PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 506, 13 May 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Ling, , of Otaki, who has been in Sydnoy for some weeks, returned to Wellington yesterday.. Mr. Towry Piper, well-known in local musical circles, is leaving for London on May 20 by the Shaw-Savill liner Arawa. Mr. F. F. Grady, one of the well-known firm of iewoMs, leaves Wellington on May .20 for London by! the Shaw-Savill'liner Arawa.'. The Hon. Dr. Findlay, Minister for Justice leaves for Auckland on Saturday. He will represent the Government at the Selwyn contenaiy'colobrations at Auckland on Thureday next. . ' A Press Association' telegram states that Mr.. T. E. Donne, until recently General Manager of Tourist and Health Resorts, passed through Christchurch yesterday, on route to England. , Mr. H. F. von Haast 'has been elected a member of tho Senate of the University of Now Zealand by . the District Court of Convocation for the Viotoria College district Professor G. W. von Zeidlitz was the other candidate, the voting being—Mr. von Haast 197, Professor von Zeidlitz 118.

Mr. J. Soaeffcr, of California University arrived hore yesterday from San Francisco b.v tho ialune. Ho has come to Now Zealand to study Rugby football. On his return ho vail imixvrt nis knowledge of tho garao to ms imivorsity team,- prior to their meeting Stafford University m November. A great deal of interest always centres on this fixture It is said to bo something akin to English interest in th© Cambridge-Oxford boat race. Amongst tho arrival by tho Talnno.from |aluti and IWotouga on Tuesdav night was Mr Garnet Holme of Jesus Oollcgo, .Cambridge. Ho is a. classical professor at Cambridge University, and pi ior to leaving that institution _producod Henry Yancfycko's ' House of Reunion" iu the Greek Theatre attached' to the university. Mr. Holmo is to pilot a band of forty AmericMi; boys throughout Australasia. . Tlioy aro duo in about a month's time, and wil) tour from Auckland to tho Bluff before sotting out t j.i } they will bo tbo ! guests of .the Young Australian League. Tho lads aro part of a largo organisation, and are known in n corporate sense as tho Columbia lark Club, flicy givo musical, dramatic, una gymnastic entertainments by way; of self-support. This also—self-help—is another article of tlio club's creeds It is to bei nractisod in Nc\y Zealand and Australia; One .of t-lio conditions of tho Australasian tour was that each boy should be able to play a musical instrument.' The baud, judging by its performances iiv California, must be a extod one.

lho liev. ltobert Wood, wlio was formerly •Presbyterian minister at Masterton, has received a unanimous call to tho cuargo of Waikari, North Canterbury. : Miss E. Kompthorno, of No.lsqtl, . wiifl is proceeding to England to further her musical studies, lias booked by tho Shaw-Sovifl imnr ■ Arawa, leaving Wellington on May 20. . Mr. Francis E, Petlierick, ■ % member of tlio firm of Bunny,• Petherick, and ' Ay Ron, vvnß yesterday admitted as a barrister of the Supremo Court, by Mr. Justice Chapman, on tho motion of Mr. Poll. •. Mr. J. J; AVeir, of the Now Plymouth Railway Goods' Office, was recently ontortained by his fellow employees and presented with a gold sovereign case, on the occasion of his transfer from tho Now Plymouth station to a position at the Thorndon Station, Wellington.; Mr. J. B. MacEwan loft on Tuesday by tho Main Trunk lino for Auckland, from which, place he Trill Bail for England, via Suva, where ho will-take the Malrura for Vancouver. Ho intends to. spend six weeks in Canada and then go on to London, .where he will join Mrs. MacEwan. Mr. G. Uren, of the bead office of'tho Customs Department, is being transferred to Auckland as landing waiter, and his place is being filled by Mr. W. O'Sleara, of the local • long-room staff./ Mr. J. • Patrick, landing waiter at Wellington, is also being transferred to Auckland. ■ ■ Mr. J, ,M. A. Dott was a passenger from Sydney yesterday by tho 8.8. Moana, having ,been away • Bince the latter part. of March ?? i? 71 Mr. Hott inoluded Melbourne and Adelaide also in his trip: but spent most of his holiday at 'Tilriiiga, tho residence of Mr, Sidney Kidman,' near Kapunda, South Australia, Mr. Thomas Cook, the talented riolinist , and secretary of the Wellington Orchestral Society, intends leaving for England in , six weeks tune. , Though Eo does not intend to ' take up the violin as a profession, it is Mr. Cook's intention to take lessons from one of the best masters. Ho will remain at Homo for nt least two or threo years. Mr. Cook will bo missed as a member of tho Savage Club, where ho is'leader of tho orchestra,' ,