PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Samuel Carroll, secretary of tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce, has been too indisposed to attend to bis duties lately. His friends will wish, him a speedy recovery. Monsieur Boeufve, French Consnl for New Zealand, who is at present in Paris, has been appointed French Consul at Liverpool.—Press Association. Mr. and Mrs. William Finlayj of Clyde Quay, returned from a trip to England yesterday. Staff-Surgeon H. Woods, of H.M.S. Cambrian, who has been ill in Australia, arrived frbin Sydney yesterday by tho Warrimoo, to join his ship, which is now in tho south. Staff-Surgeon Woods is a cousin of Mrs. J. J. Burke, of Lower Hutt. Mr. Leonard S. Monk arrived from Sydney yesterday to make arrangements for a short tour in New Zealand of, Mr. Lawrence Campbell, one of Australia's leading elocutionists, who lias been established in Sydney as teacher of dramatic art for many years. If arrangements can be made, Mr. Campbell will commence his tonr here at Christmas time. His repertoire will include tho recital of Dickens's "Christmas Carol." Mr. Monk is not altogether a stranger to New Zealand, having toured the Dominion as a member of Mr. Wm. Hawtrey's "Message from Mars" Company some years ago.

Mr. J. Garry, who was a member of tie Grand Opera Company's orchestra, arrived yesterday from Sydney, under engagement to Messrs. Fuller and Sons. Mr. Garry will most probably be attached to the orchestra of His Majesty's Theatre as leading violin. Mr. W. J. Morpeth, of Newtown, returned from a trip to Australia yesterday. Mr. L. B. Linklater, of Wellington, was a passenger from Sydney by the Warrimoo yesterday. According to the "British-Australasian" of October 20, Mr. Harold Gregson, the New Zealand organist, gave his hnal organ recital at the Palace of Music, White City, on Friday afternoon, prior to his departure for Auckland on October 28. Mr. Gregson presented a programme which showed to good advantage bis brilliant manual and pedal work and clever registration. Somo remarkable fine solo, eflccts were obtained in the rendering given of Bizet's "Intermezzo," the delightfully, dulcet notes of the "organ birds" pleasing .the. big audience me'nsely, 'who insisted on an encore. "'Mr: Gregson's New Zealand friends were present in large numbers and gave him an enthusiastic reception. Mr. Gregson concludes his London recitals at the Cry-, stal Palace on October 26. Two days later he and Mrs. Gregson return to New Zealand, after a short stay on the Continent, joining their steamer at Marseilles. Major J. W. Goold, Messrs. A. W. Manning, J. H. Mace, A. Butt, and Mrs. BaibaTa Bruce are saloon passengers to Wellington by the Sussex,-due'here on December 19 from Liverpool.Mr. John Barr, formerly a well-known .Wellington pressman, and now subeditor of tho Sydney "Bulletin," has been elected president of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists. ; A London, correspondent who has been looking up'the dato of the birth of Mr. Henry Burling, the well-known centenarian of Waikanae, found in tho Westham Church, Stratford, the register of his birth entered in the parish register on October 25, 1807, the date of birth heing given as October 5 of that year, so that this wonderful old man is now in his 104 th year. Mr. Eobert Necdham, a New Zealand baritone, who' was- for some years engaged in concert and comic opera work in Australia, latterly under the banner of Mr. J. C. Williamson, is now playing tho part of the Prince in ."The Merry Widow" in one of Mr. Georje Edwardes' provincial touring companies. Mr. J. Liddell Kelly, well known in journalistic circles in New Zealand, arrived in the Dominion from England on Monday last, landing at the Bluff from the Ulimaroa. It is Mr. and Mrs. Kelly's intention to take up their residence in Auckland. Mr. S. W. Dowling, a visitor from Sydney, was a passenger by the Warrimoo to Wellington yesterday. Mr. Dowling intends spending somo time in New Zealand sight-seeing. Mr. John Buchanan, who was well known to a large number of the older engineers.in New Zealand, died recently in Glasgow at tho age of fifty. Mr. Buchanan sat for his first-class certificate in New Zealand, and was in tho service- of the Union Steam Ship Company for'about ten years. Ho left Ncw Zoaland to join his brothers in partnership as a director of tho Buchanan Line of steamships, which was established by his father in 1852.