PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Last evening his Excellency the Governor left Auckland for Greatford where lie is to inspect the camp of tho Seventh Infantry Regiment. Ho will then come on to Wellington to open the Children's Hospital .to-morrovr. On Thursday, March 14, liis Excellency will leave Wellington for Auckand, stopping on the way to inspect tho Auckland Field Artillery Brigade camp at Hamilton, and arriving in Auckland on the same day. On March 19, Lord Islington will visit tho Third Auckland Infantry Regiment at Papatoetoe, and on March 25 the camp of the ICth Waikato Regiment, at Hamilton, will be visited. A garden party will be given at Government House, Auckland, on March" 21. Tho Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) and tho Hon. J. A. Millar are at Auckland, and the Hon. A. T. Ngata at Port Awanui. The Hon. D. Uuddo is expected I to return to Wellington to-day. Sir .Tames Carroll and the Hon. E. M'Kenzie are in Wellington. Tho Hon. T. Mackenzie I journeyed to Qucenstown yesterday, and will remain there to-day. Mr. V. Hally (Conciliation Commissioner) has returned from Grcyniouth, where he was engaged last week hearing ii dispute between masters and workers in the bakery trade. Mr. George Cathro, touring manager for the Von Arx American Vaudeville Company, arrived from the north on Saturday, and leaves again to-night by the Maori for Cliristchurch, where the company coiiinii'iice a season on March 19. lliuicdin, Wellington, and Auckland seasons are to follow. The organisation is hooded by Von Arx, the illusionist, who is a brother of Niehola. Mr. Q. L. Horcus, aged 80, director of the Westport School of Mine;, is dead. The cause of death was pleurisy and pneumonia. Deceased was a graduate of the Otago School of Mines.—Press Association. Mr. R. W. Holmes, Engincer-in-Chicf to the Public Works Department, is about to make ti tour of ft few. days on the Wtst Coast. Tile Hew Win. Ready, president of Uib Melliodi-t Conference, now sitting ;it Auckland, began his ministerial life amongst the Itible Christians in .Devonshire. On coming lo Xew Zealand. In., was sr.nl. lo "pen »i> work in Oinicdiu :nid became Hip founder of the Contial Mission (here. Pine Hie union nf the rhuitlins be h,i = ■■rived iu Ohristohurch nnrl Adi-'k-Inntj, niuj if very popular niuon; Ihc plo in bnlli cities-as iui cainesi ovnnjeii. cai preachoj.

Dr. Viilintinc, Inspector-General of TTospitals, was a passenger for the south liy the .Maori last evening. .Mr. and .Mrs. Hlnschock left Wellington by tlit> .Monowni lor Gisborne yesterday. Mr. Vernon Hoed, member for the Bay of islands, is spending a few days iii Wellington with a view to interviewing heads of Departments in the interests of his electorate. The funeral of the late Mr. Win. Moxhain, of Jlaedonald Crescent, will take jdaco (n-iuorrow nfternoon. Prior to the interment in the Sydney Street cemetery a memorial .service will lie held in (lift Tiirnnaki Street Wesley Church, of which (lie deceased was a prominent member and trustee for many yenrs. Jfe was an «'iitlnisiii»tic worker in church matters nil through hi, long residence in Wellington. In tlic old days his common custom was to walk in from "Upland Farm (now Kelbiirne), before the day* of trams or even [food mads to the Tnr.inaki Street Church on a Sunday morning, return home for dinner, walk to the Adelaide Road Sunday School (of which he was for somo limo superintendent), in the afternoon, return homo by font to tea. anil wulk into town for the evening service and out again afterwards. The family of , the deceased are Mr. Win. 11. Moxhnm. of Karori; Mr. John Moxhain, of .Tohnsonville; Mrs. Dixcn, of Glinznco Street; Mrs. Joshua Hell, of Newtown; anil Mrs. Robert Gordon, of Terrace End. Pnlmcrslon North. Captain Sponee. for many years In the employ of the Union Steam Ship Company, nnil now master of tugs for the Otntjo Harbour Doivd, is on a holiday visit to Wellington. Mr. R, Kebbell, Alfred ton, leaves for San Francisco on March 2D. The. Bishop-elect of Nelson (Conon Sadlier) obtained the degree of doctor of divinity of London University about seven years ago. being the first Australian churchman to hold that particular honour. Ho received his education in theology at Trinity College, Melbourne University, and is the fifth student from that college to become a Bishop. Bishop Long, of Batlrarst, who was appointed only three months ago, is one of the five. Canon Sadlier was lecturer at St. John's College, and coeditor of the Church of England "Messenger." He graduated with honours in logic and moral and mental philosophy in 181)5. Six months ugo his health gave him somo uneasiness, and he went away on six months' furlough, from which he has just returned completely restored. He is known (says the "Argus") not only as a most scholarly churchman, but as a very eloquent prenciier as well, and it is considered amongst his colleagues and co-workers that Nelson is taking away a man that will be very much missed in Melbourne.