Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16812, 19 April 1920, Page 6

Personal Items.

' The Bishop of Xelson lias r(>cci J e f * cablegram from England ie^l u i.„ that Canon .1 olm Dart be sent Ho lecture in behalf of the C o* on Continental Mission Society. , Dart will leave New Zealand m Oto take part in the winter campaign. ! Mr T. G. Lewis, who has fl l r some I time been managing tho Hotel .-.to-e' Wellington, lias purchased the bu>i • Mr Lewis is well known j Canterbury, he having been Town * of Waimntc for about three yea• secretary of the Waimnte Hospital t - mittee for somo time. Mr J. P. Gray, Under-Secretary of External Affairs, will leave for by the Navun on lier next trip, w h-C will be towards the end of the mon Mr Gray is making the trip in connexion with urgent- matters anectin the organisation and classification the Samoan Public Service and en i control. i The Hon. E. P. Lee, in addition to the portfolio of Justice, was allotted at a meeting of Cabinet on Saturday mn ril ~ inp; the control of the Department.ol External Affairs. Tho duties of tho External Affairs Department are at present : concerned with tho administration ot 1 Samoa. 1 Mr Frederick Smith is now chairman ! of directors of J. C. Williamson, Ltd. i For some rears, past Mr Smith, who is ! tho head of a leading Sydney firm ot accountants and auditors, lias_been a director of West's Pictures. He has, moreover, been confidential, financial adviser to Sir Samuel Hordern (head or ; Anthony Hordern and Co.) for over a decado past. Mr H. H. Ostler, formerly Crown Prosecutor in Wellington, and for some years past in legal practico in Auckland, proposes to leave shortly for Africa, to undertake a big-game hunting expedition in Northern Rhodesia and tho Victoria Nyanza country with Mr F. E. Mackenzie, another barrister of Auckland, and formerly a student at Victoria College. The party will land at Cape Town, and proceed by the CapeCairo railway to its terminus in Northern Rhodesia. The Rev. A. Thornhill, 31.A., -who has been appointed minister to the Unitarian Chxtrch, Auckland, has a distinguished scholastic career. Starting life as a journalist, ho gained the university national scholarship for studies and essay on "Federalism." Hp entered Cambridge University in IS9B, and graduated B.A. in 1902. He then went to Manchester College, Oxford, where he completed his theology with honours, taking the Russell-Martineau prize in Hebrew in 1905. He obtained his 31.A., C'antab., the same year. 3lr | Thornhill is the author of several wellI known theological works.

A London message says a knighthood | of the order of tho British Empire has I been conferred on Paymaster-In-Chief I Hamnet H. Share, C.8., Lord Jellicoe's : secretary. Sir Hamnot Holditch Share, R.N., K.8.E., C.8., Paymaster-in-Chief (ranking as Captain), who is now in his fifty-sixth year, is ono of the rami distinguished members of the accountancy branch of the Royal Navy. He entered the Navy in 1880, and served in H.M.S. Tourmaline in a detached squadron, which in 1880-82 visited South America, South Africa, Ans- ■ tralia, Pacific Islands, Japan, China, i and the Mediterranean, and during the Egyptian "War, ISS2. and the occupation of the Suez Canal, for -which he received the Egypt medal and tho Khedive's bronze star. He served on the East Indies Station, 1882-84; Senior Naval Officer's Ship at Madagascar during French occupation, 1883-S4; in FT.M.S. Eurvalus, flagship East Indies. 1884-85; J-I.M. ships Minotaur and Xortlrum'berland, flagships Channel Squadron, 1886-88; H.M.S. Raleigh, flagship Cape of Good Hope and African Station, 1888-92; Roval yacht Victoria and Albert, 1892-95; Royal •yacht Osborne, 1895-99; ho was secretary to Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station, 1899-1900. and Commander-in-Chief, Australian Station. 1901.-3; Private Secretary to Admiral Sir Harry Rnv.son ; Governor of New South Wales, T9U3-4; to Lord Northcote. GovovnorGen oral of Australia, 1904-8: Secretary to Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. in command of Atlantic Fleet, 1911. anad second battle squadron 1912, and as Commander-in-Chief of Grand Fleet, 1914-16. after which he was Additional Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord. Sir Hamnet. Share was present in Lord Jellicoe's flagship. Iron Duke, at the Battle of Jutland, and received the 0.T3. for his services. He is also the possessor of the Order of St. Anno of Russia, and Order of Rising Sun, Japan, and is an officer of the Legion of Honour, France. He accompanied Lord Jellicoe as secretary during his visit to New Zealand 4'st year. j