Personal Items.
Mr L. TT. Harley, of Rangiora, has been appointed secretary to the North Canterbury and Oxford Jockey Club. Messrs G. A. Milliken (Dunedin) and B. Macfarlane (Sydney) are staying at the United Service Hotel.
Messrs H. E. Jeffreys (Wellington), J. E. Learning (Auckland), W. Murray (Sydney), and H. Burrows (Sydney) are staying at "Warner's Hotel. Messrs Rayner Bell (Dunedin) and B. N. Murray (Mackenzie Country) are among the guests at the Clarendon Hotel.
Mr Ove Lnnn, Consul-Goneral fdr Denmark in Australia and New Zealand, who went south on Thursday, is expected back in Christchurch to-night. Dr. J. W. Mcßrearty and Mr F. H. Kilgour, of Greymouth, who have been on a holiday visit to Christchurch, leave to-day on their roturn to the Coast.
At the session of the Methodist Annual Conference yesterday, a welcome was accorded to the Rev. A. H. Scriven, of New Guinea, who briefly acknowledged the compliment. At last night's meeting of the Council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, it was decided to ask Mr J. G. Herdman to represent the Chamber at the Imperial Conference of Chambers of Commerce in London.
Tho health of Mr E. P. Turner, engineer to the Tramway Board, has been giving his friends some anxiety for the past three or four days. Mr Turner was stated to be slightly better yesterday. Signor Bruno Sarti, who was in New Zealand last year with £Se Sistine soloists, is returning to this country next month for a concert tour. Signor Sarti has lately been making a tour of the Australian States. The following will be passengers by the Wahine to-night to Wellington as delegates to th 9 Congregational Union meetings, which open in that city tomorrow evening:—Misses Bradbury, Dow, Mesdames Congreve, Hough, and Messrs A. W. Beaven, Congreve, Low, J. Rhodes, P. Boyce, and the Rev. Argyll Saxby.
Mr Justice Adamg has left Christchurch to hold sittings of the Supreme Court at Nelson and on the West Coast. From there he will proceed to Wellington to attend a sitting of the Court of Appeal, and he will probably not return to Christchurch until Easter. Mr Justico MacGregor will conduct sittings in Christchurch this week, Mr Justice Sim will conduct sittings next week, beginning on Monday. Mr Justice need will arrive on March 15th to take up the work on March 17th.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18013, 4 March 1924, Page 6
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