PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 989, 2 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

fr- ; Madame Boeufve has received a table from Paris to announce the appointment of Monsieur Boeufve as French Consul to Liverpool. M. Robert Boeufve, Consul de France, Chevalier dela Legion d'Houneur, etc., who ■ for six years has been French Consul for New "Zealand and the Islands, commenced his career as Secretary of tho Francfort Consulat General, and was subsequently attaohed to r.the Consulate of tho French Embassy in Berlin. His next appointment was as attache in tuo Foreign Office, Paris, which he left to become- Yice-Consul to Dublin and Trieste. . Ho then icturned to the Foreign Office, subsequently leaving, as Consul of. the French Legation in Lisbon. There the late ill-fated lung Dom Carlos, father of King Mancel, conferred on him the distinction of Knight Commander of tho Eoyal. Order of Christ.' If.- Boeufvo left Lisbon on a "mission special" to Berne, remaining there for four years.. On his departure tho Senate of Switzerland gave him a voto of .thanks for his services." During the Censul's stay in New Zealand his.' Government conferred on him several, distinctions, '■ and in recogni-tion-'of his work- in connection with the Alliance Francaiso that society presented him with their gold medal. 11. Boeufve's present Consulat is one of tho most important in fho British Isles. ■ ■ ■ A meeting of past and ■■ present members of the Management Committee of tho New Zealand Rugby Union was held last evening to arrange details of a farewell to be.accorded. Mr. G. Dixon, who is leaving Wellington, for Auckland. A farewell gathering is to be held on 'Jfuesday evening next. . . ■ Bishop "Averill, who returned to Napier by the express on Wednesday, has conducted a number of services during his short trip north.' On Sunday ho officiated at two confirmation services at Auckland, and on the following day another at Papatoetoe. On Tuesday ho proceeded to Tβ Kuiti, and after holding a service there caught. the', Main Trunk express through to Napier. . ' Dr. Reginald James Rogers, of Thames, has been gazetted a medical referee under the Workers' Compensation Act. . Mr. Eruera Neketine, of Levin, has been appointed a member of the ficaroa District Maori Land Board. Mr; Henry Patrick Stanaway has been, appointed Registrar, of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for tho district of Waipara. This week's Gazette notifies that Mr. W. G. Talbot, of Wellington, has been licensed to act as a public auditor under the Friendly Societies Act. The staff of the Wellington Meat Export Company, met Mr. Hubert Fairweather at lunch on Monday last, and presented him with a > valuable souvenir on his severing his connection with tho company, to take up a position with the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, at Masterton.' ' Our Feildirig correspondent states that Mr. Cotterill, manager of ttie branch of the Bank of New South Wales in. that town, has. returned from a holiday trip. to Australia. Mr. Montague, of who acted as honorary official accompanist in connection with tho Auckland competitions festival, last week, was presented with a' memento .of the occasion at an informal gathering of members of the executive and.officials at the Tiffin,, on Monday evening.' The presentation, which took the form of a pair of silver entree dishes, was made by Mr. C. Hudson, chairman of the executive. The election of officers of the Wellington Accountant Students' Society resulted as follows :-Presidont, Mr. W. 8., Hud: son, F.1.A., N.Z.; vice-presidents, Messrs. John S. Barton, E. W. Hunt, S. C. Leary, C. P. PowlcG, and A. T. Clarke; committee, Messrs. F. A. D. Barclay, J. S. Day, H. A. Gold, W. Harrington, C. H. Matthews, and A. J. Petherick; hon. secretary, Mr. J. L. Arcus; hon, treasurer, Mr. T. Ballingall; auditor, Mr. R. Sievers. Mr. H. C. Tewsley has been'elected a lifemember. -