PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1926, 8 December 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vick-Hegat.. His Kst'oilcncy the Governor and tin* Countess of Liverpool will attend the Royal Choral Society's performance of "The Messiah" at tho Town Hall on Monday evening next. Private telegrams received in Wellington yesterday contained news of tile death., at Auckland, of Mr. P. Palgrave, formerly a veterinary surgeon in the employ of iho" Agricultural Department. Deceased was about -15 years of ago. Mr. T. R. Herd, Collector of Customs ar. (Jreyuiouth, has received notice to transfer to tho head office at Wellington, having been promoted io the position of chief clerk, in succession to Mr. George Craig, who lias became assist-ant-secretary of the Department.

. Mr. A. M. T. Jones, who lias been in charge of tho New Plymouth branch of the Public Trust Oilice lias been transferred to tho head offieo in Wellington. Mr. A. H. Poarce, of tho Hawora branch, goes to New Plymouth. Mr. J. M. O'Reilly, of the local Customs staff, left, by tho Aoraogi for Rarolonga, where lis' is to spend the next three mouths as Acting-Collector of Customs, the regular Collector (Mr. W. .j. Stevenson) having been granted throe mouths' leave. Mr. O'Reilly is accompanied by his.wife. Mr. Robert Bell, managing director of tho "Aslihuitois Mail" and "Guard* ian" proprietary, is paying a visit to Wellington, and' is staying at tho Roy.if Oak Hotel. Colonel 11. 0. Knox, Quartermaster--General, left Wellington.for Auckland last night 011 a visit of inspection. Ho will return to Wellington 011 Friday. Major F. W. M'Donald, ono of tho officers of ilia New Zealand Defence Staff, who was sent to England for military experience, has arrived at Melbourne' 011 his return to Now Zealand. Mr. and Jits. George Hutchinson and family, formerly of Wellington and Oliristchurch, were outward passengers by tho steamer Aorangi for San Francisco. Mr. Hutchinson expects to bo in the United States for some years. The Rev. Cyril Harvey, M.A.,_ who lias been acting as curate in tho Wanganui parish, and who has been appointed vicar of Waipawa, takes tip his new duties at the beginning of tlio year. Mr. Duncan Cameron, well known throughout Otago and elsewhere as a piper and composer of pipo music, says a Southern paper j has just recently been made the recipient of a prosant of an exceedingly handsome, set of bagpipes by Mr. Allan M'Dougall, head 01 tho famous bagpipe-making firm at Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, as a token of appreciation of his business merits. The pipes wefo made by Mr. John M'Dougall, brother of Mr. Allan M'Dougall, of tho choicest African Mackwo'od, and iho silver mountings are beautifully engraved with tho Scottish thistle, while upon tho chanter stock there' is engraved tho armorial bearings unci crest of the faithful followers of Lochiel. It- may bo mentioned that Mr. Ronald M'Ketizie, piper to tho Diiko of Gordon, who happeneu to be in Mr. M'Dougall's shop prior to the pipes being despatched to New Zealand, after a trial, considered thein par excellenco in tono and finish, aim an instrument that any piper might well he proud of. Ono of Mr. Cameron s latest eajagiositions is a quickstep with variations entitled "Sir Walter Buchanan's Welcome to New Zealand Again," which was dedicated and playrcf to Sir-Walter Buchanan 011 the occasion of his tvelcomc back from a trip to tho Highlands of Scotland at reception gathering of 5000 people, when it was very highly appreciated.