PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14344, 2 May 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr and Mrs Hugo Fricdlandcr- Mi**";--* * Friedlander, and Mr E. W- ' left for Wellington last night on ts&} ■"' , way to England and Europe. * . ' v -l Mr and 'Mrs Norton Francis (W***,» .71 mate) left for "Wellington last flight to' ■':,! join tho Ile-muera for London. v . ,! Tbo Rev. Mr Butler, 31r A. Kaye>' '* and Mr W. G. iSnuth wore par_eii-t?*j- .7 by the Mararoa for We_ingtott-'i»w.' : v night. -.--.■■ ~ 'j ,, -i Colonel Harkness left for Auckland- '-- j by tho Tarawcra yesterday. " ■ ■ < ■ Mr G. W. Forbes, JI.P., *v_o ***«« aj ,"*•*' Hanmer yesterday, came to town »*■.•"■ ■ _,i night, and proceeds to open tha LoOHro. y Coronation Hall this evening. • "*. V Mr McCallum, M.P. for Wttixao. $"*-;,"; was at Hanmer yesterday with Mra J" s *;- . Callura, is to arrive in town this owning, aud go on by the steamer *l-*-wcJ-- •" lington. \ -*••■» .' At the Kaiapoi woollen Tflul < 08 , Tuesday, Mr J. Hartshorn *r« pre*" - scnted by his fellow-employe_s »t»> -' gold watch, on leaving the -nill t© «*•" - business in Wellington. Mr **Y.*v" V Leithead made the presentation, was suitably acknowledged. - " -' Dr. Gow returned from Wc!lingtO» ~ by tho Mararoa yesterday mornin-'.. * , At the annual meeting of pansli-* . ioners, he'd on Tburwlay last.*** - - Heatheote Valley, .Miss ,' has been superintendent of St. M 3"7*»,. Sunday School for .some years. *ffS»' * presented by the vicar, on behalf *** the children's parents and teach**** £■,''■ * i the school, with a sUvcr-raounted mv< -,y ror and jewel-cose, as, a slight token _,--_ their regard. The Rev. Mr ferred to tho good work done by x**f, r . Perkins, and expressed the .n.-!a w**-,. •* sho would soon bo able te join in *#$% Sunday School work again. J£*'£ Mr Cuthbcrt Ea.st, of staff of the "Lyttelton Times, has appointed editor of the 1-inaru **%<&s W A. E. Schoeffel, of Fiji, and WML. A. Wilson, of London, aro in to*fc_j_M Visitors to Christchurch W T . Dive, A. Hempton (TO^fl^Sgffln

-. —** ■ ■ , if*. H. Dieke, W. J. Treadwell, J.. '-' vc-iilcutt, and David Tott (Dunedin), a- HbMv (Rakaia), M. Russell (Wau£"_m». J. M. Nott, and H. P. Mac- ' Pougai* (Wellington), and C. R. Greenwood (Amberley). The Prime .Minister lett Wellington ', i- s ( night by the Maori ior Lyttelton. • Pa Goe"*. on ■'* Oamaru by the second fgarlsi- "° attend a social to the Hon. *-*■). Duncan. Lieutenant li. G. R- G. Evans, R-N., - t j, c British Antarctic Expedition, is "making » S O --' recovery from the bad Ltack ot Scurvy contracted by him in X. Far .*-outh* Lieutenant and -Mrs Evans and Mr Francis Drake. R-.N'.. to tho expedition, will leave TTttoiton 10-day by the Moeraki for sydney, whero" they will join the (irc-ntr* for Europe and London, lieutenant Evans ar.d Mr Drake are rova" i*) Engi 9l "* ou business connected witlAhe expedition, and will return to jytl>>lton in time to go .South with the j" rra Nova, to relieve Captain Scott and the odicr member-, of tho shore Alfred Chectham, third mate and beats-rain of the Terra Nova, and A*vlr T L. f'li*-sold. who was conk for the inaia"'•hire party at Captain Scott's base, and who returned by the terra "*• Vdvji l"*>t month, loft by tho .Mararoa last'night for Wellington, to join the R*,muera, which sails to-day for London Mr Chectham, who is going home an urgent private business, will return in Lyttelton to rejoin hi s ship in Sap"emter. The other officer*- and mem-ij-TS of the crew of tho Terra Nova ■sho have been on leave returned to the «'ih) on Tuesday. Captain F. B. Head, tho well-known VlpiOOi'-climber and explorer, who had Li-ncled to spend about a year in New .Zeal-UK", has been obliged to return to EBjrltmd, and will leave to-day by the P-mucra Wo res-ret very much to ktm that Captain Head has received itiformation that his brother. Mr Chns■tophet Head, who was a well-known Lloyd's underwriter in London, was jraorif- the pa-sengen- lost m tho Tl ft C staff of the Labour "Department '-.Mc farewell to tho Hon. J. A. -Millar, tho late Minister ot Labour, yesterday afternoon'- (says a message, from Wolnnd presented him with an illuminated address, subsenjed to by every officer of tho . Department throughout the Dominion. Mr J. Lomas, Secretary for Labour, made the presentation." The Hon. G. Laurenson, tho present Minister of Labour, said ho was sure the workers of New Zea- • land had no more loyal friendl than Mr Millar. In reply, 3lr Millar heartily tanked the staff, for the Potation, and spoke appreciatively of the manner , in which he had been supported by his officers. . J