PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 17, 15 October 1907, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

[ At a meeting of the Star Boating Club held last.."evening.Mr. .Charles Pearce. was elected captain, vice Mr... A. S. Biss. Mr. ' Pearco has been a member of tho Club for ' twenty-oiio years, and tor eighteen years he J has acted on the committee. [ Tho Rov. Dr. Tudor Jones and Mrs. Jones leave to-day on a trip to Auckland. On their way Dr. Tudor. Jones will lecture to-night, in •Wanganui on "The New, Movement in Theology in Europe and America." Dr. Tudor t Jones will give six lectures during his stay jof nearly a fortnight in "Auckland,-'and, Mrs. . Jones will also give an address.' The Rev. ( W. Jollio, of Auckland, will arrive here next s week, and fill Dr. Tudor Jones's pulpit on ( the following Sunday. "■'■' 1 The Rev. Dr. Gibb changed pulpits last '■ Sunday with the Rev. R. M. ■ Ryburn, of ' Wanganui. Consequently, Dr. Gibb was un--1 able to be present at the ceremony, of driv- ! ing tho first pile of the Victoria, Collego * Women's Hostel yesterday. , , - ■■ ; ... Dr. L. Cockayno, E.L.S., of Christchurch, who returned yesterday from making an ex- ) ploration of tho" northern kauri forest in ) connection with ..his botanical survey of. Now j Zealand, will remain in Wellington until the j ond of the month. In' November ho will form t ono of the scientific party which is-to visit i tho sub-Antarctic islands. : Mr. Harvey Drummoud,. who mot. with a ) serious accident whilst playisg cricket in tho i Nairn Street/reserve on Saturday.afternoon, ■ was successfuly opbratod on on Sunday evening, and last night he was doing ver? well. \ Mrs. Coffey, widow <ftho late Rov. R. ' Coffey, is .at present laid aside with an attack of bronchitis following on infhienza, but \ is understood to bo progressing satisfactorily towards recovery. ■ : .•■; .-.-■ i Mr. T.-.H. Davey, the member for Christ- • church East, has been granted a further' ; six day's leavo of absanco from his! parliaI mentary duties on account of illness. ,■ <■■ ! Mr. Hugh Pollen, Under-Secretary in tho : Colonial Secretary's Department, is a victim to influenza.

Tho following paßsengors for Now Zealand are on board' the Uuclow, which arrived at Fromantlo yesterday;—Mr, and Mrs. Lieber, Mr. and Mrs. Ilepper, Miss Elliot, Miss Sliand, Mrs., Luke, Mr, Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Wircn, Mr. H. Abraham,' Mr. W. Slack, Mr. and Mrs, Hake, Mrs. and Miss Joseph, and Mr. Nathan. .. Mr. H. A. Huggins, chief clork of the accountants't branch "of the General Post. Office, and Mrs. Huggins, have, left Welling- ' ' ton on a few weeks' holiday to bo spent in the Hawke's Bay district. /■•'• -..H;>; Mr. Ben Tillett loft for Auckland' yesterday. '-',','"•' Mr. R. Nathan, oldest son of'Mr'.'Walter Nathan (of W. M. Bannatyne and Co.), is a passongor by the German liiicr Buelow, which arrived at yesterday,-. ■ Lieut. Petherick has been elected, to succeed .Captain Courtney,; ni'command, of the Wellington..;D Battery *pf ■ Mr, Petherick has been> a-member of th« Battery'-for many years', and; has worked his. way up from the position of' gunner, ;'•• ■ ',; Sub-Inspector O'Dbnovah, who has been on 'holiday, leave for. the,'past sis' to . resumo : duty this morning.-, ';;,;, ~-4. 'Mr. Lymanß. Pierco/.n'ational secretary for the Y.M.C.A.,'' arrived 'from last evening to attend the banq,uet' to : bejgiven evening.;' .'.■■-';■■■■;■■■ ■'■'.. ~;; v :-';:,\:'. ■ Mr:' Gibbs,:- general manager of ithe.New Zea'land..'Shipping ; ,C!ompahy,;.is a' passenger , by .the Warrimoo .arriving from Sydney to~day;;' ;".»'..-'./; '\ ; ! ;: 7/';!■■';',;,^;'^ ' Captain Bone; Marino' Superintendent of the, New' Zealand Shipping at __ present .indisposed.- H\ Christehurch. -"