PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8355, 15 February 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. Lord Liverpool leaves Wellington on Monday morning for Taumarliuui and the Wanganui river. Ho will go down the river from Pipiriki by a Maori canoe to tho native settlement at Jerusalem on Wednesday 'morning, returning in the same way to Pipiriki in the evening. On Thursday his Excellency will coach from Pipiriki to Ohakune, and reach Wellington from that point by train next Friday morning. Lord and Lady Liverpool and suite will go into residence in Auckland during the first week in March. Tho Rev. Father Herring, S.-M-. * St. Anne’s Parish, Wellington_-ni;:.. has been appointed to the Mark. sionary staff. Mr -J. E. Russell, manager oi ihc New Zealand branch of tho Great r J D. Williams Company, leftJtellh gton last evening on a brief business ti .p Sydney. Sergeant D. Stewart, who was lor many years stationed at Mount C< o> police barracks, left by the Maori last night for Christchurch, to which city he has been transferred. Captain G. S. Smith, Superintendent of Mercantile Marine, goes- on three weeks' holiday leave to-day. Captain S. Stringer will act in Captain Smith s place during his absence. Dr Margaret B. Cruickshank, <d Wairaate, for the past sixteen yean partner of Dr Barclay, hospital suiter-, intendent in that town, was on Thursday night entertained by tho citizens on' tho eve of her departure for a year's travelling in the Old Country, states a Press Association telegram. She was the recipient of a purse of a bund; cd sovereigns and a gold watch. Mr J. Grant (Mayor of WoodvilU) met with a motor-car accident on Monday. Mr Grant was'proceeding along the Napier road .and bent down to,do, something .to the gear. The motor took control, went over a -bank .and capsized, throwing him heavily to the , around. However, apart from aso vore shaking, Mr Grant was unm Jared. . ,{ , , Tho Hon. W. Fraser, who reached Gore on Thursday night, is now at Xnvercar gill. The Hon. 11. H. -Rhodes is still in the South. The Hon. Dr Pomare leaves Wellington th» morning for Wanganui and Jerusalem tb center with tribes in the district. The Hon. W 11. Herries returned to Wellington, from Taranaki last evening. The Hon*.' W. F. Massey, H. D. Bell, and F. M. B. Fisher are at Wellington. Mr Alexander Glendinning, who recently left Palmerston North for the Old Country, died in Edinburgh last Sunday, according to a cablegram received from Miss Glendinning by th« Mayor of Palmerston North, ihe deceased departed for Scotland, with.Mu; R. Glendinning, towards the end oi last year (says the “ Standard ), . H<*. was for some years secretary at the Longburn works of the National Mort gage and Agency Company, -and prio.. to his departure ho was entertained b; the staff and presented with severa 'mementoes of their esteem. The late Mr Glendinning’s leisure was devote to studious pursuits, and he did no' become a pominent figure in public life but he was an enthusiastic member o tho Philosophical Society, his favouiu interest being astronomy. Mr Christian Helliman, A.R.C.M.. London, conductor of tho Sydney-Syn. phony Orchestra, and ono ot the aru<m panists of the Sydney Philharmonic-Sc ciety, has been appointed conductor o the Royal Choral Society, Wellington in succession to Mr Maughan Ihuneiu Mr Helliman, who possesses high eiedentials, acted as conductor of trie Sydney Philharmonic for about six mentor - during the absence of the. society s per- • maneut conductor, and Was “ runnerup ” for the position of Sydney City organist. He will assume his new du-, ties about the middle of April. In making the announcement during an' interval in the rehearsal of “ Carmen " by tlie Royal Choral Society last night, Mr R. T. Caldow (chairman) said that Mr Helliman was a maa eminently suitable for the position, and the committee had received communications from competent authorities -w Sydney stating that the society could consider itself exceedingly fortunate'in securing Mr Holliman’s services. The announcement was warmly received b, members. Overseas visitors to the Tourist Bureau during the week included : T. Addison Chater, London; W. G. Morrison, East Molesy, London; W. Wildman, Capetown; Hugh -Viorrison, Glasgow; R. G. Sharp, England; Thomas JL Hulbert, Chicago, 0.5. A.; O. J. Barrett. New York; Carlos A. Aldao, Buenos Ayres; D. Nesham, Ramsgate, Kent, England; H. F. Swain, Forestry Department, New South Wales; Thos, H. Urquliaxt, Darlinghurst, Sydney; J. M. McLeod,, Wellington, New South Wales; H. Teege, Sydney; Cecil Oswald, Adelaide; Mr and Mrs Ostendorf, Melbourne; Dr and Mrs Frank W. Doak, Mosman, New South Wales; Mr and Mrs J. A. M. Elder, Melbourne; Mrs H. F. Gaffney, Neutral Bay, Sydney; P, Hefferman, Juneo, Sydney, New South Wales; M. McKinnon, Chatswood, Sydney, New South Walee; N. Ewan, Penrith, New South Wales; 8. Jebb Scott, Lymington, England; J. A. Roles, Marrickville, Sydney; G. S. Ricketts and J. Quoyle, Sydney; Mr and Mrs C. E. Attwater, Grafton, New South Wales; A. Beacensfield, St. Kilda, Melbourne; Mr and Mrs George Sperryn, Birmingham, England.