PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2281, 15 October 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

VIOE-REOiL, . Their Excellencies the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool have consented to be present at. a ballad, concert which is to bo given by Mr. Walter Kirby in the Grand Opera House at S p.m. on, Friday; .•■'.. After having consulted Her Excellency as to the object to which tho proceeds should bo given, Mr. Kirky jias generously promised to devote ihe whole of ; the sum realised to tho relief of distress in the Huntly district, and it is anticipated that there will be a good attendance. ' Mr. W. R. Morris, Secretary of. the Post and Telegraph Department, returned from America via Australia yestor.day by. the Marama.' '■■■', "Major G; S. Richardson, New Zealand Staff Corps, who is reported in tho cables as having taken part in. the defence of Antwerp, was stationed for it number of years in Wei-' lington. Ho came . here as a, master gunner from England, aiid served in" the .Royal New. 'Zealand,;!.'Artillery'. Later he was promoted to commissioned ■ rank, and attached to the General Instructional Staff, Wellington. He was subsequently sent Home to • the • Staff College at Camberley;where he graduated.- He succeeded; Colonel. Robin as the Now Zealand representative at .they War. Office.' .-,--v •.'-Mrl.'ahd Mrs; Wilfred Stead and Mr. E.'S. Lxittrell, of HawWs.Bay, ,ed to Wellington .from Australia by the 'Marama,yesterday-. .„;;,'

'fri the House of Representatives. yes : terday "'days' leave of absence was granted to the Hon. J. A. Millar, four days' leave'.to Mr. L. M; Isitt, and four days''to\Mr.C- Parata, all,on account of illness... ... •' ■ •' ■■•'','. Lieut.-Cplbnel Powley, territorial secretary of the Salvation. Army, returned from "the south yesterday morning. ' '• The following-visitors to Wellington were recent callers at the Government Tourist Bureau:—Bernard Hob'son, .'Sheffield, Endand; E.B. Towers, ColumOhio; W.'.'King Coone'y, Lewisbam, England;.Win:'and Stella Graham, Belfast;'. Frank P. Jo'seland, Melbourne; Zonia Baber, Chicago;; Sir Douglas Mawson, Adelaide; Geo. H. M'Neur, Canton, China; J. Grose, Adelaide; A. -W. B. Glendinell, Perth; Arthur La Trobe.vßockhampton; J. C. Waller, .London';--Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Levin, ,'St. Kilda; Dora Alison, St; KiWaij R. Forbes, ..Yarloop,- W. Australia; Claude Field; Canterbury; J Victoria;''.;. -': The Rev. R/B! S. Hammond and Mr. C. H. Anderson, a Sydney' engineer, arrived, from. Sydney by. the Marama,. yesterday.'.," '" ' . ' ■'■ Mr. Philip Snowden, .M.P., of Lon-, don, and Mrs. Snowden will arrive in Wellington to-morrow, and will corded a civic reception by the, Mayor in tho Town Hall at 4.30 p.m., The evening meeting will take place .at.,. 8 o'clock. Meetings will be held in the Town' Hal! an Sunday and Monday, and a'visit will also be paid to Petbne and Lower Hutt on Sunday.. Mr. and Mrs. Snowden are visiting New Zealand;: in connection with the Prohibition, campaign. Mr. Kenneth Eady,,son of ,Mr. William Eady, of Mount Eden, Auckland, left' Berlin a few days before the declaration of war,' says an exchange. He 'readied London in due course, and tried to join the Artillery,.he having'been a member of A Battery, Auckland.\ Letr ters just,received show that Mr. Eady ultimately joined the Ambulance, and was'in the camp at the polo : ground, Putney Bridge. He was promoted to corporal, and then sergeant, before the company went to the'front. There were 200. in thecombany, including 31 medical men,.and 16 nurses. King George presented the corps with two horses. 'Mr. Eric Goodfellow, an Aucklander, who was studying at Edinburgh, and won the £300 prize, is also a member or :the same corps as' Sergeant Eady.

'-. There is every reason to believe that Mr. Horace' Hunt, the Rifted Wellington- pianist, is being held- as a prisoner in' Berlin. ,His sister, Mrs. Strickland, has received a postcard from her brother, dated Berlin, ; August J2. written apjxirently in good spirits, and wishing her a happy Christmas, New Year,-and" Easter! Mrs. Strickland was struck by the" absence of any remarks expressive of his, feelings or desire to bs safe in England,/but, it is well known, Mr. Hunt would not be allowed to write anything in ;bat vein. Mr. Hunt, who was organist and choirmaster at The Terrace Congregational Church, and very well known in musical circles in Wellington and Auckland, left here about two years ago to complete his musical/ studies in the Old World, and has been resident m Gormaify.for over a year. Mr E. J. Gravestock, touring manager for "Bunty Pulls tho Strings' Company, arrived from the north yesterday, to make arrangements for the Wellington 6cason. Mr. Harry R- Dix, a, Wellington native, who has been resident in Burma ■for-the past ton years in tho service (as engineer) of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company/ arrived in Wellington by the Ulimaroa on Tuesday, on six months furlough.' Mr. Dix served his apprenticeship to the engineering trade at Luke's foundry.