PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1954, 10 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

7- !1 H° n -J-A. Millar, interviewed 8t Auckland yesterday, said the statement tjiat he intended to resign his scat in the near future was incorrect. 11« <}i<i not intend to resign, but said ho was not certain as to' whether ho would contest the next election or not.—Press Association. •

Mr. J. (~ \y. Aitken lias undergone an opeiittion in Nnrse Fisher's l'rivaio Hospital, Abel Smith Street. He is progressing satisfactorily.

Colonel Heard. Director of Military Jrammg, Colonel Johnstone, and Mnio'r Alaidlow, w ho have been attending Dm military tournament at Aucklottd, returned to Wellington yesterday '/ G. L,_ Stewart, secretary of t-ho Wellington Education Board, will return to Wellington 011 Monday, when the offices of tho Education Board will bo 10opeuod.

Mr. Royd Garl'icli, Director of Pliysieat Education, is to leivvo for Auckland to-day.

At the last- meeting of the council oi tho Royal: Geographical Society, London, Mr. Reginald Palmer Grov'ilto, Inspector «t Surveys in the Lands and Survey Department, Now Zealand, was elected a Fellow of tlio society. Mr. Grevillo is now stationed tit llainilton| ami previously has clono extensive lamlj Rcodetical, geological, and engineering surveys in various parts ef tho Dominion.

Captain Gal©, of tho Bedfordshire Regiment, and Lieutenant C. Wilson, 0? tho Reserve, iate of tho 10-th Hussars, have been appointed aides-de-camp to Sir Arthur lyulpli Stanley, tho new Governor of Victoria.—Press Association.

Tlie death is reported at Los Angeles of Sir Joseph Dtibuc, who wag Chief Justice of Manitoba from 1903 to 1.000. Tho deceased gentleman, who was 78 years of ago, had been associated with Canadian politics sinco '1870.—l?ress Association.

Captain Georgo Craws-haw, marine superintendent for the Union Company at Sydney, who has ■ been spending a holiday iii New Zealand, returned to Sydney by tho Wiflochva terdav.

Mr;. Grtty, of the firm of Wright, Stephenson and Co., loft Wellington for Sydney by the Wilioclira last evening.

Mr. John Patterson, who was n, mem-ber-of the firm of Patterson and Martin, who built the Wellington Town Hall, returned to New Zealand by tho Rotoraa this week after an absence of several years. Mr. Patterson will leave again tor Scotland in a few months.

Mi'. 11. S. Crawford, recently in charge of the correspondence department of tho Union- Company's local office, _ was tho recipient of a presentation from the st-a-lf prior to leaving for Duisedivi, where he will join tho company's headquarters' staff.

Professor Ouati Cardstovt, who is under engagement to the Petono Munioipil Band, to organise the February carnival, arrives in Petono early nest week. A strong committee has been formed to work under tha professor's 'direction.

The Grand Trior and tho . ChapterGeneral of the Order of St-. John -of Jerusalem in -England havo gassed . a special vote of thanks to Mr. J. J. TTollnnd. of Auckland, for his distinguished l services in furtherance of the work of ilio Order in eomrectfcm with its ambulauco departnvont. Tho services fendered bv Dr. George Lapraik, as lecturer at Thames, and by Mr. William Rattray, as secretary of the Auckland Centre, have been rrcagnisod. the former haviftg been selected its an honorary associate and the fatter as an honorary serving brother of- tho Order of St. John <sf ■JefwsalenV in^Englafrd.

The llov. D;tvkl Hird, M.A., has accepted an invitation to the pastorate <j'f tho Presbytoi ian Church at Rota-nra. Mr. Bird's induction has been Used to take placo on Wednesday, January 21.

_ Dr. W. 3. Mayo, of Rochester, New York, one of the world's most famous physicians, will probably visit New Zealand next year. He had arranged to attend the Australasian Medical Congress nest month, but lias been compelled to postpone his trip indefinitely. One of tho reasons which lifts 'prevented Dr. Mayo from leaving New York at present is that ho was recently appointed president of tho American Society of Medicine, and lie will be required to preside at its annual eengvoss shortly.

A private- cablegram received in Dunedin announces tlio death at Ilomc of Mr. George Cowrie, at one time manager in Duncdin of tlio Colonial Bank,

Mr. H. A. Young, Stipendiary. Magistrate at Queenst-own, has received notice from his Department to remove to Gore. Uto change is due to an alteration of the boundaries of the j'.idjoial districts, whereby Goro becomes rae centre of Mr. Young's new district.

The death is announced in a cable message from London of the Earl of Cawdor at the. ago of 4.3, The KarW who succeeded his father in 1911, did not take any part in politics beyond unsuccessfully contesting tho Pembrokeshire seat in 1903. It was his father, the third ftnri, who. was First Lord of tho Admiralty in Mr. Balfour's last Ministry. The heir to the earldom, Viscount Kmblyn, is a lad of thirteen.

A cable message from London announces the death of Viscount Cross, who, us Mr. Richard Asshetem Cross, was Home Secretary from 1874 to 1880 and. from 1885 to 1886, and was Secretary for India from ISS6 to 1890.

"TKICMPHS" SCOOP THE POO?, IN THBEE DAYS' TKIALS AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Ono of tho strongest paints about the "Triumph" motor-cjcio is the consistency of its performance. Other "long suits' of the "Triumph" are reliability and eeonomr. We are in the liappy position of boinc- able to offer abundant jitoof e-f t'lieso assertion?. Last year when Ow results of the North Canterbury Motor Cycling Club's annual reliability trials were worked out it was found that tlio "Triumph" riders were first n'i the private owners' e.lass, first liu tho trado clnss. first ui tho petrol consumption test, and first in tho tennis' competition, sweeping the board. In this year's trials, nin on January Ist, 2nd, and 3rd, ever a 435milo route, including the steep hill at OUain's Boy, and the Zig-zag, with the roads in bad conditio!!, there was a field of twenty-seven riders, and all tho leadins makes of metoT-eyele were represented. There wero no fewer than nine of those big twin-cylinder machines. Wo have l>ten told recently th'at those H'ins are mighty economical'on petrol, hut, on flu's occasion, the "Triumph" upheld tho honour of the single-cylinder brigade by getting lowest petrol consumption. You seo this time there was au official test foi 1 petrol consumption. The- result board runs as follows:—Private Owners' Class— V. Couchman, ''Triumph," i; 11. Pen-rce,

"Triumph." 2. Trade Class—F. ilftwartii, "Triumph," I; G. >B. Brown,. "Triumph," 2; J. 5.J. Michael "Triumph." 3. 'foams' Competition—F. Hawrth, G. B. Brown, and J. n. Michael, "Triumphs," 1. Petrol Consumption—F. Haworth,' "Jpumph, 1. It is* unnecessary to point the moral or adorn tho tale. Tiic.ro is biff shipment of the late!: "Triumphs' arriviiitf shortly, and intending pnreli.nseis will lx> n-«jl advised to book their orders early. W.ani« t.td., Hii?li Street. Umstphurch j boiiotV at Palmorslon North and Walisnnni, aiso Tourist Major (o„ linstiii-JM; and Sutherland and ltanli'jno* Mercer St., Wellington.—Advt. Detective Dempsey arrested n roan, on "warrant from Norwood, last c\ eniin*. At the Magistrate's Court this morning the man will be charged with obtaining a suit of clothes from William Fulton by false pretences. Tho only brandy granted n white certificate bv the French Government is C.MtA PORT'S THREE STAR, Agent—J, M'llryitb, Wellington. —Advt. Messrs. Dslgety and Co., Ltd., will bold a stock sale at WaiUaMe on Tuesday next. ■ Messrs. Abraham and tViPiaitt*, Ltd,, will hold a stock sale at Waikanfe on y Tuesday next.