PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association message from ChrUtchurch states that Major-General Sir Andrew Kussell ami Lady Mussel], Lady Bell arid her daughters, the lion. T. M. Wilford and .Mrs Wilford, and Captain and Mrs. Wilford left for Wellington last nigliL

Brigadier-General G. S. Richardson, C.8., C.M.G., will make a tour of inspection of the four mililavj districts of the Dominion before taking up liis duties as Director of Administration, which it is probable, he will do about the end of the present month. He will leave Wellington lov tlie south 011 Monday night. News has been' received that (he Kev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, who established SI. Joseph's Home for Incurables Home of Compassion at Island Bay, is 011 her way back to New Zealand. According lo her last letter, tlie Kev. Mother (who has been in Italy for nearly six years past) was to have left Home on ' i'cljruary 1 for New Zealand, via France and England, and she asked the Sisters not to write further. Since then they have, heard nothing as to the Kev. Mother's movements, but anticipate that she is on her way out lu the Dominion. The Kev. Mother was lo have returned to New Zealand over four years ago, lyit was detained through I lie war. . . Mr. Thomas Xeave, of Wellington, has been nominated by the Hawke's Bav Education Hoard for 011 the Victoria College Council. The' death 01' Sir John Pentlaiul Mahalfv', late Fellow and Professor Ancient History at 'trinity College, Dublin, is reported trout London. A. celebrated author and historian, lie was horn in 1839, and was educated at Trinity College., lu .18?;] he was appointed Don.nellan lecturer, lie was a writer of popular works 011 ancient, chiefly Greek, .civilisalion. His best hooks included

"Twelve Lectures on Primitive Civilisation" (15611.1, "Prolegomena to Ancient History," on legends, inscriptions mid Egyptian literature (1871), "Social Life in. Greece iroin ilomev to Alenander" (first edition, 1874), "A History of Classicaftiveek Literature" (first edition, 18S0), "Hambles and Studies in Greece" (IS7S), a "l.il'e of Descavtes," for tlie series of

"Philosophical Classics" (1880), "The, Decay of Modern Preaching" (ISS3), and "The Story of Alexander's Empire" (1888). Among his later works were "Tho Greek World Under Roman Sway," "Problems in Greek History" (IEM), "An Epoch in Irish History" (1904), and "The Silver Age of the Greek 'World", (l!)0ti). Honours were bestowed upon linn by the Governments and universities of many Continental countries, and last year lie was included in the first- list of Knights of I he British Empire Order.

Mr. G. A. Highland, the producer for. Messrs. ,f, C. Williamson, Ltd., and Air. Clyde Cook, dancer, who has been'with the Williamson firm for three or four years past, were passengers for Vancouver by the Makura this week.