PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2256, 16 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

ViaE-IteaAi,. The following were invited to dinnel • at Government House on Monday, Sep. tember -14:—The Right Hon. the Prime Minister and Mrs. Massey, the Eight Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, K.C.M.G., aid Lady Ward; Hon. Colonel J. and Mrs. Allen, Hon. A. L. and Mrs. Herdman, Hon. W. and Miss Frasor, Hon. H. D. and Mrs. Bell, Hon. R. Hcaton Rhodes, Hon. F. M. B. and ■ Mrs. Fisher, Hon. Dr. M. and Mrs. Pomare, Major-General Sir A. and Lady Godley, Captain and Mrs. Marshall, Mr. T. Rhodes, After dinner, by command of His Majesty the King, His Excellenoy invested Major-General Sir A. J. Godley with the Insignia of a Knight, Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George.

.The Chief Justice (Sir W. P. Cullen)' has been elected Chancellor of Sydney University.—Press Association.'

Professor W. M. Davis. Professor of Geology at the .Harvard University, U.S.A., was a passenger from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday. Tho distinguished visitor was born at Philadelphia in 1850, and was educated at the University in the faculty of which he is at present a member. He was assistant in the National Argentine Observatory from 1870 to 1873, and became a teacher of geology at Harvard in 1876. In the following year he travelled the world. He_became an assistant professor in 18S5, and' was appointed Professor of Physical Geography,-in 1890. In 1908-9 he was the Harvard visiting professor to tho University of Berlin, and in 191112 to the University of Paris. Among his many commissions, Professor Davis, was assistant geologist to the Northern' Trans-Continental; Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey, and was physiographer to Pumpelly's Carnegie Institute Expedition to Turkestan in 1908. The visitor is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France), and a member of nearly every geographical society on the Continent and in America. Our Wanganui correspondent reports that Mr. Win. Bruce, of that town, lias been returned unopposed to the Wanganui Education Board, vice the late Mr. F. M. Spurdle. Mr. Bruce has also been re-elected president of the Wanganui District School Committee Association, and Mr. W. M. Luxford has been re-elected seoretary of that body. ■' . ' Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Waddell, of Kelburn, who have been in Sydney and Brisbane since May last, returned to Wellington yesterday afternoon by the Manuka.

The passengers from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday included Mr. and Mrs. Acton Adams, of Christchurch; Mr.' and Mrs. A. W: Rutherford, of y Slendip Hills Station, Waiau, Canter- - ' bury; and Miss Amuri Rutherford, who ' have been staying in Australia during tho winter.. ~ Mr." R. Faulkner, of the, Union S.S, Company's Tasmanian • (West 'Coast) staff, arrived from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday. Mr. Ernst Redstone, of the firm of Messrs. Price and Co., and Mr. H« Sanders, the well-known contractor, ar« arrived back from Sydney by the Ma* riuka yesterday. Mr. Walter Kirby, the Melbourne' tenor, who is to siug the music of Samson in "Samson and Delilah," at the Town Mall on Friday was a passenger by the Manuka irom Sydney yesterday. Mr. Henry Saint-George, Examine*, for Trinity College of Music, London, will arrive in Wellington from Mastorlon to-morrow evening, and will start examining candidates for practical 1 ex-. . animations at the Town Hall on Friday' morning; • • • Mr. H. Baldwin, Mayor of the Lower: Hutt, left, on a trip to the south last evening. , ' Our Napier correspondent states thai Mr. Thomas Clarke, of Hedgleyesdale, . who met with a very painful accident about a fortnight ago by falling over a rope, was able to be removed from his bed yesterday, and is progressing very, favourably. ..

Captain Lake yesterday resigned his position as harbourmaster at Napier. It was decided to appoint a successor at a salary of £850.—Special correspondent. . ' i Mr. Frank Hurley, kinomatographer to the Shaokletoh Expedition to the' South Pole, arrived in Wellington from; Sydney yesterday by the Manuka. _ Mr. Hurley recently accompanied Mr. Birtles on a trip through the Northern Territory, and secured some fine pictures of "the brooding wild 1 ' of Northern Australia. ~ Tho Rev. Mr. Sheldon, the Americari evangelist, who wrote "In His .Steps'' and other religious books, has arrived inNew Zealand vto assist in tho coming No-License campaign. He has left on. a visit to Balclutka, and will return to (Wellington on September 30. Mr. B. W. Holmes, Government En- ' gineer-in-'Chief, who has been unwell for some time past, is. recuperating in the Aucklaud district.. His duties are being . performed by Mr. P. W. Purkort, Superintending Engineer of the luonq Works Department. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), who had been suffering from a severe cold, atj tended at his office in )ho Town Hall yesterday. ■'..-• At Waihi, on Friday, Mr. A. H. Benge, who has filled the position or headmaster for nearly 20 years, was presented by tho children"with a handsomely upholstered arm chair, together with' a book, pipe, and tobacco. When, the scholars had dispersed, Mr. and Mrs, Benge and Misses Benge were entertained at afternoon tea rn the tLur& School, and a farther presentation of a silver-mounted tray was made by Mr. Green (aoting-headmaster), on benair of the staff. - At a" meeting of the Otago University. Council yesterday an intimation was received from' tho High Commissioner that Dr. Gowland had accepted the position of Professor of Anatomy.—Press Association. Among the passengers by the Napier; mail train.-yesterday morning for Wek lington were Mr. and Mrs. Lamorte, Miss Perry, and Messrs. W. J. Strat tan and Alec Newton.