PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1799, 11 July 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

, Vice-Eegal, His Excellency the Governor .and Ladj ! Liverpool, with a party from Government . -House, are to attend (ho performance of > J'incro's play,. "Tlia Second Mrs. Tanqueray," by the Haniillon-Plimmer Com.- | pany, at the Opera House this evening. The Hon. W. F. Mussey, Prime Minis- ! tor, took his place in tlio House of Representative:) last night. His sprained ankle is still causing him tome incon- £ venience. Captain Hewitt, R.N., for many years - a resident of Palmerston North, died sud--1 denly yesterday. He is tho possessor of 1 tho Baltic medal, and has taken a prom- . inont part for many years in Anglican s Synod matters, and. has also been an j earnest promoter of scientific research.— J- ress Association. j - Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Hitching*, of Lovin, returned from a visit to tho East 011 Wednesday. Mr. Hitchings tells tlie story of a most for tuna to escape his party ; had from serious trouble, if northing worse, whilst in China. It will be rsmom bored that a press cablo messago of sonio weeks ago related the story of a swamer which had lieen seized by ooolio pirates, wlio Iliad shi]yp(xl as members ?r th ?r« r fy nt Hons Kong. Mr. and 3 Mrs. Hitching.? had actually arranged to ' i j.i y , 10 stc! uncr, and lad booked, i mi 'n i ""-t' lo advice of Messrs. [ Kong, tticy altered their plans at the , last moment. How thankful thoy woro f afterwards needs no explanation. Sir Robert Stout has ucoepbcd tho posi« , f lOl . 1 Patron of tho Wellington Zoo-' f loE'cal Society, in succession to Lord , Islington. 5 On Wednesday evening a welcome was I «? ven , the Courtenay Place Congregat tional Church to the Eev. J. Ralph, who • has arrived from England to take charge i of tho Congregational Church Homo Mis. sion station near To Kniti. Addresses ! were given by the Revs. R«ed Glasson and: , A. M. Aspland, and Mr. T. Forsyth : (chairman of the District Committee). Mr. F. E. Allen, of tho Eastern Exten- > sion Cable Company's staff, who has been i spending • part of lias furlough in New 1 Zealand, left Wellington oil Wednesday for Auckland, en route to London. Mr. Allen, who is a younger brother of Mr. 1 H. F. Allen, of this city, vas stationed at Tientsin (China) before ho camo to 1 Now Zealand. Whore ho will next be sta* tioncd will not bo determined until ho reaches London. Mr. C. B. Mordson, K.C., -has been appointed valuor for the City Council in the revaluation of certain city sections. A deputation representing tho Drivers' Unions of tho Dominion waited on Mr. 11. Hunter, ox-secretary of the New Zealand Drivers' Federation, at the Masonic Hotel last evening, and presented him with a gold chain and modal, jn recognition of his services rendered to the federation while its headquarters were in Christchurch, and of his conduct of the dispute before the Arbitration Court in September last, when tho first Dominion award was. obtained. Tho Department of Justice lias appointed the following probation officers under the Crimes' Act:—Messrs. W. Brackcnrig, Auckland; T. P. Mills, Wellington; i\ I. Smail, Christchurch; and F. G. Cuinming, Dunedin. The Colonial Auxiliary Forccs decoration has been awarded to the Rev. W. E. Gill-am, chaplain to tho forcos, who lu\s a record of service extending over 20 years. The same deeorat ioii has bi.en awarded to Captain J. Mounsey, N.Z.F.A., and Lieut. W. J". A. M'lntosh, 3rd (Auckland) Infantry Regiment. Something in tho way of a record 3im been established by Mr. Frank Jennings, of Wellington, who has just completed his thirty-seventh year as secretary to tho Excelsior Lrdge of Druids. He lias beon the recipient of many congratulations., Commissioner Lamb, the overseas secretary of tho Salvation Army, who arrived from Canada, last-week, is at present in Cliristcliiu'rcli.it-Heiwill' rehirn to Wellington towards tho end of next week. One of the oldest settlers in -Otago, Mr, Antonio Joseph, <lied at Taieri Mouth, yesterday. Deceased, "who was about) 85' years of ago, arrived in New Zealand in tho American whaler Favourite in the year 1847i—Press Association. Mr. George N. F. King, an old resident of tho Hutt Valley, passed away yesterday at his residence in tho Esplanade, Petone. Ho was 76 years of age, and had resided in the Dominion for over half a century. Ho was a prominent Oddfellow., and for tho last 40 years had been n member of tho lodge. The death occurred at Palmerston on Wednesday of Mrs. Whalley, .wife of Mr. J. Whalley, of Fitzherbert Street, at tho ago of 7G. She had been a resident of Palmerston for twenty years.