PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Tlio location of Ministers to-day is as follows:—The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) Palmerston North; Hon. G. Fowlds, Auckland; other Ministers, Wellington. Chief-Detective M'Grath is at present on a brief visit to Christchurch. Tho Hon. A. R. Guinness and Mr. T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., left for Greymouth 011 Saturday. Detective Ward, of Duncdin, who lias been on a visit to Auckland, was in Wellington 011 Saturday. Colonel Loveday and Captains Meikleham and Strang arrived from tlio south by tho Monowai yesterday. The written congratulations received by the Hon. W. Hall-Jones on his appointment to the Higli Commissionership total several hundreds. Mrs. John Gordon, of Bankwood, Hamilton, died there on Tuesday last. Tho deceased lady, who was well-known throughout the district, was 51 years of age. Tho Hon. R. M'Nab, Minister for Agriculture, returned from Hawera on Saturday. He will visit Hastings Show on AVednesday, and leave for the South on Monday next. _ Mr. T. E. Taylor, of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington yesterday. He will givo an address at Mastorton to-night, returning south to-morrow to commence his election campaign. Sub-Inspector Dwyer returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning from Napier, where (says a Christchurch Press Association telegram) ho has been temporarily in charge for some months. Mr. H. M. Stowell (Haero Hougi) has taken over the leadership of tho Maori class in connection with the Wellington Y.M.C.A., which was started by Mr. A. T. Ngata, M.P. Considerable interest is being taken in the class. The death occurred at Napier on Saturday, in hoi' sixty-fourth year, of Mrs. Annie Spencer, relict of the late Dr. W. T. Spiincer, reports a Napier Press Association telegram. Dr. Spencer was surgeon to the 18th ltoyal Irish 111 Napior. The Hon. J. Carroll expects to leave for his constituency early this week. Mr. Carroll's electorate now comes down further towards Napier than formerly, and he will address meotings in the southern portion before going on to Gisborne. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) will deliver a political address this evening at Palmerston North. To-morrow he will visit Apiti, and givo an address in the evening at Feilding, returning to Wellington on Wednesday. _ Dr. Coughtrey, a well-known medical practitioner died here last Saturday night after an illness extending over nine days (says a Dunedin Press Association message). The cause of death was heart trouble. Deceased graduated at Edinburgh University with honours, and came here in 1875 to fill the position of Professor of _ Anatomy at Otago University. He was previously demonstrator at Liverpool University. Aftor filling the position of Professor of Anatomy'here for somo years, ho went into private practico. Deceased lield the commission of surgeon-major in the defence forces, and held the position of local secretary of tho Royal Humane Society for some years. It is understood that he served as a volunteer civil surgeon in the FrancoGerman war. Ho took a keen interest in local affairs, ,and was a membor of tho Drainago Board, and president of tile Otago llugby Union from 1887 till 1800 inclusive. After the death of Dr. Burns, deceased was appointed gaol surgeon.

According to a cablegram from London, received by the Press Association at 4.20 p.m. jesterday, Mr. George Gilbert Aime Murray has been appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Bom at Sydney on January 2, 1866, Mr. Murray left Australia at the age of eleven, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors'.. SchooK(Lqndon) and at St. John's College, Oxford. In 1888 ha became a Fellow of New College, .Oxford, and from 1889 to 1899 ho was Professor of Greek at Glasgow University. •In 1889 lie married Lady Mary Henrietta, eldest daughter of the ninth Earl of Carlisle, by whom lie has two sons and two daughters. It was in 1889 also that his "Gobi or Shanio" apand ho has written several other books, including "History of Ancient' Greek. Literature" and Euripides verse, translations, and studies. He is part-author of "Liberalism and tho Empire." His father, the late Sir Terence A. Murray, was at ono time President of the Legislative Couucil of New South Wales.