PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1750, 15 May 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. W. l'\ Massey (Prime Minister) will leave for Christchurch to-night, and expects to return to Wellington on .Sunday. Tho lion. ' W. Praser is at I'aeroa, and is expected to return to Wellington 011 Saturday. Tho Hon. A. L. Herdman is at Auckland, tlio JIOII. W. 11. llerries nt Greyniouth, and uie Hon. H. II Rhodes at Cliristclmrcli. Tho Hon. H. D. liell, the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, and tho Hon. Dr. Poniaro aro in Wellington. Tho Hon H. 1). Beli will preside at tho annual meeting of the Victoria League tomorrow evening, instead of tho Primo Minister. Mr. Massey will leave to-night 4'or Christchurch. Mr. K. Newman, member for Rangitikci, who is at liresent 011 ft visit to Wellington, had intended to leave for Australia to-morrow, but has found it neeessarv to poslpouo his visit until later in the month. Mr. Newman intends lo spend about three weeks in the Commonwealth. He will stay for a week at Hawkesbw-y, in New South Wales, where there is a famous agricultural college, and later will visit similar institutions at Ballarat and elsewhere. Mr. G. 11. Scales, who has been on a brief visit to Sydney, returned yesterday by the Moeraki. Captain .Tolm Gibb, tho commodore of the Union Steam Ship Company's scrvjce, and now in command of tho H.M.S. Niagara, will relinquish the command of tlio 13,500-ton. liner on her return to Sydney from Vancouver, with the object of retiring from the sea. Captain Gibb lias a splendid record of service in the Union Company, successfully commanding from time to time the finest boats of tho licet, lie was specially commissioned by tho director to proceed to Scotland to bring out the nety Niagara, aud.it is regarded as a crowning finish to his fine record that ho commanded this big liner 011 her maiden run "across the Pacific. His genial disposition has mado him extremely popular both afloat and ashore, and in settling down here he carries the best wishes of a large circle of friends not only in the Commonwealth, but on- tho Pacific coast. Captain Gibb will be succeeded in tho Niagara by Captain H. A. G. Morrisby, now in the It.M.S. Makuraon tlio Canadian run. Captain J. 1). S. Phillips, from tho K.M.S. Zealandia, will take command of the Makura.

The Rev. J. Bain and Mrs. Bain arrived in. Wellington yesterday from' London by tlio Atlienic. Mr. Farqithar Mathe-on, second son of the late Mr. I). L. Matlieson, and his father's associato in the business of Matlieson and Co., merchants, liivereargill, died at Duuedin on Sunday. He was for several years a. member of the Bluli Harbour Board. A Press Association telegram from Hastings records the death of Mr. Janies Garnett, Mayor of that town, aged 57. _ 110 underwent nil operation for appendicitis three weeks ago. Deceased was a member of a number of local bodies; ho was Mectecl Mayor in 1811, and was returned unopposed for two successive terms. He loaves a widow and iivo sons. Mr. Charles Reid, who for the past four Years has l.een in the Money Order Department oi' Hie (iovernmeiit Savings Bank at Invercargill, has received notice of his transfer to Napier. Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner. iefl Wellington yesterday on a business visit In.Blenheim. Mr. \V. B. .Montgomery, Secretary for Customs, was a passenger from Sydney by; Ihe Mocralii, which arrived yesterday. Mr. J. J. Cirealish, of the literary slalV of the "Evening Post," has been ollered and lias accepted a position on tlio Sydney "Dailv Telegraph." Mr. Cirealish will bo leaving Wellington in the course of three or four weeks. Mr. F. F. Munro was yesterday elected chairman of the Westport Harbour Board, with Mr. J. H. Greenwood as deputychairmnii.—Press Association. The funeral of tlio late Mr. Louis de Felichct took place at the llavclock cemeterv this afternoon, in the presence of a largo assemblage (telegraphed our Hastings eorrc-spondcnl) yesterday). Wreaths were forwarded by tlio Uawke's Buy Jockey Club, (ho Boxing Association, the Jlnwko's Bay Club, Hastings Club, Bowling Club, Stock Agents Association, stall' ol' Messrs. De Pehehcl, M'l.coil and Co., Ltd., the stall of Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd.. the slal) ol .Messrs. Borlhwick and Sons, the stall of Ihe l'ourerc Station, and others. Iho lust rites were' performed by (ho Rev. J. B. Brocklehurst. Tile l!ov. 11. Martyn Rogers, has_ been appointed to the Anglican Home .Mission sialT, and will be attached to the Tnranalci district, with the Rev. Mr. Houchen. i Mr. Sogers was at Malvern, Canterbury, 1 soiife years ago, and latterly has been at Billcsueii, Leicestershire. Tlio lato Judge Casey, who died at, St. K I*l da (Victoria) on April 5, left all eslato valued at JjiMS. He bequeathed .HOOD to the Roman Catholic Archbishop to form the nucleus of a fund towards building a Roman Catholic College in connection with the University of Melbourne. Amongst Australians who have recently relumed from England is Dr. Howard Bullock, who is well-known in sporting circles in New South Wales. Qualifying as M.8., Cli.M. (Byd.), in 190S, Dr. Bullock went to London as a Rhodes scholar the following year, and his career both in London and at Oxford has been one of brilliant success. Whilst at Oxford Dr. Bullock played in the Oxford Rugby tifteen against Cambridge, and was, in bis final year, elected by the undergraduates as president of New College. Mr. Borneo Gardiner, sifl'lenr, of Wellington, who in August last left for Sydney, returned to Wellington by the Jloeraki yesterday, lie was engaged by Hie management of liickards' Vaudeville Company. During tho last week of his engagement, which terminated in the month of February last. Mr. Gardiner took ill. and had to undergo an operation. This was successful, and he lias mnv come to Wellington to visit his parents, prior to leaving for Africa and l/oiidon, where he listsl secured engagements.

Mr. .1. Siiliiiniul, ai'linp-iii'pcctor for tl<o Uniuii H;mk ol" Anslrnlin„ l.td.. aih nouncc" in lliis is«in- Hint :i brunch bank hue been oueiied at, Te Awiunutu.