PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cable states that tho Rev A. Smith lias been elected Moderator the ew South Wales Presbyterian Assembly. Mr D. Buick, ii.P., gives fin emphatic denial to tile rumour that, he does not intend seeking re-election at the end of the present Parliament. "I will," he saw, "stick to my soa.t until I am defeated. '

At the ann,ual meeting of the New Plymouth Harbour Board l yesterday, "Mr J. B. Concrett was re-elected chairman, a position he has occupied since 1902. He was a. member of the first board in 1875 and almost continuously since then. ; His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. M. Ooradine) and Councillors J. C. Ewington and H. J. O'Leary have been appointed to represent the Masterton Borough Council on the Masterton Fire Board. At, the first meeting of . the new Masterton Borough Council last evening, on the motion of Or. Temple, a resolution of appreciation was passed of the excellent services rendered in the past by Messrs A .Donald J.' Elliott, J. P. Prentice and W. Pracnell during their term of office as members of tne Masterton Borough Council. An old Mastertom boy—Mr W. Jeffries—contested the Hokitika Borough Council, West-land Hospital Board and Hokitika Harbour Board elections last week, and succeeded m gaining a seat on all three bodies. Mr Jeffries, who is chairman of the Westland branch of the N.Z. Political Reform League, was for some years on the staff of the Masterton branch of the Bank of New Zealand. ■ Mr W. W. Chambers, who some years ago was head of the clothing dflpirtment in the W.F.G.A. at wton, was elected a Borough Councilor at Picton, among a field of 17 Candidates. A stir will be caused in the AngloOatholic circles in the Church of England (writes the Daily Chronicle of February 28) by the news that Dotti Aelred Carlyle, 0.5.8., the Abbot of Caldy Island, has been received into the Church of Home. Since the conversion of the vicar of St. Bartholomew's, Brighton, a few years ago, there has been no. more startling occurrence in the Church of England than that of the submission of the. well-known abbot- to the Bishop of Rome.