PERSONAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 242, 16 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Bishop Julius left for Dunedin by the second express on Saturday. Mr H. Wilkinson, of Dunedin, is a guest at the United Service Hotel. Messrs G. W; Wilson, J. Smellie, and F. Kingsland (Dunedin)', and B. F. White (Wellington) are staying at Warner's Hotel. , Amongst the visitors to Christchurch staying at the Clarendon Hotel are Messrs Thomas Ryan, of Adelaide, and G. F. Bernard Hollins, of Melbourne. Messrs B. Moore and F. Horrell have been re-elected unopposed as representatives for the combined counties and boroughs in North Canterbury, on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Captain H. Jacobsen,, who was the first harbour signalman at Weatport, and for many years -signalman at Brittania Heights, Nelson, died, at the age of eighty, years, near Auckland, a few days ago. •A London cable message announces that Major Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, High Commissioner of Cyprus, and who held important posts in South Africa during and subsequent to the war, has been appointed Governor of Queensland.

Mr T. Eyan, the honorary commissioner appointed by the Governor of South Australia to enquire into and report upon the New Zealand education system, arrived in town from Wellington yesterday morning. He will stay in Christchurch for several days. Bishop Cleary arrived in Christchurch by motor- car from the West Coast on Saturday evening. The old coach road was found to be in a very rough condition in several places, and the car suffered two or three mishaps. However, his Lordship, who is a skilled automobile mechanic, was able to attend to these.

The death occurred on Saturday evening of Miss Ruby Eleanor Jennings, daughter of Mr and Mrs C. I. Jennings, of Kangiora. Miss Jennings, who was only 23 years of age, had suffered from ill-health for some considerable time. She was a very popular young lady, her amiable disposition winning for her a very wide circle of friends. The parents and relatives are assured of the sympathy of many friends. Dr Mortensen, the eminent Danish scientist, who is studying the marine biology of New Zealand, passed through Christchurch on Saturday, on his way to the Bluff, where he will sail by the Amokura for the southern islands. . Dr Mortensen, who is a member of the staff of the University of Copenhagen, has been commissioned' by the Danish Government to make an investigation into the marine life of the Pacific, and has already visited the Philippines, Japan, and Australia, in pursuance of this purpose. After visiting New Zealand he will return to Sydney, and will then journey to Honolulu, afterwards visiting California and Vancouver. A gentleman living in Linwood Avenue bumped up against a sample of the "red tape" methods of some Government departments this morning. In the "small hours" of yesterday morning he awoke to find that a temporarilyunoccupied house next door to his residence was ablaze. Promptly he rushed off to a public telephone at the corner of Linwood Avenue and Worcester Street, to call the Fire Brigade. He dropped twopence in the slot, but could get no reply, and the Fire Brigade call had to be given from a private telephone. When he called at the Telephone Exchange this morning to draw the department's attention to the fact that he could get no reply to his ring at the public telephone mentioned, he was met with an enquiry as to whether he had called to get his twopence back. Then he was told to put his complaint in writing. When he enquired whether notice could not be taken of a verbal report of the matter, he was again told to write to the department, and he could get no further satisfaction.