PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2410, 16 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

•- t ——r- ' Mr. F. M. B. Fisher returned to Wellington yesterday from a holiday visit to" Auckland. Both' Messrs. A. D. Kennedy and B. E. Sinclair will be a candidate for the position of representative of the payers of dues other than on' ships on the Wellington Harbour Board. Mr, Kennedy - is ,'the sitting member. News has been received of the death ■ on Boxing Day, fit Geneva, of Bernard Stavenhagen, Liszt's last pupil, and a distinguished pianist and conductor. Stavenliagen, tlioush a German, had made Switzerland his home for ten years past, and had become one of the greatest factors in the ■ musical life of the country. 'A cable message has '.been received in Napier stating that Mr. \ Alec "Watt. brother of •Miss Mary Watt, qf Napier, had beeji killed in action dicing a recent fight in France " The late Mr. Watt was a young Scqtcli solicitor, and caijie put to New Zealand just before the war to visit Jiis sister. He held a commission ill a Territorial regiment at Home, and immediately on the outbreak of lysir rojoined'his regiment. Mr. David Sullivan, late of tlie Caler donian Hotel, has taken over a lease of the Pier Hotel, Wellington, from Mr. : Patrick Griffin. ' '■ Constable B. Tarrant, who has been stationed' at Masterton for the past two years, has been transferred to thp Wellington office; ■ The Australian Jourpplis'ts' Assooiar tiqjj, in' annual conference st, Brisbane, decided-tbat the Central Administration of "association renia'in at Sydney for the ensuing year, ?nd elected.tjie following general, officers President, C. 'A. Lee;, vicegerents, T.. D. MutcE and Cook'; treasurer, W, Hands; general secretary', Fr(ink' JBignold. Conseniient on tSese electipns, Mr. Emile fechwabe' (late, pf Wellington) has ■ bpen appointed clisjnjiap. of the New i South Wales district of tho association, and Mr.'-T. Spei)cer will represent the district on' the Central Administration. ' Thp' following have becn oleoted members of the Wellington Ceiitral Chamber of 'Oonjmerces\lessrs. C. J. Lock-, wood (Dayton Computing Scale Co.), R<sbb.gnd Page (arcbitects),' 11, M. Brewer '(indent agent), John Dajrymple (public accountant) i R. B. Sinclair (for dent agent), "Hamilton Nipmo (piano dealers). . Sergeant-Major Bennett, of Greytown, who has gone into camp at tbam, is being relieved by SergeantMajor Morrison. Mr. R. H. W. Bligh, lecturer for the' White Grogs League, arrived in Wellington yesterday. He will spend about two weeks in the City, '.'The Y.M.C.A. is arranging for hipi to speak at Trent* ham on Sunday evening.