Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17610, 13 November 1922, Page 6

Personal Items.

His Excellency the Governor-Gener and Lady Jellicoo attended the armistice service at the Cathedral on Saturday morning and the 11 a.m. rervioe yesterday. Lady Jellicoe attended the C.J.C. Meeting at Ricc»rton on Saturday afternoon. This afternoon Bia Excellency will play in a cricket match atHagloy Park nnd their Excellencies will nttend tho Victoria and Navy leagues' function this evening. Owing to the suspension of the ferry service, his Excellency the GovernorGeneral is compelled to take the opportunity of returning to Wellington by H.M.S. Chatham, leaving Lyttelton to-morrow, and will therefore be unable to fulfil his engagements in Christchurch on and after to-morrow. Her Excellency will fulfil such of their engagements as she is able on his Excellency's behalf. Mr W. H. Woodward. Crown Solicitor, of Samoa, has arrived on a holiday visit to New Zealand. . Mr S. F. Barnett, who has been on a visit to Australia, returned on Friday. Mr A. C. Craddock, of tho Masterton Post Office 6taff, is under transfer to Christchureh Mr M. Thompson has forwarded his resignation as a member of the Bluff Harbour Board, on account of his haying decided to settle permanently in Timaru. Mr Laurie Quinn, representative for the British and Continental Film Co., Ltd., has taken over the management of Everybody's Picture Theatre, .Auckland. Mr Quinn has recently arrived from Melbourne. Dr Augusta Manoy, M.8., Ch.B., of Motueka, has been appointed by the Hospital Board to the position of House Surgeon at the Southland Hospital. There were thirteen applications for the appointment. The Rev. J. A. Shardlow, M.A., of Yorkshire, was a passenger by the Makura from. Vancouver. He has been appointed minister in charge of the Anglican parochial district of Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. The Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister of Agriculture, returned to Ashburton from Christchureh, on Saturday afternoon. He will open his election campaign with an address to the electors in the Ashburton Theatre Royal tomorrow night. Messrs G. W. Mills (Sydney), J. H. Milk (Wellington), W. L. Hunter (Melbourne), H. Hortlang (Wellington), S. J. Hill (Wellington) and the Rev. Wyndham S. Heauicote (Wellington) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Among the guests at the United Servioe Hotel are Messrs J. Harrison Jones (Dunedin), J. Robertson (Wellington), H. Gooch (Wellington), L. A. Brown (Tarakohe), J. W. Toplis (Sydney), C. G. Poole (Detroit. U.S.A.), and Harry Thurston (England). Mr Harry G. Musgrove, head of tho First National Exhibitors' picture organisation in Australia, has received n cable message from America, stating that Mr J. D. Williams, well known as the pioneer of the moving picture industry m Australia, has resigned his position as president of the First National Exhibitors' circuit, and has been succeeded by Mr Richard A. Roland, of the Metro Pictures Corppration. Mr Laurence Johnstone, who is to Contest the Tauranga seat againßt Sir William Herries in the Liberal interests, came from the Shetland Islands 44 years ago with his father, who Was the first schoolmaster at Mauriceville. in the Wairarapa. Mr Johnstone has had a varied experience of colonial life as a worker in the country, and later at flaxmilling, storekeeping and farming. He has taken a keen interest in co-operative agricultural banks, and acted as financial editor of the "Country," published in Auckland by the New Zealand Farmers' Union. A personally conducted party of English tourists, Mr and Mrs E. N. Waugn, the Misses Corsar and Rook, arrived at Auckland on Thursday by the Makura. Mr S. Ruddock, who represents a well-known London shipping agency, is in charge of the party, and under his guidance all the principal beauty spots of the Dominion will be visited. The party will start for Rotorua this week, and after visiting Wairakei and Taupo will motor from Tokaanu to Waimarino, thence proceeding to Wellington, Nelson, the West Coast, and the Cold Lakes District. The visitors will return to England early in the New Year. In an interval in the proceedings of the Anglican Synod at Dunedin on Friday eVeningj Archdeacon Fitchett made a presentation of a pastoral staff to Bishop Richards. Archdeacon Fitchefct said that it Was recognised how arduous the bishop's duties were, in such a large diocese. The pastoral staff symbolised various things, such, for instance, t.s the leading of people into the fold and the driving away of "damnable heresies." It also symbolised the weight of office of his Lordship, and would assist him in carrying out his responsible position. Bishop Richards Said' that the presentation "had come as a complete surprise to him. He recognised the tremendous burdens of office, but he assured members of Synod that those burdens had been made much lighter by the brotherly assistance always accorded him. The staff would be most useful for its purposes, and he valued it highly, particularly as it had come from Bishopgrove.