PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 689, 14 December 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Brigadier Bray, of the SaWation Army, left Tor ChristcHurch: 'lksfc 1 evening; nfle! will: return.' , to. Wellington, .on. Thursday.-. ' ■■.• r■ ': -.'■ ;'; V , .'. : Commissibiier. .Hay, ; 'of p Melbourne,''. Otecer. . Cqninianding .the!. , '..Salyation' A'i'my. , in Aus-.;-. traldsia,''i4 to. arrive in' Wellington' from tho' south 'on'. February -V, but will-:not remain. j.here.-;'His plans will tako : hjm on to Palmer->ston-.'North! the : saiue : day, 'and to Masterton on February 2. -His .'first: meeting in Wellington.'will he'held. on. February 3.' ■. '■/. y. The Southland Boys', and' Girls' Hifjih School .Board (has made the "following appointments! Assistant- maste.r,;,Claud, Sl'Carthy (Linwood) j •teachers,.■ girls' school, : ■''. Misses> E.''E. : . taw (Wellington), 'Violet C. Farnie (Eakaia),.,and JL Mi: Griffin. (OamaruJ.-^Press'Assoeiation. . ■ •■'■; At the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the ;tjnion.iSteam Ship' Co., held at Dunodin';yeslerday, Mr; C. Holdsworth, general, manager, was elected a director in succession to the late Captain; Cameron, in; conformity with a'; re-' solution passed n' an '■■ extraordinary meeting amending 'the articles of ■ oss'ooiation to that• effect, :'The ohairmnn also nunpuneed that Mr. Alex. ; ; Michie, ,late~. general manager of tho Bank'of New Zealand, had been appointed V. member of the: London Board.—Press Associa,tlOn.V' l . ; "!>''.■'■ ■■■ ■'' 'v;: : ; '.'. .' r ] '. ' t .. 'Mr/E.'.M., Falconer, of. the .Union Steam Ship Co.'s.'local office, has been, transferred to ■ the Chnstchurch .branch. .■; ■.■■,,.,: ~ , .' ' :j, .schokrehip giv«n by the Sacred\Heart' College, Auckland,: and whioh is open" for com- ; petition to: tho whole of New Zealand; has been' gained this 'year by ; llaster. John ■Mollojy of ithe Manet Brothers'. School,' Bouloptt Street; , :,, ; The,Eev^F..Stubbs l .who.has been oil a tour' round .the .world,: was expected to , arrivoan;' Auckland oiy Sunday by fho Wimniera, from : Sydney.:.Ho will spend the holidays.atEotorua, ■;■ Baron J. Plassen''and \Dr. HaibraayE, from Qermany, ,were;. visitors at Eotorua • last.vieek.,: ; English papers, which ■•-arrived' yesterday re- : cord the death of • the Provost of Eton; the U«v. Jatoes'John Hornby, D.D.y D.C.L.,' from ; heart failure,;' at ■ his residence,' The Lodge," Eton College, l at the'advanced ago of 82'.' Dr. Hornby was born at' Winwick on December 18, : 1826, and was the third'son of Admiral Sir ; Phipps Hornby, K.C.8. , , and' Maria,' daughter of the Eight Hoh; Sir John Burgoyne. Ho was 5 thought byimany to bp one 1 of the best speakers in England. Ho had d.voice like" o silver bell.'• One of the last publiq gatherings ho attended was a meeting in .Election- Hall on behalf of the Zululand Mission. The, King had a high opinion of the venerable provost, who.was one of his Majesty's chaplains.:'He rowed in the Oxford • University ; eights of 1849 and'.lßsl! and_plas - ed ■; in tho Eton cricket, elevoiv of; 1845. Ho was interested in iiU''sports. Ho rctuined to Eton ' us. headmaster in ■ 18(58, becoming provost- in im.'-\ ;.-:•'.'■- ■'.■"::/■ ■■■'■■:■. ":[■'■"■']'/ ' '.""-.■.' ■'. Mr., : G.'Searle;lioeiisee; of Eicbardt's Hotel, Queenstpwn, died early yesterday morning. He .was seized, with] a stroke, of paralysis on Thurs--, day, and never'; regained consciousness.—Press Association;-'.--.''/.'■■• ,' : -. - p ...■"■..'; ; - ■"■'■■■■.-■.'■.:.'■ .•'■.; . !Mr., Charles' Entgeh, , 'of Napier, is in"'town'" in connection with the floating of a copper .m'inc.in tho: Aucklnnd.district. ,'..■■'. . ; -' .