PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1708, 27 March 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

VIOE-Reqal. His Excellency th? Governor, ftft' Eafl of Liverpool, arrived in Wellington froii( Auckland yesterday afternoon. His Excellency conferred 'with the Prime Minister nmV the'Mjnmter for Jntcrnal Affairs as to tho arrangements for thq reception of the battleship New Zealand, and afterwards on by the ferry st«ajuer 'tp Christchurch. . ' \ Pis Excellency tho Qovprnor has ac T cepted the portion pf patron pf the Nayy League in New Zealauii, a position which has bean held-hy liis processors in offipe sinop tlifl league was established in the Dominion. .

Mr. J. Hislpp, Under-Seoretaiy for Internal Affairs', arrivot} ii\ Wellington from Auckland yesterday afternoon. llr.' jl(slop has been'accompanying u tho Empire Trade Commission on its progress through Now Zealand. 1,1 r. Holdswprth, general manager of the Union Steam Shiji Company, leaves for Australia to-day, joining tlio, Tahiti at Sydney for Sari Francisco (says k Press Association message from Dunediri).' He yisits England pri the coiiipjuiy's business, and returns to thp ppmiiiiati in Novpni; ber. The Rev. A. T. Brainsby and Mrs. Brainsby and family arrived by tlio Slaliuka from Sydney yesterday. Mr. Brainsby is to take tlio Revi J. J. North's lato position as pastor of tlio Vivian Street Baptist Church. On Wednesday next Dig new minister will bo welcomed at a social, wliioli is to be held in the qhurch. Ho will occupy the pulpit on the first Sunday in April.

Ampng the passengers to Jeave for Sydney en route to England to-morrow will be Mr. J. Colquhoun, of tlio Mount Bruce Station, Mastcrtou. ' Mr. John Owen, Into general manager of Sharlpd and Co., wholesale druggists, leaves for Sydney to-mojrow, en route for England. • Mr. 1?. G. Holmes, son of Mr. R. V. Holmes, aii electrical engineer in the employ 1 of the Wellington' Ci(y ' Council, leaves for England to-morrow. Ho will connect \vi{h the Drama at Sydney' nest week. " ' " • Mr. and Mrs. EdwflV!' (Sodden, of Rending. Berkshire (England), are at present visiting the Likes district. Mr. Belcher, of the Seamen's Union, l(«9 (|idlii(tcl,y dcfiflcft lo contest Mayoralty of Liunediu.—Press Association','

Among tho passengers by the Manuka from Sydney yesterday was IJr. Charles Rout. This gentleman sailed for Nelson by tho l'ateena'immediately utter his arrival here.

A large and representative gathering of underwriters too): placo jit tjio Royal Exchange, Sydney,'on March 19, tlio'occasion being to wish "Iran voyage" to Mr. It. W. Martin, general manager of tho Phoenix Assurance Company, Liipijed, and Mr. W. Gordon Dixon, general manager of tho Alliance Assurance Copipany, J..ijnjtcd, \y)io pre shortly The healths of the gentlemen ve/'.Q proposed by Mr. Robert Kerr, supported by Messrs. Henry Wansey, T. S. Douglas, and .others. Reference was made to th,o valuable services rendered by Messrs. Martin and D'xon to tire, marine, and accident insurance interests. • Tor t)io first time ip local history (savs tho "Cutholio Press") a State Governor of New South assisted at Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral as a 011 Sunday last (March. 1C), when Sir Gerald' Strickland, li'js daughters, find suite wore present at tjie jessing and 'distribution of tho palpis ajid thp High Mass! The coiemonics jiegan at J0.45,' apd concluded at 1.30. HjsExcellency was received at tho main door of the cathedral by the administrator (li-ev. patliQr John O'Gorman), members of the cathedral staff, and 'students of St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical College,. 11114 conducted •to " tlie N pews specially rp,serye,d fop t|ie vice-regal worshipper?.' Theso pews are in front of the High Altar, aijtt are upholstered in tho' Governor's colours. Mr. N. S. Camiibell, of Mafterlon,' will presently take over. the Bellcvuo Gardens, Lower Hutt. ' ' ■ ' Pifty-thfoe applications vero rscejvcd for the position of secretary of the Southland Education Board.At a meeting yesterday,-the board selected the following three applicants, who will' be! risked to meet th'o bo?rd pn Prjdijy. . They, ar.Q Mr. A. Bell, M.A, (sbcretaiy of the fjoutJi Canterbury Board); Mr. Georgo J. A. Park, B.pom. (commercial master at Christchurph Technical College). and Jfr. N. H. Chapman, B.A. (Registrar of Otago University).—Press Association., '

Mr. T. Wnlsli, the well-known Poiiekp and Wellington Representative, footballer, who ha? tjett very seriously ill }a Auckland during tljp last fe)v weeks, is ' poiy so far recpvepe.d tljat' Jie pxpapts to be convalescent in a week or two. Mr. Daniel O'Connor, ex-Postmaster-General of New Spilth Wales' (savs thp Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne "4-rgus"). is npiv an ifimntp pf ttp Jjivp>v pool Asylupi, which is practically , a poor: house.