PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 927, 21 September 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Their Excellencies, the Governor and Lady Islington, accompanied by Mjsi; Stapleton-Cotton and attended by Captain Crichton-Maitland, A.D.C., were present at Madame Calve's concert at the Opera House last night. Lady Islington has signified her consent to be elected patroness of the Arts Club. The Rev. T. G. Kay, vicar of Wadestown, who is leaving for England, willleave Wellington in time to pick up the Orient liner Orsova, which leaves Sydney for London on November 12. ' Dr. Graham Bell, the famous inventor of the and Mrs. Bell, with Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Baldwin, who have been. touring Now. Zealand, \leave. Wellington for Sydney on September 30 by the Moeraki. . Lieutenant-Colonel ;A. Bauchop, C.M.G., Officer Commanding the' Wellington District, had. sufficiently recovered from his recent indisposition to successfully; undergo an operation for appendicitis at a private hospital yesterday. He is now progressing favourably. ' . . Miss M. E. Richardson, late of the staff of the District Land Office, leaves Wellington for Sydney by the Ulimaroa on Friday/next. . At Sydney she joins the Osterley for London. \ . The Hon. E. Mitchelson, of...Auckland, :has. been-created a.- Knight, of Grace of the Order of tho Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. It is understood that he has been selected for .tho honour on account of tho work lie has done in connection' with Veterans'. Home, of Onehunga. ; A similar honour has also been conferred upon Sir James Mills, managing director of tho Union Steam Ship Company, :of Dunedin. . Private cable advice has been received recording the death at Ostarietta, Switzerland, on 1 Friday last, of Dr. Francis Blake Hutchinson, for some years a resident: of Wellington. The deceased gentleman, ■ who was' 63 years of age, was born in London;and took his, medical degree there, After .that ho left;England-for America, stayed for a : time at Honolulu, and afterwards came on to Wellington, where he set up/ in practice-in the buildipg at'the-corner, of Manners Street and;'Willis' Street,' now occupied by the New , Zealand. Alliance. and others, and. for many; years the home' of the late Dr. - . Harding. .About the' year 1888 he went to Taranaki,. and ; becameone of x the pioneer settlers of the Ngatimaru <Block, near Inglewood. After ten years in the'bush! he took, up his. residence in New : Plymouth, where he remained until he returned to Europe. Dr. Ilutehinson was married twice.. : His .first, wife* died in America ,and his: second-, was a; native! of Switzerland, the country.. where' he spent the later years of. his life. Dr. Hutchinson-was an. ardent physical "cul.tunst, an entertaining' speaker, '.'and jui enthusiastic student of. botany. ''- He has. left a widow and a family, of two sons and three daughters; , The' eldestson. is. Mr.-. Frank Hutchinson, nowfarming in the south of England; and the youngest: Mr; I George, Hutchinson, ; who has . invented a -milking • machine and other; labour-saving .at present travelling to London in con- . nection.with one of his .latest patents.; The daughters are Mrs. Mackenzie (wife of Dr. .Mackenzie,, of ; Levin); Mrs. Hawkes, of.Otago, and Miss Hutchinson,; of Christchurch., ' . The Anglican Bishop of Auckland .(Dr. Neligah), after consultation'.with the vestry, has. appointed the Rev. George Craig Cruickshank, B.A-, Keble College; Oxford, to sticcecd the Rov. J. B. Brocklehurst as vicar of Whangarei. .. Mr;; Cruickshank,.who is a son. of the' late Mr. D.. B. Cruickshank, of Auckland,.! was •itrained ;at - Ely Theologi-cal-College, and St. Hilda's, Darlington. He left the parish to join tho home mission staff of tho . Auckland diocese, and has been working in the Taranaki homo' mission . district since February, 1909. -V- -'Y, -, Among. the passengers to arrive by ' the Maori from the"... south this morning are Mr; Justice Sim and Sir George Captain M'Art-hur, of ,:the ;Maoriland Steamship left V for.. Nelson by' the. Mapourika yesterday. ..} He;, is \a director of • the Golden Bay Cement Company," and is. on a business visit to tho works. '-K,