PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

ITis Grace Archbishop Redwood leave. , ; Wellington for Auckland on Thursday, September 26, to connect with the Marama, which pails thence.to Vancouver on (lie following day. His Grace, who anticipates being absent from New Zealand for about six months, will make a brief stay in Canada and tlio United States, where ho has friends, and will then cross over toitho United Kingdom, and from thnro will proceed to the Continent, on route to Rome; where 1 o is to have an audience, with his Holiness tho Pope, and report to him on tiie affairs of tho archdiocese of Now Zenland. Formerly it was incumbent for tho bead of an archdiocese to report at Eomo onco in. ten years, but New Zealand is now a domain of the Roman Catholic Church, tho head of which is expected to personally report to his Holiness ouce'm.uvo years. During Archbishop 'Redwood's absence the Very H«v. Beau O'Sliea will net as Administrator in Wellington. The Chief Justice tSir ilobort Stout) returned to Wellington last night. Professor Harold Addison Woodruff tins been appointed to tho vacant chair of veterinary pathology in tho University of Melbourne in succession to Professor Gilrnth, formerly of New Zealand, and now administrator of the Northern Territory. Profossor Woodruff, who is 34 years old, occupies the chair of veterinary medicine in the Hoyal College of London. In order to assist him in his veterinary work Iμ has taken the degrees of 1i.R.C.1 , ., London, and M.K.C.S., England. A Press Association message from Wanganni stales that Mr. Arthur Vnrncy, organiser for the Yuiug.-inui Technical School of Instruction and secretary of the Wnnganui Technical College, has boon appointed general secretary of the Wellington V.M.C.A.

Messrs. R. Hill Fisher nnd H. C.-Tews-loy have resigned from tho Council of tho Incornorntcililiislittite of Accountants of New Zealand. Tho council has placed on record its appreciation of tho eminent services of theso two gentlemen to 'ho In-stit-uto. Both have filled tho prcsidenlm chair, and both 'acconlini; to tile imnuul vport) have dnlin ynotmui aorvje.e to the cauw ot' accountancy in New. ZcalaUili

Mrs. Gardiner, mother of Mr. Borneo ' Gardiner, tho Wellington sifl'leur, who went to Sydney under engagement to (ho Rickurds Company, has received cable advieo to the ell'ect tliot her son made his first appcaranco at the Tiyoli Theatre, Sydney, on Saturday evening last and scored a big success. On September 30 next, Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., will celebrate tho SOth anniversary of his birth, and tho National .Service league, of which the veteran Field-Marshal is the president, has initiated a movement for a proposed testimonial to him as a tributo of tho universal respect in which ho is held by all classes. Of Hie money raised by iho various branches of the National Service League, a certain sum will l>o set apart for a personal gift to Lord Roberts, but, in accordanoo with his special request, tho bulk of (ho subscriptions will be placed in his hands to be utilised in furthering the adoption of universal military training by tho Old Country. Captain P. Svjnon and Captain R. B. Smythe, officers of the Royal Now Zealand Artillery, who have bceu undergoing refresher courses with the Imperial Araiy in India, arrived at Melbourne by the Macedonia yesterday, en route to Wellington, to rejoin their regiments. Dr. Elizabeth H. B. Macdonald has arrived from London, and has again taken up the practice of her profession with Dr. Maekiri. Since the visit to Melbourne of the Rev, J. 13. Watts-Ditchfield, M.A., when much progressive work was done oil behalf of tho Church of England's Men's Society, tho question of appointing an organising secretary for the province of Victoria has been under consideration by tho executive committee of the society. At a recent meeting it was decided to endeavour to raise JISOO a year for three years for this purpote, and the sum of JE2O(S was promised for the first year by. 161 men who took part in the gathering. Tho position of organising secretary has now been offered to the Kcv. A. B. Tress, rector of St. Stephen's Church, Richmond, and it is understood that, with the consent of Archbishop Clarke, he will shortly enter upon a scheme for a continuation of the excellent spiritual work accomplished by Mr. field.