PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14408, 16 July 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Consequent, upon his Ministerial duties, tbo Hon. James Allen will not offer himself for re-election as Chancellor of tho University (telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent). Ho will also resign from tho University Senate and his office as Colonel of the Coast Defence Forces,

Dr. and Mrs "Wahlmaun, Dr. Allison, Mr and Mrs C. G. Dalgety, Messrs T. Danks and A. E. Craddock, were passengers by the Mararoa for Wellington last night.

31 r P. Solig left for tho north by the Mararoa last night. Lieut. W. A. Bum of the New Zealand Stnff Corps, leaves for England on the Bth pros, by the lonic, to undergo training with the British Army. Visitors to town include: —Messrs .W. J. Melville, A. W- Scott, W, ]>. jßevell, -R. Wigley (Timaru), J. I>. Lynch (Greymouth., L. D. Allen, D. H. Phillips, and J. Ross (Dunedin), Mrs Mowbray Tripp and Miss Barker (Woodbury), C. O- T, Rutherford (The Peaks), H. V. Vickers (Wellington), and H. W. Evans (Reefton). At tho Dniids' Hall, last evening a presentation in the shape of a roll-top desk, with a plate suitably inscribed, was mad'a to Mr G. T. Batley, secretary of the Mistletoe Lodge and late Grand President of tho Canterbury, Grand Lodeo U.A.O.D. Bro- Burgess, prosent Grand.President, who made tho presentation, reviewed the career of the guest of the evening n»s a Druid, and proposed his health. The other toasts honoured were those of "The King" and "The Druids." Mr Batley mad© a suitablo response During the evening a number of musical items were givan.

Mr E. 7 Cutten, town olerk of Temuka. has been compelled to a6k for four months' leave of absence, or in tho alternative to offer to resign, on account of ill-health. Tho. Borough Council, at a special meeting, decided to grant Mr Cutten four months' leave, on condition that he pays a substitute from his salary.