Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18331, 14 March 1925, Page 14

Personal Items.

Mr J. W. Collins, Secretary of Infastriea and' Commerce, left last night for Wellington. At Whangarei, on Wednesday night, the Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister of Railways), was installed as Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons.

Mr Ron. Miles, an accepted candidate for the Methodist ministry, was farfewelled by the Rugby street congregation on Thursday evening. Mr J. S. Moir, of Kelburn Wellington, leaves on Apifi Ist for Great Britain and America, on a business and pleasure trip which will extend to the end of the year. Yesterdav afternoon before his Honour Mr Justice Adams, Mr A. ISHobbs was admitted a bartTßter of the Supremo Court of Now Zealand, on the motion of Mr T. D. Harm an. Mr Geo. A. Green, secretary of the .Institute of Horticulture, and of the Association of Nurserymen, who has been in the South for some weeks, left for the North by the ferry steamer last night.

A Press Association message from Wellington states that a upeciaUy summoned meeting of "the session of bt. Andrew's Church, "Wellington, passed a motion expressing firm confidence in the Rev. S. Robertson Orr, minister of St. Andrew's, who was the defendant in a civil notion on Tuesday last. At the annual meetinp of the Christchurch Foobbi.ll Club, held on Thursday night, Mr A. L. Jones was elected a life member of the club. Several members spoke in appreciation of his services. Mr Jones has been a member of the club for twenty-four years, and during.that time has held nearly eivery office.

Mr G. H. B. Kenrick, K.C., LL.D., formerly Advocate-General of Bengal and principal law officer to the Government of' India, Aimed in Wellington from England on Thursday by the Arawa. He intends to stay at Ilotorua, where his cousin, Mr W. G. K. Kenrick, is Stipendiary Magistrate. He will also visit other places of interest in the Dominion, and will return to England by the Arawa on the homeward -voyage next month;

Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that it is probable that there will be no opposition to Mr H. L. T»pley. the present Mayor, who is seeking re-election at the forthcoming municipal elections, though the name of one Councillor has been mentioned as a likely candidate. For City Councillors electors will have a wide choice, as the whole of the existing Councillors wilt seek re-election, and the Labour Party is offering a full "ticket."

——————^^—^——,-, *&s* He rather breathed than apoke U* '#>.», - prayer, bo great was hi. emotion. H* 2£ book in his seat. The crowded '" • pilent, amased, and impressed, lmi»Z, jT * character of his speech was wWbTm—! 1 pcctecL It invested the House *Ss «!"? mosphore akin to a Gipsy Smith mooting. "mil

But I do not read that the oppoituaitjwas seized by Mr Ramsay Maeßoaatote pass through all its stages his Bedew,;" ation of Mankind BUI, nor need osq suspect that the House, after its good cry, was not its tough self ten mirou, later.

Science progresses. It h as aot yet „ disintegrated the atom, nor found ont anything at all concerning infutile paralysis, but it is progressing. Tji. week it has discovered a method-of curing ugliness, which "will regarded as a remediable disease," tgj *1 therefore, in this land of freedom ni Public Departments, a notifiable disease; and in three different parts of tie world it has been digging down to the ruins of foundered civilisations, or barbarisms, which, with M. Bergeret, I ». gard as the same thing. When one read, that they have dug up the tomb of an Egyptian builder of 4500 years *», several obsolete bits of vertu in Mexico, and the bones of the mastodons who lived in London 30,000 years aik -' one becomes instantly akin tt tig Dutchman who was brought to Niagara to admire "the stupendous '\ x cataract plunging with a deafening rear •' :s into the chasm below." "What,'* *q *-s said, "what's to hinder it!" We all, '■>' know that the relics of the Egyptian and ?V Maya civilisations exist, and that tte !,. earth is simply stiff with mastodoaa of.' \ all ages. We can all admire, in bo\h '- senses, the zeal with which Seienee plies its spade, seeking this underground route to the truth which it is - « simultaneously seeking abovegrowd "* amongst the atoms and the glands, '*' But we want to be shown how [%< our happiness is to be increased. :-i> We want to know how th'e mastodon's '!•£* age and tho disintegrated atom can lie > I blended into something useful. And in "Sitka meantime Science does little to 4bturb the growing conviction teat it is J ff j|. engaged upon the task of opening a nest ' : f|l of boxes, box within box, until the in- Almost box is opened, and found to be Msgk empty. .' -M%

Some time ago mention was nude hare - of the discovery by the London "Spee- v i tator "that the world was in so bad a way i that it was time to offer a prize for an epigram upon it. In ita last received % issue (January 31st, for those who wish >j to read them all) it prints %°m selection of verses received. Jlanyl of the competitors concentrated Jf upon face-powder, cigarettes, tottttl hair, short skirts, silk stocking*,' lajs|f manners, untimely revelry, poQscsarcf| unfaithful wives, aeroplanes, the exaejeWig wireless, jazz, psycho-analysis, or &(|| Bhevism. Nobody appears to fesi|l taken for his topic moat-eating, strewi drink, or the totalisator, but even 'wif»lf| out these the world, as the list "h<Ht|f§ has as many evils as it can desfte|| Boom most be found for five «t tpli "Weary angels shall acclaim *c, /iaH When, with bhviiags on our a«U,fl The\' record: 'lliis age w«a famous *ffl&m Ctjieflyfor its lack of fame.'" "God and the Devi) late stood aidfeWS Where they might mark the way* ef flSgra ern men; Awhilfi they watched in searching ajUal|jf|jß 1 'Still they my patience try,' < JtMffl|i| "Stranger, here ties that one time 'nMJßgll . That noble and couageou* a*% ||hHh| Ita gauntlet in the very teeth ol faffj||]j|«| And dared and died—What "**tjHffl| laughing at?" "Modern are we, with modern Cuba haJf -unlicked and daugflrfej^JaHsai If these are typically modern, thenjsS«ra| . Welcome, old Adam, walcoaw, EyiMH^B "Science propounds ingenious TOJpWHMM Strong men, and keep aIrT»" tfca, pMbm™ That these * ekkly Progeny W Ms&H Too poor to -Ux, too muowoua