PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1922, 3 December 1913, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vice-Eeoai,, His Excellency the Governor, with the Countess of Liverpool, left Auckland 1 for Wellington by the. express at noon yesterday, accompanied by Captain G. l'\ Hutton, A.D.C., and Captain C. Shawe (military secretary).— Press Association. On Friday evening next His Excellency the Governor and tlio Countess of Liverpool will witness the AVcllington Amateur Operatic Society's performance of "The Geisha" (i.fc the Opera Houso.

His Honour the Chief Justico (Sir Robert Stout) left for Wanganui yesterday to preside at tho Supreme Court session.

The Feilding Borough Council has appointed Mr. W. 11. Miller electrical engineer for tlio lighting and power system to bo installed immediately. Mr. Miller is at present employed by tho Wellington City Council. There wero 30 appliean(|s.—Press Association.

Colonel A. W. Robin, C.8., who has been attached to the colonial section (.1' tho British War Office, is duo to arrivo in Sydney on December 20,, and is expected to reach Wellington on Christmas Evo.

Major Edgar Hcrapath, D.S.O.' (retired), has returned to Wellington from the south, where he has been troutfishing at Tomuka. He loaves Wellington for Sydney by tho Tahiti on Friday, en route to Java, China, inrl Japan. It is his intention to proceed Home from the East via the transSiberian railway. Major Herapath is accompanied by his wife. Mr. A. P. Allport, president of tho Stoke (Nelson) Fruitgrowers' Association, arrived in town by the Mapourika on business connected with tho export apple industry. Mr.' S. S. Kinnaird, foreman of tho Colonial Sugar Refining Company's works at Chelsea, Auckland, is retiring on superannuation after 30 years' service. There was a- largo following at the funeral of tlio late Mr. Henry Ncwland Fletcher yesterday. The burial service of tho Church of England Was read by the llov. Mr. Askew, of St. Mark's. There were present representatives of tho Ocean Accident Insurance Company, Masonic Lodge, tho Literary Society, Musical Society, Wellington Club, Orphans Club, and Savage Club, with which bodies tho deceased had been connected. Tho late Mr. Fletcher was a member of the Orpheus Quartet, and at tho cemetery the three remaining members, with ono other vocalist, sang "Good-byo, Beloved Brother." Mr. H. H. S'argeant, acting-harbour-master, has been appointed harbourmaster at Auckland. —Press Association. Mr. Mark Levy, of tho Nelson Post Office, retires on Saturday on superannuation, having been thirty-five years in the service, tho whole of which' time was served in Nelson. The staff met their retiring brother official, and made him a presentation of a hot-water spirit kettle, suitably inscribed, and a hotwater jug. The retirement of Mr. Levy will date from February 28 next, he having been granted three months' leavo of absence. Mr. A. A. M'Lean, telegraphist iu the Tiniaru office, has been promoted to the position of postmaster at Ohaupo, near Auckland I .' . Mr. M'Len.u expects to leavo for his new station some time noxt week". The funeral took place yesterday of the late Mr. John Barr, one-time Mayer flfi'.Eh'stbourJK l , who died at Havoloek North, Hawko's Bay, on Friday last. The funeral left tho rcsideneo of Mr. Alexander Campbell, of Stoke Street, for Karori Cemetery, at 2 o'clock, and among the followers were tho Mayor and councillors and Town Clerk of Eastbourne, Mr. W. S. Shortt (ex-Mayor of Eastbourne), and tho elders of tho Kent Terrace and St. James Presbyterian Churches. At the house of Mr, Campbell and at the graveside tho Revs. J. K. Eiliott and"W. Shircr officiated.

Arrivals from tho north by the Main Trunk express yesterday afternoon included: Mr. and Mrs. Lennon, Miss Irwin, and Mr. W. Austin, from Auckland ; Mr. F. F. Moore, Taiimarumii; Mr. Rogers, Rotorua; Miss D. L. Rogers, Frankton Junction; Mr. Wilfred. Foltham, Ohakune; Mrs. If. Gough and Mr. Edward Newman, M.P., Marton; Mr. F. Raddeley, Kimbolton; Misses J. and I. Burrell, and Messrs. R. W Shallcrass, Leslio Gorton, and E. Mace, Foilding; Mr. F. Davis, Hawera; J. Bradley, Wanganui; Mr. and Mrs. C V. Goulter and Miss Igglesden, Palmerston North ; also Mr. and Mrs. Pitt, Mr. and Mrs. Geary (Christchurcli), Mr. Wm. Smith (Ashhurat), Messrs. A. R. Astridge, R. Berry, and R. Paull (Christchurcli).