PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 279, 21 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. During their stay in Wellington Admiral of the Fleet Lord. Jclhcoo aud Lady Jellicoe will bo the guests of His Excellency the Governor-General and tho Countess of Liverpool at -Government House.

Midshipman Perry, of H.M.S. Aew Zealand, is tho sou of Mrs. Perry, of "Qtatara." Hav,-lie's Bay, and a grandson of the late Mr. G. P. Donnelly, Ho has boon on a visit to bis mother, anil will rejoin his ship in Wellington. Midshipman Hall-Thompson, son of l.aptnm 1". N. Hall-Thompson, E.N., late Naval Adviser to the Neiv Zealand Governwent, who came over oil leave froni 9|ul--11 ey to see his parents, will rejoin Uio New Zealand this week.

Br. H. W. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishou of Auckland, is at present in a private hospital at Hamilton. Bishop Cleary readied the Waikato centre on Thursday of last week, on a visit to the clergy of the district, but he became seriously ill, and was compelled to seek modicar aid. His condition at first occasioned much alarm, but it vas reported nt u. late hour on Sunday evening that he had shown considerable improvement.

Mr C. B. Mori son lias resigned Ins seat on Victoria College Council. Tlio Registrar ivas authorised last night to proceed with tho election of a successor. Mr. S. E. M'Ciuthv, S.M., lias beon annointed returning officer for tho Southern Maori electorate, in place of the lato Mr. H. W. Bishop. ,

Mr. Charles Adair, of Gisborne, is a visitor to Wellington.

Mr. J. S. Hiddleston, who is 'caving for England by the Shropshire, iros yesterday presented with a sovereign case by tho members of the M ellington !North Cricket Club. The presentation was made by Mr. M. F. Luckie, The Wellington Education Board was yesterday advised by the Education Department that Mr. W. S. Austin had been temporarily appointed an inspector of schools in tho district.

Tho attendance officer of the Wellington Education Board (Mr. J. W. Butler) forwarded his resignation to yesterday s meeting. The resignation was accopted with regret, the chairman (Mr. T. Forsyth) stating that Mr. Butler had dons valnablo work for tho board.

The Oamaru Presbytery has nominated (he llcv. S. W. Currie, M.A., of Balclutlia, for the position of Moderator of the next General Assembly of the Prcsbvierian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. E. Phelan lias been appointed a member of tiio Auckland District hepatization lioard on behalf of the Auckland Patriotic Association.

It is the present intention that Mr. M. Henderson. Dunedin City electrical engineer, will leave Auckland on September on the projected visit to America ami the United Kingdom.

The Wellington Education Board accepted the following resignations at'yesterday's meeting Mr. "W. W. Kidd, sole teacher, Bideford; Mr. -i. W. Buticr, attendance officer; Miss B. Chapman, solo teachur, Stolco'a Valley; Miss C. Gray, assistant, Otaki; Miss W. E. Evans, assistant, Eernridge; Miss E. J. Deller, assistant, Carterton; Miss M. E. Hance, probationer, Picton.

Tho appointment of tile Eev. Frederick Pring-Rowe, a chaplain iu tho British Forces, as vicar of All Saints' Church, Nelson, is aunounceJ by cablegram. Mr. Priug-Howe, who is about W years of iige, was educated at London College of Divinity, and at St. John's. Highbury. Ho took first-class honours at tho universities' theological examination in 1905, mid in 'lie same year was ordained deacon by the Bishop of St. Albans. .He was ordained priest iu 1900 by the liishop of St. Alban.:-, and was curate of St. Stephen's, Walthamstow, from 1905 to lUtfT; of St. John's, Lowestoft, from 11107 (o 1911); organising secretary of tho Church Missionary Society, Norwich, from 1910 to 1911; and vicar of St. John Uie Baptist, Islington, 191-1. At tho beginning of 1916 11 r. Pring-Rowe went to l'l-ance as ft chaplain. Ho will ho tillable to leave England till towards lbend of the year.