PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16437, 3 February 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Their Excellencies the Eorl and Countess of Liverpool and suit© were present at tho O.J.C. races at Riccarton on Saturday. Yesterday morning they attended service at Merivalo Church. Tomorrow they will attend tho Science Congress, which his Excellency will open. Sir Cecil Moon, who has resided in Dunedin for tho past two years, will return to England in a few weeks' time. He will go Homo in the steamer Ayrshire. At Wellington on Friday Mr Frederic Brooke, an English solicitor since 1869, was admitted a solicitor of tho Supreme Court of Now Zealand by his Honour Mr Justice Hosking, on the application of Mr E. P. Hay. I Tho following former cadets at the Royal Australian Military College have been appointed lieutenants in tlho Nt>w Zealand Staff Corps: G. H. Clifton, H. Dyer, R. O. ©.< Steele, L. E. Earlo, A. M. Sutherland, P. S. Gillingham. W. N. W. Leech. His Honour Sir Bassett Edwarus, who has been on a health recruiting trip to Australia for some months, has returned to New Zealand very much improved in health. He will preside at the criminal sessions of tho Supreme Court opening in Wellington dayMr G. A. Lee, C.E., late of the Dunedin and Bluff Harbour Boards, and at present engineer to the Napier Harbour Board, has resigned that position in order to enter the service of Mr J. Blair Mason, M.lnt., C.E. Mr Lee -will take up his residence at New Plymouth.

Tho Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, arrived in Christchurch on Saturday. This morning he will receive a deputation from tho Canterbury Philosophical Institute. Tomorrow he will_ be present at the openi'hgi of the Science ConjjreM, and on Wednesday he will go on to Dunedin.

Mr J. D. Ritchie, chairman of tho Land Purchase Board, passed through Christchurch on Saturday, on his way South to join the Minister of Lqnds (Hon. D. H. Guthrie) in Otago. On his Tetiirn, Mr Ritchie intends to inspect local pronorties which havo been offered for soldiers' settlement.

The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, Minister of Agriculture, motored into Christchurch from Timaru on Saturday, and left for Wellington the same evening. He stated that the weather was too bad to allow him to properly soo the wheat crops. H 0 will return to tho South Island at tho beginning of next month.

Mr G. V. Hudson, principal clerk of the Postal Division, is retiring on superannuation from the Post and Telegraph Department, and intends in future to devote his time to entomology and astronomy, his work in which has already attracted attention, oven beyond New Zealand. On Friday afternoon the head office staff of tho G.P.O. met in tho secretary's room and presented Mr Hudson with a pair of glasses as a token of good

Mr ,W. W. Garton, M.A., who has been acting ns temporary master 111 charge of the secondary department of the Akaroa District High School for the past two years, left at the weekend to, resume bis duties us first assistant at the .Tilmwood school. On Friday afternoon, at the invitation of the headmaster, Hiss Winnie H.tnvard presented Mr Garton with a small token of esteem and goodwill from the secondary pupils. Miss Gladys Younginan, of Akaroa. will fill the vacancy until a permanent master is appointed. Among those who returned by the Ruahiue a few days ago was Colonel W. 11. Cunningham, D.5.0.. who was commanding officer of the sliip. Colonel Cunningham left with the Main Body, and was in command of the Wellington West Coast Battalion, under the [ late Colonel Ma'one. He saw active service in Egypt and Gallipoli, being amongst those who first landed, and during the campaign was wounded in the shoulder. It was during this action that the late Colonel Malone was killed. It was for his meritorious service on Gallipoli that Colonel Cunningham received the senior order of St. Stanislaus from the Russian Government. After a period in hospital in Cairo. Colonel Cunningham was transferred to England and France, and went through all the vicissitudes of the campaign in the latter counry. During the early rart of this period lie received his D.5.0., and was mentioned in despatches. Colonel Cunningham, who was married at Wellington on Friday afternoon to Grace, tlie younger daughter of Mr and Mrs C. M. Luke, of Wellington, will take up his practice of barrister and solicitor in Wanganui. He is a partner of the firm of Cunningham and Christie of that town.