PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 816, 13 May 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. Dr. Findlay has promised t<s deliver his postponed address on "Native laud; its settlement and law" at Whangarei before the session, if time will permit. 'He has also been asked to. speak at two other northern, centres.

My, Guthrie,* M.P, for Oroua, is on a visit to Wellington. '■'■■:

The Anglican Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Neligan) was taken ill on Monday afternoon. Upon Dr. Jiarsack being called i(i, the Bishop was pronounced to be suffering from a threatened nervous breakdown./ Ho has been ordered com-, plete rest and freedom from all duties for a few days. The. Government decided yesterday to

recommend that the New Zealand Cross be conferred upon Mr. Northcroft, formerly stipendiary magistrate at Auckland. Dri Bartholomew, late of Feilding, who has been living for. several years in ■San Francisco, where h? was connected with St. Joseph's Hospital, arrived in Wellington by the Mokoia from Tahiti yesterday, on a visit to his relatives at

Foilding. On his-return to America Dr, Bartholomew will enter into private practice, in Han Francisco.

Mr. John M'Dougall, a shipwright well known throughout the Dominion, died at Northcote on Tuesday last at the advanced age of 78. Deceased, who so far as is known left no relatives in. tho Dominion, learned his trade at Liverpool, and after trading for some years tci India, settled in New Zealand.' about 30 years ago. Deceased was for many years a member of the Eoyal Arch Chapter of the Masonic Order.

Mr. Joseph M'Cabe, a prominent member of the Rationalistic Press Association, is expected in Auckland on' May 2C, and will give a course of three lectures on Evolution.

Mr. J. M.': Ellis,'formerly manager oi the Coiupagnie de Phosphates da l'Oceanie, Papeete, arrived in Wellington by the Mokoia from Tahiti yesterday. ■ .

' Mr. - William Bradley, of the Egypt General Mission, is expected to arrive in Wellington from Wanganui to-mor-row night. He will address a. men's meeting at tho Y.M.C.A. on Sunday, and inaugurate tho association's Bible study work for the winter. The Egypt General Mission is an organisation that has it? headquarters in London and draws much of its strength also from Belfast, Ireland. It is iuter-denominational, and carries on religions, educational, and medical work iu Egypt. .

A Piinedin Press Association telegram records the death of Mr. A. W. Morris, an old resident of Dunedin, and a director of the Union Steam Ship Coinpauy. ' • ■ • | . The Koyal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, has hung a largo water colour of the Copcland Gorge, New Zealand, by 11 r. C. W. Worsley.. Mr. Cecil Jameson", late of Wellington, has also been successful in having a picture hung at the same exhibition.

Staff Captain Orames, Provincial Seo rotary of the Salvation Army, leaver to-morrow for Woodville, Hawko's Ray, and Marton. He will return to Wellington about the end of the. month.

Brigadier Holdawny, officer in clmrg< of the young people's work of the Salvation Army, leaves -to-morrow to address meeting? 'at Auckland, Whangarci, and Auckland suburbs. He will bo absent from Wellington until the end of the month.

Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Tripe returned from a. visit to Sydney yesterdny. ■

Mr. E. Trelawny, the superintendent in Australia for the T\ and 0. Company, left Sydney on Saturday by tho R.M.S. Mooltim on liis annual visit to London. Ho will probably be absent for five or six month?. . ,■

Mr. C. A. Briggs, who for many ye.ire has acted as secretary, and at times ax acting-inannper, has been appointed uuus ager of E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd. ;