PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Sir James Carroll returned from Rotorua yesterday afternoon,, and left for Gisborne by to-day's steamer. •Meiers. A. Limey aud; W. A. Low. arrived -in town to make arrangements for the Royal; Pantomime Company's season. Messrs. H. Dindley and W.- Lowe, En<»-, lish tourists, who arrived bythe Niagara, are staying at the Star Hotel for a few days before proceeding through the Dominion. Mr. <iilbert Beckett was last night appointed to the position of secretary to the Auckland Provincial Reform League, vice Mr. G.; -T. Garland, who has resigned. Mr. Hugh Boscawen, of the Crown Lands Department, Ibis returned from his visit of inspection of the timber, gum and mineral rrresourcos .of the Great Barrier. Mr. (i. Girling Batcher, organising secretary of the New Zealand Catholic Federation, arrived bythe second express yesterday to open a lecturing tour of the Auckland diocese. The Hon. W. H. Herries was entertained by the Rotorua Chamber of Comroereie at dinner last night. Yesterday he visited Ohinemutu and addressed the Maoris in explanation of recent native legislation.—Press Association. Mr. Wm. Goodfellow. of Hamilton, left by the Niagara this morning for Vancouver. Mr. Goodfellow will spend three months in the principal cities of the Pacific Coast, making arrangements for the disposal of dajry produce from the Dominion. It is probable that Mr. Goodfellow win return by way of San I Francisco and the Cook and Society i group. . | Mr. C. Lugon is coming North by the! Victoria, en route to Suva, where, he is ] to manage the new hotel which is now j being erected for the Union Company, j He arrived at the Bluff on Sunday, last • from Calcutta, bringing with him- a mini- • bcr of Indian coolies, some of whom are i to act as servants in the hotel.- ■ Tbe! coolies will reach Wellington to-day, and will come by the Corinna to Auckland to join tbe Naviia. Mr. J. Hislop (Under Secretary for Internal Affairs and a member of the Public Service Accommodation ' Board) arrived from Wellington Jast evening io attend a meeting of the Board in Auckland to-day. Mr. R. Triggs (Public' Service Commissioner) arrived yesterday morning, while the third member of the Board, Mr. H. ,1. H. Blow (UnderSecretary for Public Works), arrived by this morning's train. It is stated that the Hon. R. McNab will be a candidate at next election in the Opposition interest for the Dunedin West seat, now held by the Hon. J. A. Millar. Air. W. Belcher, secretary of the Seamen's Union at Dunedin, will,, it is understood, contest the seat as a Labour candidate, says tbe "Dominion." Mr. McNab himself declares that all rumours concerning bis candidature for various scats are without foundation, as up to tlie present he has made no plans so far as bis candidature for parliamentary honours is concerned. The Rev. Dr. Walter Frederick Adeney, 'SLA., London, D.D. St. Andrew's, excbairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, and Principal of the Lancashire Conventional Training College, who is to arrive in Wellington-to-day, was for seventeen years Congregational minister at Acton, and for fourteen years professor of New Testament Exegesis and of Church History at New College, London, and Lecturer at Hackney College. In 1903 he became I Principal of Lancashire College and Lecturer in the History of Doctrine at tbe , University of Manchester, resigning in j 1312. Mr. E. Clifton, of the Agricultural Department, who left by the Niagara to- | day for America, where be -will represent 1 the lX)minJon as trade representative and as Commissioner for New Zealand at the Panama Exposition, was yesterday afternoon presented by his old col■teigues of the Department with a dressing case as a token of their esteem. Mr. J. E. D. Spiccr (district agent) made the presentation, referring to Mr. Clifton's long and valuable services to. the Department and his sterling personal qualities. Officers of the Department were present from various localities, among them.being Mr. Robinson (chief clerk of the Department), Mr. Kirk (Director of Orchards and Apiaries), /and' Mr. Boucher (Assistant Director). Messrs. Robinson and Kirk also made reference to their .happy associations with Mr. Clifton, while iv the course of the numerous toasts honoured general regret was expressed -at his departure - and bope that bis stay in America, would be a pleasant one. Mr. Clifton will probably be absent from the Dominion for two years or more. ,