PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 21 August 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Honour Mr. Justice Kim returned to Wellington yesterday, and ivill probublv hold a sitting of the Supreme Court Lo-dav.

Amongst the visitors at tho "Windsor Hotel aro Mr. Mayliew (ninahura), Mr. ■Moss (Danncvirke), Mr. Bibby (Waipawa), and Mr. MacGregor Watt (Wairarapa), who has returned from Sydney, and. who is staying at Wellington for the next few days.

Owing to ill-health, tho Rev. W. 1 insley, of liuvin, has decided to apply at next conference to become a supernumerary.' Thus it will be necessary at next conference, to appoint a minister to succeed the Rev. 'J'insley as superintendent of tho Levin-Otuki circuit.

Mr. James Mitchell, of Oamaru, has ]>oeu reappointed chairman of the Otago Education Board.—Press Association.

Dr. H. C. Tail, Mr. C. F. Alexander, mid Mr. G. A. Smith (Dunedin),,Jlr. H. E. Kenuett, and Mr. G. 1/ead Gowing (Christ, church), Mr. P. W. Jnv.rs, Mr. T. Simp, son (Auckland), Mr. T. Rush (Svdney), Mr. L. G. Barker (Napier), Sir. 13. W. Nelson (Hnwke's Bay), Mr. Martin Elgar (Masterton), and Mr. T. E. Hurt (Otago), wiio arrived at Wellington yesterday, are all .residing ot tho Grand Hotel.

Mr. P. Rkoglund, town clerk of Strata ford, has l>een granted a short furlough owing to ill-health.

Amongst the latest arrivals yesterday at tho Empire Hotel aro Mr. E. Hibbard and Mr. L. Bayly (Wanganui), Mr. Jos. Butler (Auckland), Mr. Jas. S. Pollock and Mr. F. V. Lubermann (Melbourne), Mr. John Morrison (Auckland), Mr. G. W. M'Kenzia (Rangitikei), Mr. Williams (Duncdiu), Mr. and Mrs. Crisp (Nelson), and Mr. A. E, Belts (Nelson).

Mr. Charles Gollop, who lias been con. nected with tho Greymouth branch of tho Public Works Department for many years, Ims been transferred on promotion to Stratford.

Mr. R. 11. Fiyer, who for nine years was a member of tho Hawera Post Office staff has been transferred to AVollington. The staff, before his departure, presented him with a travelling-bag,

Tlio N.Z. Tcmpernnco Alliance executive mot at tlio Y.M.C.A. rooms last evening to>say eood-byo to Mr. and Mrs. B. 11. Low, wiio arc about to ranovo to Blenheim, whero Mr.; Low has been appointed to tho headniastership of tho publie school there. The function took tha form of a dinner, at which complimentary speeches wore made by the Rev. W. J.Comrie,. AV. S. Potter, ,T. B. Finlay, W. J. llelycr, R. Kennedy, G. Petherick,' R. G. Denton, Dr. V. AVliyte, Mrs. E. A, Boxall, and J. Dawson, Mr. Low's work during tho seven years that ho has been a member of tho executive has been appreciated. Mr. and Mrs. Low spoke in reply.

'Mr. Davidson has returned to Dnnodin from tho Education Conference at Wellington. .

The latest arrivals yestordav at tho Royal Oak Ilotel included llr. James Edgar (Ounodin), Mr. C. AV. Dawson (Chi'istcliui'ch), Mi\ Gabriel (Sydney), Mr, J. B. Murray,. Mr. AV 11. Bassett, and Mr. and Mrs. Bateson (AYnngamii), Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Tripp, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Duncan (Nnpicr), Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson (Blenheim), and many others.

A Groymouth Press Association telogram records the death of Mr. Edmund Wickes, aged 77. Ho arrived in Grc-y----mouth in 1805,. and was the only surviving member of the old Provincial Council. Ho was tho third Mayor of Greymouth, and the pioneer of (ho sawmilliug industry on tlio West Coast.

Captain 11. S. Matson, of tlio med'icnl staff of the Indian Army, accompanied by Mro. Matfin, arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Ulimaroa, on a visit to the Dominion.

Mr. Julius Knight, the well-known actor, and the mein'wrs of his company wero passengers to '/Wellington by tlio Sydney boat yesterday.

Tho Rev. Father Price arrived in Wellington 'jefetwday' from ' Sydney by tho Ulimaroa. '

A New Zealander who has niado his mark in art cardies in Sydney -is Mr. Ronald S. Wsilrolin, foniit'i'ly in'tho service of tho Dominion Land Tax Department. In the Royal Art Society's recent competitions ho tool; first prize and scholarship in the lifo class, and elso • first prize in tho group competition of fouir subjects.

Mi*. Frank 11. Phillips, Parliamentary Nativo inte-nirotor, is leaving for .'Olio North Auckland district to-day on mattoils .concerning tho distress attending tho Maoris as a mult of tho prevailing epidemic.

Mr. Martin Luckie, who been at Palmorston North, in coimection with tho Ore Ore murder case, returned to Wellington last night.

The Anglicun. Bishops of tho Dominion are at present in -Wellington. The Primate and the Bishop of kelson are staying at Bishopsoourt, with Dr. Sprott. Tlw Bidhops of Cliristchureh and Waiapu are tho guests of tho Eev. A. L. Hansell rori) and Mr. G. B. Tolhiurst, respectively. '

■Mr. D. A. Aiken, assistant-general manager for the laiion Company, arrived in Wellington from tlip south yesterday, and lett agaio by -tilie Wahine lost evening. Ecv. Father ilo.ich, of tho Eedemptorist order, until recently attached to the Balliirnt monastery, has been appointed rector of the monastery at Wellington, New Zealand. Fte is regarded (says the Melbourne "Age") as one of tho most eloquent, members of his order, which he joined in Ireland somo years ago. Lord Douglas, hitherto a secular priest, has. entered .the Eedcmntorists' order, and it is stated that he will shortly join one of tho Australian monasteries,

Tho ! "l\istoral Eeview" has received cable advico from London that Captain A.' W. Pearsc, at present visiting Europe, has been appointed by tho High Commissioner ComniomvMUli delegate to tho third International Congress of Hefrieeroted Industries, ■to be held in Chicago, U.S.A., in September. Owing to his great age and the effects of a recent accident. Mr. Burgoyne, a veteran member of the South Australian House of Assembly, Ins been permitted by resolution of the House to have a special chair and table near the' Speaker's dais..

Probate of the will of Sir Frederick Bedford, formerly Governor of Western Australia, who died in January last, has been applied for in Perth. The English estate is valued at. C 9335), and the Western Australian at The whole is bequeathed to Lady Bedford.

Mr. F. G. Layton; who was a member of the Wellington Naval i Artillery, iuis been presented with a medal for tvclvo years' service.

Tho (leat.li occnrrrd at Auckland on Tuesday of Mr. W. 11. Lyon, of Esplanade Road. Mount Eden, at tlio ara of 07 years. Mr. Lynn had _lwi in failing health for some time, having )>«>> compiled to retire' from aeti\-o business, and his death was not unexpected. Ifo wus the son ,cf tlva Uov. W. P. Lyon, JS.A., of Londofi, and orrivod in Auckland as a yonns; man in tlio year IS7I. For some time ho was in partnership with Mr. Robert Walker, the well-known kauri g-uni merchant. After Mr. Walker went out of business, Mr. Lyon started on his own act-mint, and subsequently joined the late -Mr. H. K. Garlick, tlio firm being Gavlick and Lyon.

Commitioner Richard". -if the Salvtion Army, has returned to Wellington after a tour of inspection through tlio North Inland, lie visited many towns in different part* of thu island. mid everywhere received an enthusiastic welcome, Commissioner Richards will leave for Christelinreh 10-monw, accompanied by Brigadier Bray (property and social secretary). Brigadier IToare (vounsr pcvinlo'a pwret-wy), and Major Colvin (editor of tho "War • Cry"). He will probably return tv) Wellington oh Tuesday.

A pii'seiw to Auckland by yesterday's Main Trunk train was Mr. Ulysses Grant, second son of General Ulysses S. Grant, the famous commander of the victorious Federal Army in the American Civil War. Mr. Grant, who is a lv.-ident of Santiago, California, is on an extended tour of tho world. After the war General Grunt was twice elected President of tho Vnited Slates, and for about a y.-ar his wm acted as his private secretary.

])r. Gilrav, medical superintendent of Sr^m-Jtsrw has arrived in Wellington to welcome Ins brother, Mr. Colin Gilrav, New Zealand Rhodes scholar for IMS. who is a passenger from England bv«the Rotorua.