PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14275, 10 February 1912, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

- Hia Honour Mr Justice Denniston (returned "to Christchurch from Wel- • lingfcon yesterday. ■Professor A. P. W. Thomas, of • Auckland, arrived in Christchuroh yesterday. Arrivals in town yesterday included i Messrs E. E. Ie Lievre (Akaroa), "VV. , P. Faithfull, P. Lavender, L. Henrjquo, C. F. Thompson (Sydney), . T."E. T. Upton (Calcutta), H. D. Van Brunt (.Now York), G. A. Greenwood (.Ashburtan), A. w. Pan! '". fforquay), W A. Hudson, Q. W. . l 5- °- Austin (Wellington), /? lU M m ? A - E - Whittaker aoddaad), A.. Kelly (Melbourne), and ■K. Kahn (Pans). . . Mr P. Hubert Chamberlain, the first .engineer of the Ohristchurch tramways, who returned from America about two years ago to take charge, •s engineer, of the WeetporfrStockton ■ Company s mine, has decided to retarn, to America, having accepted the position of general superintendent of a new coal company, the mines cf whjch are situated in the heart of tho .mthracite region of Pennsylvania. 1 T,i«t r A \ R ;,?. lank ' second. assistantBiaster_at Addmgton school, who has oeen appointed master of the RoU?s--fS LSO^ 001 the recipient of a gift trom the Addington school staff yes- - " i ? akl ?P c ! i th ° S»»Uont""work done by ~ JL iff "J , - and - t0 . the « reafc Merest bft had tauoa in the singing and in the a lh lehc pursuits of the boys, espo- ' ~ S n f r M a handsomo . S, f ?? ldi V fllth 3 works, and tho pupils of his class gave him a shaving - Afternoon tea was provided by ' aDd ° cour w^ *-' deiJ'SS? GoraMiho resi- , .rtfints met at the Goraldihe ■ Hotel on Sβ ta v ov , er^ ho Oxford Hotel. • ' the ffi ' £" J * occupied S?A Pr Mr 3lullan with a " toil f ifff* a^ d , a purse of sovereigns, M '-' *° ?*" leavia e for »uWin to

j pursue his medical Btu ies, a number Jof Jdr J. A. iictiiuaou's friends ■| him, on Wednesaav evening, to wish. I him "bou voyage. Tno chairman, Mr Cuesseniatij presented Mr Mc- ; Kinnon with a parse of sovereign-:, ! subscribed by persons who had business dealings -with him while he was a member of the Customs Department. Mr G. A. Lewin, Town Clerk of Dunedin, returned South by the Uiima.oa yesterday. Mr J. L. Vv right left for Bluff by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Dr. Baker left for Hobart by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Mes&rs C. W. Hanford, J. Nison, H. Ayers, and Dr. J. I. Scott were pas=er;:;ers for Melbourne by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Captain J. B. Rainey, marine super intendent in Xcw Zealand for the Tyser Line, returned to Wellington by the Mararoa last night. Dr. and Mrs Hector and.. Mr W. 11. Joynt loft for Wellington by the Mararoa last night. The Rev. Father Fay, of Temuka. is leaving the district, and will be replaced by Father Kerley, of Hastings, who is well-known in South Canterbury. Archbishop Wright, Primate of Aus-t-alia, arrived in Cnriscchurch by the : Ulimaroa yesterday morning, .ttis Grace is on a visit to the Dominion for tho : benefit of his health, and informed a representative of this journal that already ho felt much benefited. liis Grace also remarked that he was chamed with the fcenpry of New Zealand. Archbishop Wright leaves to-day for Dunedin, en route for the Cold i Lakes district. Tho Rnv. W. W. vicar of St. Luke's, returned to Christchuroh yesterday, after a year's absence in tho 01 rVnntry. Mr .J. W. Gannawny, local telegraph. ' eiifrineer, yesterday completed forty-two J years' service with tho Post and Telo- | graph Department, and retires on pension at th» conclusion of three months' losive of absence. Mr Gannnway joined ! tho service in Auckland, and has been stationed in Christchurch for tho past thirteen years. Until his successor is appointed, the Department's telegraph ongineor at Dunedin will combine Mr Gnnnawny'a duties with his own. Mr Leo do Chateau arrived in Christ- : church yesterday to make arrangements for the season of tho Ethel Irving Company. Juilge MacCorTnick, of the Native Land Court, whose appointment as .Judge of tho High Court of the Cook Islands was gazetted yesterday, left by the Aorangi yesterday for Rarotonga, to preside at the trial of a native on a of murder.. Detpctive-Sergeant Meliveney eoes to the Islands in connection with the same case.