PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2334, 16 December 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

. -.'."Vioi-Beoal. His Excellency the Governor will leave here on Friday morning to pay his first visit to Gisbome. He will leave there again on Sunday evening, returning to Wellington on Monday, and leaving the same night for Christehurch. ' The Hon. J; Alien left for Auckland ; ; yesterday morning. He intended to present- the prizes at the Palmerston High School in the-afternoon, going on ■ by the second express at night. The Hon. W. H. Herries returned to [Wellington from his electorate (Taurafflga) yesterday morning. . The Hon. R. Heaton-Rhodes will arrive from Christehurch this morning by Ihe Wabine. , ' The .Hon. Dr. Pomare left for Auoi . 'Sand last night. ; ■ . Colonel Heard, temporarily G. 0.0. in . ! New Zealand, Has been, appointed Chief Staff Officer to the Canadian troops. Mr. Owen, a member of the office staff ' (of Meesrs. J. Ballantyne and Co., of Christchurchj received news by the last ilihglisli mail of the death in action of two of his brothers. Hβ immediately offered himself for the reinforcements . for the' New. Zealand Expeditionary ' Force, and was accepted: ■' Mr; 0. A. Ewen, general manager of ihe Commercial Union Assurance Company, who has been on a visit to the Old Country, returned to Wellington by the ;Ulimaroa" yesterday. . .Mr. A. J.- S. Thomeon, manager of the Bank.qf New Zealand at Otaki/ is ehertly to be transferred to the management: of the Woodville Bank. Mr. Thomson has ; been a way from business for a long time on account of ill-health, but is now almost fully recovered.. Mr. 'I'homson will in. all probability be succeeded by Mr. Witchelll, of Dargayille, recently of Foxton. ■• ■ News has- been received that Mi. Sydney Rhind, of Wellington, has passed the primary examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. ... ■!'■'•: Captain Chesney, of Wellington, is staff officer organising the transport division whose headquarters are at Ohelmeford. . .' . ■ 'Yesterday's annual meeting of the ■ New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing-Company .; was the first • yearly gathering of this body from which Mr. J: G. Wileon, of Bulls, who is chairman of the directorate, has heen absent. Mr. Wi'son is slightly indisposed, and the meeting passed a resolu- ■ tion expressing regret at the fact that he could not attend, wishing him : a speedy recovery, and acknowledging,his gcodwork in behalf of' tho tanning , community. '-'..''.-. . : ■ ■' . . Passengers. :from Sydney by the maroa yesterday .included Colonel Blennerhassett, the Rev» Mr. Armstrong, 'Mr. Peter Daweon (the vocalist), and Captain Kendall, of the Union Steam Ship. Company's service.; , ' Dr. and Mrs. Gowland, who travelled from England to Australia by the Demosthenes, were.passengera from Sydney by the Uliniaroa yesterday.' Dean Lightheart,; Roman Catholic priest, met with a serique accident on Monday afternoon on the Waiotapu Road, six miles from Rotorua (says a Press Association telegram). • He was driving in a. motor alone, when the car ran, over a bank, rolling on.', him and drushing. him badly. He was found •unconscious soon afterwards. Included among the passengers due" from the South this morning by the ~Wahine are: Mortensen and .'-Eev.. Woods. /.■.;■■.■,,..■ .... • Sir Henry. J. Miller, who is now in his 85th year, celebrated his golden wedding yesterday.' he and Lady Miller being the recipients of many congratulatory telegrams from all parts of tno Dominion.—Press Association. . ' According to., information received from Christiania, the distinguished Nor-.' .wegiau composer, Christian Sindiug (wiose music is well known in England), has beeji awarded an' income of 1400 kroner by the Norwegian Government.. The reason for this generosity lies in ihe fact that Sinding derives the larger : - portion of his income from performances of his music in Germany, and in view of the present situation, ho is unlikely to draw anything from that source. - ' ' Mr. W. L. Kennedy, J.P., of Stratford, who has been on a tour of Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, arrived yesterday py the s.e, Ulimaroa .from. Sydney, and is staying a few days at the Occidental Hotel before going to his home in Taranaki. Word has been received that Lieutenants Turner, of Wellington, and .Davis, of Wnnganui, who are out at the front, are quite well. The death occurred at Islaud' Bay yesterday morning of Mrs. Elsie Eliza- - beth Wright,.wife of Mr. W. A. Wright, of the Union Wellington staff, and third daughter of the late'- , Mr. William M'Lean, of this city. Mrs. Wright, who was a native of Wellington, and fwenty-six years of ago, was for seven years prior to her marriage on the staff of the Public Trust Office. ""■ She 'has left an infant a few daya old. Mr. W. T. Mack,, of the firm of Jenkins and Mack, and Mr. Geoffrey Callender, youngest son of Mr.. W. Callender, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand,- returned from Australia by the Ulimaroa yesterday.