PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2204, 17 July 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Eeoai, Hia Excellency' Lord Liverpool, G.C.M.G., M.V.O. (Knight of Grace of ' tho Order of St. John ,of Jerusalem), ■ will preside at tlio annual meeting of tho St. John Ambulance Association (Wellington Centre), on July 24, and . \ : .will distribute- the awards gained .in 1912 and 1013 in first aid and homo nursing. Guards of honour will be 7 furnished by; tho Territorial Cadets and a detachment of scouts. ' . A ' Tho_ death is announced (by a Press Association telegram from Nelson) of • Mr- 0. A, Macquarie, a retired bank i manager, well known throughout New j ' ■ Zealand as a leading pigeon fancier. ' ; It is not often that titled gentlemen appear among tho list of those gazetted ; . to appointments under the Government ; ; in New Zealand. The current week's "Gazette" states that Count Rene du Moritaigu has been appointed an oi:- . .; ; ficer under the' Fisheries Act. ; Mr. Denniston, solicitor, of Auckland, ■, ■ was a passenger by the Willochra, which arrived here yesterday'from San Fran- .■ cisco. ■ ■ Mr.' W. H. Payne, consulting engineer of Dunedin, who went to the Malay Peninsula .on behalf of some ; Australian capitalists interested in the. mining industry tlierC; returned to Wellington by the Mokoia from' Sydney yesterday. Dr. Coleridge Far and Mr. Acton Adams, both of Christchurch, arrived by the Mokoia from Sydney yesterday. Mr. H. H. Rayward, of Wellington, who has been on-a visit.to Australia, returned by tho Mokoia yesterday. Mr. Tom Pollard, the producer of "Paul Jones," left for: Christchurch ! Hst evening. His departure was enlivened by the presence on tho wharf of i a large contingent of the Amateur Oper-! ' atic Society. •' : Yesterday's proceedings at the' Mun- i cipal Conference were subject to several pleasurable interruptions. The.conference was in full blast passing -remits at so many to the minute, when a sturdy figure in a fur-lined coat was ushered into the Council Chamber, and introduced .in a whisper to the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luko) by.Mr. Wm. Crab- . tree. Mr. Lute-at once stopped the proceedings to announce the presence of a distinguished visitor in tho person of the' Mayor of Huddersfield, Mr. Joseph 'Blamires, who had just arrived by the Willochra, and was visitingr New, Zealand, on his way to tho conference of tho British Association.': On behalf of'the conference and on behalf of tho city of Wellington ho accorded Mr. Bla- ■ mires a hearty welcome and the right hand of fellowship. Mr.. Blamires briefly responded. Mr. W. W. Cook has bc>cn appointed Registrar of Births and Deaths for Wellington, ' and Mr. Joseph ■ Holmes has.been appointed to similar duties in 1 - Wellington North.; . i-- . The "Gazette" annonnces tho appointment of Mr. F. W.i Schramm as Registrar ;of Electors and Returning Officer for the electoral district of Taumarunui.. Mr. AVE. Fowler has been appointed Deputy-Commissioner of Taxes as from July 1. - ' Mr. W. H Wilkinson has been appointed an inspector under tho Public Health Act. ■ ITio-tragic death of the late Colonel iW. R. ; Bloomfield, who with his wife and daughter perished m tho Empress of■ Ireland disaster, and "who was a* much esteemed and valued member of the - Reform Party (having been-.pro-minently associated with the, League in Auckland,|Snd;'taK&ii' aii active partem tho establishment of the Reform' Club), : was; sympathetically;referred. to' in,-the. ' . ianmuU "report 1 ; of tho ; Dominion 'oxecu- ■ tivo i o : f-''tfio'Politi'car , 'Reforto'' i LeVgue 1 ! ' lead at the annual-meeting yesterday. Messrs'. George RI Dyer and F. C. Harridge, of Dunedin, have : becn apr / pointed examiners under the Plumbers' Registration Act, 1912, for' the. Dominion, Among tho passengers-by. the Wily - lochra, which arrived hero from San Francisco yesterday, wore Major Large, Resident Agent' at- Atiuj Professor Wood, of ; the Cambridge. University,. and; others who • aro ■ on their way-to attend tho big, conference at Adelaide. Mr. T. G. Russell; barrister ■ of Christchurch, returned to New Zealand from Sail :Fran'cisco by the Willochra yesterday afternoon, and is staying at *.he Royal Oak Hotel..-