PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1219, 30 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

According to a letter read in the Legislative Council yesterday by Sir John Fiiidlay, the Speaker of tho Council, Sir C. C. Bowen was to leave London by the Kotorna and is due hero about' tho middle of September. Sir John Findby stated that he saw Sir Charles ■Bowen in London and he was then very well and feeling the benefit of tho trip. Mr. T. G. Macarthy is slowly recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia. His medical adviser has ordered him to a warmer climate, and with Mrs. Macarthy, he wilJ Jeavo for Sydney probably on Friday week. Mr. W. H. Triggs, editor of ih» Christchurcli "Press," arrived yesterday on a visit to Wellington. Mr. F. Lawry (Parncl!) was elected i'o the position of chairman of the Agricultural, Pastoral, Stock, and Commerce Committee of tho House of Representatives yesterday. This will be the ttventytliird session (luring which Mr. Lawry has presided over the proceedings of the committee, and in re-electing him the members of the committee spoke in highly complimentary twins of Mr. Lawry's scr vices. Mr. G. Carson has been re-elected to represent tho Wnnganui Education Board on the Committee of Advico of tho Wellington Training College Dr. J. Q. A. Henry, in writing to Mr. JI. If. Holmes, states ho has just concluded- his final mission in Australasia. It was held at Toowoomlxi, Queensland. Dr. Henry hit Sydney on Monday by tho Makuia, en route to America.

The Wellington Education Board, at its meeting yesterday, expressed, by way of resolution, its sympathy and condolence, with the relatives of tho late Mr. J. H. Griffiths, formerly assistant master at Newtown District High School, whoso untimely demise, at the early age of 27, occasioned widespread regret among flio deceased's many friends oiifl acquaintances.

Mr. Herbert Freeman, tho nowlyelected member of tho Wellington Education Board, was welcomed by members at the board's meeting yesterday. Mr. Freeman has been chairman of the Ob.ki School Committee., and has also been a member of several public bodies, being at present chairman of tho Horowhenua County Council, hi reply lo the goud fishes of his new confreres, Mr. Freeman assured the beard of his interest in the cr.uso of education, and expressed the opinion that a man could not devote his time to a greater purpose than thn furtherance of the interests of children's education.

Mr. Robert Leo was re-elected chairman of tho ■Wellington Education Board at the monthly meeting of Iho board vestorday on the motion of Mr. A. W. llo"g, M.P-, seconded by Mr. AVilliam Allan. The mover said that Mr. I.ec had conducted tho presidency of the board with dignity and efficiency, and the proceedings in meeting assembled had been marked by the utmost good feeling and cordiality, a circumstance largely due to Mr. Lw> ; s personality. In reply, Mr. Lee assured the board of his desire to serve the cause of education for as long as he bad the faculty to do so. Tor some years past matters lwd been tranquil, the stair was contented, with no internal dissension, and, generally speaking, matters wcro running smoothly. He paid a high tribute- to the assistance rendered him in (lie past by tho boards executive and clerical staff.

Tho Rev. Arthur Taylor, MA tho senior secretary of the British and l'orei"n Bible Society in London, arrived in Sydney recently. Mr. Taylor is visitin"- Australia and Now Zealand in response to a cordial invitation from the various auxiliaries, and with a view to Raining at first-hand information rogardin" the work and needs of the auxiliaries in the Commonwealth and Dominion. Mr Taylor is described as a charming speaker, with a fund of humour. After a fortnight's tour in New South Wales he will visit New Zealand. Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Corpus Christi Col egc, Oxford, where he obtained his first-clafs in the final school of mathematics in 1890. Ho was ordained by the Bishop of Manchester in 18!)2, and served for some years as curato of Burnago. In 1900 ho received the appointment of tenior mathematical master of the Manchester Grammar School, and shortly after accepted Iho position of senior secretary' to tho Britisli and Foreign Bible Society.

Mr. Newton Jones, who has como to New Zealand as a deputation from tho London Sunday School Union, is to bo welcomed by the ministers, superintendents and secretaries of schoole on Friday evening. His first addrera will bo one to teachers on, Saturday night, and afterwards he will have two meetings each night during the fortnight he is to stay in Wellington. He will give "chalk talks to boys and girls early in the evening, followed by addresses to teachers and senior scholars. Everywhere Mr. Jones has been he has won the goodwill of tho ministers and Sunday. School people. Ills son is travelling with him as soloist and pianist. ■