PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1630, 23 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is at present spending , ft holiday in Auckland. He is to revisit that city again towards the eiid of January, when he intends to spend a fortnight travelling the district. Captain D. C. Spencer-Smith, who has been attached to the headquarters stoff of the defence forces as" assistant-military secretary to the , "Comnihiiaantf, left Auckland by the Mamma on Friday. Captain Spencer-Smith is travelling to England , to rejoin his regiment (Royal ■Artillery). Mr. J. Lomas, Secretary for Labour, hag left for the south. Mr. W. H. Swanger, secretary of tho Wanganui Education Board, has now quite recovered from a recent severe, illness. A Press Association message from Dunedin states that Mr. J. F. Arnold, late Labour member for Dunedin, has been appointed an Inspector of Factories for the Otago district. ' . Madame Kirkby Lunn, the eminent English contralto, left for the eouth on Saturday evening, She is to sing in Invercargill on Christmas Night, and will give two return concerts in Wellington, on Thursday and Saturday of next week. Mr. Andrew Blnck, the Sydney baritone, and Mra. Black, 'left for Rotorua by last evening's express. A meeting of Irishmen was held in Auckland on Thursday afternoon to present to the Rev. R. J. Hall a gold watch and an easy chair, as tokens of esteem and affeotion because of his able and 'whole-hearted advocacy of Home Rule for Ireland since his arrival in Auckland. Mr. M. Sheahan was voted to the chair, and Messrs. J. J. O'Brien, Moore, Dwyer, P. Gleescn, O'Donoghue, Maurice O'Connor, and J. C. Gleeson spoke appreciatively of Mr. Hall's work, in the cause of Home Rule, Mr, Hall, in the course of his Teply, pointed out that the religious denomination to which he belonged was more diametrically unlike that of the Church of Rome than any other. Yet such difference did not, either here or Anywhere else, exercise any influence in disturbing the good feeling between him and his fellow-countrymen, among whom he now felt himself at home. One of the members' of the "Get-Rich-Quiok Wallingford" Company, to arrive here from Sydney on, Wednesday, knows Wellington, if it cannot be said that Wellington knows him. This is Mr. E; Perie Bupli, youngest son of .Mr. Thomas Bush, of Wellington, tho managing director of the Union Clothing Company. Mr. Bush was-pounding the pestle in the mortar in a Willis Street chemist's shop up till a couple of years ago, when, without any formal notice to anyone, ho boarded a steamer for Sydne) , , bent on changing chemistry for grease-paint. After working in a warehouse for a iinie in Sydney he eought stage experience in a company which toured the way-back towns. Reaching Sydney again, the young Wellingtonian secured an engagement with the H.. B. Irving Company, rising "to a email part on tho New Zealand tour. After thai en-, gagement he found himself in Sydney when the "Got-Ric'h-Quick Wallingford ' Company was being formed. Looking round for "types," Mr. Bush was hit on as a likely Eddie Lamb, and on rehearsal was found to fill the bill. His performance was a complete success, and such was his clover realisation of the part of poor little Eddie that he has been hailed as one of the "good things" in tho amusing American comedy. Hio appearance in Wellington will bo looked forward to with n good <leal of interest, as his is apparently a co.se of "get-tliere-quick." At the annual meeting of the FeatherEton County Council Mr. A. D. M'Leod was re-elected chairman.