PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 122, 9 February 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

'Sir Joseph Ward' left for a flying visit to Christchurch last evening, He will ho back in Wellington on Sunday morning.. Sir James Allen left for the South Island last night. • He intends to go as far south as Invercargill, and he will not be back iir Wellington until about Sunday week. Rev. Father Gilbert,' S:M.,'M.A.-, of St. Patrick's' College staff, has Uen raised in the. position'of Tector of the school; Father- Gilbert'has been on the .'stauTfor some - twelve years. • He distinguished himself whilst quiteyoung bv winning a Kennedy Scholarship tenable at St. Patrick's, and later or. in his university career by carrying oil the senior scholarship in Latin. The new rector lY'a native of -Kumara, West Coast,- whe'ro he was a -pupil at the local convent school.-'' He is the first Old Boy of St. Patrick's to occupy the position of rector. The outgoing rector (the Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy, S.M;, 8.A.)-has been appointed principal of the Maiist Fathers' Seminary, Greenmeadows, Hawke's Bay.

".A' (Press • Association telegram from Auckland announces the death of Mr. John Ford .Hartland.. for., twelve years secretary of the Auckland-Racing Club. The late Mr. Hartland was 55 years of age. The Rev. A. W; Stace, vicar of Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay, is at present paying a visit to Marlborough. At a meeting of the Board of DireCr tors of the Equitable Building and Investment . Company, of Wellington, Ltd., held yesterday morning. Mr. William Ferguson was appointed a director in place-of the late Mr. E Balcombe Brown. Mr. J. H. Hardie, acting Town Clerk of Palmerston .North, has been advised that his brother, Major 11. D. Hardie, had his loft leg amputated, and is now making excellent progress. Major Hardio was recently severely wounded in France, his injuries being- in the head-'arid in the left arm,. as well as in the!' left 'leg:- The last-mentioned was" apparently ■so severe that .'tho limb could'Jiot be saved;--- ••

'Private.James Caughlcy.of'tho 26th Machine-gun Corps, was killed in action in France on January 20: In the days of amateur cycling 'ho was the champion of Hawke's Bay for some years. Prior to enlistiug he., had been farming at Glen Murray, Waikatq. Ho was .1 brother of Mr.. John Caugkley, Assistant-Director of Education, Wellington; and Mr. Robert Cnughley, of the Alliance Assurance Company, 'Christchurch.

The following appointments are announced by tlio Wellington Education Board:—Petone West, assistant, Miss N. Dagger; Plimmerton, assistant', Miss J.'R-ayne; Hastwell, assistant, Miss M. C. Morgan; Lansdowm;, assistant, Miss L. E. Hall; Linkwater, sole teacher, Miss C. Murphy; Blenheim, assistant, Mrs. Miller; Blenheim, assistant. Miss A. M.Pigou; Featherstoii, assistant, Miss D. Tully; Mt. Cook Girls', assistant, Miss E. W. I. Wallaoh; Kaituna, Bole teacher, Miss G. Higgs; South Wellington, assistant, Miss R. A. Roy; Terrace, assistant, Miss M. A. Harle: Terrace, assistant, Miss N.. M'Kirdy.

Mr. Levi Stephen Lovelock, only brother of Mr. Isaac W. Lovelock, of Newbury, Palmerston North, died at Palmerston North last Monday after a'.lingering.illness'. ...The late Mr. Lovelock was born• in Wellington on June 6, 1840." His parents arrived in Port Nicholson in the ship Bolton early in 1840, and landed on the shore at Thorndon Quay, aud lived a short time in Bolton Bow, which consisted of s row of toitoi huts, erected for the accommodation-of. .the passengers under the bank near where the City Tramway offices now .stands. . Mr. Lovelock was, born there, and was thb first European cliild born in Wellington. He lived all his lifejn Wellington and the Palmerston North district, and was greatly respected. He was uirmarriad, and is survived by one brother, Mr. I. W. Lovelock, , of Palmerston North, and two sisters (Mrs. William Tonks of Wellington, and Mrs. David Thomas, of CartertonV The late Mrs. Edward Collins, of Palmerston North, was his eldest sister. The body was interred in the Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington, last Wednesday by the side of his parents and a sistet who died in 1R47. Tho Rev. A. M. Johnson, of St. Paul's pro-Cathedral officiated, at the graveside.

Mr. J. Douglas Perrett, 'of Auckland, is at present in Wellington, after a trip to the Lake districts.