PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 841, 13 June 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■ 9 All the Ministers of the Crown are now in town witli tho exception of the Hon. A. T. Ngata, who is not expected to return from Port Awanui until the end of the week. The Hon. J. A. Millar reached Wellington by the Main Trunk express on Saturday afternoon. The Hon. James Carroll returned to Wellington on Saturday from the Native. Conference at Waahi. Mr. Justice Sim, President of the Arbitration Court, arrived yesterday from the south, to preside over the sittings of the Court, which begin here to-day. His Honour Mr. Justice Edwards, who has been presiding over the Supreme Court in Wanganui, was a passenger to Wellington by the New Plymouth express train on Saturday evening. Mr. W. Ferguson, chairman of the ;01iinem«ri-Silting r: Coinmission, has returned' to Wellington. ■ Mr. H. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary for Public. Works, who has been visiting Australia, is on board tho Victoria, which was expected to arrive in Auckland at an early, hour this morning. Mr. Blow will probably leave for Wellington by the Main Trunk express this morning. Mr. W. C. Konsington, Under-Secre-tary for Lands, returned on Saturday from an official visit to tho Rangitaiki drainage district. < Mr. R. M'Nab is on board the Arawa, which arrived in the stream from Hobart last evening. Mr. Angus M'Alpine, second son of Mrs. J. M'Alpine, of Wellington, died last week at New Plymouth. Mr. M'Alpine served with the Eighth New Zealand Contingent in South Africa. He was also a prominent member of the AVellington Rowing Club, and of the Melroso Football Club. Mr. W. S. Hampson, of Nelson, who has been attending the meeting of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, returned home by the Arahura on Saturday. Mr. J. Downes, who has been principal warder at the Terrace Gaol for about a year, 1 , loaves for the north this •morning 'to take up his new duties as gaoler at Waiotapu. Mr. Robert B. Bell, manager of the "Ashburton Guardian," is at present making a short stay in Wellington. A southern journal states that the health of tho member for Lyttelton is causing serious anxiety to his friends, and his resignation, of the whipship is absolutely nacessary. He has recently had several bad attacks of heart weakness, and his medical advisers stato emphatically that he must rest as completely as possible. Mr. Wm. Scott, employers' representative on the Arbitration Court, arrived yesterday from Dunedin to attend a sitting of the Court to bo held here to-day. Tho Waynflete Professorship of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford, vacant by the resignation of Mr. T. Case, has been filled by the appointment of Mr. J. A. Smith, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol. Mr. Smith was born at Dingwall in 1864, was educated at Edinburgh University and Balliol, and has been since 1891 a Fellow of Balliol and a teacher of philosophy. Ho has published little or nothing. But he is known to many in Scotland and in Oxford as a man of real personality and very varied knowledge, a sound and accurate classical scholar, and a powerful teacher. Canon John Huntley Skrine, Merton, Vicar of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, lias been elected Bampton Lecturer at Oxford for 1911. His subject will be "the Creed and the Creeds: their Function in Religion." At the Sydney College of Music's annual distribution of certificates- and diplomas, Dr. Nash, M.L.C., spoke of the musical genius and Australian grit of two young New South Wales natives —Harold Sturrock and .David Burt. Their career had Ix'eii described in the Melbourne "Age." They had been handicapped as much as two lads could be. Ten years ago Sturrock had lo3fc a leg. "Two and a half years ago," said Dr. Nash, "lie called on mo, and said he was going to Germany." A friend who played the violin (Burt) was going with him, and they would work their way from place to place. They went away steerage, and Sturrock was now leading violin in the orchestra at the Leipzig Conservatorium. And they must remember that in Europo there was the competition of millions of people, and of musical talent developed [or centuries.