PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1311, 14 December 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Ills Excellency the Governor arrived from tho south by the Maori yesterday morning. He presided over a meeting of iho Rhodes Scholarship Committee in the forenoon, and left for Auckland by the Mam Trunk express, accompanied by Captain M'Dougall, A.D.C. His Excellency is to preside at the opening of the new Town Hall at Auckland this afternoon.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) is in Wellington, tho Hon. I). Buddo at Kaiapoi, Sir .las. Carroll and Sir John Findlay at Auckland, the Hon. T. Mackenzie at Ohakune, tho lion. J. A. Millar at Dunedin, and the Hon. A. T. Ngiifa at Napier.

The Hon. P. M'Kenzie is either at Wniroa, or at Waikaremoana, where Mr. Evan Parry is at present studying the possibilities of the lake , from a hydroelectrical point of view.

The Rev. Charles Frederick Askew, late vicar of Ingrnw, Keighley (England), who was appointed some months ago (o succeed the Rev. A. M. Johnson as Vicar of St. Mark's. Sussex Square, arrived from England via Australia by the Moana yesterday, accompanied by his wife. B> was met by Archdeacon liarpor and the Kev. A. M. Johnson, who accorded him a hearty welcome. Mr. Askew will enter- upon his new duties as soon as he settles down.

Mr. H. M/Farlane, of the local field sin IT of the A.M.1 , ., returned from a nine months' trip to .England and America yesterday.

Dr. Wollaston. of Melbourne, was a passenger from Sydney by the Moana ywtcrday. Dr. Andrew, of Wellington, who has bVen .studying medicine at Home, also arrived by the same steamer.

Mrs. ]{. T. Caldow, who has teen residing in England far Hiree years past, was a passenger from Sydney by the Moana ■ yesterday.

Lieut.-Colonel Hughe? was a passonjrCT from Sydney by the Moana yesterday. Mr. W. JI. George arrived by the sanso steamer.

Before severing his connection with the Practising Department of the Teacher-.' Training Collage, .Mr. William Gray, late principal of the college, who has been appointed principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne, was farewollcd by th? teaching .-tuff of the school, and presented with a handsome suit-case. Mr. Gray was also farowcllecl by the members of the Committee of Advice nt the Education Board office yesterday. lie leaves for Christclnirch to-dav.

Mr. E. Meyrick, a prominent Ijgurc in musical circles, and who is leaving for Auckland, iras. entertained by his friends at the social room of the Working Men's Club at Palmer-ton North yesterday and was the recipient of a presentation in the shape, of a case oi silver-mounted pipes as a mark of tho esteem and appreciation of his services in connection with the Pnlmersron iirass Band. Mr. Meyriek joined the band as.a.boy thirty years ago, and was entrusted with the triangle. From then on he. gradually row until he became conductor—a position which he held for a considerable time. Jlo was a member of the Orchestra Society for some four years and his departure will ho regretted by a very wide circle of friends.

Mr. Wong, secretary to the Chinese Consul in New Zealand, leaves for China to-moiTOiV, accompanied by his wife.

The i\n?lic.nn Primate, of Xvw Zealand (Dr. Xevill, Bi.-Jiop of Dunedin) has been elected patron for- New Zealand of the Anglican Eastern Orthodox Churches' Union. '

Stcssre. liice and Kidson. the crack Au.-tralhm tenuis players, who have come over to train with Messrs. Norman Brookes and Ounlop. for the latter players' big effort at the end of the mouth, arrived from Sydney In- .the Moana yesterday. In order to lose no time tlicy proceeded on to Lyttelton last evening by the Maori in order that the Davis Cup representatives may have, the benefit of their services (it the earliest possible moment. Both players are hoppju! ! Australasia will be able to hold what they have. . - ..... ....,