Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19769, 6 November 1929, Page 10

Personal Items.

Mr J. A. t\ Buyne. Chief Tn.p-fr-of Mines, is visiting the Weft (JJ* Sir Truby King left Aarklu| |» Sydney by the Aorangi last oiskt«. Prfss Service. Mr P. Solijr, of Oiri»tch«rel» turned to Auckland from a trip to'iJ* fralia bv the Maheno yesterday, Service. " * The Canterbury Builder**. Amffaitot last night passed a motion of dolence with Mr Robert Lister, a ber, in the death of his daughter. Mr W. R. Wilson has been appqig||t chairman of directors of the British Insurance Company for tin suing year. The R< v. Gordon Bell, of Si. See* chre's Church, Auckland, has fen appointed vicar of Cambridge nj Archdeacon of Waikato.—Press An**. tion. Major General R. Young, C.8.. C.M,tL D.5.0., Officer Commanding the N* Zealand Military Forces, arrived Wellington yesterday morning, and lift by the first express for Dtmedin. Mr George Petersen, advance manaM for Wirth's Circus, arrived in Welm. ton from Melbourne on Sunday, left for Bluff, where the eireog wil] egg, nience its New Zealand tonr. Passengers from the north by f|| ferry steamer yesterday morning j>, eluded: Messrs B. B. Wood, E. R. Paterson, A. S. Paterton, and f. Picot.

Captain Christopher C. Welch etbi brated his hundredth birthday at Pwt Chalmers yesterday. The chairfnu of the Harbour Board called and mafe% present on the Board's behalf, and Ml* ter mariners presented Captain Wtfefc with a cheque.—Press Associativa, Commander F. N. Attwood, who llgi relinquished command of H.M.B. Lain* num, his term of office in New Zethkt waters having expired, left AneUaal by the Aorangi for Sydney last attH The command of the Latmrnnim been taken over by Commandet (J, % Hot ham.—Press Service. Advice has been received that A Denis Blundell, son of Mr Percy Ha* dell, of Wellington, has <qualiflsi tin barrister and solicitor at Gray 1 * lift, London. He will be called to the on November 20th, and will tail f4rlM£ Zealand on November 23rd bv tlw'Qt monde. He will arrive in about the end of the first wetk in JlMfc. ary, thereafter joining the Welll#||pS firm of barristers and solicitors, Kti|| Bell, Gully, Mackenaie, and O 'Lftiji \ Passengers who arrived at Auckl&t I by the Maheno from Sydney yeateNs included the Bev. H. Taylor, who UMV from England, and will succeed u* Rev. C. B. Beharell in the Nine IMH Mission field; Mr J. C. BurkinghM&* well-known English angler, who it Stettin g his thirty-first trip to New ZmM for the fishing season; Mr A. A. Patft manager of the Grand Hotel, Dusdb who has been on holiday in AuitrwM Mr J. Newell, New Zealand of the Colonial Sugar Company, Ml also has been on holiday in AurtlMlt and Sir Edward V. Johanson, wto • returning to Wellington after I£Wp ing the winter in Australia. Commander C. E. Hotham. ®-®A who is to take over the command W H.M.S. Laburnum from Command si « N. Attwood, whose term of eflw *' New Zealand waters is expiring, ♦ rived by the Bangitiki from EngmM' He is a first cousin to Rear-Adult*! w> G. Hotham, who was commodore 1> WW. mand of the New Zealand 1921-23. Born in 1891, the son of CWwi John Hotham, late Boyal Artiltoiy # lte joined the Navy as a midshlpniM <r 1906 and attained the rank of •»* mander in 1926. Among hi« ajfpMML ments was that of navigating ofllwr« the destroyer Lark and, latterly, <W executive officer of the St. training ship for boys at irotMHi Gosport.

Lieutenant-Colon el X. W. B. B. IMkD.5.0., M.C., Chief Staff Officer of W - Southern Command, will leave tM W* minion at the end of the mailt* «*■-- England, where he will take a ; at the Imperial Defence College » 1 military work affecting the higher , mands in time of war. Lirut«n»£ Colonel Thorns has been connected the New Zealand permanent since 1911, previously serving in w™* teer regiments in England, and tMMJ part in the South African War. Xa he was appointed to the Main bow «■ the N.Z.E.F., holding various staff » pointments throughout the war, P* being wounded on more than sion. Since the war, he has heW appointments in New Zealand. „