PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14908, 5 March 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., was W*M"» suddenly ill yesterday morning. Mr T. K.'Sidey, M.P. (Dunedin) •*>' rived in Christchurch last night. Mr R. McK. McLennan return-*"! from Wellington by the Maori yesterday morning. Dr. Hawke Dickesson and Dr. Leite& were passengers for the North by I*** night's ferry steamer. Mr S. F. Whitcombe (Wellinfitorf was an arrival in Christchnrch J*"* evening. Mr J. B. Clarkson. who retun»<j from a visit to Canada and tbe übim» States by tho Tahiti, arrived in yd™***" church yesterday morning. Air J. Duncan, Acting-Director « the Fields Division of the DepartmMt of Acrcuiture, returned from tc»* South by the first express yesterday^ Mr Manning Lewis, c° m nW«**} superintendent of tho Port of. BrMW"; Docks Committee, will be visiting *££ teltou shortly. All Lewis will bo *T;

companied by Mr Riscley, also of the West of England. Arrival* in town include Messrs J. F. Buchanan (Sydney) E. W Cause (Sydney) J. H. B*)yd (Canada), .. B. Lister (Dunston-on-Tync'), nnd Blonstcin Melbourne), and Dr. Lilian Cooper (Brisbane- and Dr. »v. N. Robertson (Brisbane). Mr A. Cowles. 8.A.. oi the Wellington Training College. has been appointed to succeed Mr A. N. Burns. MA- as headmaster of iho Carterton District High School. Mr Burns was recently appointed headmaster of the Hutt High School. In the first list of stations presented to the Wesleyan Conference yesterday at Dunedin. the Rev. P. W. F.urrloug'i (Whose astronomical articles in "The Press" are well known to our readers) transferrer) from Dunedin to Kaiapoi. Mr J. Young, curator of the Christchnrch Domain, will on the 19th inst. on n visit to Kngland. It is proposed by the leading horticulturists of Christchnrch and the surrounding districts to entertain Mr Young nt a farewell gathering, and arrangements sr» now being made with that object ia view. Pr. Frank Norman Hitchcock, M.R-C.S.. L-R-C.P.. has accept ed the 'position of medical officer to the Whangamomona Medical Association. Dr Hitchcock has high credentials, and has practise! in lrclnn-1. in addition to holding offices in St. Thomas's Hospital nnd the Royal Lar Hospital, London. He is thirty years ot age, and married. The Rot. W. H. Orbell. of St. .John's Cl.tifch. Woolston. who is to be vicar of St. Paul*-", Papanui. was farewollcd by his parishioner* on Tuesday evening. The chairman (.Mr James Scott) presented Mr Orbell with a g-ld chain, and Mrs Scott handed Mrs Orbell a silver teapot, cream jug and basin. Mr J. J Graham, Mayor of Monlston. ex•'tressed his appreciation of the valuable Services Mr Orbell had rendered the Church and the district in the cause cf charity and sickness. Sir Emo.<i Shnckleton has invited Sir Daniel Gooch", of Hyland:*, Chelmsford, to accompany him on the Antarctic expedition which he is now organising. Sir Daniel, who "in* not yet given a decisis answer (writes our London corrMpondent). but who will probably decide to go. V" the third baronet. And is in the 43th y«*»r of his age. He has travelled round the world, but he has never been to Polar regions. Thp first baronet., Sir Daniel Gooch. wns the eminent engineer, and it was for hi* work in connexion with the laying of ihe two Atlantic cables of 186"o (*f> that Jif was created a baronet in 186o\ The present baronet is the jrrandson; he «a« married in 1896. and has two sens ant* two daughters. He succeeded liis fathftr. Sir Henry Gooch, in ISO/.