PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1679, 20 February 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. W. P. Mas4ey r (Prime. (Minister), tho Hon. A. L. Herdman, the Hon. H. D. Bell, and the Hon. F; M. B. Fisher are in Wellington, The Hon. W. H. Herries will journey to-day from Pipiriki to llaotihi, and will reach Wellington tomorrow.' The Hon. R. H. Rhodeil is at Christchurch, and is expected to'return to Wellington to-morrow. Tho Hon. W. Fraser is at Invercargill. The Hon. Dr, Pomare is at Wanganui. H From private advices received j from Auckland yesterday, it appears that tho injuries sustained by the Hon. 11. Mitchelson were more serious than, lit first reported. His face espeoially wof! badly cut, and it will be quite. ten dtiys boforo he can be removed to his home, and in all probability will bo confined} to his bed for two or threo months. i. the Chapman-Alexander mission' party left Melbourne on February 12 on; board .the steamer Moeraki, for Now Zealand. At the conclusion of the morning iferyice, crowds went to the wharf, and gtive the evangelists an enthusiastic send-oft. Mr. Alexander, standing at 1 tho gangray of the ship,: oonducted a series, of hymns, which were 5 sung to tho accompaniment of the Salvation Army. band. As the steamer cast off the hymn. "God bp . With You',Till Wo Meet Again, was sung, and cheers wero given for the missioned. The Hon. A. Barlow, of Queensland, arrived in Wellington by the Manuka from Sydney yesterday. | -v." Mr. J. W. Brame, 'postmaster a'; Bluff, will retire on superannuation on too'3o next. i ' ;| . . '. ■ ' Dr. Ernest Maynard Pain, a son of-the Bishop of Gippsland, and formerly medical superintendent of Prince Alfred Hospital, died suddenly on February; 10, at Ciiro, Egypt. Seven years ago Dr. Pain left Sydney 'and worked at Cairo in connection with the New South Wnles.Church Missionary Association, till the time of his death, Deceased was 89 yours old, and had been married , twice. ■ Hi:i widowI,is a daughter of Judge Docker. ;j . Mr. Henry Van Staveren was yesterday admitted -as &.solicitor by his 'Honour Mr.. Justioe 1 Chapman,. on the .'[motion of Mr.' A. do B. Bra.ndon. 7 , Dr. Robertson and Mrs. Robertson, of : Johrisonville, : who have been on i ft; visit 1 to the Old Country, arrived in .'.'(Veiling-, ton by the Manuka yesterday. ;'j. ' Mr. - Stewart Seddon,". .of • Wellihgton, Tvho went to'.England and the Ointment, eighteen .months; lagoi to complete his .architectural .studies, returned 'to V/M----lington by the Manuka yesterday. | ;irho. are rolingHishing, the of the Helping' Hand Mission )ri order.[to take, up, work at Te Aroha, in connection with the Baptist Cliurch, ; w'ere farewelled in thi Misjion Hall on Tuesday niglit. Presentations were made , to Mr; a'jid Mrs. Stanton'from the mission and i'riehdsrthe former receiving a; travelling■. rug through Mr. G. E., Young and ;|the latter ft purse of'spvereign's through Mrs; Ruingay. ' ■ ■ . . /;. Commander Walter H. C. S. ThHng (retired captain; ; R,lj.), who has l>een ap-. pointed assistant to the first naval mem. ber of the Australian; Naval Boiird, left London on January 31 ! by the Orient liner Osterley,' for Melbourne, and* is due to arrive on March 10. He qualiied os a first-class gunnery officor, servec at the Admiralty on the staff -of the j Admiral oommanding tho coastguard and reserves, and also in the Channel fliet as flag-com-manded to Lord Charles Beresford. ■ Ho retired from the Active list of tlio Royal Navy in February,. 1911. '• . ' . 1 The Rav.. G. KnOwles Smith, ;'ex-presi : dent of the Primitive Methodist Conference, Was presented with a. B'ble[on Tuesday as a memento of his ocoupancy.'of tno presidential c|iair. Mr. T, T. Dcnbee has been appointed from ten applicants to succeed Mr. H. F; Gieen as accountant , for the lifastertoh Borough. Council., ' ;• 'il '

Mr. Christian Holiermann, organist and pianist to the Royal Sydney Philharmonic Society, who has resigned his position to accept the oonductorsnip of tlio Wellington Choral Society, in succession to Mr. Maughsn Bamett, has (says tho Sydney "Telegraph") had a very successful carter in this State, and has added to his experience by two years' work in England and; on the Continent. Ho is a, facile composer, his work, "Babylon's Wave," and the incidental music to Mr. J. C; Williamson's big production, /'Parsifal," having; boon most favourably received, He has also had - much experienco as a conductor. Mr. Hellerniahn is to lcayo for Wellington about tho middle of April.