students—Messrs Winstone and Ferrr —to assist him in working tho parish.