PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14988, 8 June 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Captain Bono Marine' Superintend dont ot tho Now Zealand Smpokft Com pji.y, returned f:oiu \V {,? t v* .ii.turi yesterday inorung. • Major Macdonalo, oi New Zealand Stalf Corps, has beet; appointed general stair oiheer lor the Mili tarv Dis-t.ict in su cession to Major J D. Grant, V.C., of the Imperial Gene* ral Staff, who is returniiij; to Er.gland The following wirdess message w»« received by General Gotllev on Friday afterroon from General Sir lan Hamit'" ton. Inspector-General of fh e Oversiw Force*, who left Wellington by tj£ R.M.S. Eiiahine on Timr-day nipht for London:—'-General Godley.' Wellirc ton. Kowlino; gale. All serene. Goodbye. Lan Hamilton." It ie oSicially announced tW 3'r G. B. Bullock, who has beea Dunedin manager for the New Zealand Shipping Company since 1899 is to bo transferred to Wellington, vice the lat* Mr Burnes. Mr Neil Galbraiti accountant at Wellington, becomei manager at Invorearmll. Mr R. lop, the pro«ent manager at IljTercargill, takes Mr Bullock's place at Dunedin. - A larjre_ gathering representing the licensed victuallers of Wellington assemble! at the Empire Hotel on Thttrsciny afternoon to say au revoir to Mr Jn-Mi Beveridso. late president'of the Wellington Licensed Victuallers' Association, who is leaving Wellington for ( hribtc! nrch. Mr J. H. Fairbairn, president of the Association, presided! On behalf of the licensed victuallers of Wellington. Mr H. J. Williams, socretiiry of the Association, asked Mr Beveridge'e acceptance of a handsomelymounted and executed illuminated addreis, and a presentation for Mrs Bevericlgo. The healths of Mr and Mrs Boveridge were enthusiastically toasted. Under date May Ist, our London correspondent writes:— Dr. L. Bruce Stringer (Chrietchurch), of Guy's Hospital, has gone for a voyage to Japan. Air E. A. 0. Craigie (Timaru). who has come to England as ft medical student, hae decided to take his course ia Edinburgh, lie is in London at present. Dr. William Robinson. M.8., B.S. . (Christchurch), will for tho next three mouths b© tho Senior Physician at Guy's and "President of tho Residents." During the summer he con. templates some genera) practice, and in the autumn ho will eit for the final of the F.R.C.S. examination. Now Zealand icedical men who hare recently been on the staff at Guv's Hospital lmvo included: Dr. J. F. 6. Richards, of Wellington (house physician),' Dr. A. B. Danby. Wellington, (Obstetric Resident Surgeon), Dr. C. A. Gould (an officer in tho Out-Patient Department), and Dr. Bovan Brown (Assistant House-Surgeon). The Rev. G. T. Brown, M.A., an old student of Otago University, who has been studying for the ministry of tho Presbyterian Church at the United Free Church Collcgo at Glasgow, has completed his course and sailed on Saturday for Canada. Ho will spend the summer months in one of tho Homo Mission stations in the Dominion and then proceed to New Zealand, where he should arrive iv November.

Another graduate of the same college, tho Rev. Hector Maclean,.M.A., M.Sc., aleo a former student of Otago University, is going next wiuter to Berlin University to prosecute his studies. Ho is making a special etudy of Hebrew and cognate languages and will probably return to New Zealand in the middle of 1015.

Two Now Zoalanders are among- the latest candidates who have passed the necessary examinations of tho Royal Collegj of Physicians for the degree of L.R.C.P. They are; John Eboncser Kelly Brown. University of New, Zealand and London Hospital; and Hugh. Lawrence Widdowson, University of New .Zealand. . ;