PERSONAL HEMS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15047, 15 August 1914, Page 10

PERSONAL HEMS.

Mr W. Wilson and Mr Cory Wright, of-tho Auckland Engineering School, aro at present on a visit to Christchurch.

Mr L. Hopkins, ''Hop," tho famous cartoonist ol : tho Sydney "Bulletin, , ' was a passenger on tho Tahiti to lington on Thursday, returning from v holiday trip round tho world, eti routo for Sydney.

Mr lan Macdonald, son of Mr R. M. Macdonald, of Christchurch, who recently eat for tho Sandhurst entrance examination, ha,s boon appointed an aido-d-e-camp to his Excellency tho Governor.

Mr E. Trevor Gould, youngest son of tho Rev. Canon Gould, of Auckland, has left the .New Zealand Insurance Company branch in Melbourne, to tako up tho Victorian branch of the Standard Firo and Marino Insurance Company of Now Zealand.

Mr Moore, the principal bonoficiary under the late Mrs A. Q. Townend'e will, proposes to visit Canterbury in tho course of a few months. Tho announcement and particulars regarding Mrs Townend's estate and benoiactions to tho Isle of Man when reported from '"Tho. Press" •in tho ''Isle of Man Examiner" caused'a great amount of interest.

Mr Albert E. Cohen, who conducted the theatrical column in the Dunedin "Evening Star" for many years under tho norn do gu or re of "Old Boy," received a pleasant sTirpriso the other night when, in tho presence of soveral representatives of. the leading theatrical firms of Australasia, Mr Percy James, on their behalf, presented him with a purse of sovereigns, subscribed by practically all the firms who have played in this country, as a tokon of the esteem in which they hold him, and of their appreciation of the theatrical column ho ran for so many years. In making tho presentation, Mr James read several of tho highly complimentary letters received with tho handsome ana spontaneous gift.