PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All the Cabinet Ministers are in town. Mr. E. H. Clarke, member for Chalmers, left for Uie south last evening. The Hon. J. A. Millar is still in Wei--lingtoii and his health is reported to be showing a slight improvement. Mr. Justice Sim is expected to return from Dunedin this morning. Mr. K. Colin, of 1/uulon, is nt present touring Xeu- Zealand. He left Wellington for Auckland yesterday. Mr. John Howe, president of the NewZealand Trotting Conference, in the course of his annual address yesterday, made reforenco to the loss the sport of (rotting had sustained by the death of Mr. C. Hood Williams, and specially mentioned deceased's unremitting efforts in the interests of country clubs. The death is. announced at Christchurch of the Hev. Decimus Dohunore, the oldest Baptist Minister in thu Dominion, and senior Minister in the Uuplist denomination ill Australasia, aged "J2.—Press Association. Of the approaching departure of the Rev. Canon Garland from Brisbane, to organiser the campaign in New Zealand in favour of religious instruction in Stole schools, the Brisbane "Church Chronicle" says:—"No man in Australia can claim a greater knowledge of the question, or Freater ability to handle it than Canon Garland and 'wherever the campaign is undertaken his advice would naturally bo the first to be sought. ' He has already taken the lead in the successful'efforts of Western Australia and Queensland to secure riligious freedom in the schools, and his acceptance of the New Zealand invitation is thus full of promise for the success of the campaign in that Dominion. That his departure will be keenly regretted in his parish goes without saying. During his five years at Holy Trinity, Woolloongnbba, lie has built up a congregation whose attendance and devotion at the services of their church constitute an example to the whole diocese. But it speaks well for the type of churchmanship which he has produced there that his 'parish council, whilst deeply regretting the personal loss which his departure would involve, yet urged him in the interests of the Church in Australasia to accept the proffered invitation." Canon Garland leaves Brisbane, for New Zealand on August G.