PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 13936, 9 January 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

_.' ' R 'Slit Hon. the Primo Minister Jofioph Ward )- Lady Ward, Miss K.r 1 *" w «rt. Messrs Gladstone and ; "'S_t Ward and Me6sra Hislop and Mat ' (private secretaries) arrived from g'f■ "«* South by the tccond express on '•R_'Sl tcJa -T ""S ht » and went on to Weii~ ifi; y the Maori thc samo eTen " r___?_i'^ on * ■ Thos - Mackenzie leaves 'Jf.-'MT^;" for Wellington to-day. Mg?if**}*>r<]ship Bishop Cleary, "accom-

punied by the Rev. Monaeigneur 3lackay, left for Wellington by the Maori on Saturday night.

The Hon. W. A. Holman arrived from Wellington by the Maori on Saturday morning.

Dr. Hardwick Smith was a passenger from Wellington by the Maori on Saturday.

The Rev. P. M. Lynch, the Rev. J. Simpson, M>.\s3rs C. E. Major. F. C Archer, C N. Baoyertz. Neil McLean, C. F. Harrison, M. C Cossar, W. SomerviHc, D. Ross, and 11. F. Noes, and Mr and Mrs Geo. Aitken arrived from Wellington by the Maori on Saturday.

Tho Hon. C. I.ouisson, M.L.C., Mr and -Mrs F. G. Dalziell, Messrs JH. C. Bond (Trafiic Manager for the Union S.S. Co.). A. Kaye, Martin Kennedy, ('. L. Chaffey and McMurrich (.Superintendent Engineer for the Union S.S, Co.). left for Wellington by the Maori on Saturday night. Arrivals in town on Saturday and yesterday included :— Messrs Ceo. Graiohen 'l.eipsig), Foulrmande (Wellington), S. Howarth (Wellington). .1. A. Parker (Bradford), H. Hull, W. Sinclair (Sydney). F. W. V.'heatlev (Rockhamptonj. E. .1. P. Dennv, P. B. Whitty (Motueka), D. S. Hewett (Auckland,', H. Mackevarrie, Murray, Thomson (Wellington), J. Speak (Wellington), H. A. Vathavcs (llawera), O. Seminars (Wellington). T>. Laycock (Wellington), jl.r»'A, Ai'Matuhr.une (San Francisco), Mrs A. Derne (California), Mr and Mr.-; Claude H. Weston (New Plymouth), Messrs C. Connor (Wanganui), W. D. Lawrence. Robert Boyd "(Melbourne), J. Lusk (Dimedin), F. Davies (Wellington), Arthur J. George (Wellington), P. Wirth (Melbourne), P. Warburton (Wellington), Paul Lcblane (France), Lucien Nopcnairc (France), Louis Da Costa (Madrid), Frank R. Pratt (Boston), Alex. Paul (Wellington), R. G. Guy (Wellington), Geo. Prevost (Adelaide). Jas. AVilke.. (Bradford). J. Hamilton (London), .Air and Mrs Henry Berry (Auckland), Messrs Arthur H. Simpson (England), B. 0. Jacobs (Leestoin, Ronald Watt (Melbourne), C. G. H. Winscr (Darmstadt), G. Donald (Boston), F. Leitch (Dunedin), Mrs Gilbert Wilson (Brisbane), Mrs Arthur Fee/, and party (Brisbane).

Mr J. Orchiston lias been appointed Engineer-iu-C .lief of tho Telegraph Department on the retirement of Mr J. K. Logan, Superintendent of Electric Lines. He was formerly in Auckland, and seventeen years ago,*on Mr Logan's appointment, he succeeded him as Inspector of Telegraphs at Dunedin. Mr Orchiston was born in Aberdeen in 1857, and arrived in New Zealand with his parents in 1862. In 1874 he joined the telegraph service as a cadet, and was promoted in the same year to the charge Of the Hawera station. In 1877 he was promoted to the construction branch at Wellington, and subsequently became .Sub-Inspector of Telegraphs for Wellington District. He was afterwards transferred to Auckland and then to Dunedin.

In tho .bowling house of the Sydenham Bowling Clus on Thursday evening last, Mr Frank Ayling, lately honorary secretary to the club, was presented by Mr J. M. Mitchell, tho president, on behalf of the club, with a ptirso of sovereigns and a gold bangle for Mrs Ayling. Mr Ayling has been a member of the club for eight years, during four of which he acted as honorary secretary. M Mitchell expressed the regret of the club at losing Mr Ayling's services, and wished him every success in his new sphere. Other members also spoke. Mr Ayling, in reply, thanked the members for their kindness and for the consideration he had at all times received from them. Mr Ayling leaves Christchurch this week to fill an important appointment in Invercargill. Mr John Hodge, a Labour member of the British Parliament, will deliver an address in Dunedin at the end of the month.

Mr James Kerrigan, the Government veterinary surgeon for Southland, left yesterday for' Melbourne. While in Australia, Mr Kerrigan will take Ihe opportunity of enquiring into the methods in operation. in the different States in relation to the system of meat inspection, the examination of stallions for hereditary unsoundness, and the inspection, oi stock generally. The employees of the Dresden Piano Company assembled on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of making a presentation to Miss Helen Ada Gorton (who has been for some time past a member of the staff) on the occasion of her approaching marriage. The presentation, which was made by Mr R. A. Home, manager, on behalf of the employees, consisted of a handsome set of table cutlery, and also a set of dessert, tea, and table spoons. Mr A. Cook, who has been relieving manager of the Ashburton branch ot the Bank of New Zealand, and left on Saturday for Cambridge, was made the recipient of a present from the Banks' and Professions' Morris-tube Club. He was also the recipient of a souvenir from the staff of the Ashburton branch of the Bank. , Mr W. H. Woods, of Ashburton, has received notice that he has passed tho first section of the law examination. Mr F. Clayton, who for about four years had been connected • with the machine-room stnff at the Ashburton "Mail" and 'Guardian," was on Saturday the recipient of a presentation from his fellow workers prior to his leaving for Christchuch. Among the passengers by the R.M.S. Osterley, which arrived at Fremantle recently from England, were Mr Alexander Sass and Sir Norman Lindsay, artists. In an interview, Mr Lindsay said England, in his opinion, was no place for a man who wanted to make an artistic name for himself, at least as far as journalism was concerned. He was satisfied ho could make more morev in Australia. That was one reason he had come backj also because he liked the climate better. English black-and-white work had deteriorated, though "Punch" was creating a school of its own. Mr Sass also said that ho would be glad to get to work. Ho would sooner live in Australia at £100 a year than in London on £1000. The artistic work of London was good, but, from a journalistic point of view, a man Was too cheap.