PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1809, 23 July 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hons. E. C. J. Stevens, J. Anstoy, J. Barr, and C. A. C. Hardy will arrive by tho Wakine from the South this morning. Mr. J. Graham Gow, late Trade Commissioner for New Zealand, who returned by the steamer Keut from England last week, is at present confined to his bed with illness, and will not Ik able to got about again for some days. . The death occurred last evening at her resident?, 71 Wordsworth Street, of Mrs. Eleanor Collins, wife of Mr. John Collins, for many years in business in Wellington, and who was at one time Mayor of the old Melrose Borough and'a member of the Hospital 1 Board. Mrs. Collins, who was 65 years of age, came out from England with her husband over to years ago, and has been resident in Wellington ever since. She was only ill for a few days before her death. She leaves an adult family of six—Mrs. John Nicoll, Mrs. diaries Godber, Mrs. Young, Mr. Charles Collins (city treasurer), Mr. George Collins, and Mr. Thomas Collins, all of Wellington,

News has teen received in, Sydney of the death, in tragic circumstances, of Dr. E. Maynard Pain, at one time superintendent at the Royal l'rince Alfred Hospital, and subsequently medical missionary at Cairo. He contracted cerebrospinal meningitis from a patient he.was treating, and died within 3G hours. Dr. Pain was well known to a.large.circle of medical men and others in Sydney. A Pres9 Association telegram from Dannevirke states that Mr. C, Hall, ex-member for Waipawa, was presented by Liberal supporters on Monday evening with a purso of sovereigns and an address, in recognition of his services to the 'party during the past twenty-four years. Several members of tho Opposition were present. Tho death is recorded in a Press Association tylegrain from Christchurch of Mr. Francis Narbey, one of the earliest settlers on Banks Peninsula, who came from Trance in 1819. He was 8f years of age. Mr. Morton H. Moycs, B.Sc., who was a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, of which Dr. Douglas Mawson is the leader, has been appointed headmaster of the University Coaching College in Sydney. Ho was previously I science master at St. Peter's College in Adelaide. Mr. Moyes is an all-round | sportsman.

'l'lie Victorian Council of the Australian Catholic Federation has decided to ask the co-opcration of the federation throughout Australia and Now Zealand in inviting Father Bernard Vaughan, S.J., tu visit this part of the world next year for the purpose of addressing meetings on the principle's of Catholic federation, with special" reference to the question of education. Father Vaughan has a worldwide reputation as a preacher, and his work in the East End of Loudon is well . kuowrj. Major J. G. Austin, of the Imperial Army Ordnance Department, lias been appointed to the administrative and instructional staff of the Commonwealth military forces, and director of ordnanco services in the department of the quarter-master-general. Mr. Victor Beck lias arrived in Wellington to make arrangements for the approaching season of the "Smart Set" at the Concert Chamber of the Town, Hall. Mr. W. H. Tisdall, of Christchurch, is visiting Wellington as a delegate to the New Zealand Acclimatisation Societies' Conference. , A Press Association message from Oiwistchurch announces the death of Mr. W. F. Simpson, the well-known lonsdistance runner, at the age of 37. Mr. Simpson, who died on Sunday, was guard on the Mount Somers railway. He had a lons and brilliant cower on tlio amateur racing track. In 1901, at Auckland, he put up an Australasian record, ldmin. ■I'Jsec. for the three miles flat race. Sonio years ago, with G. W. Smith, of Auckland, lie represented New Zealand in England.

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