PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1797, 9 July 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vice-Regal. Guests at the Vice-Regal dinner last eveniug included: Sir Charles Bowcn (Speaker of tho Legislative Council), Messrs. L, Stowe (Clerk of Parliament), Bothamley (of the Legislative Council staff), Colonel Collins (Auditor-General), H. J. H. Blow (Under-Secretary for Public Works), T. Ronayno (General Manager .of Railways), J. Hislop (Under-Secretary i'or Internal Affairs), Hon. C. A. C. Hardy, M.L.C., Messrs. A. S. Malcolm (Chairman of Committees), J. S. Dickson, A Harris, 1\ liander, and T. Scott, M.IYs.

Ther.Prime 1 (Minister (tile Hon. W. F. Massey) was absent from the House last evening, suffering from a slightly sprained ankle. ' Ho met with tho injury earlier in the day going down the steps at his residence, but, although he was at work in tho House during tho afternoon, the pain became so severe that he had to retire, and consult a doctor. It is not expected that Mr. Massey will bo laid up for long.

lhe doata is announced at. Henderson, Auckland,_ s:ys cur Fetiding correspondent, 01 Mr. IkSiw Mount Burchaw", only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Biiveham, of Halcombe. Decsaseu was 31 years of age, and leaves a widow aini one sun, aaeil 2 years. He was a member of o;k- <>£ the contingents engaged in the L'ocr 'rt'or, and ho resided in south Africa lor some time after peace was declared.

His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) left for Duncdiu by last night's steamer.

The dentil occurred at Greymouth last ' ovening of Mr. P. M. GrilTen, a very old colonist. Deceased came to Otago in.lSliO, and took part iu the Dunstan rusii. He arrived in Greymouth in ]86'5, and established a business, sinco known as Griffon and Smith, wholesale merchants. For same time ho was a borough councillor and J.P. lie was a man of groat culture and sterling character.—Press Association. Mr, J. Jlaughan Barnett, city organist of Auckland, is to give a recital at tho Wellington Town Hall to-morrow evening. On Friday, July 25, Mr. Horace Weber, of tho Napier Cathedral, wili give a farewell organ recital in Wellington prior to his departure for Adelaide. The death is reported at Palmerston of Mr. Harry Burnham, of Awahuri. Mr. Burnham,_ says our Feilding correspondent, entered the hospital, and was operated on for appendicitis last Thursday, but other complications set in, terminating in his death. He leaves a wife and two children. Mr. A, Shepherd, who was at one time manager of tho Ingestre Skating Rink for Messrs. John Fuller and Sons, and who has been conneoted with the vaudovillo business in Sydney, has left for America to act' there as agent for tho BrennanFuller Company. Mr. Shepherd was well known in Dunedin, wliero no was an employee in the Biblo Tract Depot for some time. The death occurred on tho Rose Bay golf links on Saturday week of Mr. L. Whitfield, a prominent Sydney lawyer, who made a speciality of divorce law. Deceased, who was born at Darlinghurst in 1857, was a son of Mr. Edward Whitfield, who established tho Sydney Grammar School.