PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1900, 7 November 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Captain W, H: Ckpham, of the? re« tirod list, lias been awarded tho Colo* jiiiil Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration in. recognition -of a total coiumi&t sioitod service of '2$ yoars 235 days. Mr. Tom Pollard lias arrived in Wellington to take in hand the stage production of "The Geisha" for the Wellington Amateur Operatic Society, ' Tho Inspector-General of the Oversea Forces (&ori<srivl Sir lan Hamilton). accompanied by his staff officer (Brigadier- , General 6, F. Ellison) and hi? aidcde- : cijinp {Major Ashmore>, will reach FroniantVo on February 2 next. Tho inspection of the Australian milifarc ! forces., will last until April 22. He will come next to Nw Zealand. whero ha will remain until tho end of May. Mr, Fred,, Quiutrell, one of J. C. Williamson.,- I'tdifjpbest-known musical directors, who was last in Wellington wnh the Taiitomiuu; Company, arrived from Sydney yesterday on holiday leave. :It is his intention .to do soma shooting before lie returns to Australia. Tho appointments of Mr. F. R. Pearson, of Daunevirke. and Mr. It. Waiters, of Hastings as inspectors of factories, are gazetted. ' Tho Port of London Authority, which ■controls the. shipping of that port, has dispatched Mr. J. H. Estill, the commercial superintendent, as their ascredited representative to place before merchants of and. exporters from tho Commonwealth of Australia the existing facilities for tile- handling of their produce in til*? Port of London, <uid ; tho extensive additional accommodation! which tho Port of London Authority is now constructing for the handling of Australian trade. The Melbourne Chamber of Dnminefco nro advised that Mt. Estill will be in Melbourne. fro in about November 14 to tho end of November. Tho Rev. W. Woolls. Rutledge, organising secretary of the Australian Methodist Centenary Thanksgiving Fund, is seriously ill ill West 'ifaitjaiid, New South Wales, his medical advisers having decided that lip must cancel all engagements until the end of tho year, Mr. Harry Gabriel Pelissier, founder of "Tho Follies" class of entertainment which has been copied fo extensively throughout the world, left personal {estate valued, at £1!).$31. Mr. Pelissier I died in London on September 25, of heart disease, at the age of 39 years. A, party of five Maori members of tho. Latter Day Saints, whjeh left Auckland in May -last by tlio Niagarii, on a visit ■ to Utah, returned yesterday by the Willochra. Tho party included Mr. W. Duncan, Mrs. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. T. Ihaia, and Mr. Stuart Meha. Miss Adelaide Thompson., and Mr. and Mrs. W, Smith were also members of tho party on. the return trip. Mr.Snvithj yiio went to Utah 20 years ago, is to tako charge of t-Jio musical department of the Latter Day Saints' College near Hastings.. Mr. J. L. Dhmdel!, of WtfHngtoii, Mr. and M>s. Ronald Fisher, of Tinia.ru, Mvs. Hartley Smith, of Christchurch. aiid Mr. Hutchinson, a well-known business man in Auckland, arrived ai Wellington from San Francisco by tho Willochra yesterday. Mr. Bartholomew Croouin has resigned the headmastership of tho Naroer . Street School, Auckland, after holding that position for twenty yioars, ■ Mr. Q. S. Crawford, manager at Svdncy for the Canadian and Australian branch of the Union Company, arrived from San Francisco by tho Willochra yesterday.