PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 802, 27 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon.. R. M'Kenzie, Minister for Public Works, left Napier yesterday afternoon for Dannevirke. Hβ will come on to Wellington to-day. ' : . The E<t. , Samuel Mathkson, formerly of Dunedin, has been appointed to the charge .of the Church of "Christ, Vivian Street. Mr'. Mathieson is expected to arrive next, .week, via Sydney, .from China, where he has been working .'as a missionary.. . ■ / ■• Mr. D. Miaren, M.P.,'."returned from the south yesterday. ."! Mr. Francis P. Kelly'wais yesterday admitted by Mr. Justice Cooper as a barrister of the Supreme Court, on 'the motion of Mr. H. F. O'Leary. Mr. Kelly is a member of the firm of O'Leary. and Kelly. . :.■'■ ' : Mr. James Monatt, formerly in business in the city and a." well-known member of the Wellington Bowling. Club, leaves on a trip to England, via America, by the Manuka on Friday. Mir. J. B. Godkin, of New Plymouth, and Mr. Arthur Perry, of Wellington, will leave for Sydney by-the Manuka on Friday evening.

Mr. George Gray, who retired from the position of controller and accountant to the Government.''Savings. ' Bank some three years ago, Iks somewhat seriously ill at his residence in Brougham Street.

The following have ajplied for the position of electrical engineer, for the borough of Invercargill:—Anderson (Westport), C. E. Barlow (Waihi), L. ..Birke (Rotorua), J. S. Burges (Otira), J. S. Cooper aiHl A. M. Hoopor (London), S. I. Crooks, R. Creagh, and H. A.. Dands (Auokland), A. Deuuiston and J. H. Ryder (Wellington), R. N. Fulton (Mataura), F. R. Shepherd (Uunedin), S. Symington and H. B. P. Wicks. (Christchurch), J. F. Welsh (Hokitika), ami Ernest Wilson (Invercargill, at present in England). The applications have been submitted to a committee .with power, to reduce the names to three.

The death occurred on Saturday morning of the Rev. F. Larkins, one of tho oldest and best known of the Anglican clergy in the diocese of Auckland. The late Mr. Larkins, who was 82 years of age at the time of his death, came to Auckland from the Old Country in the seventies, and was'for some time engaged in mercantile "business..- H<> joined the firm of Messrs. William Sl'Arthur and Co. as a partner. Even at this time Mr. Larkins took a great interest in church work, and did .very useful work as a lay reader, beinjj in 1379 associated with Mr. F. G. Ewington as lay reader at the gaol. He also figured prominently in the i'orlnation of the Prisoners' Aid Society, being one of the original founders. Mr. larkins and Mr. Ewington jointly man-, aged the work of the sdeiety for some time. The socie.ty still flourishes, and has grown considerably since,those days, but of the original founders'only Canon C. M. Nelsoii and Messrs. Ewington and J." H. Upton are now living. Mr. Larkins and Mr. Ewington were appointed joint, secretaries of Bishop Cowie's . Sailors' Rest and Home, which was founded by the bishop.

Fraulein Hermine Krupp, of Germany, who is touring the vorlil, is now in the south. She is shortly to bo the guest of Mrs. V. H. Ivitcat, of the vicarage, Marton.'

The Ar&moho-Waitotara parochial district has been cut in half, Waverley and Waitotara, with their adjacent localities, forming a new district. The Rev. J. Walker, of Wellington, has been appointed vicar of Aramoho, in succession to tho Rev. J. Humphreys, and the newvicar for Wavcrley ■ 15 expected to be appointed immediately.

Mr. 'Allan Macdougall, who went from Victoria College to New' College, Oxford, as tho holder of a Rhodes scholarship, recently played hockey for his collego against King's College, Cambridge. Air. Macdougall has beon spending his vacation in the south of England.

Yesterday the Prime Minister received a largo number of congratulatory messages, the occasion being Sir Joseph's fifty-fourth birthday.. Dr, Pairman, of Wanganui, leaves for .England by tfa« Mhe&io on. Mα? IS,

The Rev. H. A. Kennedy, one of the forerunners of the Anglican general mission, is returning ao England by the Athonic, which leaves there on May 19.

Captain , Geo, C. Hart, the Shaw, bavill and Albion Company's marine superintendent's assistant at Wellington, is retiring after 27 years' service with the company. Captain Hart has had a lengthy experience of the 6ea, and was for some years engaged in the New Zealand coastal trade. He has been granted a retiring allowance. Mr. 0. D. Inman, ot the bhaw-SaviU Company's stevedoring department at Wellington, will succeed Captain Hart.

Mr. 1 homes William Enpley has been appointed organiser for the Liberal Party throughout.-New/Zealand. In an-inter-view which a representative of ,The Dominion had with the Prime Minister yesterday, Sir Joseph explained that the appointment of Mr. Kapioy in no way alfoeted the position of ■ Mr. Gallichau as general .secretary. Mr. Gallichan had (he continued) done very useful work indeed for the Liberal Party, but the work involved in the matter of correspondence alone had been for a considerable time beyond the capacity of one man, who had also to carry, on the intermittent work of organising. For this reason it was considered advisable to appoint another organiser, who would give the necessary attention that was. required from time to time in the country, and allow the large volume of correspondence to be kept right up to date by Mr. Gallichan. "The appointment of Mr. Rapley," added Sir Joseph, "in no' sense reflected upon Mr. Gallichan's work in the past."

■ Mr. and Mrs. W. Kndlay, of Wellington, intend to leave for London next month. They will travel by the Athenic.

Mr. Koberts, medical superintendent of To Waikato Sanatorium, Maungakawa, has tendered his resignation to the Health Department. ■

The death occurred at Palmerston yesterday afternoon of Mr.' B. N. Keeling, aged 72 years.. Mr. Keeling was an old resident of the' town, and for some 30 years was town clerk there. He waa secretary of tho first Town Board formed at Palmerston, and retained his position as town clerk till about three years ago, when he resigned. He was then, appointed treasurer, and retained that position, and that of Registrar of Births, Deaths, arid Marriages till the time of his death, which was dne to heart failure. Mr. Keeling - came to New Zealand'from England some i 5 years ago, and, after residing for a time at New. Plymouth and Marton, came to Palmerston in 1872 as sohoolmaster at .the first school. He resigned that position three years later, nnd took the position of town clerk. He married.Miss H. A. Hoby, of New Plymouth, who ; predeceased him, and he leaves a family 1 of nine, namely, Messrs. G.W. Keeling, Palmerston, A. W., H. A., and E. N. Keeling, of Wellington, P. N. Keeling, of Masterton, N. J. Keeling, of Auckland, Mrs. C: C. Cox, Masterton, and Miss K. A. Keeling and P. C. D. Keeling, of Palmerston. Deceased was a prominent Mason and i'oiester, and had held all offices in the lodges!of both societies at Palmerston. The funeral is to take place on Thursday.—Press Association. '. .' ■'■'.".