PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2357, 13 January 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. ■ Andrew Fisher, iPrirae Minister of Australia; accomfranied by the Hon. J. A. Boyd, arrived un Christchurch from Wellington yesterday morning,- and was accorded a .fcivic reception by the.Mayor. Later they were entertained at lunch at the New Zealand Club,, and afterwards they visited the Belfast Freezing Works iand the' Kaiapoi Woollen Works. The party leave for Mount, Cook this morning.— Press Association. Mr. T). H.. Guthrie; M.F., is visiting [Wellington. Mr. Justice Chapman and Mrs. Chap-man,-who have'been on a visit to the Old Country, returned to Wellington by jha Moaraki yesterday afternoon.

'Among the arrivals from Sydney yesterday by the Moernki was Professor Joseph Paxon Iddings, an American geologist of distinction. The _ visitor, who was born in Baltimore in 1857, obtained his Ph.B. in engineering at the Sheffield Scientific Schoo) (Yale) in 1877, and graduated in ohemistry and mineralogy the same year. Next year found him studying geology and assaying at the Columbia School.of Mmes, and a year later he studied mioroscopic petrography at Heidelberg. He was assistant geologist for the United States Geological Survey from 1880 to 1888, geologist from 1888 to 1892 and again since 1895. From 1895 to 1908 ho was Professor of Petrology to the University of Chicago. He is a member of many learned societies and_ has written soveral works dealing with various phases of geological research in America.

Bishop Grimes of Christchurch, is ill, and in a private hospital.

Professor and Mrs. R. Robinson, of Sydney,' who have just concluded a visit to Mount Egmont, which they successfully climbed, left Wellington for the south last evening for the purpose of doing some climbing in the Mount Cook distriot.

The following temporary appointments of N.C.O.'s to the Third Reinforcements havo been approved:—Veterinary section: Private F. Edwards, to be corporal; Private \W. Wapp, to be lancecorporal. .".''.

Captain D. E. Cardale, formerly or Napier, Group Commander of No 5 Area, Wellington, has been appointed instructor of Mounted Rifles (both officers and men) at Trentham. Canip, and will take up his new duties forthwith. He will be succeeded as group commander by Captain J. H. Grover, at present stationed at Wanganui as area officerand acting-adjutant 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.

Mr. J. A. Nash, Mayor of Palmerston North, arrived in Auckland on Saturday. '

The Very Rev. Dean Smyth, Provincial of the Marist Order in New Zealand, has been visiting Christchurch.

Mr. D. N. MacDiarmid, organising secretary of the Sudan United Mission, who has been spending some time with his people at New Plymouth, has left there in ordor to visit other parts of Now Zealand, after which he will' roturn to. Melbourne.

Mr. J. P. Firth, headmaster of .Wellington Co'lege, is visiting Auckland.

Dr. F. Fitohett, C.M.G., public trustee, Wellington, and Mrs. Fitchett, have returned to Wellington from Auckland.

Mr. W. A. W. Grenfell, secretary of the Wellington Employers' Association, is in Auckland on a holiday visit.

The friends of Mr.-John Baillie, di< rector of Baillie's Art Gallery, London, who has been detained in New Zealand since the close of'the Auckland Exhibition through ill-health, will regret to learn that he was operated upon in New Plymouth shortly, before Christmas. Late reports . state that he is making a satisfactory recovery, and as the result of the operation will in all probability enjoy better health than he has experienced for years past. , • ■

The death occurred on Sunday of Miss Molly Duncan, ,the ypungest daughter of Mr. Robert Duncan, Chief Government Inspector of Machinery, of Maarama Crescent.. The funeral took place yesterday.

Mr. Wm. Foster, headmaster of. the Petone District High School, is now at his home and is slightly improving in health. . • ■

Messrs. John Lomas and O. M. Luke will represent Wellington South Methodist circuit at tho annual conference of. the Methodist Church of New Zealand, to, be opened in Christchurch on February 25.

Mr. H. A. Beauchamp, of Kelburn, returned- from'. a trip to 'Australia ■by the Moeraki yesterday.

Mr. D. J. Nathan returned to New Zealand by the Niagara, which reached Auckland from .Vancouver on Mon- -.'.-.•■'