PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir Charles Bowed, M.L.0., went south hy the Maori last evening. Bishop Cleary, of Auckland, is a visitor to Wellington. Mr. Charles Holdswortk general manager of tho Union S.S. Company, who has been on a visit to England, is duo to-arrive in Auckland to*day from Vancouver. Dr. Gflruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory,, is at. present on a long motor tour in thfe interior. Three officers of the Australian permanent staff have been selected to go to other centres of the Empire lor temporary experience, and their places in tho Commonwealth will ho taken by officers given in exchange. 'Major M, W. Logan is to spald twelve months in. India; Lieutenant W. W. Alderman is to go to New Zealand for a simitar period, and Lieu-tenant 0. V. Head will remain ja Canada for two years. Liou.tenants Alderman and Hoad jvilj hold the temporary yank of captain while away. Mr. Frank Talbot, late advance maii- ■ agcr for tho Adeline Gento Company, has arrived in Wellington from the Sftuth. He will leave for Sydney by thff Ulimaroa oil Friday. Messrs. Harry Nerl and Reginald Gootid, the Sydney vocalists, who aro to take part in "Judas MaccaliaoUß," with tho Royal Choral Society, left Sydney for Wellington, by the Maunganui on Saturday. Br. W. R, Redman, M.R,C..5.., L.M., and Mrs. W. E. Redman, of Picton, will arrive from London by the T'urak-ina., due hero towards tho end of this month. Mr. G, M. Wilford, son. of Mr. T. M. Wiiford, M.P., is a passenger by the Turakiira, duo at AVoilipgtQii at too ©rod of November. Mr Murray, acting-rector of the Palmcrsion North Ilich School who underwent an operation for appendicitis sonw Weeks ago, has recovered sufficiently to resume bis duties.'

Thc Grand Muster of the Masonic fraternity in New Zealand, M.W, Bro. Maurice Thompson, was to pay ah qfiieial visit to Napier to-day, but. owing to the strike, tho party are held up at Blenheim, and tlio visit lias been postponed. The Rov. T, R. Richards, Who has been connected with the Blenheim Methodist circuit for five years. ..has accepted an invitation to succeed the Rov. H. in Blamires in tlio charge ef the? Napior Trinity Methodist Church, and takes up his duties in March. IT© will be succeeded at Blenheim by tlife Rev. B. F. Rothwe.lt, of LyUclton. Mr. 0. D. CooTf, who has been in coinjnand of a feectioii. of the special foot police on tho Auckland wharves for soma time, and who was married on Wednesday, was presented by the special police with a silver hot-water fcottlo, and by the Employers' Association with a silver tea-service. The presentations were made oil tho wharves, in tho pve;•sencc <sf several hundred police, and Mr. Cook was heartily cheered.

Tlio Ror. J. A. ICempthqrne. at present rurntc-in-clmrga <sf Holy Trinity Cluirclij To ]lor,in", lias boon appointed Vicar of Inglowoocl. Ho will take up his' now duties at tile beginning of nest year. TJio clcat.li took placo at Auckland recently of Mr. P. Long, who for a miniber of years oeenpied' tno position of postmaster afc Pate. Miss D. Robertson, at present senior mistress of the Dsvnnevirko Higli School, tukl fdnivorty {iss.tst»\wt nusfcross itt tlio Auckland Grammar School, lifts been appointed to ibo staff of the Christdlutfch '.Technical College. ' Mr. J. N. Grunt, fic.cr.tit.ary of tho Grand Lodge, •TJ.A.U.D,, has received a telegram, stating that Ili'o. Harry J. Gilbert, Past Grand President. died at New Plymouth 011 Sunday, aged 43 years- Mr- Gilbert, who had been ill for abotot throe months., was- initiated into tho Groua. Lodge, at Palmerston North, on October 17, 1.895, and was secretary of that lodge for somo years. Later on ho went to New Plymouth,' where lie entered into business sis a seotl merchant- with Mr. Rowo, and 1)6cnme secretary (>f tho Moturoa Lodgo wlte.ll i'b was first- opened, ietftiiiiiig .that position till about eighteen months ago. jlr. Gilbert Was first clectod to tho oxocutivo of tho Grand Lodge, U.A.0.D., ill February, 1903, and. attained tho highest position that his brethren could bestow upon him—namely, that of Grand Presid«tt-~-ra February, 1907. Tho Grand President, Bio'. Alfred Thompson, will officially represent tho Grnisd Lodge at tho funeral, which takes placo at Mew Plymouth to-morrow.