PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 20 August 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Jlr. I'. Ilally, Conciliation Commit suiiHT, left for Wanganui to-day. Ho will ict.urn towards the end of the week. Mr. W. Hopkirk, president, and Mr. A). l'ryor, secretary of tlio New Zealand Employers' Federation, are visiting the South Island in connection with tho an- >>"«, meetings of fho Canterbury and ..outii Canterbury Employees' Associations.

Davidson (Dunedin) and Mr. Siddall (Ghristchurch), lxith of whom tire interi\J ii- e diicjitioiial matters, arrived at Wellington yesterday, and made tho \\ indsor Hotel their headquarters.

Mr. W. 1). Jenkins, who had been ill tho service of Iho Postal Department at Wellington for the past twenty-two years, died at his residence in Tinakori lioad en Holiday Just. The deceased, wlio was a native of lorkahire, left a. grown-up iamily.

J hero wero .many well-known arrivals yesterday at: the Empire Hotel, afnongsi them being Mr. II A. Speedy and Mr. D. Mac Donald (llnwke s Bay), Mr II C Dawson and Mr. James Wilson (TV>komaru Bay), Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Fenwick (Gisborne), Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Dixon, and Mr. J. )\ inter (Auckland), Mr. D. Buchanan (Masterton), Mr. A TT Af Wright (PatesA Mr. J. T. Smith (Wkngal nui), Mi. C. 11. Woodcock (Melbourne), and others.

. -There lire an unusually large number ol visitors at .Wellington for tho time of tho year, and amongst those who entered their names in tho visitors' book at tlio Grand Hotel yesterday were Mr. C. Williams and Mr. A, Rex. Schiemming (Gig. borne), Mrs. C. F Teranco (Masterton) Mr. J. II; Miller (U.S.S. Co.), Mf J H. Boyd (Canada), Mr. P. Mara, Mr. a] Scholes, and Mr. W. J. Hoffman '(To Kuiti), Mr. A. K. Bwyer (Marton), Mr. P. Thomson (Wanganui), Mr. E. 1?. James (Auckland), and others.

Sir Joseph Ward will return to Wellington from tho South on Friday morning.

Tho Eev. H. S. Loach, of Sumner, haß been appointed to succeed the Hot. P. J, Cocks in tho parish of St. Saviour, Sydenham.

Noire received from London states that Lady Jianfurly has suffered bereavement through tho sudden death of her father, James Alfred GnulfieJd, C.8., Viscount Chai'lemoiiit, _ and Baron Oaulficld, of Olmrlomo'nt, in. Ireland. "WJiilo dressing for dinner at his Drumcairiie k Btwartstown» County Tyrone, ho had a stroko and died very soon afte.rwards, at! tho age of 83. Bom in Maud in 1830, Lord Olianlecnoiiit succeeded! his cousin as ■seventh visoount in 1892. . In 1858 Lord Clwi'lelnonit married the Hon. AnireUa Ilandoock, daughter of the third Baroi) Costlemaine. Sho died 20 yearo later. Their only daughter, tho Hon. Constance Elizabeth Caulnold, was married shortly after to tho present Earl of Ranfuriy. Tho lieir to the viscounty ■is tho laio peer's nephew, Mr. James Edward Caulheld, who was born in 1880.

Among the guests staying at tho Albert Hotel are: Mr. John Earrell, of J. C. Williamson's compAny, and Mrs. Farrelli and Mr. Page, of Blenheim.

A Requiem Mass was said in th« Basilica yesterday on tho first anniversary of tho death of Mr. T. G. M'Carthy, Tho Mass, which was said by tho Eev. Father M'Carthy. S.M., was attended by a largo number of people. Several visiting priests wero in tho sanctuary, including tho Rev. Fathers Ainswortu, W. T. Tymons, and Goggan.

Amongst tho arrivals yesterday at the Royal Oak Hotel wt>re Mr. H. J. Middloton and Mr. J. R. Baird (Invcrcargill), Mr. E. Walkley (Sydney), Mr. A. W. Bennett, Mr. W. Graham, and Mr. R. E. Bishop (Christchurch), Mr..Geo. Rutherford (Hawarden), Mr. James Storry (Canterbury), Mr. H. Kenway, and Mr. E. M. Hutchinson (Gisborne), Mr. 11. Walkley (Auckland), Mr. ,W. D. Clark (Thames), Mr. John M'Vay (Napier), Mr. E. W. luiowlcs, and Mr. J. Henry Cook (Nelson). Mr. 11. Afcmore, M.P. for Nelson, arrived iu WoLlington by Uio Pateeaia last evening.