PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1172, 6 July 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

To-day tho Acting-Prime Minister and tho Hon. A. T. Ngata will be in Canterbury, the Hon. J. A. Millar, the Hon. D. Buddo, and the Hon. G. Fowlds in AVellington, the Hon. T. Mackenzie in Tnranaki, and the Hon. 11. M'Kcnzie in Nelson.

The Hon. R. M'Keuzie left yesterday for Nelson and tho West Coast, where he will spend a. few days.

A number of members of tho Reform party arc in Wellington at present, in connection with the mass meeting in tho Town Hall to Im addressed this evening by Mr. \V. F. Massoy, leader of (he party.

At St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Manchester Street, Christchurch, a requiem ma<-. was celebrated yesterday for (lie late Dean Ginaty. An eloquent sermon was pi-inched by Bishop Grimes, who dealt with "ho highly praiseworthy work done by He.hi Ginaty in establishing the .Mount Magdala Home.—Press Association.

Mr. AV. R. Bloomiield, well-known in hockey and rowing circles in Auckland, arrives in Wellington this evening by the Napier mail train. Mr. Bloomiield, who has served an apprenticeship in architecture, leaves by the Moeraki for Sydney to-morrow, oil route for America, where he will spend live years studying up-to-dato features of his profession.

Mr. W. B. Lees, Wellington manager for Messrs. 'Bing, Harris, anil Co., returned from a visit to Australia by the Manuka yesterday.

The popularity of the late Mr. Duncan M'Murrich, superintending engineer ior the Union S.S. Company in Wellington, was evidenced by (he large attendance at his funeral yesterday morning. A Requiem Mass was celebrated in St. Mary of the Angels Church, Boulcott Street, by tho Rev. Father Venning, S.M. There were also present in the sanctuary the Ven. Archdeacon Devoy, tho Vicar-General (the Very Rev. Father O'Shea, S.M.), and the liev. Father Ainsworth. Those present in the church and at the graveside included a largo number oi' engineers representing the Union S.S. Company, Harbour Board, and private firms in the city, tho deceased being highly respected and held in affectionate regard by all who knew him. Tho pallbearers were four chief engineers of tho Union Company—Messrs. R. M'lntyre, J. Cable, S. J. Carman, and S. M'Dowell— ami the Marine Engineers' Institute was very largely represented. The remains were interred in tho Karori Cemetery, the Rev. Father Venning officiating at the graveside. Tho inquiry into the accident which caused Mr. M'Murrich's death was formally opened on Tuesday, and adjourned until Monday afternoon at tho Magistrate's Court.

M. Eugene Ossipoff, the Russian pianist, and his accompanist, Miss Reno Lees, arrived from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday morning.

Cabled advice has been received that a soil of Mr. Alfred Isaacs, of Dunedin, lias gained a sub-professorship at the Royal Academy, London; also tho Macfarren scholarship, tenable for threo years, besides the Frederick Westlake scholarship.—Press Association. Messrs. F. W. Haybittlc, A. I.ovy, Falk Cohen, and C. and T. Young, of Wellington, were passengers from Sydney by tho Manuka yesterday. Mr. E. C. Lyon, world's representative for Morse's Indian Root Pills, arrived from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday.