PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2309, 17 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

.: -...■ .VIOE-REOAIi His, Excellency, the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool have returned • from the south. ■'.•.••'..; "'; ; The-Rev. Otho and Mrs. Fitzgerald, of Wellington, and , .the Rev. H. Parata arid Mrs. Parata;were passengers from London .by/the Turakina yesterday. .. -'Among the passengers to arrive from ■ 'London by the Turakin'd, last evening iwere: Mr. A. N. ; Barraud, of Barraud • and Abrahams, 'of Palmerston North; Mr. A. Grant, an agricultural' expert from Aberdeen, and Mrs. Grant; Mr. and Mrs. E. Hay, of • the Annandale Estate, Canterbury; Mrs- G. M. Hutton, widow of the late Major Hutton, formerly of Christchurch; Mr. Macbeth, secretary, of the Canterbury Freezing Company; Dr. J. Nicholson, of BenaEa; Victoria; and Mr. W. V. Robinson, jßradford wool buyer. ; >' Yesterday morning Archdeacon Devoy . received a cable message from Dean Holley in New York stating that he and Dr. Kennedy and Dean Kegnault had arrived tnere, en route to New 2lealand. iThe three rev. gentlemen left New Zealand to attend a. Romani Catholic conference in Luxemburg, and when the war broke out just managed to leave ;'France after some difficulty. They tra--■celled from Liverpool to New York by ;She Baltic. . , v ■';• : ) The death of Earl Roberts was reiferred to at yesterday's meeting of the : Wellington Central Chamber of Com- ': inerce. On the motion of the president "(Mr. 0. M. Luke) the Chamber affirm..'edits sympathy with tne. deceased sol..'dier's family and with the British Defence authorities. \ The Right Hon. W. F. Massey . [(Prime Minister) left for the eouth last night, 'i He will speak at Temuka tonight, and at other places in different parts of the South Island before returning to Wellington. : '".'"•■ The Hon. Gilbert- Carson has Joined ,the Executive of s the Bible-in-Stkte-:6ohools League. ; v ; ' ■; '

A private cablegram from Melbourne records the death of Mr. W. H. Calder, whose history is linked with that of Inyercargill, where he-was one of tlie mercantile pioneere, arriving there about 1858. He was'the first man to start a' mercantile business in the town. It is, an interesting' fact that de-' ceased's third daughter was the wife'of Dr. Angus M'Nab, whose death at the front was cabled last week.—(Press Association.) . ■ •■,. • '

Mr. William Bell Bridger, who weat to England on a business trip and joined the British Expeditionary Force at the outset of the war, has written to say that he is well and hopes to meet the New ■ Zealanders at the front. Mr. Bridger is now in France. Dr. W. M'Ara, who has practised his profession at Gore for the last eleven Jears, has been accepted for service with the second reinforcements of the (Expeditionary Force. He is the only eon of, the Right Eev.;,W. M'Ara, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New who is stationed at Kaikoura . . ' ■ ' The following visitors to Wellington were recent callers at" the local Government Tourist Bureau:—Annie Morgan, London; Mr. Francis Drake, Rhodesia, South Africa; Dr. Th. Mortensen, Copenhagen; Miss M. G. Selwyn, Cambridge, England; Misß S. M. Crace, New South Wales. ■ The sudden death occurred on Saturday night at Wairoa of an old set.tler, Mr. Isaac Crosier, 70 years of fige, who collapsed while taking euppor at a cafe. No inquest is considered necessary, as deceased had. suffered from heart disease.—Press Association. Visitors staying at the Albert Hotel are: Mrs. and Miss Ivy Boyle, and Mr. F. K." Lomas, of Christcburch; Mr. ,J. E. Learning, of Auckland, and Mr. and Mrs. S. Rickard. . •

Mr. J. H.-Luke, solioitor, formerly of the firm of Messrs. Brown and Dean, returned from "a trip to England by the rTurakina yesterday evening.