Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18415, 23 June 1925, Page 8

Personal Items.

The Prince of Wales, now touriaje South Africa, is 31 years of age to-day

Mr C. S. Thomas will leave to-dar for Hokitika. J

Mr J. R. Kirk, solicitor, has announced himself as a candidate for the, Gisborne scat as a supporter of fusioa. Guests at Warner's Hotel inchnfo Messrs D. C. Cowan (Salisbury, Rbodesia), end R. Bethell (Amuri). Crs. A. D. Ford and C. Carr havo i been appointed to represent the Cirr * Council on tho committee of the Muni- ; cipal Baud. ?

Mr Goo. A. Bishop, principal of G«o. t A. Bishop's Advertising Agency, Dua» 1 edin, is at present in Chnstcharch in U connexion with Now Zealand aait % South Seas Exhibition business. JK Mr H. P. Donald, formerly Chief "*« Postmc.Uer, Timaru, has taken tip hi* -8 duties as Chief Postmaster, Chris*. % church, in succession to Mr J. E. . » Jiroudfoot, retired. H

Recent arrivals at the Claresdoa $ Hotel include Messrs B. A. Y. Wvan*. * Yorko (WaiparaV A. T. Wallis. fl- " Hailigan (uuncdin>. U. K. Ireland j (Oamaru), J. W. Fleming > ton), H- Coxhead, ami R. L. Wigky ; (Tiniaru). Lieutenant-Colonel P. M. Actfta ? Adams, D.5.0.. relinquishes command f of the C.Y.I'., is promoted to tho raak " < of Colonel, and appointed to coniinaatl tho 3rd New Zealand Mounted Riflw Brigade. Major 11. C. Hurst, D.S.G., C.Y.C.. is appointed to command tfca regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel H. Stewart, C.M.G., D.5.0., M.C.. front \ the reserve of officers, is to bo promoV j ed to Colonel, and is appoiuted to cols' * mand 3rd >iew Zealand Infantry Bji. J gade. , j Private cable advice has &ecn recci*. I cd that Mr J. D. H. Buchanan, of | .Christehurch, who for the last three J years has been at Pembroke College, | Cambridge, has passed his B.X. de- J J greo with second-class honours at that 7- I University. Mr Buchanan was bead } | prelect of Christ's College in 1920, and i \ in that vear obtained a Unitenity „h' . scholarship. During 1921 he purswrf ,$ ' his studies at Canterbury College whfl» Jp a member of the staff at Christ's C& ■£ lege, and in 192*2 went to Cambndjfc fr whero Tor the last three years he has || been taking an arts course, wA ft special attention to chemistry and 'ft geology. He left England last vmk to return to >"cw Zealand, and tefc* "•* up a position as a house tutor & i i Christ's College. - „' 1 Mr Gordon Elliot, tho Reform et*. J didatc for the Oroua constituency, U* ■'; man in the prime of life, and a Xw, f= Zc.alander (telegraphs our WelUngttk \ correspondent). He is popular «< i ■well known throughout the district. Sm » has been representing well-known fi«B* as a stock and station agent in tin ' %) Wairarapa and Fcilding districts *ar"i." -;*•: number of years. He was manager y &? the Flock House estato for Means j& McKelvie Bros., and in that capacitor « ho was conspicuously successful. «« * tm ; a man with large experience in pastoral *W& and agricultural pursuits. Though **« l■» up in years, he was one of tho first t» fA volunteer to serve in the war, but «aat %gm then not considered medically fit. W» ffl raado a second attempt later on to jfftat, tho Forces, but was again nnanceejsW. Afterwards ho did most valuable m <J§H in recruiting. He is an intellectual «*» 1 Y|H and an impressive speaker. The <!■ D. H. Guthrie, the sitting member, jwl MM not be a candidate at the next eleetiaaw j|||