PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1343, 22 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

i Mr. .Tames Allen, M.P. for Bruco, arrived from the south by the Mararoa on Saturday, on route to the lwrth, where : tin; lielorm Party is to hold a big gathering. Sir Charles Bowcn was also a passenger by the same steamer. The Hight liev. Bishop of Wellington licensed the liev. W. Fancourt to the 1 charge of St. parochial district . at the 11 o'clock servico yesterday. , Mr. _T. l?onayuo (General Manager of [ New Zealand l(ailways), ill'. 11. Buxton , (Chief Traffic Manager), and Mr. A. Beatiie (Chief .Mechanical Engineer), who ' have been on an annual inspection tour in the Taranaki district, returned to Weli lington by Saturday's New Plymouth express. The late Mr. Jas. Hay, who was for many years a senator of the Jieiv Zeai land University, represented that instir tution the 500 th anniversary celebrn- , tions of St. Andrew's University, the oldi est university in Scotland, in September of last year. In a private letter to Sir Robert Stout (Chancellor of the New Zea--5 land University), he stated that ho was i treated with magnificent hospitality, and - appreciated the many interesting eore- ' monies at which he was present, and the abie addresses to wJiich lie listened, i Brigadier Bray, of the Salvation Army, - announces that Staff-Captain Barnes, who . has been in charge of the Inebriates' j Home on Kotoroa Island, Auckland, has been appointed lo succeed Adjutant a:id Mrs. Stevens in charge of the Prison «}•,J™". atrial Home at Christcliuroli. ; Adjutant Haines, who has had eighteen . years experience iu all branches of . Army work, has been selected bv Com- , nnssiqner Hay to take charge of Kotoroa | Island. lie will be installed in his new I olhce this week. i The names of Lieutenants A. n. Burn ' „ L ■ Garland, of (he New Zealand , ot att Corps, appear in the list of .officers . who attended the By the School of Mus- ) ketry, England, from October 2.'! to N'o- - veinbcr 18, and qualified nt the examination which was held r.t the conclusion of the course. The command of the cruiser Challenger j Australian Squadron, is being vacate! , by Captain Guy It. A. Gaunt, and Cap tain l'\ D. Gilpin-Brown has been ap • pointed as his successor with effect fron , January 17, 1912. Captain Uilpin-Browi r has served afloat siucc July 1879. Ho wa . a midshipman of the old battleship Mon l arch in ISS2, at the bombardment o I .Alexandra. , Mr. Philip Newbury and Madam 1 Emily Spada will arrive from Aucklanc - this afternoon. 3 Mr. Donald M'Lean, accompanied b - his wife and two daughters, will leav I on a visit to England and Scotland i: March. The party anticipates being at ' sent from New Zealand for about 11111 ' months. Sir. John Kennedy,-who was for man' . years manager of Mr. W. C. Buchanan 1 ; Tupurupuru station, died at the Master ! ton Hospital yesterday. Drcoascd, wh , was over 80 years of age, had been ailin; , for same time past, lie was highly i;e ' spected by all who knew him. ' Mr. J. D. Henry, British oil expert arrived in New Plymouth on Friday, ac companicd by Mr. n. J. Brown, inanag ing director of the British Oil Trust. A Press Association message from Feild ing announced the death of Samuel J Carman, ex-chairman of the Iviwile . County Council, and an ex-mcml>er o ' the executive of the Wellington Provir ' cial Council of the Farmers' Union. Mr. I?. Pylon, of Derby, England, ai rived in Auckland last week, in 'th course'of a tour of New Zealand. I Mr. Sidney Wolf, of Dunedin, has bee . appointed judge of the instrumental an vocal sections for the New Zealand con petitions to be held in Wellington i , October next.—Press Association.