PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. • Tlio following received invitations to a dinner party at Government House on Monday s— Hon. W. D. Baillie, Hon. A. Baldey, Hon. Sir C. Bovven, Hon. J. B. Callan, Hon. B. Harris, Hon. J. E. Jenkinson, Hon. Sir G. M. O'Eorke, Hon. J. T. Paul, Hon. J. Rigg, Hon. J. B. Sinclair, Hon. G. J. Smith, Hon. T. Thompson, Hon. G. Jones," Hon. C. H. Mills, M.L.C.'s, Sir J. Ward, M.P., Mr. G. J. Anderson, Mr. D. Buick, Mr. G. M. Thomson, Mr. J. C. Thomson, Mr. J. Colvin, Mr. T. H. Davey, Mr. W. J. Dickie, .Mr. F. Mander, Mr. C. K. Wilson, Mr. T. M. Wilford, Mr. E. Newman, Mr. D. H. Guthrie, Hon. A. Ngata, his Worship the Mayor (Mr. D. M'Laren). On Saturday next at the Hotel Windsor the Victoria College Graduates' Association will give a dinner in honour ol members of the present Ministry who are graduates of a University. Those are the Hons. H. D. Bell, K.C., James Allen, W. , H. Herries, E. H. Ehodes, and Dr. Pomare, all of whom have accepted invitations to , be present. On his recent visit to New Zealand the Right Hon. James Bryce expressed a desire to see a closer alliance between the Parliament of the land and the University. It is for the purpose of furthering this suggestion that the dinner, which follows the precedents of English public life, has been arranged. Major-General Godley is still indisposed. • Mr. Eric Riddiford, who is at present in Englandi will return to Wellington at the end of the year. The s.s. Orsova, at present on her way from London to Australia, has on board the following passengers for Wellington :— Mr. and Mrs.' 0. H. Taplin, Miss E. Eraser, Messrs. M. Johnstone, and J. Bedersou. Mr. A. A. Corrigan, who was for many years manager of the D.I.C. in Wellington, and who was one of the New Zealand* representatives at tRe Chambers of Commerce Conference in London, returned by the Athenic to-day. Mr. B. E. Eawnsley, secretary of the Wellington Trust, Loan, and Investment Company, was also a passenger by the same vessel. Mr. James J. Moore, lately Missioncr to Seamen at Wellington, whose health broke down in 1911, has been resting in various parts of England and Wales for the past nine months (writes the London correspondent of The Post). Just recently his health has improved so considerably that Mr. Moore has, at the request of the London Committee, taken charge for a short time of the Port Talbot station in Swansea, prior to entering upon duties at a larger port. At Port Talbot there is a church and institute, and there will be a fairly large fleet to visit. Mr. Moore has also been working at Avonmonth, where for some iponths past _ there has been a station under the Missions to Seamen flag. N.S.W. WOOL ♦ii — >_ By Telegftph.— Prew Association.- -Copyright. (Received September 10, 1.22 p.m.) LONDON, 9th September. New South Wales has an excellent exhibit at the Bradford Wool Exhibition.