PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2704, 25 February 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey leaves for the north to-day. ' Ho has an engagement to open the new Showgrounds at i'rankton to-morrow. • ' J i l P. Hon> r - Pomare, who has been m hisborne on busiuess connected witli the recruiting of the Maori Expeditionary Force, came, back to Wellington yesterday. i .The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward arrived back from Rotorua yesterday. He loaves for tho south-to-night. .The Hon. G. W. Russell returned from 'Christchurch yesterday. .His Honour Mr. Justice Stringer arrived from the south yesterday morning, and left by the midday oppress for Auckland, where Arbitration Court business will engage his attention. Mr. P. Selig, Ohrisfcchurch "Press," was yesterday elected chairman of the Press Association in succession to Mr. L. Blundell. ■'■■,'. His Grace Archbishop Redwood! and tho Right Rev. Mpusignor M'Kennn, V.G., have left for the south to attend the consecration of the Right Rev. Monsignor Brodie as Bishop of Christ-, church. Advice has been received that Sergeant W. Ryan, of the Army Pay Department (son of Mr. W. Ryan, 106 Abel Smith' Street), who left New Zealand with the Main Body, has received a Ist lieutenant's commission. Tho members of the Royal Comic Opera Company and some of the meni- . bars of the Muriel Starr Company left for Sydney by the Manuka last evening. Miss Starr, Mr. Charles Millward, and Mr. and' Mrs. Hobart Oavanaugb, of the Dramatic Company, left Auckland for America by .the Niagara on Tuesday last. The Rev. W. G. Slade, of Wellington South, has received intimation from the Registrar of the University of New Zealand that cable advice reports his having seoured the' M ; A. degree, with sec-ond-class honours/in economics. Mr. G. A. Streiff, Swiss Consul for New Zealand, and Mrs. Streiff, left Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday, en ■route to Honolulu, the United States, and Switzerland. Mr. W. J. Pugh will act as Swiss Consul during Mr. Streiff's absence./ Mr. Geo.. Randall, of Brisbane, who received four successive appointments as Government immigration lecturer to Great Britain, inducing many , tenant farmers and agricultural labourers, who became most valuablo settlers, to make Queensland their home, is now on a Ghort visit'to .the Dominion, and is at present in this City tho guest of Rev. J H. White, Broofdyn. Mr. Randall recently presented to the City Council of Brisbane some 600 pictures of the late R. J. Randall, his artist son, a pupil of the celebrated Herkomer, which aie now municipally housed, and known us the Randall Art Gallery. Miss G. Tewsley, formerlyof the stall of the Wellington Free Public Library, accompanied by Mrs. B. S. Atkinsqn, leaves for England by the Rotorua. On Monday evening the parishioners of Halswell held a social evening to. bid farewell to their late vicar, the Rev. F /Dunnage, who is about to go to the' front as chaplain to the Tenth Reinforcements. '.» Mr. W. A-. Curzon-Siggers, M.A., LL.B.j who is at St. John's Collego, Cambridge, has cabled to his father (Canon Ourzon-Siggers) stating that he has passed his final bar txamination of the Inner Temple, London. He hns been awarded by the; University of Cambridge 'the Mahon law scholarship, worth £150 a year, tenable for four years. This is the first time this scholarship has been awarded to a land student.—Dunedin "Star." Mr. Charles George Watson died in ..Auckland on. Monday at the ago of 77 years. Deceased had at one time been a member of. the Royal Navy, and was formerly surgeon-major in'the A Battery,. New Zealand Field Artillery. At the meeting of the City Council last evening, tho Mayor expressed the sympathy or the council with ex-Coun-cillor A. H. Hindraarsh, who had tho misfortune to lose his wiffl recently. He reported that he had written a letter of condolence to Mr. Hindmarsh and read the reply ho had receive'd. The Britannia StreetJDatliolic Convent at Petonc was crowded last evening, the occasion being a welcome ''social" to Father M'Menamin, who has recently returned from the front. Mr. A. Coles presided, and, on behalf df the congregation, presented Father M'Menamin with a handsome silver' chalice, mounted in gold. The recipient suitably responded, giving some interesting reminiscences of the soldiers witli whom he had come in contact. _Mr. Herbert Walker, representing the Kingdon and AValker .picture films, is at present, visiting WolliDcton.