PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 2 April 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

! ViCE-K-K0A1,.. His Excellency ( tho Governor will visit the Territorial capip at Canibridgo on April 10, and will'present tho colours to the Sixth and Sixteenth Regiments. From Cambridge. his Excellency will proceed to Wellington, to meet H.M.S. New Zealand, which will arrU : o at that port on April 12. -, Tho Rev. Professor Dickie, of Knox College, Dunedin, has • arrived at Melbourne in the 1\ and 0. liner. Slalwa on his Te» turn from a visit to .Great' Britain.'-. At the Methodist. Church, Pctone, last night, a farewell social Ivns teiidered. to the Key. 11. Cottom, who has received a call to Otalti. There was a Urge attendance, and during tlio cvemiig the chairman, Mr.-Jenkins presented Mr. Cottorn'with a handsome old-fashioned silver teapot, sugar basin; tongs, and cream jus- ; The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Tlios. Cook, one of tho oldest residents of Pctone. Deceased was the head of tho well-known firm o£ Cook's Cooperage. >Hc had been ailing for some time. • Mr; F. J. Courtenay, for many years with Messrs. Brandon, Hislop, and Brandon, of Wellington, has entered into part-nership-with Mr. T. Neave. The legal business of the late firm of Brown, Bean, and Neave (formerly Brown and "Dean) will in future be carried on at tho same address under tho style of Brown,/ Neave, and Courtenay. . : Mr. G. A. Parkes, Australian manager for the United States-Australian Steamship Line, is at present at Napier. Mr. Parkes is expected to be, in • Wellington shortly. . • Canon Purchns, who is leaving Ne;v Brighton, Christehurch, to take up tho pastorate uf Gleinnark Church, was invited to meet a uuinber of his vestrymen and parishioners of tho New . Brighton parish.on Thursday last at an informal gathering on -the vicarage lawn, at which which Mr. C. H. Opio presented the Canon with a purse of sovereigns as a token of tlio high esteem in which .tho members aud friends of tho church held him for his unselfish and unremitting labours in the ; parish, . particularly amongst th 6 young people. ... News has been received in Wellington by cable message of tho death of Mr. W. Mansell, who went out to lugomc, in tho Buluwayo district, as a Church of Christ missionary some twelve months ago. Six months ago lie was, married there to Miss Bassett, of Christchurck. His parents reside in College Street. Mr. Chairlcs Cathie, senior, will again 1» a candidato for tlio Mayoralty of Karori at the election on April ,10. Jlr. li. Parsons lias returned from Fiji, and is. touring the Dominion with ltatii Aniinio Marama, of. Na Bitu,> Fiji. Tlie old. boys of Auckland Grammar School and his many friends will receive with deep regret the announcement of tho UMtli of Mr. C. F. Bofirlie, which took placo on Saturday afternoon (says the Auckland"Herald"). Ths deceased was a son of tho late Mr. Stephen Bourne, who was for many years a leading official in Jamaica, ana was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, London. 110 entered St. John's College, Oxford, with a scholarship from his school, and subsequently became am exhibitioner of his college, graduating with clerical honours iu 1877. Oifc leaving Oxford he was appointed to a mastership at " Manchester Grammar School, and it was as a member of tho stuff 'of that great school that lie was selected to fill the hwulinastersliip of Auckland Grammar School, in succession to|Mr. Farquhar Macrae. He arrived in Auckland witli Mrs. llnurne in January, ISSB. and left in May; 1893, to assume tlie headmastorship ; of Christ's College, at OWstclim'Ch, which lie held till the end of tho year 1903. He undertook the duties of the chair ,of e.lnssics at- Auckland university Callage during tho se&ien ,of 1907, art A. lield the office of tutor at St'. John's .College, Tanlaki, during tho years 1910 and 1911, when failing health dm. helled him to Ksimi his position, Mr, Bourne was a scholar of great tact and ability, and an educationalist of tho first rank. He was mainly responsible for tho first meeting of tho conference of headmasters of New Zealand secondary schools. He was prcdeecawl by his eldest son, who was a member of tho ninfli contingent, and was killed in a railwav accident in South'.Africa- on his way' to the front. Mr. Frederick John Moirnt, solicitor, of tlie Dunedin Land Office stall', was ve«ti l'dav 'formally nominated as a candidate for election to the Public !>crvicc Hoard qf Appeal. His nomination paper was sighed hy a representative .elector out of every (Jpvernment Department in Dunedin. Mr. Lewis Anderson, of (he Dunedin Post Office stall', wis nominated for election a.s postal candidate.--Press \«oL'iation. _________