PERSONAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 169, 22 August 1914, Page 11

PERSONAL.

The Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes arrived in town from Wellington this morning, and will return on Monday night. Dr Morrison, Political Adviser to the President of China, has left London' for Peking. He is travelling via Canada.

General Sir A. Godley arriA'ed in Christ-church from "the South last .night, and Avill leave for Wellington this evening.

Mr A. "E. Sylces, New Plymouth, and Mr Arnold B. Williams, of Wellington, arrived in town this morning, and are staying at the Clarendon Hotel.

Sir Joseph Ward is expected to arrive fti toAvji this evening, and will speak at the military service in Addington Park to-morrow afternoon.

Mr Claude Slach, and Mr W. CroAV, private secretary to the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, arrived from this morning, and are staying at the . United Service' Hotel.

Mr R, R. Martin, late organiser to the Reform Party, who Avas injured in the motor accident in which Colonel Hay hurst met his death, is now making good progress in the Tiinaru Hospital.

Mr W. C. Gasquoine, avlio has just retired from the position of general manager of the State Coal Mines Department, Avas entertained at the Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington, on Wednesday evening by the staffs of the Mines and State Coal Mines Departments, and AA-as presented with a tea and coffee service and salver as a memento of the number of years he had spent in the Department. The vacancies in the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington, caused by the appointment of three - chaplains to the Expeditionary Forces, have been filled. The Rev. Father Quealy takes Father McMenamin's place at Petone, the ReA\ Father O'Farrell, S.M., 8.A., of GreenmeadoAA r s, Napier, replaces Father Segrief on the Faculty of"St. Patrick's College, and the Rev. Father Craiu» takes Father Dore's place at Foxton.