PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 200, 19 May 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. C. J. Pnrr is leaving for Auckland- to-day. He will be in the north for a. few days, returning to Marton at the end of the week, and going from there to the Taranaki district. Ho will return to Wellington about tho end of noxt week. A Press Association message from Suva states that the Governor of Fiji (Sir C. H. UodwelD will leave by the Atnkurn to-dav for New Zealand and Sydney, Ho will be accompanied .by Contain Clivo Joske, A.D.C., and Captain Wcstmacott, private secretary. Brigadier-General G. S. Richardson, General Officer in Charge of Administration is expected to return to Wellington from the south to-morrow. T'n death occurred in Christohurch yesterday of Mr. William B. Cowlishaw, solicitor aged 51. He finished.his education at Oxford and. qualified for tho law, being admitted to the Inner Temple. Ho was for sonio 'years in the Christchuruh legal firm of Garrick, Cowlishaw and Fisher. Ho leaves a widow, two sous and two daughtors.— Press Asen.

Tlio JJishop of Kolson lias received nows that tho Use. Caucia llughos, 8.A., Vicar of St. Peter's, Melbourne, lias been d!ccted_after a. fourth ballot to the Bishopric offioekhampton. Queensland'. Tho Bishop-elect was educated at Trinity Collego within tho University of Melbourne. _ Tho college has now produced seven bishops for the Anglican Church in Australasia—viz.. Bishop Green (late of Ballarat), Bishop Stretch (late Bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W.), and tho present Bishops of Wangaretta, Balhurst, Nelson. Newcastle, and Eockhampton. The new Bishop is a brother of Brigadier-General Hughes, of the A.I.F. Mr. C. B. Williams has been appointed the South Island manager of tho John Swinson Company, Ltd., picture screen advertising contractors, and is proceeding to Christchurch, his headquarters, this week.

Mr. J. B. Merrett, Christchurch editor of tho "New Zealand Poultry Journal," wil! leave for California by' tha Tofua. He will return via Vancouver'in July. News was received in Wellington yesterday by the Kev. D. C. Bates of tho death of Mr. H. B. Devercaux, formerly of Wailii. and recently of Auckland. The deceased was a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, and an amateur meteorologist of note; and for some years took tho meteorological records at Waihi, The cause of death was pneumonia. Tho deceased leaves a widow and a largo family.

Mr. A. E. Kernot, of Wellington, who Sifjufc the winter in the South of Franca with itrs. Kernot and two daughters, lias left Toulon for Australia by the Ormonde, on his way back to New Zealand. Mrs. and the Misses Kernot will go back to England before they leave for the. Dominion.

Mr. John Fuller, junr., of Sydney, is a visitor to Wellington.

The Eight .Rev. Arthur Wellesloy Pain, Bishop of Gippsland, Victoria, whose death' wa.? recently reported by cablegram, was 79 years of age. Educated at Cambridge, he was ordained in ISGG. Two years later he went to New South Wales, was incumbent at Karelian, Bural Dean at Cambden, Kector of St. John's, Dartinghurst, and when Canon of Sydney, in 1802, was elected Bishop of Gippsland.

Mr. 'J. R. Williamson, B.Sc., has been appointed an assistant master at the Ashburton High School, vice Mr. Horace Belshaw, resigned. Before the <*ar Mr. Williamson was acting-director of tho Eeefton School of Mines. During' the war he served with the New Zealand Tunndlliiig Corps.

Mr. A. Stevenson, headmaster, of llio Woodville District High School for over a quarter of a century, has been appointed a temporary inspector under tho Hawke's Bay Education Board.

The Conciliation Commissioner for the Northern and Taranuki industrial districts, Mr. ,T. Harle Giles, and Mrs. Giles are at present m Wellington,. Mr. Giles, who has recently had a'severe nervous breakdown, is on a health trip.

A Press Association message from Sydney announces the death of Mr'. Montague C. Stephen, who was recently married to the daughter of Mr. Justice Hosking, of Welliucton.