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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 23, 26 January 1912, Page 2

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I Mr., Mrs. and Miss Schicpobaloff, of Samara, Russia, are at present visitors to Wellington. Mr. Jack Arnst, brother of Richard Arnst, world's champion sculler, arrived in Wellington from London on Wednesday. Messrs. T. P. Gilfeddcr, A. J. Woodley, and J. H. Trinnear have been elected Auckland representatives to the Athletic Conference on 27th and 29th January. Mr. Arthur M. Myers, M.P., is at present in Rotorua. He intends to spend a holiday at Mount Cook prior to the meeting of Parliament on February 15. Professor Coleridge Farr, of Christchurch, who has been for a trip round the world, returned to Wellington by the Moeraki on Wednesday, and left for the South last evening. The Hon. J. A Millar, Minister for Railways (says a Press Association telegram from Rotorua), is still at Taupo, where he is enjoying some excellent fishing. Major-Gencral Godley, G.0.C., left this morning for Rotorua, where he is spending the week-end. He returns to Auckland on Monday afternoon, leaving the same evening for Wellington. Cable: advice was received to-day from Hay, New South Wales, that the Rev. Canon Richards had cabled, notifying his acceptance of nomination as vicar of th? Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Auckland. The Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Internal Affairs, who arrived in Auckland yesterday morning for the purpose of inquiring into the matter of the proposed new mental hospital site, left for the South again by the express last night. • Messrs. D. H. Guthrie, D. Buiek, F. M. B. Fisher, and A. S. Malcolm, M-P-'9, who were in Auckland for the Opposition rally in the Town Hall, left for the South by last night's express. Mr. J. B. Hine, M.P., left for Te Kuiti by the Rotorua express this morning. A new research scholarship in physics has been allotted by the Victoria College Council to Mr. M. Alexander, B.Sc., of Otago University. The scholarship, which is worth £ 100 per annum, is due to the generosity of a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Official notice of the resignation of Bishop Mules from the see of Nelson was conveyed to the Primate of New Zealand, Bishop Nevill, on his arrival in New Zealand by the Tainui on Wednesday. The Primate told a reporter that a meeting of the synod would be summoned in. due _ course, and steps taken to fill the vacancy caused by Bishop Mules' resignation. Among the passengers from England by the Tainui, which reached Wellington on Wednesday, were the Revs. J. P. Hampson and W. H. Williamson, both of the Church of England. Mr. Hampson, who is vicar of a parish in Hampshire, is making a tour of the world, and purposes going from New Zealand to the Islands and afterwards probably to Japan. Mr. Williamson proposes settling in New Zealand. The Rev. A. H. Colville, late diocesan misEioner, and vicar-elect of fit. Mary's, New Plymouth, reached Wellington from England by the Tainui on Wednesday, and left yesterday for New Plymouth, accompanied by his wife. He I will 'be formally inducted into his charge to-morrow by the Bishop of Auckland, who is on his way to New Plymouth to perform the ceremony. The Bishop will afterwards visit Wellington, where he has business, returning to Auckland towards the end of next week.