PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 11 February 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

: . -• , « Vice-Beoai,. His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool have issued invito tions to a garden party to bo held in<the grounds of, Government, House on Saturday- next. ' Among the midshipmen of tho Japanese training squadron, now in. Melbourne, is a eon of Admiral Togo, the hero of tho Russo-Japanese war (states the "Argus" of February 4). , Hi# Worship tho Mayor (Mr. X). M'Laren) will attend tho unveiling of the Captain Cook Memorial at Ship Covo to-; day, and subsequently' will visit Pieton and Blenheim. Mr. J. Bengo, who was soriously injured at Seed's sawmill, Mungaroa, eomo weeks ago. when a wire-ropo sprung from a pulley and injured his head, has tornpletefy lost his hearing. . Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of tho Em- . ployers' Federation, left Wellington last evening for Dunedin, where he will attend a sitting of tho Arbitration Court on February 12. Subsequently Mr. Pryor goes to Christchurch, where the Court will sit on February 18. ' !" Mr. W. Sim was yesterday admitted as a barrister and solicitor of tho Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Chapman. Miv K' 1 'G.-Dilzlell 'appcarcdias'itjounselj ' M«srs. E.' Mabili, ' : T; ! C. Dawson, and C. Jones were appointed .yesterday, ito represent the Chamber of Coinmeroo on the Citizens' Easter Carnival Sub-com l mittee which is to interest itself in'the entertainment-of visitors. Mr. S. Spragg, chief of the Hansard staff, and Mrs. Spragg. leave on a trip to Australia on Friday next;

Tho following Education Board appoint ments are announced:—Akatarawa .(solo teacher), Uiss F. Bodell; Carterton District High Soliool (senior secondary assistant), Miss M. K. Wilson ; Carterton District: High. School (junior secondary assistant), Mr., J. Marwick; Petono District High School (assistant .master), Mr. J. T. Stephens; South Wellington (assistant), • Miss E.' Haieh j, Levin (assistant m»6ter), Mr. J. E. Mills; To Aro (assistant). Mr. C. H. Taylor; To Aro (assistpntJ.'Miss N. Coad; MaranUi (assistant master), Mr, I?. Gaze; Tano (sole teacher), Miss R. Wiokens; Muritai (assistant mistress). MiSs M; E; Magill;' Nireaha, (assistant mistress), Miss R. Wilton;' Newtown (assistant mistress), Miss li, F. Kerr; Hutt (assistant mistress), Miss J. G. Park.

At yesterday's, nleetiiig of the Counoil of tho Chamber of Conimcrco the resignations of Messrs. F. Dyer, A., C. Croll, and'H. C. Tewsley were received.

. 'Mr. Howard Butters, managing director of the Maymorn Estates, Ltd., . a company | which is at* present erecting a big Canadian saw-milling plant -at Mungaroa, arrived in Auckland from England on Sunday. .Tho capital of tho company is XCO.OOO. ' 1

The Rev. C. Hartnett, for" tho past five years Moderator 1 at St. Ignatius' College) Rivorview' (Sydney), has been transferred to St. Patrick's Collego, Melbourne, and tho Rev. J. Healy has replaced'him. Tho Revs, D. P. Gibbon, 8.A., late of Stonyhiirst, College, Etiglohd, and J. Walsh alto join the'St, Ignatius'Collego staff.

Tho Australasian Injtituto of Marine Engineers recently presented Mr. F, J. Thomas, who' has retired from the general managership of the Newcastle and Hunter River Stcapi Navigation Company aftcv 40 years' service,'with the gold badge'of tte institute, in -Wcognition of bis courtesy and just treatment to , tho members. . .

Captain J. P.' Rasper has been presented with a gold pendant, In tho shape of the emblem (compass within steering wheel) of the Auckland Coastal Masters' Association, as a souvenir of his long association with the society as secretary. Captain Stontiford, who was president during Captain Keeper's secretaryship, made the presentation, and tho present president, ■ Captain J/ Eriksen, also paid a high compliment to tho recipient for the ablo manner in which he had carried out his duties. i

Messrs. Lewis Anderson (Dunedin), F. M. Scully (New Plymouth), and ,A. Mill (Auckland), lmvo consented to become candidates, representing tho Post and Telegraph Department, in the election of tho Public. Service AppcKl Boaid on May 5. ;

Mr. It. Opie, tho champion runner, who hails from Canterbury, is at present on a .holiday visit to Auckland. For three or four months past Mr. Opio has been suffering from heart-strain, and, acting on medical advice, will ijot c6mpete at tho New Zealand championship meeting to bo held this week in, Wellington. Mr. Opio was one of the Now .Zealand representatives at the recent Festival of Einpiro held ill Enfrland. Ho will remain in tho Auckland province for about a month.

A purse of sovereigns was presented by tho congregation of St. James's Presbyterian Church, Auckland, on Friday evening, to tho Rev. R. I. Walker, who is about to leavo on a trip to tho Old Country.

Professor Shailer Matthews, Dean of the Divinity School of' Chicago University, has been chosen as presidont of the Federal Council of tho American Churches. Professor Shailer Matthews assumed with tho New Year the editorship of "Tho llibllcal World."

The Rev. Win. Temple, headmaster of Repton,' has been selected to succeed Gnnon Hensley Hcnson at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Ho is tho son of tho lhte Archbishop Temple, niid ono of the finest spirits In the Anglican . Church (says the "Christian World"). Ho is an ardent enthusiast for social Christianity, a leader in tho student movement, "fincl the prime mover in the Collegium, ft fraternity of youne Churchmen who me shaping the ideals of tho Anglican Church. Mr. Temple, who IS forty-two and unmarried, is a ■powerful preacher and a magnetic personality, Mid lie understands the Free Churches' better, perhaps than Canon Hensley Hsusoa.