PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 674, 26 November 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor, Lord Pltmket, Is a passenger by the Maori, which left Lyttelton tor Wellington last night.

The Rev. Harold Anson, late warden of St. John's College, Auckland, and now ,reotor o£ Badsworth, Jforkshiro, has been offered and has accepted 'tho living of Birch, near Manchester. The living is in the gift of Sir Wil. ham Anson, Bart,, Warden of All Souls, Oxford. ' ' h The Very Rev. Father Peter Paul Murray, oJ Waratah,' New South Wales, has been appointed Superior of the Redomptorist Order in New Zealand, viooj'the Very Rev. Father .Chine. i Captain Henry Ti)>uison, the Wellington harbourmaster, has'reached the retiring age, but the board, in committee, yesterday decided to continue him in ofhee. The Hon. T Kennedy Jlaedonald. M.L.C., remarked alterwards in opeli board that tho board had very willingly adopted this decision, as members recognised the faithful aud long-continued sorvice of Captain Johnson, who was an extremely , valuable officer of. tho board. The chairman (Mr. Wilford, M.P.) conourred,vdth, these, expressions. '' Mr. J. A. HnUon,. ohw|, $t (Wellington, has left for the north on holiday leave. Mr. E. ,B. Morris, Inspector, is acting in his stead, i> I x f Miss 'P M." Hunt, tssistantiteacher' at the Ptitono'Main School, has lesigned her appointment. ' ' ' Mr, James Redstone, who has secured the coach mail contraots ot Poverty Baj, has been on a vifait to, Wellington. He returns north this morning. Mr. Wm. Mutter, ot Gisborne, is abo in Wellington at tho present time. > , t Hr. doro Adams, mining' engineer, and a former director of ths Thames School of Mines, who has been doing some uork in the Auckland district, leaves tor Monte Video by the lonio on Thursday next on route to Chile r-a-country rich in minerals, of which Mr. Adams has heard much, both when he was in Colombia last >ear,and since he has been in New Zealand. It is understood that there aro good openings for capital in mining Nentures in Chile, and when he leaves Mr. Adams will take with him a good sum for investment. A publio reception is to be given at tho Concert Chamber .of tho Town Hall this even- *•?? to M r- w > u Crooks, M.P., and Mrs. Crooks. Ihe visitors, wll he received by his Worship the Mayor, and Mrs. bowman, and Councillor i I. P. Luke The death is reported at Melbourne of Mr. Robert Hall, formerly an employee of the Stewart Timber and Hardwaro Co., who took to i tho vaudeville stage. ' The late Mr Hall was a valued member of the old Wellington Operatic Society and the Wellington Dramatic iStuueats. - , Tho following appointments of teiohers were confirmed at a mooting of tho flawke's Bay Education Board yesterday J. Clapham, assistant, Mahora; Miss M. E. Boss, isBistant, Mahora Miss E. M. M'Keown, assistant, Tolaga Bay;' Mr. S. M. Kemp, headmaster, Porangahau At tho committee's, request Miss Mfirfolli romains temnoranlv m plinrim nf i tho Waipatiki School. P The Lp?cto r9 r?com- ! mended the transfer of Miss Cook irom Wai. pawa to Port Ahunri. The following resigna. tione were received-Miss,A, Magill, assistant, Haehngs. Miss OBrien declined appointmont as assistant at Tolaga Bay. Officers ropiesonting the, garrisons at Auckland, Wellington, Chnstchurcb, and Dnnodin have ananged to firo a teams match on Decomber i uoxt. Each team is to fiie on its own range The team to reprosent Wellington will bo selected from the following.-If ajoi C U Mackintosh Major Potherick, Captains Mathieson, M'Diarmid, and Corrigan, and Lieutenants Mellor, Roberts, Skolley, Roacho, Bolton, Beamish, Hawthorn, Gibbs, and .Uerriclces. Mr. J. H 1 M'llroy.-who has held,the posim^ff°ri^ n V SoC H, Ctary ? f J?" n °™t™ Swimming Club for tho past two years, was onteitaincd by members of the club last evomni; prior to his dopar ure for Napier to loin tho BtaS of Messrs Dalgety and Co. Tho chair wai S? OUP M.n by M «, a -$ o W™> who presented Mr. M Ilroy with a handsomo travollinir bnir, and remarfod on the enthusiasm which had characterised the departing secretary's efforts on behalf of-tho ckl, and tho loss that was being sustained by the cliib and tho sport generally. In replying, Mr, M'Uroy Intimated his intention of presenting a trophy (o the club, for a 100 yards iaco. Mr. C. A. Mf.cDonald is canying on the duties of secretary of tho club in the meantime.