Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17058, 1 February 1921, Page 6

Personal Items.

Mr Fred. F. C. Cowper, who mgj with a pninful accident eight we«ks ago. left Lyndlmrst Hospital laat and is now at Rhodes Convalescent Home, Cashmere Hills. , ,

The following appointments totha staff of the School of Engineering were made at yesterday's meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Cql, lege:—Mr D. H. Lea. B.A. (professor's demonstrator), Mr T. Shaw .{junior demonstrator in electrical engineering) and Mr S. E. Miles (mechanic). '

The vicar of Knngiora, the ReV, p Kendall, has accepted the cure of Glen, mark parish, which will shortly become vacant by the retirement of the Rot. Canon Purchas. Mr Kendall has beea in Uangioru for over 25) yeirs. He will not bo leaving Rr.ngiora till the end of March.

In reply to the invitation given to Kield-Marshal Lord Haig to visit New Zealand afier the Returned Soldiers' Conference in South Africa, the Prime Minister has received the following cablegram : —"Much touched by vonr invitation; regret unable to visit Zealand at present.—Haig.'' , A "Wellington telegram states thtfc Mr F. V. Frazer, late Assistant Public Service Commissioner, was yesterday sworn in by the Chief Justice as Judge of the Arbitration Court. He will lew* for Auckland to-morrow to preside'at the sittings of the Arbitration Court in that city. ■ l .

At- the conclusion of the business a( the annual meeting last night of' the Royal Chnstchurch Musical Society, the conductor, I>r. J. C. Bradshatr, presented Mr 11. Antill Adlcv with % framed photograph of the perfonnera and of the stage at the Society's per. formnnce of "Elijah'' last year, in ro» cognition of Mr Adley having "aone hit lit.tla bit" for the Society. A similar presentation was lhnde to (Mr W. H. Jenkin, tho Society's honorary tre*. surer.

The report of the committee of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, presented at tho annual meeting last night, contained the following pantgraph —"The Society mourns the lon during the year of its esteemed president. Mr Albert Kaye. The deceased gentleman-was a great and true friend of the Society, and but for him the. Society would not have lived through the years of stress and financial dim- , culty that threatened its existence. We understand that Mr Kaye remembered | the Society in his bequestß." The chair--man (Mr H. Antill Adley), in moving :;, the adoption of the report, expressed ■ ' the Society's deep regret at the loss of [ one who had been such a keen • «upporter of the Society (is Mr Kaye. V The members of the "Weekly Press" • companionship and the literal? staff met "round the stone" yesterday afternoon to say good-bye to Mr F. Gottriay, who, is severing hi 3 connexion with "The Press" office to take up farming in Tauranga. Mr P. Sprosen, Father of the Chapel, said that Mr Gourlay'a #j( fellow-workers regretted his departure, and wished him every success in his new i venture. He then asked Mr F, J. Board (printer of "The Press") to pre- : sent Mr Gourlay with a travelling oag as a memento from the employees of ; the office. Mr Board said that Mr - ? Gourlay had been connected with the ■ Press Office for forty years. _ during winch time ho had been a faithful j and conscientious worker. Mr A. H. ~> Brjeted, on behalf of the literary staff, y; also wished Mr Gourlay every success | and lohg life, after which Mr Gourlay ■! thanked those present for their kind v wishes both for himself and Mm Gourlay. \ . Our Dunedin correspondent telfli -| graphs that the late Mr Ueorge Daft s rell, whose death was reported Sydney on Sunday, began life in edin as the manager of Mr Henry Wise's bookshop. Afterwards ho came fpr a while manager _ of. the..-.,' "Evening Star." His ro«i name was 1 George Frecferick Price. • He had a passion for the stage, and occasionally appeared in«public. Mr and Mrs. Robert Heir, then famous on the stage, came to New Zealand, landing at the Blnff. | Mr Heir died at the Bluff, and was \ buried there. His widow married Mr | Price. He assumed the stage name of -»? Darrell, and, coached by his wife, took to acting professionally. Their first : joint appearance was at the Princess ;; Theatre in August, of 1870, when the : bill consisted ofHSe 'comediettft. "Deli- J cat/5 Ground," and variety. In 1875 ; the Darrells played "Borneo atid . Juliet," and from thence on prt- - duced many standard works.. 'The ; Sunny South," one of Mr Darren s own writings, was given to the public ltt " 18S6. Mr Darrell was twioe married. His secon-i wife was Miss OrißSie Peachy, and of this marriage a sOtt was ■ born, and he is now on the stage. The deceased's last visit to Duhedin Was in March, 1897, when the repertoire consisted of '"l Tie Queen of Coolgardie," "The borrows of Satan," "From Scot* land Yard," 'Trilby," and "The Crim- ■ son Thead." "j.