PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 976, 17 November 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Grace Archbishop. Redwood, who has been attending the Eucharistic Con--1 gress at Montreal (Canada) returned tc Wellington by. the Moeraki yesterday afternoon, and received a warm welcome from the Rev. Fathers O'Shea', Hickson, Peoples, and other representatives of the clergy and laity who awaited the arrival of his Grace on the Queen's Wharf, Archbishop Redwood informed a Dominion reporter that he had enjoyed the trip, and returned in the very best of health: Respecting the doings at Montreal he said it was his intention to give a description of the Congress and what it had done at the reception to be_ accorded him in the Town Hall on Friday evening. ■ . ' Mr. William Henry, founder and secretary of tho Royal Life Saving Society of Great Britain, Will bo the guest of honour at the New Zealand Club s luncheon, to be heid at the Y.M.C.A. at 1 p.m. to-day. Mr. W/ AV. Kennedy, local manager for the Union Steam Ship Company, re-, turned from a trip to Australia • yesterday by the Moeraki. A Wanganui Press Association telegram states that Mr. Alexander Russell, borough engineer, died yesterday morning. He, had. been ailing only a few weeks,.and • had two operations performed. He leaves a wife and three children. .. Acting-Lieutenant Meadwell, of the Zealandia Rifles, has passed his cxamina- . tion for commissioned rank. Mr. and Sirs. Frank Grady, jun., returned from a trip to England ,by the Moeraki yesterday. - Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Coles, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Palmer, of Petone, _who have beeu on a trip to the United Kingdom and the Continent returned to Wellington by tho Moeraki yesterday. Among the passengers for Wellington from Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday were the Rev. Orther, Drs. Haywpod, Hamilton, and-Pearson, Mr. and Mrs! A. H. Cock' (formerly of Picton , and now of Sydney), and Mr. and Mrs. F. • H, Broderick', of the Lower Hutt. When the last mail left Sydney Mr. L. C.. Woolcott/of the "Daily Telegraph" literary staff, and formerly of Wellington,., was suffering from an attack of pleurisy and had been ordered away to the Blue Mountains for a spell. Air. Charles Petterson, of Dunedin, has been appointed manager of the Waimatc gasworks in place of Mr. G. Marriott, who goes to Eltham. There were sixteen applicants for the position. Richard Arnst; champion sculler of the world, who recently defeated Barry, the English sculler, on the Zambesi, is.due. to arrive here from- Soutir Africa by the Ruapehu to-morrow. Colonel A. W.- Robin, C.8., Chief of the General Staff; who. has been on an official, visit ,to Nelson,, returned to Wellington yesterday.'At a meeting of the Dunedin City' Council last night the.Town Clerk, Mr. R. W. Richards, sent in his resignation, to take effect from March 1, 1911.. Tho'resignation was accepted with regret.—Press Association.