PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2783, 30 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. W. I?. Massey vilU-rS. turn from Auckland this afternoon. The Hon. Dr. M'Nab, who has cone to Dunedin, will bo back in Wellington on. Thursday morning. The Hon. J. Allen went to Feathersioa Camp yesterday, where ho opened a new United Churolics' Institute in tho evening. Dr. W. G. Grace's last surviving brother, Alfred, is dead.—Press Associa' lion. . Mr. James Macintosh, of Wellington, is a passenger on the Manuka, due from Sydney to-day. Captain W. Hardham, V.C., is now on his extended leave, and expects to leave New Zealand with the 14th Reinforcements. The Itev. W. S. Boilings, of Ponsonby, Auckland, lmsaccepted a call to the pastorate of the Brooklyn Baptist Church, in succession to tile Rev. W. H. Hinton, who is about to take charge of the Baptist Church at Grango Eoad, Auckland. Mr. Boilings, who has been pastor of the Ponsonby Church for about three years anil a half, expects to reach Wellington, early in July. Tho death is announced from Auckland of Mr. William Aspinall, well known in musical circles in that city, aged 43. Mr. S. G. Holland, son of Mr. H. Holland, Mayor of Christchurch, who is in training at Feathcrston, has been promoted from the position of (sergeantmajor to lieutenant in th<> Artillery, and now is officer commanding tho artillery in the Seventeenth Beinforcemcnts. Mr. W. H. Skinner, Commissioner of Crown Land!, was at Timaru yestord.w to confer with the Timaru Land Board on claims by discharged 6oldiers for £<-ctions in Waima'te. Mr. E. S. Forsyth, of St. Clair, who lias- liad charge of the merchandise and produce department of tho National Mortgage and Agency Company for the past . 1(T years, has been promoted to be manager of the company's important branch business in Ashbutfton. Mr. Calford Bell has been appointed to judge the elocutionary competitions to be held at Pahiatua in July next. Captain Ogilvie (of the distressed American schooner Westfield, now at Lyttelton) is not a stranger to New Zealand. He visited Duiiediu and Wellington some time ago as mate in the illfated ship Titania; which subsequently proceeded to Sydney to load for Home. Fifteen years ago he was mate of the vessel of which he is now master. He has also been on dozens of other ships at different parts of his career. Prior to joining the Westfield for the present trip he was master of the barquentine Sound of Jura, a tank ship used for carrying oil for the Southern Whaling and Sealing Company, North Shields, to whom she belonged, and running reguilarly between South Georgia Island and Scotland. .