PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2227, 13 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massay) ha 9 cabled condolences to President Woodrow Wilson, of the United States of America, in the recent death of his wife. His Honour Mr. Justice Edwards will preside at the sittings of the. Supreme Court in Palmerston. North. next week. The Eev. Father Segrief,-who is to accompany the New Zealand Expeditionary force, is a son of Mrs. M. Segrief, of Daniel Stroet, Wellington. He is a member of the faculty of St. Patrick's College, Mr. Ti N. Grange, of Ctaistchurch, will "act as local manager for the Blackball; Coal-Company during the absence from New Zealand of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Ilarcourt Turner, who leaves in command of the Fifth Regiment of Territorials. Mr. E. C. Levvcy returned from a visit to Australia yesterday, i Mr. Fred. Shipman, the well-known concort manager, arrived-from Sydney yesterday in connection with a company he has floated locally for the introduction of American artists into New Zealand and Australia. Mi'. Shipman has been connected with the management of the Paul Dufault concert tour up to the present. Tho. latter gives his final concert in Australia in- Sydney on. Saturday, Mr. John Jackson, Inspoctor of Factories in Hawke's Bay, who,' C6ays our Napier correspondent, has been exceedingly popular owing to the' manner in which he has administered the labour laws, was entertained by a representative gathering of employers and employees at the. Masonic Hotel last night and presented with a purse of over SO'sovereigns as a token of thpir regard. 'Amongst the passengers to arrive, from Sydney yesterday morning were, the Eev. Father tiluson, the Eev. Mr. Schafcr, and Brother Lucis. Mr. James Guild, a well-known farmer at Temuka, died yesterday morning, aged 78, Deceased came to New Zealand ni 1859. and to Temuka in ISSo.—Press Association. v News has been received' from London of the death' of Miss Mulhollaiid, first assistant at the Timaru Girls', High School for .thirteen years. Miss Millholland was on leave.—Press Association His Honour Mr. Justice Stringer will leave for "Palmerston North this afternoon in connection with the sittings of .1 ho Court of Arbitration in that centre, His Houour will afterwards visit .Wahgamii, and on' Tuewliiy next \vill be back in Palmerston North before proceeding to Auckland.