Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19195, 29 December 1927, Page 6

Personal Items.

Mr A. S. Lusk, of Napier, is staying at Warner's Hotel. Mr G. Williams, caretaker of the Municipal Offices, is an inmate of the Christchurch Hospital. Guests at the United Service Hotel include:—Messrs W. H. Anderson (Wellington) and E. H. Turner (Hawera). Messrs F. W. Wake (Auckland), H. A. Porter (Brisbane), E. T. Porter (Nelson;, and J. Waugh (InrercargUl) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr V. 0. Lawn has been appointed registrar of marriages, births, and deaths for the Oxford district, and Mr A. C. Williams for Ashburton. Sir Joseph Ward arrived by the ferry steamer, from Wellington yesterday morning. He went into the Lewisham Hospital during the day, but only for a period of rest. The Rev. J. F. Coursey, vicar of St. John's, Latimer square, has been the victim of a very obstinate attack of influenza, the after-effects of which have confined him to his lied during sevoral weeks past. Mr H. C. Guinness, Chief Clerk in ' the Railway Traffic Manager's office, Christchurch; commences his annual leave on Januarv 2nd and will spend his holiday in the North Island. Mr H. L. Gibson, Transport Officer, will relieve him. The Very Rev. Dean J. A. Julius, the Revs. J. F. Coursey and E. E. Maiden, and Messrs H. D. Andrews and R. W. Simpson have been nominated as the representatives of the Standing Committee of the Ohristchureh Diocese on tho St. Saviour's Guild Council. To commemorate the jubilee of the ordination of the Rev. Canon John Haselden, Selwyn memorial chaplain to the Auckland Hospital, a conversazione was held in Auckland a few days ago, when, on.behalf of the diocese, Archbishop Averill presented him with a cheque and an illuminated address. Tho Primate referred to Canon Haselden as the sole remaining link with Bishop Selwyn, and congratulated him upon his fifty years of continuous service. A very pleasant ceremony look place at the Hill street Basilica. Wellington, after the service on Sunday evening, when the members cf the choir presented Mr E. A. Loughnan with a silvermounted umbrella, suitably inscribed, together with a box of cigars, a3 a token of their esteem, Tho Rev. Father Smyth, who made the presentation, said that the duty he had been called upon to perform on behalf of the choir was a pleasant one, as Mr Loughnan had been associated with the Basilica choir for a period of forty-three years,-and with the church for over that time. Such presentations were usually made when a member was leaving the distr'u-;. „(• parish, but in tho present case they all hoped that Mr Loughnan would long be spared to sing in the choir. The gifts were only the outward form of tbo loving regard they felt for their friend. Mr Loughnan, in making reply, proposed the health of the conductor, Mr G. Ellwood, who, he said, waß a remarkably able musician, and had that within him which enabled him to get tho very best Results out of the choir.