PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2319, 28 November 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Oablo advice has been received bj>. Viscountess Kelburn that the Hon. James Boyle, captain in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, was killed in action on October 18. He was the third son of the Earl of Glasgow, late Governor of New Zealand, and brother of Viscount Kelburn, captain of the H.M.S. Pyra-, mus. . I ■ The Revs. J. Paterson and Win. , Shirer, and the Hon. J. G. W. Aitkcn,' who have been attending the Presbyterian General Assembly at Dunedin, returned to .Wellington yesterday mom- | ing. .< Captain and Mrs. Atwood, of Auckland, are passengers from London to New Zealand by the Tongariro. , ij Mr. W. B. Fisher, of Wellington, ! who went Homo in July, has been ap- ! pointed to the Headquarters Staff of !, the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Mr. \ . Fisher is an Esquire of "the Order of St. : John. Mr. T. Ryan, the Hon. Education! Commissioner from South. Australia, j ■ who has been inspecting the various educational systems of the Dominion, numbering in all some 42, left for Adelaide by the Ulimaroa yesterday after- ; noon. Although unable to give any im-> ■ pression as to the viewpoint of our systems, lie mode it very clear that in ouryindustrial school work, in his opinion x the Australian States had most to learn. Mr. Ryan said that no one_ could leave . New Zealand with a .higher appreciation of its future than ho, and to themany friends he has made in the Dominion ho expressed his thankfulness, and especially to the newspapers for the : very tolerant viow they are tnking on labour industrial matters in Australasia. , The Rev. William Shirer returned , from Dunedin on Friday morning after attending the meeting of the General ■. Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Angus M'Donald, Prcsby4»rian minister at Waiapu, Auckland, has ■boon appointed chaplain to the first .■ reinforcement contingent for tie Expeditionary Force. Mr. M'Donald is expected to reach Trentham about December 1. , ■' N At latest advices Mr. Robert Lee and . his daughter, Miss Myrtle Lee, of the „■ Hutt, were touring Yorkshire and Lan- . cashire. The Musical Kennedys, who have beort touring tho North Island, loft for Intercnrgill Inst evening. At that town they will inaugurate another tour or> New Zealaud. A motion of sympathy with the family of tho lato Mr. J. It. Blair m their, sad bereavement was carried at last t night's meeting of the Wellington Technical Education Board. In proposing , tho motion, the chairman of the board (Mr. D. Robertson) referred to the trreat interest winch tho late Mr. Blair ) had taken in technical education mat-, ters The motion was seconded by ilr. W. Allan, and carried in silence, all j members standing.