PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

' VICE-IIKGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General and Lady J'ellicoe returned to town from nil extensive provincial tour on Thursday. Yesterday morning ilis Excellency, after jjcttmg through an . accumulation of business,'found time for a motor run, and <luring tho afternoon played in a cricket match with the Wellington College boys on the college -ground. ■

Their Excellences will leave Wellington at the etui of next week to go into residence at Auckland.'for some three months. They will' attend the' JJiivis Cup tennis matches and also the A.l'.C. race mooting at Ellerslie. His Excellency is having a 1-1-foot (open) sailing boat built in Auckland, and hopes to be able to find lime for. a little recreation oil the' harbour. ■ '

Tho Prime Minister (tho Bight Hon. W. F. Masse?) is expected to return to Wellington on Monday.

The. Minister of Justice (the Hon. E. P Lee) is paying a visit, to the South Island.

Tile Minister of Defence (Sir Healon Rhodes) is expected to return from tho south 10-moiTow.

Sir Keith Smith, the aviator, has left Auckland for Vancouver, oil louts to England.

Mr. J. B. Clarkson. who has been on an extended tour of New Zealand, will leave Wellington for Auckland to-day to join tho Niagara'at Auckland on Tuesday for Sydney'.''

;'A Press. Association. message, fi;om Sydney. states Ijlmt J)r; Whyte, ' the "new Honia.n Catliolic Bi;liop of Dunedin, is a. passenger by the Manuka, which left for Wellington on Thursday.

Mr. W. J. Stevens, of the Wellington Gas Company, left by last evening's .Main Trunk express for Hotonia and Te Arohn, where Jic is to undergo ii.ither treatment for rheumatism.

Mr. and Mrs, 1!. L. Levin, of Foilding, and Mr. and Mrs. It. Horton, of Auckland, are on board the Orvieto, liound to Australia from the Old Country.

Mr. .Tames M. Tiirnbull, of Messrs. Tiirnbull, Ilicltson, and Gooder, Wellington, is journeying from the Old Country to Australia, via South Africa, by the Marathon.

Mr. G. W. Hazleton, supervisor in the Wanganui Telegraph Office, hits been appointed postmaster at Waihi.- Mr. D. M. _ M'lntosli, telegraph supervisor. Christehurch, has been appointed postmaster at Tanranjtu. :

Dr. W. H. Simpson, formerly of Wellington Hospital, now holds the diploma in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery,' having lately been one of ten successful candidates in the examination 'of the Uoyal College of Physicians: Dr. Simpson also has recently passed the examination for the F.H.C.S.. .Edinburgh, lie expects to remain in England until the middle of next year. Dr. Simpson Ims Ictii for some months seirior house <su geon at, the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfielda.

The ltev. George Watson has arrived in New Zealand, and will take up wouk ps assistant curate at .All Satnts', I'uliner.ston North. 'Die flev. J. li. Reed, 8.A., has also nrrivod from the Old -Country, and will become vicar of the -Waiisaniii Parochial District. Jlo was ordained in lllOli, and until recently was vicar of Chirbury, in tho Herefordshire. Diocese. The Rev. B. P. • White, A.K.C.. will shortly arrive from Home to serve as vicar of the Uongotea. Parochial District. Ho was formerly assistant' curate of Holy- Trinity, East Finchley, in the Loudon Diocese.

Mr. Oliver Dull', 8.A.; has been appointed editor of theTimaru' "Herald/' vice Mr. -W. F. Alexander, now editor of, tho Dunedin "Star." Mr. Duff is an Otago University graduate. He tool; part in tho South African war, lias been a member of the teaching profession, ami a journalist. Not so long ago.lie tried his fortune ill Australia, but for health reasons had to return.