PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1291, 21 November 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency tlu: Governor is at Ulcnliciin. Tli<> Hon. A. Millar is. to leave Cliristchiireh In-day for Duncdin. Sir Joseph Ward is to arrive in Wel-10-day frrini Chrislrhill'rh, anil will li'uvo l\y' I In; Main Trunk express in I hi! afternoon lor Taiimarunui. To-mor-row, ul. Ti: Koiii'.i, lirar 'IVuinnriiniii, lio is to 111 rii llio lir.-t miil of tin; railway connecting the Main Trunk lino with the Welliinjlnn-N'ew Plymouth railway nt Stratford. The Prime Minister is to delivor a public address at Taumaruiiui to-morrow livening. The lion. I), Buddo is at R&ngiora, Kir .las. Carroll at Gislmrne, Sir John Findley at Auckland, tho Hon. I?. MMCeuzin at Nelson, Iho Hon. 'J'. Mackenzie at Otakeho, and tho Hon. A. T. Ngata at I'ort Awanui. Mr. Sinclair Kennedy, of I lie stale of Massachusetts, I'.S.A., is a visitor to Wellington. Dr. Karl Kunun, the noted African explorer ami missionary, will bo the truest of honour at the New Zealand Club's luncheon to-morrow. Tlio friends of the lato Mr. Robert Clifford Cook will regret to hear of his death which took place at his residence, Wadestown, on Sunday. Mr. Cook was born at sea 011 tho ship Clifford, on April 15, 1812, off Van Dicman's I,and, Australia, and arrived in New Zealand with his parents six weeks later, lie was educated at Napier. He came to Wellington and entered tho Customs at tho ago of 18 years. In 1801 he was sent to Auckland and was thero for six months. Ho then came back to Wellington and remained in the Wellington office till the time of his retirement in 1895 after 3J years' faithful service, lie was the third son of the lato Mr. John llermon Cook and brother of the lato Edmond Cook, of Duncdin, and also of Messrs. John and William Cook, Makara, and Mr. Harry Cook, of Ivarori. lie leaves a wife nnd grown-up family of four sons and five daughters.

Parishioners of St. Chad's Church, Hanley, Staffs., says the "Daily Hail," wero mystified a few days ago when the parish magazine made its appcarance with the following paragraph from the pen of llio Kev. S. .1. Sehvyn, M.A., cmale-in-charge: ''During this month the curate-in-ehargc will undergo a somewhat delicate and temporarily painful operation which he has been wont formerly to perform on others. The sympathies of fellow-sufferers of the mulo persuasion will doubtless be extended to him. To recover from this operation ho will need a period of ten days' convalescence. lie hopes to be restored to his (lock again sound in body, if not in mind, about September 25." The key to tho riddle was furnished when .Mr. Selwvn, who is a grandson of George Augustus Selwyn, first liishop of New Zealand, married at llamlsworth to Jliss Phyllis Graeme Hickling, second daughter of llr. C. J. L. Hickling, of Hands-worth Wood.

f AI. a meeting convened by the Miyor of Timaru it was resolved to give a citizens' farewell and a purse (o Archdcacon Harper who, after ;)li years lierp, leaves for Knglaml next month, resigning his po.-i----tion as Viear of St. Mary's. Tlio Jlinisters' Association will take part. The Archdeacon is popular among nil ranks for his strong vein of patriotism.—Press Association.

According to Elder 0. 1). liomnoy, tho head of the Mormon Mission in New Zealand, who litis received a cable message i'reiii Salt Lake City, it is not Jos. F. Smith, Loader of tlio Church who is dead, as was stated in a I'ress Association cable message. 11 lew days ago, but John Smith, Patriarch of the Church, who away 011 November 8.

Lord 'Islington reached Nelson overland from Blenheim last evening, - and was welcomed by tho Jl'ayor. A public welcome will 1)0 tendered his Excellency today. The Governor will attend tho Nelson show, nnd will also visit Motueka. He leaves on Thursday for tho West Coast.

Mr._ G. L. Petersen,. touring manager of Wirth Brothers' Circus, arrived at Bluff yesterday to arrange the New Zealand tour.

The friends of Mr. E. G. B. Moss, who had (0 retire from the contest for the l'arnell seat, owing to illness, will l>a glad to learn that he has made an excellent recovery, and left the Huia private hospital on Friday for his residence in Claybrooke Road, l'arnell.

Tho Rev. Howard Elliott has been appointed secretary to the Auckland Auxiliary of the Baptist Union, in succession to the Rev. Alfred North, who has undertaken the work of organiser for Now Zealand.

It is stated that Dr. Maclagan, who for some years was in practice at Kanonga and is now residing in England, has decided to relinquish his medical carcer and enter the Anglican ministry, and he will study for ordination in Hugland, and proposes to return to New Zealand to toko up work in the Wellington diocese. The doctor has always heen an earnest church-worker, and gradually the conviction has forced itself upon him that it is duty to make the pecuniary sacrifice of giving up his profession. It is worthy of remark that his great uncle, the lato Archbishop of York, took a similar course, for ho had achieved a position in the army, which he abandoned to enter the Christian ministry.— Hawcra. "Star."