PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2211, 25 July 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

, / VIOB-BBeAl, His Excellency the Governor and tho Countess of Livorpool will leave for i Christchurch on,* Monday, August 10, to attend the ' Grand National Race Meeting atlliccarton.

-;>" TL '-Hon. W. H. Homes, who has J.K.vbeeU'v ufferingifor -somo'littlo time past from ta attack of quinsy, has been advised; by his doctorto 'keep to his room for a few days. . . "' Tho Rev. , A. T. B. Page, yicar of the Anglican parishes 'of ' Groytown and Featherston, has accepted tho charge of the parochial district of Manaia. , Hβ will assumo his new dutios three months hence. Mischa Ehnan, who left for Sydnoy 'by the Mocraki, may at the conclusion of his Australian tour visit Java. Sumatra, Singapore, China, and Japan. / Ho has an'intense desire 1o visit the East, and thore are negotiations pending which may result in such a tour proving profitable as well as pleasurable.

■■'■ Dr. and Mis. M'Gayiii will arrive in Wicklandby the , Makura, on Tuesday. ■ '^ Mr - L. A.,MacDonald,'iF.R:G.S., ; ;of Haicombe, has been mado a member, of "La Societe Aetronomiquede France," one\of the leadirig'astronomical:institutions of-Eiirope..; .: ' ■ £ Press Association telegram ■ from Dunodin announces the'death of Mr. ■ Walter George Geddos, who arrived in Otago in 1863, Al carried on business .there for-many-years. The deceased, who was 94- years of age, was prominently, connected with tho Oddfellows; " v" The, death, occurred ! at Hataitai on •Thursday, of Mrs;' Costall, wife of Mr. ' Samuel' Costall/"formerly Government . Printer. Mrs. Costall, who. had been jn poor healtK for soino time past, was .77 years of age. 1 ,V;;,..; : .;;' '. Mr. Cyril H.'Biss, district engineer for Canterbury, .whose death was briefly announced yesterday, was the son of the late.Mr.-Biss,' at one time Chief Postinaster in Auckland, and ; a cousin'of Mr.. A. S. Biss, of Badham and Biss, Wellington. The deceased■ was'born at Dunedin in 1866,, and' was educated at the Auckland Grammar School.' He entered, the Railway Department as an engineer cadet in 1884, and .was transferred to. the headquarters staff in AVeK Imgton three years later. /, As 'an'assist-, v ant-engineer he served in many districts and as district engineer' has been located at Invercargill, Wanganui, and lately at Christchurch. He was• ap.pointed'an Associate of the Inatihite of Uvil-Enguieers: in 1892. .Less than a> .fortnight ago he visited Wellington, ■when, with the exception of a sore : throat, he appeared to be 'in good health. On returning' to-Christchurch pleurisy supervened, and ha passed an •■early-."-hour yesterday . morning. : . ..: ..'■.; . Senior-Sergeant Haddrell, who has been itwenty-six years- in thfl Police 1-orce m Canterbury,, three years in Wellington, and for tho last thirteen years in charge at New. Plymouth", will retire from the sorvico at the end of : September.• ' '■■ :; . . . ■-..