PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14547, 26 December 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor will bold his -ir: : t i< we in Wellington on the 14th .January. Our Wellington. corrc--po:itit in tel< ;',: n ;»lis that later on ho wi;i hui-i l>-vw- in Ch.'fcvchurch, 1)u:t 'im. run; Auckland. Thi- Hun, U lloaton Rlvodcs. Post-mnvtfr-(i''iii nl. will att'nd the Llaisy\c'j <-jii> i-. \vii:c:i art , to bo held on tho iiii.is'.W'il JJ.m.aia to-day. ; i.-jc!-<•< ii-. , :":i i«o;il(-y, Commandant .., . v. , /,..'..,,! i<"'i:-r»?s. -uiivc-'l n Christcliurch on Tuesday, and will stay nM-f Hμ 'Iviiiiiaiiii'iii. jjo t> the gutiit ..j My I', li. i'\i-c. .Sir -Jarris M;l..', managing director of tho I -, '"•IM Sty-am Snip Company, arriv-d from Diref'lin by tho and went by a .-p«;cial launch to Pigeon Bay, where b> will hiiond a brief holiday." Mr J.ri.-.'.-s If. Stovojis, j:!.-,. 'f-ctor of Tost Offices, has decided to retire from th" .Service on .March 31st, and has been granted tj. rr>>. months' leave from ]rf, January. Mr Htov< ns has arranged to t"kp up work cf a, .special nature for a inercant'(! firm. Our Wellington correspondent telegraphs that .Mr Fisher, Prime Minister of tlif Commonwealth, has intimated his intenton of paying a. vir.it to New Zealand shortly. 3lr Speaker Willis, of tho New txiiith Wales Parliament, will also visit New Zealand this summer. Staff Serjeant-Major Colcnian, wh> TV as for many years iii Christchurch, and who is now stationed at Hamilton, and -Mrs Colenian, are on a visit 10 Christchurch. Dr. T. P. I>unhill, of Melbourne, chairman of tho Australian branch of tho Student Christian Union arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning. Dr. l>unbiil will preside at tho Australasian Conference, which, opens at Ilangiora to-morro-w. Arrivals in town yesterday included: —Messrs R. Dick, 11. S. Brown, S. N. Brown, T. .Mercer, E. Stockor, A. W. Wolstiad, F. Waite, C. W. Lucas (I)uncdin), J. G. McGowan, P. C. Pi rani, E. T. Scha<dl, P. G. Morgan, A. A. lioddington, P.. T. Hall I Wellington), R Stcmdale. U. P. Scaly, F. Cordner (Timaru), W. Higgins (U.S.A.), W. N. Ihinsford (Oamaru). A. Crawford (Nelson), E. Hamilton (W.iimate), E. iSeott (T?anffiora), F. Curtis (Ashlmrton), Olaf Thommos{.on (Arendal, Norway), Major Foden (T:mam), and Capt. H. C. Nutsford (Auckland). Dr. Truby Kinc; arrived in Chrifrtchiirch from Wollingtou yesterday ■morning. Each of tho fourt'ecn nurses from tho Christchurch Hospital -who sat for tho final State Examination, was successful in reaching the standard set. They wrrc: —Nurses Grigor, Pine, Metherell, Clmstm.as, Livcsey, FitzGr'bbon, THnnarn. "Washlwnm, Withers, Savago, Milne. Kennedy, WVito and Besw'ck. On the ovo of his marriajro, Mr F. C. Pen fold was presented by tho firm and omr.loye<\<? of W. H. Wee and Sons ■with a handsome oal< caibinet, suitably inpcrib<Kl "and containing a full sot of oiitlo.ry. Mr R. Alkoo. formerlr of Chr'st,chiireh. on tho ocms ; on of sevor'nt: hi« oonnro.tion with the "Gisbome Tinies fr> t"l' rt up {l po?=i +ir >n on tno statt ot tTio "New Zeaijind Times," was presented Ity his feilow-employoos with a si-.lvrr stopwatch as a tol<pn of tno esteem in which he was hold.