PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2766, 9 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. T. R. Donne lias been ap ijxjlnteb to taka the place of Mr. G. Wr. 2jV Palliser as secretary to the High C. i mnissioner for New Zealand in London.. Mr. Donne was next in seniority to Mil- P 3 '" liscr on the High Commissioner's S staff, and he has had 41 years of sorvic * Mr. Eustace Lane, has resignedt*»his seat on the Napier Harbour on which he represented the East tags Borough Council. At yesterday's meeting of the con: 0 cil of the Wellington Chamber of C< fmlnercn Mr. J. B. Coates was appoin'. rkl . the Chamber's representative at tic trade conference convened by "the Bn \l - ish Imperial Council of Commerce, to 1 held in London on June 6. i Messrs. H. I). Acland. president, FV 11. Labatt, secretary, and David Jones,4 representative 'of the New* Zealand?! Shcepowncrs' and farmers' Federation \ are in Wellington to attend the Arbi- : Oration Court to-day in connection with I the application of tile New ■ Zealand Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Union to include all rural workers in the new organisation.

Sir. W., T. Mousley, of I'almcrston North, has received a cablegram from his, son, Lieut. E. 0. Mousley, an old Victoria College boy, now with ths Roj-al Field Artillery in Mesopotamia, ..stating that hp is'quite well. .This is good news in view of rccent happenings in this field of action.. At yesterday's meeting of the council of the 'Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Mr. .Tames Macintosh was reelected president, and Sir. F. 'V. Manton was elected vice-president. Mr. J. C. Cooper, managing director of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, intends leaving nest month on a visit to the Old Country. Mr. C. W. Palmer, the. local lion, secretary of the Navy League, '.will leave for Auckland to-day, partly on Navy League business. Tie is to address some of the secondary schools there, and to show navaland military lantern slides both at Auckland and at Napier and jprobaHly New Plymouth and other "olaces on his return iournev.

Mr. George Fife Bishop, solicitor, who was run over and killed by a goods I train at the Wellington Road crossing at Marton on Saturday night, was a resident of Wellington for ninny yc-ars: He was born here in 1853, and after be,iug educated at tli» Otago Boys' High School and the Wellington Collece; was articled to Messrs. Travers iind Ollivier, barristers and solicitors, Wellington. Ho was admitted to tlio Bar in and after practising here and at Palraerston North and Feikling ho settled in Marton. Deceased was the second son of the late Mr. William Bishop, chemist, wlio came to New Zealand in tbc ship London in 1841. and for some years before lie left for the country the late Mr, Georsie Bishop was one of the Star Boating Club's first-class oarsmen; and lie was 'also a member of the Welling-' ton Footbali Club and a prominent athlete. . . '