PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Justice Chapman returned from Palmerston North last evening A unanimous invitation was telegraphed on Thursday to the liev. F. H. Radford, of Mosgiel, to succeed the Rev. A. S, Wilson as pastor of tho Wangnnui Baptist Church. Mr. Radford telegraphed his acceptance yesterday. Tlio outgoing and incoming ministers were fellow students, and afterwards fellow-workers for 10 years in Western Australia—Press Association. Our AVanganui correspondent states that Mr. A. Wade, conductor of the Wanganui Garrison Band, has been engaged as chicf musical adjudicator at tlio Charters 'lowers (Queensland) Eisteddfod next Easter. This makes Mr. Wade's fourth Queensland engagement in a similar capacity. Mr. Borneo Gardiner, who left, last evening fgr Sydney, where lio is to take up ail ehgagaiiient with tho Richards Company, wns given a warm-hearted farewell' by. a. number of friends on tho departure of the Moeraki. Later on it is his intention, if successful, to visit England and America. Mr. M. Marcus, manager of the Rickards Vaudeville Company, recently in Wellington, left for Sydney by tho Moeraki yesterday to resume the management of tlio Tivoli Theatre at Adelaide: The Chicf Justice (Sir Robert Stout) leaves for Wanganui to-day to preside at tho Supreme Court sittings there. Mr. Justice Sim leaves for Napier onMonday, and will preside at the sittings of tho Court of Arbitration commencing next week. Mr. C. Jr. Whittington has been reelected chairman of tho Hnwke's Bay Education Board, states a Napier Press Association, telej.-am. Father Lagrange, who, as stated in a cablegram published ill yesterday's issue, has been censured by the Consistorial Congregation for Modernism, and whoso books liavo been excluded from Roman Catholic seminaries and universities, is a distinguished scholar of tho modern fcchool. The bibliography of works on or about Liberal Catholic theology attacked by the Rev. A. L. Lillcy's book on Modernism contains three books by Father Lagrange, namely, "La Mc-thodo llistoriquo" (i'lie Historial Method); "Lo Livre des Juges (Tho Book of Judges), 1903; ktudes sur lc3 Religions Semitiquo" (Studies in Souitic Religions), 1905. The deaCTT occurred on Thursday of Mr. George Graham, formerly of tho staff of the accountants' branch of tho head office of tho Now Zealand Railways. The deceased was 73 years of age. Mr. A. H. Robinson, of tho teaching stuff at Wellington College, has resigned his appointment, having accepted a position on the teaching staff at Nelson College. He will bo succeeded by Mr, E, T. M. Fathers.