PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vice-Regal. S' s .Excellency tho Earl of Liverpool will'visit tho Territorial camp at Cambrulgo next Thursday, and tho same night will go on 'to Wellington to meet H.M.S. • oU Saturday, April 12. That night his Excellency will 1m present at wtr f r 9,}'®? '■ ly U'° members of tho l • on It " l 0 officers of tho battleship. Ho arrives hack in Auckland on Monday, April 14, and on April 17 will bo present at a large gathering of Natives in liotorua. Her Excellency the Countess of Livorpool has signified-her inteuton oi being present at tlio Auckland Kindergarten lete, to bo held on tho afternoou of Saturday, April 12, Tho Hon, W. F. MaKey .(Prime Minister) is in Taranaki. Ho will spend the week-end at Hawera, and will return to Wellington, via Palmerston North, on Tuesday night or Wednesday. morning. The Hon. W. Fraser will return to Wellington from New Plymouth to-night. Tho Hon. 11. D. Bell will return from. Auckland on Monday afternoon. Tho Hon. W. H. Hemes will remain in Wellington to attend tho reception to tho battle-cruiser New Zealand, and afterwards will visit tho South Island. Tho Hon. A. L. Herdroan, tho Hon, E. H. Rhodes, and tho Hon. Dr.- Pomare are in Wellington. Tlio following visitors to New Zealand wore rccent callers at tho local Government Tourist Bureau:—W. Mullau, Belfast, li'clmud; J.' Lintott Taylor,. Van- 1 couver; Mr. and Mrs. P. Kavanaghj Melbourne;/!). Turner, Melbourne; A. Spring Lowthcr, Melbourne; Mrs.- E. Burton-Sharmau, Perth; P. Schweinitz, Potsdam; Miss W. M. .Tames, Cumberland, England; Dorothy R. Heritage, Londo'n; Mrs. Maude E. Knight, London; Mrs. L. M. Grear, London; C. H. Jobits, Cognac, Prance; H. E. and A. Eoscbv, Sydney. Mr. F ; H. Brodrick, of Wellington, left on. a trip to Sydney by tlio .Wamnioc yesterday. , Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Carter, of Wellington, left for Sydney . yesterday, -'eu ronto to London. , A - X- Young, resident superintendent of New Zealand for tho Atlas Insuranco Company, arrived from Duneilin yesterday. Tho company's liee.d office is being transferred to where Mr. Young will in 'future resido. At tho meeting of the Mataura Presbytery on Tuesday a. call, signed by 195 members and G7 adherents of tho Mataura Presbyterian , Church; was'presented by Rev. A. Sangster in favour of Rev. W. Yfr brown, of Stirling. Mr. Frederick John Mouat, solicitor, of tho Dunedin Land Office staff, one of tho candidates for the Public Service Board of Appeal, entered tlio Government scrvice about 18 years ago as a clerical cadet, In 190G ho was admitted to tho Bar as a solicitor of the Supremo Court; and was returning 1 officer for tho first eloction of trustees to tlio Taicri Drainago Board. When tho Hon. A. L. Herduian'e Publio Sei;vico Bill was before 'Parliament Mr, Mouat was chairman of the committee set up by the Duacdin civil servants to reviser the Bill in their interests Mr. Joseph Day, 73 years of age, died at Christchurch yesterday. ' Sinco 1867 ha had been pilot at Sumner, and during Hi® period he resided there ho was instrument tal in saving a number of persons from drowning. Tho Eoyal Humano Society of Now Zealand recently recognised his services in this, respect. ; Pilot Day camo to New Zealand with his parents in-tho ship Arab in 1841. .The family first settled at D&y'S Bay, Wellington, which \Va-s named after them. . Mr. Day was a native of Kent, England. i Detective Snow arrived : from Christchurch yesterday to take up duty in the finger-print office. Mr. L. F. Ayson (inspector of fisheries) arrived: .on .'Wednesday at Te.-Kopuru to inspect-tho-wheroa/.beds',,6£!'.tho Wpst Coast. Ho will make a report on thorn- to the Minister for Marine. Mr! Ajsonlirili return to Auckland, on Saturday.: Mr. W. L. Doran, a prominent-mer-chant of Niagara, U.S.A., is at present' visiting Auckland. .• Mr. Jas. Dunning, of Cambridge,- inj tends to leave for Vancouver on July 4 io obtain some big game hunting- in Canada, 110 expects to be absent from tho Dominion about six; months. . Canon Coatcs, who lias been identified with the work of tho Anglican Church in Lyttelton for twenty-two years, . has resigned-his ministry at Holy Trinity Church. Canon Coates camo out to" New Zealand in 1875, and 'was appointed..assistant curate at St. Church. Ho remained thero for twelve .months, and a littlo lator was. locum tenens for-tho dean at St. Michael's and. All Angels'' fot another year. lie was then appointed-to Waimate, whero ho rcmafned for fifteen years before going lo Hbly jTrinity Church, Lyttelton. He loaves in Septembei. Mr. C. A. Barton, tho new clerk of tho Auckland Magistrate's Court, arrived on' Wednesday from Wanganui, where ho has been clerk of court for about twelve years. Mr. Barton is a brother of tho Stipendiary. Magistrate at_ Ciisborno. Mr. C. C. Kettle, in, referring'to Mr. Barton's arrival in Auckland on Thursday, bespoke for the'new clerk of court tho eamo ineasuro .of assistance from the legal profession as had been extended to Mr. Ralfe. Mr. Harold V; Ramsay, formerly of the Auckland Training College and University, well known in athletic, debating, and other circles, left Auckland on Wednesday for Hamilton, whero he takes up an assistant-mastership ,in tho High School. Having represented both Auckland and Wellington Universities at. foot* ball, Mr. Ramsay should be an acquisition in that sport to both school and district. ' Mr. John Fuller, who is a member of tho present City Council,' has definitely decided to become a candidate once mora at the coming elections. Ho has a notico to electors in another column. ' At tho Convent of tho Sacred' Heart, Timaru, on Wednesday morning, the death occurred of Sister Donovan. The deceased lady was 61 years of age, and in tho thirty-second year of her religious life, tho whole of which was spent in Timaru. Sho had only been ill a week, and meningitis was the cause of death. Sister Donovan was well-known in" Timaru, and on account of her kind and obliging manner and. her never-failing cheerfulness, she was beloved by all with whom she camo in. contact. She will be sadly missed at the Convent by tho in-., mates as well as visitors, as she was always ready to oblige or put herself out to ensure tho comfort of all, and sho proved herself ever a most unselfish and devoted worker.