PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1262, 18 October 1911, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

WiiAT QOiSIS WANT. ™

Mr. W. F. Massey, Lender of (ho Opposition, and Mr. \V. 11. Hemes, M.P., liolh of whoin havo been absent on a short visit to the north, returned to llioir places in Parliament yesterday. Mr. A. L. Hordinam, M.P., who has been absent in tlio south for n few days on account of t!io death of his father, returned to his place in Parliament yesterday. Thq Bishop of Nelson and Mrs. Mules sustained a painful accident while driving in Nelson on Monday evening. When turning a street corner the hnrso slipped on the wet pnveinent and fell, capsizing the giis, the occupants iwiiiß thrown out. Mrs. Mulos escaped with a slight shaking, but tho Bishop sustained severe cuts about the head.—Press Association. Mr. W. F. Ward has l)oen appointed solicitor to tho Wellington Hospital Board, vico tho late Mr. W. 11. Quick. Mr. Robinson has been appointed permanently to the position of accountant to tho Wellington Hospital Board at his present salary of .£225 per annum. The Rev. H. 11. Hobday, of Brooklyn, has arrange:! to exchange duties with the Eev. J. Edwin Jones, vicar of Parapara/uinu, for the next thrco weeks.

Mr. Arthur Alexander, a son of Mr. A. L. Isaacs, of Dunedin, and a former pupil of the Wellington Boys' College, figured prominently in the annual priwjgiving of the Hoyal Academy of Music, which took place, in London recently. Mr. Alexander—who took his present name for professional reasons in placo of his patronymic of Isaacs—was formerly a pupil of Mr. Maughan Barnett, and has been studying tho pianoforte in London for several years past. In Juno last, although only twenty years of age, ho was appointed a sub-professor at the ltoyal Academy, from which ho had gained tho following scholarships and prizes:—Stcrndalc Bennett scholarship, 1910; Walter MacFarrcu medal, 1911; Frederick West!ako prize, 1911; E.A.M. Club prize, 1009; bronze medal, 1908; silver medal, 1803; certificate of merit, 1910. Mr. Alexander is a nephew of Mr. P. Isaacs, of Wellington Terrace.

Owing to indisposition, Mrs. Carlylo Free will be unable to take 'the contralto solos in the performance of "Ruth," by the Royal Choral Society, at the Town Mali on Friday evening. Miss Ncllio Castle, at very short notice, has consented to take the part

Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Bourkc, who havo been on a visit to Groat iiruain, arc returning by the Mauuka, due here this moraine.

fergeant Edmund Walsh, lato E. , - , S9i.ii and lOflth Regiments, died at the Veterans' Home, Auckland, on Friday ir.;t. Dec-Msoil was horn at Anlrum, County Cork, Ireland, and followed tho oicupaiiim oi irardenur until enlisting in the 69in I'.joL, ""ami with his regiment was tii,:;iso.j i:i tae storming and lail of i-e'oas-loiKii. At tlu' concision ol the Crimean War he proetisled to ludia with his comi\i.i<s, and KTVtfd in the army until the completion of his time, liiiv.hr uu i-xccl-li-ni record of il years vlitn lie took his discharge. 'Ilie deceased wteruu arrived ill New Zealand in lSi7, and followed tiie occuj'nimn of pardoner vi\ ftaUois in tin} South island, where he gained the i--ic<!in ol Ms. employers by liu imlurfry ■■iid iutt-gritv. Uo tutored tho Veterans' ILoiiß l seven'.Years a;;«, and rowkred goal M'l-vice llure at horticultural gardening. \ eieran Walsh was awarded the Crimean int'iial, wiLii <\n«p tor .VJbiisiop>;l, the Turkish win , li'tilal, and was granted an Imperial and old uje pension.

A .DEPUTATION. A deputation lrom the Pharmacy i.oard, ojiisisuiig ol Jlcs-rs. !•'. G. CastU-s A. lloteon, \V. Ncilsnn, and (_i. i.ivi'.ey, waited upon the lion. D. lludii'j ;-.i*t evcni.iii, r . It «'as introduced l.iy .Mr. U. A. \Vn;;ht, M.i'., who iiatod lam the board ho ; >L\l to tct.Uvo pixivisions p.ui-'isi iiiio law, aiihouijh there tofm«t uu:t> hope oi t.no l'luj-iuacy Anicntimtnt Act l>!iiiij t'liiit sw.siou. Mr. tiattd that the provisions dw-iiiwl \v«ro: (1) 'ih.it tlie at wiiieh uLiKtidaiwi wore ponnitted to cuter tho preliminary examination for pharmacists in I jilt i.-o loivorcd l'rom 18 years to lli. I'hi-i would be of great value to candidates as obviating loss of time, and would UT.d to reduce ciaimning and other evilj. (2) Ihat the board should be (fiven power IX) expend sonic of its funds in promoting leohnical inftrnction. Existing technical (.oursrs did not. meet the needs oi pharmaceutical students, but il tho uoaid were enabled to financially assist the schcols it v;as believed that the courses diwired would bo provided. Mr. Ilobsm spOKO in similar strain. Mr. Neilson slated that the b03.nl was compelled at prosent to accept t-.Uier of two ot.hi'.r examinations in lieu of its own preliminary examination. Students were permitted to enter these outside examinaticn? at the ago of 16, but they had to lie IS before they could sit for the board preliminary examination. As to tho second proposal, cihrmiists in Dunedin wero at present paying at their own cost for tho technical instruction of apprentices. The Minister indicated in his reply that ths I'h.Trniaey Bill and tho Sale of Poisons Hill had been bracketed by the Government, and that the delay of tho latter Bill hud also delayed the" former. Tho first propwal advanced by tho deputation seemed quite reasonable, and tho second was very commendable, but he would prefer to deal with the matter in tho early part of a new session. 110 would lay the representations niaxle by ths deputation before tho Government, but could hold out no great hope that anything would bo done this session.