PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1574, 18 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

4 Vice-Regal. i His Excellency the Governor, patron of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, has signified his intention of being present at the presidential "at home" on Tuesday evening next.

Mr..J. Coyle, secretary to tho Wellington Hospital Board, leaves to-day for a few weeks' holiday in Sydney, per s.s. Maunganui.

The appointment is announced of Mr. Edward Page as relieving Stipendiary Magistrate for tho North Island. Mr. Page is a son of the late Mr. J. E. Page, for many years Town Clerk of Wellington, and was born in this city over thirty years ago. While attending the Clyde Quay School ho won a scholarship, and as the holder of it he went to Wellington College, where he also made his mark. When ho hod completed his education, he .entered the offioe of Messrs. Chapman and Tripp, barristers and solicitors, and remained with the firm until he started' tho practice of his profession at Eketahuna. Mr. Page has been Mayor of Eketahuna for nearly four years, and has taken a prominent part in the affairs of various organisations in that town. He has been a prominent volunteer, and is now oil the unattached defencc list, with rank of major. He is to take up liis magisterial duties on November 10.

In his address at tho opening of tho Anglican Synod of the diocese uf Nelson, the Bishop of Nelson (the Right Rev. W.' C.. Sadliur) paid a high tribute to tlio work of liis predecessor (Bishop Mules). He said: It is not given to every man to be able to look back upon a period of in the Church* extending over forty-eight years, forty-five of which have been given to one diocese. In the last session of the Synod you placed on record your appreciation of tho magnificent services which he has rendered to the diocese and to the province of New Zealand. While lie has been a true Father-in-God to his clergy and people, ho has been foremost in endeavouring both by precept and example to inculcate spiritual unity and concord among all Christian people. While your' election of a Bishop twenty years ago was a matter which primarily concerned tho welfare of the diocese, it was received by the people of this province with pleasure and approbation. The public esteem in which Bishop Mules was held then as a citizcn remains unchanged to-day. It is a great joy to all and a souroe of unceasing thankfulness to myself that Bishop Mules has settled in Nelson. I have already profited much by his spiritual fellowship, his wide experience, and his ripe wisdom.

Mr. Arthur Pea roe, of Messrs; Levin and Co., Wellington, is a passenger to Sydney by the Maunganui to-day. His Excellency the Governor lins approved the award of a Meritorious Service Medal to Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant F. W. Kibblewhite, New Zealand Permanent Staff; the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration to LieutenantColonel B. H. Rhodes, Ist Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry), he having a total rank and commissioned service to Septemlier 27, 1912, entitling him thereto of twenty years and seventy-four days; and the award of tho Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-Service Mcdnl to Sergeant Robert M'Minn, New Zealand Garrison Artillery, ho having a total service to September 7, 1912, entitling him thereto of twenty years two hundred and fiftythree days.

Ernest Wylie, of St. Albans School, Christchul'ch, was presented yesterday afternoon with' tho Colonial Ammunition Company's Cup for shooting, won by him last year, with a score of 83 out of 105. Tho trophy was presented five years ago for competition amongst pupils' of primary schools in the South Island,- north of Waitaki. The winner, who is now fourteen years old, was cheered loudly by his school-fellows.—Press Association. Dr. A. Hood, of York, England, is a visitor to Wellington. He has just completed a tour of the North Island, and is ■ to leave to-day for Nelson to do the West Coast Road trip through to Christchurch.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Samuel, who have been staying in Sydney for the last six months, returned to Wellington by the Moeraki on Wednesday.

The death occurred yesterday of jfrs. M. J. Reeves, relict of the late Mr. Edward Reeves, who predeceased, her by a few months only. Mrs. Reeves, who had been invalided for some years, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to New Zcalnnd in 1800.