PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1448, 24 May 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor (Lord Islington) loft Auckland yesterday morning for Waiwera where ho will 1m tho guest of Major Whitney till Saturday. lAH'd and Lady Islington will leave Auckland on May 28 for Wellington, his Excellency stopping at Palmerston North to inspect the military encampment to be held there.—Press Association. The Hon. Jas. Bryce, British Ambassador at Washington, accompanied by Mrs. Bryce, vefe passengers from San Francisco to Papeete by tho Hanuka this trip. They will arrive in Auckland by tho Tallin© o;i May 30, and proceed thence to Australia. All tho Cabinet Ministers are in town except the Hon. Te lUngihiroa, who is at linwcne, North Auckland. A Press Association message received from Sydney last night, states that General Sir 11. Baden-Powell is a passenger by tho Wimmera duo at Auckland on Sunday. Mr. D. H. Fox is gazetted deputy-reg-istrar of marriage.-, births, and deaths for the district of Himterville. lions. J. Rigorcau is gazetted Consul of Franco at''Ancklantl. Mr. James JSattenbury has been appointed a member of the Taranaki Land Board. Mr. N. E. Pierce and Mr. T. E. Rod da have boon appointed orchard instructors and inspectors under tho New Zealand Department of Agriculture, where they have hitherto held temporary appointments. Mr. J. H. Knowles is gazetted a surveyor of ships and examiner of engineers under the provisions oi' tho Shipping and Seamen's Act. Mr. F. AV. Furkert has been appointed an inspecting engineer under the Public Works Department, and Mr. A. B. Wright, resident, engineer. The I?ev. Burlinghain, a Baptist minister, who is oil a tour oi' Australasia, arrived by the Manuka from San Francisco yesterday. Mr. Frank Smith, of Molesworth Street, and Mr. .Tames Brown, of the t Upper Hutt, are the only two now living out of 130 who sailed from Wellington to Melbourne, en route for tlie Victorian gnldflelds in the eattfo barque Tory on -May 24, 1852, sixty years ago.

lii the course of his sermon at Iho Pontifical Mass celebrated on . Wednesday morning at tho Basilica, in honour of tho silver jubilee uf his Grace Archbishop Redwood's connection with the Cluirch, Bishop Grimes rend a congratulatory cable message from his.Holiness tho Pope. l!e----lerring to Dr. Redwood, the Bishop gave n most interesting sketch of his career. They had first met about, fifty years ago, whci'n the Archbishop gave promise of a brilliant career. J'io had the pleasure of being present at his (the Archbishop'--) ordination, and later at hi* cinisecratinn by Cardinal Manning. Speaking frotn personal knowledge, he gave a detailed account of the ureal pri>j:rc« which had been made in the archdiocese during the last (nmi'ter of a century, particularly in regard to educational progress and works of charity. His Lordship concluded an elodtien! address by wishing his Grace many years of happiness, peace, and prosperity to guide the destinies of the Church in Xew Zealand. At. Wednesday's luncheon at St. Patrick's College liishop Yerdon said he had first met tho Archbishop when looking for a prcaclitr for a retreat of students in the Ecclesiastical Seminary of Dublin, and was referred to n .voting priest who had just passed brilliantly his examination for theological degrees. That priest was. Archbishop P.edwsDd.

I The death is reported front London at : the'age of 82 of Mr. Thomas Robert Macriiioid, the well-known water-colour painter and black and white artist. Mr. and Mrs. H. Haywood Mirams are Inaving by tho Bmibine on Ma.v 30. oa a. trip to tlie Old Country. They will bo i flbsoßt for a'ccut six moat lis,