Personal Items.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18237, 22 November 1924, Page 12

Personal Items.

Mr O. T. J. Alpers left Christehureli last evening for Napier. Bishop Sadlier, of Nelson. was an interested visitor at the Philatelic .exhibition yesterday. Messrs H. Pallignn (IKmedin) and T. Blakley (Dunedin) are guests at tho Clarendon Hotel. The death is announced of Mr E. H. Roekel, for many years first assistant master of the New Plymouth Boys High School. Superintendent C. C.t Warner leaves on Monday to attend a meeting of tho executive of the New Zealand" United Fire Brigades' Association at Hawera. He will return towards the end of the week. The Bev. H. G. Gilbert, pastor of St. Paul's 'Presbyterian Church, Invercargill, has accepted a call to St. Andrew's, Hamilton, says a Press Association message. Messrs H. H. Newton (Wellington), W. H. Moorehouse (Wellington), K. P. Grove (Melbourne), audi B. Mulcahy (Melbourne) are guests at Warner s Hotel. Messrs J. 31. Graydon (Wellington), J: J. Nathan (Wellington), G. T. Hall (Wellington), and D. H. Iterden (Melbourne) are stopping at the United Service Hotel. « Mr James Watson, well-known in insurance circles as ex-manager of the Standard Insurance Company, Auckland, has been appointed Provincial secretary of the Wairarapa Farmers' Union, vice Mr J.. Hebenton, resigned. Motions of sympathy with Mr M. Kershaw, Mr K. J. MoGee. and with tho relatives of the Ir.tc Mr lidwm Cuthbort in their recent bereavements were passed at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Centre of the Now Zealand Sanitary inspectors' Association on Thursday evening. At tho Christehurch. Police Station last night cifioera and members of the Christehurch Police Force gave-a farewell to Constable I'. D, Dougherty, who is leaving this morning on transfer for Hokitika. Constable Dougherty was made the recipient of a case of pipes and travelling case by his fellowmembers of the Force. Of the personal staff of the Gover-nor-General. Captain Southey and OomCoinmander Dove, A.D.C.'s, will sail for England, via Australia, with their Excellencies by the Tahiti on Wednes-* day next, but Captain 11. W. Curtis will not leave Wellington for Sydney until December stli. Mr A- C. Day will remain on iiiS official secretary to the new Governor-General, Sir Charles ■cergusson. Messrs W. P. Spencer and W. Johnson, members of the Canterbury Education Board, who have been unable to attend recently because of ill-heilth, were present at the Board's meeting yesterday, and were welcomed back by the chairman (Mr H. J. Bignell), who expressed a, hope that, they would be "soon restored to their usual health. Of tho personal staff of the Gover-nor-General, CaptainSouthey and Cs»imander Dcve, A.D.C. 'a, will sail with their -Excellencies by the Tahiti on Wednesdav next, but Captain R. W. . urtis will not leave Wellington for Sydney_ until' December sth. Mr A. CDay will remain on as official secretary to the new Governor-General. Sir Charles lergusson. Air Jock Mills, the Scoteh comedian now appearing at the Opera House, was presented with greenstone sleeve inks and a greenstone chain mounted in gold by the Christehurch Scottish y*® 8 * n *g h . fc - Mr J. S. Chisholm, uer of the Society, made the presentation after Mr Mills' turn, thanking him for the help he had given the Society. Mr Mills replied brieflv, SaSnS! CU 3 gre3t *

Although the session ia over, aa| «|S|| ; gotten, and Mr Ma Key is at Okoroire, while Mr Wilfcrg w!S: j more sought the ampler air of '' to promulgate his cautious Japan. "Hansard" continual J® fJWfjl heavy chunks frcai the printing press. 1 like these pink books: they have a humous flavour, and it i 3 ao i atJTT, to enjoy, tor a nappy illusion that our politicians are Something like hearing 3 record of sumo deceased one detested. . . . And spell I do with these late Hansard what nobody dteea®# &v* doing with the number* kltA' If during the currency of tfe* —I read them. The ]an «7g?s' hand rather ur.orpoctetUy perusal, for it contained Xt fessions. For Mr Isitt waj dog in his day; not. indeed, ever fought Sampson J|||k j fruiterer behind Gray's Ina, grand march at a dance, bat: I venture to wy the hraovafcit immhPl for "Wairarapi could tell SMUggr bers that when I ws« in fei» tng one of tho best hr.cka ia hi* jSHLlmany a rsco 1 had *los£ the do not object to hor??-racicit peggt -ijSS*. Xo man ear. vretond thii I a keen said active interest it .*gyyeßß^E< ; have been «. rvwir.g men, a, a cricketer, and I have other forms 0: athletics. This will make many people kindly of Air Isitt. It wift elino then* to forgive hist such verse as the followiag • October 21st-. Pago 708), composed for the opening of speeches on the Gaming JJQfeiiw? Thia is the talking-shop, *itk tfitli chocolate pillara asd *"**f It fairly s;ts an ordinary hraia —jjafLstr:ijy» To think of all the till, goes on tier?. - A taste in verse, a ters, wo have, of coarse, being democrats, to expect i» ««aj> ij latora. Mr Massey can cpeol® sk&'v) 1 ture, and Mr Downie Stewart Anatole France gives hsra »}■§>■ enduro the proceedings of thm but few other members go newspapers, Hansard, and t6e dMHarij wfi roll. It was different la those days when the worfj from democracy. Mr PMEp gives us a snapshot of an at Biarritz in 1892: w Ar&X Mr G. had gone for ft **tk British Consul; and il trM to be ho was quoting Homer. Br laaeM|g» lfc»' * wro all quoting bard; Mr , Aristotle, and his leader Mntoft ttwfeL ' Before tho visit was oct, th** Qoethe, Manzoni, Miltoa, andUfe, they read Max Muller, snd tho payment oi Member*. Tfced» thing inexpressibly odd of English i>ibeials transpsotnl b auMFM of Biecay. They sat in figfi rmr Pyrene«!> and talked abfeA Sfc Peel. They -went to BayeW» talked about Lord SpetKt?«^sj||t^wa<'S^s Fucnteimbift by train and qiMfew* jjjl vtsb a trib,ut« to ih» tcSnrae* church) of Mr DiwatlL Tlni» *>m Bfe'llM its to their erudition. They they oompared Virgil with "Pcrsius was spoken of I^W^^SbIbWHI left wondering how many « masters conld spwk of Fteti®* there was Mr Gladsicae, in tM> backgammon with Mr the Second A«n«id against th» slaughts of his Chief Seerst«T._ not have solved the Irish qaetuaß but at leAst they cooid wad and

* A Dunedin message death of the Rfy- Ifc&a©. kttfal|§ggg|j§ Intyre,_ retired Presbyternam aaHM^g At yesterday's meeting of bury Education Board a dolence was passed with^ Andrews in tho death of his iHeMMSSp® Mr W. A. Banks, a Canterbury Education Bcard. able to attend yesterday's that body owing to ill-health. : accorded a vote of s^ISH lost week Mr F. Rocket#. ttfijaSHf Partes street, Roisnata, "®* eipient of a handtome gift of his late Messrs Strange end Co."a. A rumour is current ia Mr H. S. Bussell, who ha» position of secretary to lie fi®«w ©sijj|sl terbury Hospital Board tox eighteen years, is cosaideriag. 4<Ws|||| ing his resignation, as & difference of opinion betweee and the Board. latems*w3 "IjfSfl "The Press" representative last night, the chairman of the Bev. T. "Wilson Potts, nothing whatever to say s» the