PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8343, 1 February 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. Lord and Lady Liverpool return te Wellington by to-morrow moruing’i steamer from their southern visit. His Excellency the Governor will be the guest of the New Zealand Club at luncheon on Monday next. Mr Justice Edwards leaves for Auckland by the Main Trunk express today. .Mr R. W. Holmes, Engincor-in-Chiof to the Public Works Department, will return from Auckland to-day. .dr J. T. Wylie has been appointed registrar of marriages, births and deaths for the Rangitikei district. Mr E. Page, S.M. .has been appointed bv the Minister of Justice to succecd'Mr W. Kerr, S.M., as chairman of the Waimarino Licensing Comr.ittee. The death is announced by a PressAssociation telegram of Mr Alexander Macfarlane, of Achray, a well-known North Canterbury innholder. Ho was fifty years of age. Mr Max Montesole, who appeared in Wellington with the Wykeham-Nable Comedy Company, left yesterday by the Tahiti for San Francisco, accompanied by Min Montesole. Mr J. W. Hill, of the Tourist Bureau, who has been-relieving Mr Moon at Christchurch for the last three weeks, resumed duties at the bead, office, Wellington, yesterday.. -Air O. T. Reichel left Wellington yesterday by the Tahiti for San Francisco, en route to New York, in' connection with the development of the Reichel automatic fire alarm, Mr James Hall, 8.A., who has been acting assistant at tbe Timaru Higb School for the last six months, baa been appointed second assistant master, at the Palmerston North High School. Mr W. Desmond, the well-known American actor, who has appeared here recently with J. C. Williamson companies, was a passenger from Sydney, by the Tahiti, which left Wellington for San Francisco yesterday. The Bovs. E. G. Guthrie, F. A. Thompson (Presbyterian), Mjcrf D. R. Lanyon (Sydenham Gospel Mis- ■ sion), and Mr N. G. Noble (Church ol trist) are gazetted officiating minis-, ters under tbe Marriage Act. ] The following changes in the locations of the Catholic clergy in tea Wellington arch-diooese are announced :j The Rev. Father Walsh, of Hutt, is transferred to Dannevirke; Rev. Father Ainsworth, formerly of Wellington South, from ELtham to Nelson; Rev. Father O’Beime, from New Plymouth to Inglewood; Rev. Father Bergiu, from Manaia to Waipawa; Rev, Father Saunderson, from Waipawa to Manaia; Rev. Father Kelly, from Foxton to Kaikoura; Rev. Father Do re, from Kaikoura to Foxton; Rev. Father Cahill, from Dannevirke to Eltham. E. W. Korngeld, a fifteen-year-old lad, has ‘just been honoured by the production by the famous Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin, under the direction of Arthur Nikisch, of a dramatic overture, his fourth work of importance. Disregarding tee youth,of the composer, the critics have praised the work highly as showing complete mastery of the art of orchestration and modern musical technique and the experience of a composer of years’ training. A certain lack of originality, to be expected in so young a musician under the influence of composers like Strauss, was the chief criticism brought against him, and this he is expected to outgrow. The Hon. W. F. Massey expects to remain at Wellington for some little time. The Hon. H. D. Bell, K.C., left for Christchurch last, evening, and will probably return to Wellington on Tuesday. The Hon. W. Fraser is duo at Wellington from south on Sunday morning. The Hon. W. H. Herries returned to Wellington from Napier last evening. The Hon, F, M. B. Fisher loaves Hokitika to-day for Greymouth, where he will spend the week-end. His subsequent movements are uncertain. The Hon. Dr Pomare is spending the week-end at New Plyir>outh, and is expected to return to Wellington on Monday night. Tha Hon. B. H. Rhodes is in the south, and the Hon. A. L. Hcrdman at .WelJngton.

Miss Thelma Peterson, ■who is being tendered a farewell complimentary concert on Wednesday next in -the municipal concert chamber, is a gifted ■young Wellington singer, who is proceeding to London, to further develop her art at the Boyal College of Music. It is on the advice of Mr H. Hadley and Mr Fred Cliffe (Boyal College of Music examiners) and Dr Harries (Sheffield Choir) that the parents of Mias Petersen have decided to send her Home. She has now given concerts in various centres of New Zealand, prior; to her departure, and has met .with much encouragement from those who wish her welL Miss Petersen, who is a native of this city, will no doubt be given a cordial send-off by music-lovers on the occasion of her farewell, when she will appear in a choice repertoire of songs. She leaves Wellington next Friday for Sydney en route to, London. , Messrs D. Guthrie, F. W. Lang, and J. B. Hine, M.P.’e, who were members of the North Island Parliamentary party which toured Central Otago, passed through Wellington from the south yesterday. Speaking to a “Times’' reporter, Mr Guthrie said that the general opinion of the party was that • light railway line from Clyde to Pembroke, on Lake Wanaka, would admirably meet the requirements of tho district so far as transport of produce was concerned. The cost would not be excessive, and would relieve settlers of their present heavy rates for maintenance of roads, which, however, were better than the hackblocks roads of the North Island. There was a large area if arid land which, under irrigation, would grow almost anything, and owing to the mineral qualities of the soil, it was eminently suitable for stone fruits. Magnificent peaches, plums, apricots and even pears had been produced, and the poentialities of this and were recognised by all. The line of irrigation divided In a remarkable manner fertility and barrenness. The prevailing rain-bearing westerly winds were intercep/ed by the Southern Alps, causing precipitation on the western, face,’ and this gave the central areas a rainfall of only fourteen inches annually. There was plenty of water in the rivers, however, and an ingenious irrigating device was shown to the partv. The machine was worked by the current, like a propeller, and pumped water over the adjacent fields. It is anticipated that the old antagonism of northern members to irrigation schemes in Otago will be largely removed as a result of the visit. He rest of the party will be in Otago about another week.