Personal Items.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18231, 15 November 1924, Page 12

Personal Items.

The Hon. W. Noawortjby, Minister or Agriculture, was among the visitora to the Metropolitan A; >nd P. Staw yesterday. ' .

• Mr Carl Copper, of (Sydney, prominently connected with oil interests, in Australia and New Zealand, arrived by tho Maunganui on a business visTv to this Dominion. Mr J. W. Hinton, M.Sc, assistant master of Knox College, Bunedin, and lecture in Psychics at the University of Otago, left Wellington by the lilimaroiv yesterday for fcjydnoy on his way to lihgtand, via Suez. It is Mr Hmton'a intention to study poavgraduate woris at London, and) Uunuridge. '.'''■...

A pleasant little ceremony took place at . tho Presbyterian General Assembly "... at Palmerston North this week, when 'the Rav. Alick McMeur, a Home Missionary of the Church, was presented with an illuminated address as a mark of appreciation, for his valuable pioneer work on the Central Ridge in the South Island, The Moderator (Rt. Rev. Geo. Miller) made the presentation on behalf of the Assembly, stating in so doing, that everyone knew, of tho fine work Mr McNeur had done.

Ihe .iSfydney University JSxtentyon Board proposes to invite Sir JUrnest Ruthertora, the well-known scientist, to deliver a course of lectures tralia next year. It has been suggested that the invitation should lie extended to include a visit to New Zealand. l At a meeting of the Victoria College Council this week it was stated that the Professorial Board approved of the suggestion, and the action of the Board was endorsed by the Council. Mr, Robert Crompton, of Fiji, has been advised by the Acting-Governor that ho has been appointed to be a King's Counsellor. Mr Crompton commenced his legal career in Lancashire and was admitted to the Fiji Bar in 1904, and ho soon built up a large and prosperous practice. Mr Crompton was awarded the C.B.E. for his excellent work in connexion with the Bed Cross money-raising scheme.

Our Gisborne correspondent telegraphed last night: A visit has just been paid to th© eite of the Tolaga Bay Wharf by Mr C. B. J. Williams, of consulting engineer to the Tolaga Bay Harbour Board. While m tihe district Mr Williams Vent to lokomaru Bay. He has returned to Ufflborne, and leaves to-morrow morning for Whakatane and Rotorua, travelling thence to Auckland, where he is to sit on tho Commission appointed to enquire into the collapse of the wharf at Auckland. Christ's College will shortly receive a portrait of Bishop Harper, the work of *te.v< A. Bowring, of Wellington. The artist was commissioned to paint the picture as a memorial of one who did sp much for religion and education in Canterbury, in particular, and to the beneßt of New Zealand in general. It ftas been privately viewed by Lord Jelucpe who is a connexion of th© Harper x^ y, JP d is °n view for a few days ?M ho ,, McGregor Wright Gallery. Welbefore its removal to Christ's

shall be sound anil tW»a||lllfflß| should endeavour "to brotherly feeling into will not do for Great fedt&Sn and say, 'I am going to Wo have to come togrtW.S||l give and take" Is & sSLShI "Que messieurs ks —imiiKpn mencent''? One Bay ever, and still rejoice «H|iaSH stands up to preach TMltiilpJlil than that of an Trench or Alexaadtsf) ecstasy of his faith %I|jm|jß|B He wfc© made th» tiaadePerchasca mada baMbi^jHffli In the meantime tho *mJi' : 3Mm ing news cflnecroiag tit* fcfejg§ffiS| a meat-diet will humanity, and war wSU of material. This is &e Josiah Oldfleld. the Nobody will die of *M "mnjlfffl he say:, unless he "Those who wish to lm and die of old age 40 that excess of preieia panics a meaty di*t.»* 31£|Sbh§1 years the English wtlg tilo than the Freaeh. 9lv|wN gone thoroughly into tala ■> I BJSwH Loinlon, and the general enquiries was that live on whole-grain ImßraE salads, oil, cheese, as 4 a hard, virile ncaaaatoy . the birth-rate is hlgfe. 3&||ihß in tho Balkans is as was a hundred years «Wy|MW twice as high as that % fjlf||« These diet reformers aMMMMBJ " they know little of ing tho human heart. TTl|jfflW wishes to dio of old smraf one wishes to tvnt i»jiallMß| Bulgarian; and life *f*ff|lmß merely of one darsaj tjajllii another is pleasing to *^jrfjlH| In closing a scries of "Westminster Wells rotates that hj« |&H vcying his own work, crcd that it amount** criticism of tho woria m^^Mß "I am asainat tha food wd eat. the schools we bare, our aanmgjjataurani our ways of tradisz. our compromise* asd «fa|3Dß our articles ef pt&tkal IaMfiCHBH tiah Empire, the &*''B&mi3Sßßm think most of tho d*wMH«H9 most of tha food tiad, %M||hOj tha schools started meats dull, tha ■waya ol txadiae baaa methods of nrodaatwa **lMmbßH| fnl, oar political idiotic. Most of nrr a> tiwßj||wlflßß ; pet my soul and oaaNtlgntiiilfßHflH of the customs, oaUoafe,* : ImHB twninationa of tho e«Wßi^p»JMßaj One wonders, bat Wells has not takes W«n| enough methods of these worries, TJhe deplored by tho Bev. IifHHH described in the ewsr Keats 'a famous ode, more beautifnl in tho t**iMHH by Mr E. V. Knox fat'flajßH Circle of Peoria, -*Npf|iraH "Mooch, beat it. eat What thou ia te'MHH| Tho weary blow-hatde *|SHmN| That upend thesr owmRHH Where he-'men T*i^j,^pH^B| But aimpa and Where- too* muofe,' t^rai£ttHH^| And pine f<ig'!fcwßt.JßW^H|Hß Where maidens «avaaatl^^^^H^Hß - Nor nw bra ft*} But hero coaea M»f r l|M^|B

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