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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 136, 9 June 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Islington, and the Hon. Joan DicksonPoynder entertained some 200 guests, mostly young folk, at Government House yesterday, a very happy time being spent by everyone. A pierrot entertainment, dancing, and a programme in which Messrs. A. McElwain, L. Abrahams, and F. Bishop were the chief contributors, sped time on light wings, the young guests all enjoying themselves thoroughly. The Governor, accompanied by Captain MacDougall, AJXC-, left for Wellington last evening, and will return on Sunday. Lady Islington will be present at the Nurses' Ball at the Choral Hall to-night. Mr. T. S. Foster, for several years senior inspector of the North Canterbury Education BoaTd, has been appointed chief inspector to the Board. Sir Henry and Lady Ripley, tourists from Shropshire, England, arrived by the Rotorua express last evening, and are staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. T. M. Wilford, MJ»., Mayor of Wellington, was removed to a private hospital on Wednesday, where he was to have undergone an operation for appendicitis yesterday. The Anglican Bishop of Anekland (Dr. Crossley), who went to Wellington to take part in the consecration of Bishop Sprott, returned North by the Main Trunk train this morning. Captain G. G. Smith, Royal Naval Registrar, has for presentation to Mr. J. Robnson, of Newtown,, Wellington, at Royal Naval Reserve long-service medal —the first to be presented in the Dominion. Cabinet on Wednesday received the resignation of the Hon. T. Kennedy Macdonald as a member of the Legislative Council. It will 'be transmitted to the Clerk of Parliament for presentation to the Council at its meeting in July. Mr. J. S. Foster, M.A., who has been acting senior inspector of schools for some months, has been appointed chief inspector of the North Canterbury education district, at a salary of £500, reports a Ohristehureh Press Association telegram. The remains of -Hte late Mr. Alf. Walker were Harriet l , at Ptrrewa Cemetery yesterday afternoon, the funeral ibeing largely attended. The cortege, which left the Northern Club, included carriages containing the vice-president; of the club (Mr. W. iR. Bloonrfield) and a considerable number of members, while the wreaths were numerous and beautiful. The Rev. A. Fowler conducted tho burial service. . The Rev. John G. Wheen, general secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, is at present in Wellington on his tour of the iDorninion in the interests of the work done by the society in the South Seas. After leaving Wellington he will visit the principal centres of the North Island, concluding the tour at Auckland about the middle of August, and going on from here to Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. Mr. Eric Norman Webb, whose name has been cabled from Melbourne in connection with Dr. Mawson's expedition, is a son of Mr. S. R. Webb, of Lyttelton, and is only twenty-nine years of age. He has been a student at Canterbury College for the last three years and ahalf, and obtained his diploma and associateship in civil engineering under Professor R. J. Scott. Mr. Webb says he has not made up his mind whether he would go South, if requested to do so. I>r. Bauer, when in Christchurch, had told him that Dr. Mawson desired the services of a magnetic observer, and asked the Carnegie Institute to lend him one. No observer had been available, however, and Dr. Bauer had suggested him as a suitable man,

It is probable that there will soon be another vacancy to be filled in the ranks of the Anglican episcopate in New Zea- _ land. The Bishop of Nelson (Dr. Mules) is at present confined to his bed in Woodville with an attack of lumbago, and it is rumoured that he will resign his bishopric at an early date. Some time ago it was understood that Dr. Mules, who is now 74 years of age, intended to retire, but was waiting until the new Bishops of Auckland and Wellington had been appointed. Bishop Mules has had a long and useful career in the Church. He took the desree of B.A. (senior optime) at Cambridge in ISfiO, and M.A. in 1863. He was ordained Deacon in 1864 and Priest in 1865. After holding appointments in England, he came to New Zealand, and was Vicar of Brightwater with Waimea West from 1868 to 1892: Chaplain to Bishop Suter. 1869-02; and Archdeacon of Waimea. 1886-92. He was consecrated Bishop of Nelson on February 24th. 1892, in St. Paul's Pro-Cathe-dral, Wellington.