PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2201, 14 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes per- • formed the ceremony of opening: the ' , new hall at Prcbbleton yesterday afternoon, in tho presence of a largo gftlier- 1 : ing of residents.of the district—Press,'. Association. . ;.. ~v;; ' ... . ; The Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Cloary) is at .present on a visit to Wellington. v • The following appointments have been made by tho Wellington Education l?aardMr. A. T.: White; to bo ; headmaster at Hastwell; Mr. R. A.; Howio | to be assistant teacher at Island Bay; t Miss. Mow o. to be toacher in'charge of i tho aided school at Mangapakoha. , I Mr. It. A. Corbett, manager,of the | .export: department •of Messrs; Curtis and Harvey,s Limitodj of London, accompanied by Mrs...and.Miss Corbett,has arrived m Wellington, 'and is stay. mg at tho Royal Oak Hotel.- Tho partv leaves for Sydney on Friday. Letters liavo been received in Wellington announcing the serious : illness in Sydney of Miss >Cecil»Haines, tin"clever child reciter, lato of ■■Wellington.". Only a fortnight ago, Miss'Haines made her first public . appearance in Sydnoy at a recital given hy the .pupils of Mr. Lawrenco Campbell, and scored. a con--. !. spicuous success. Mr. Robert Mitchell, aged. 33 years, died suddenly at Waitati . Flat this morning (states, a Press Association telo-" , ■ grant fiom Dunedin).. 1 ' 1 The following are among the passen- . •" gers from, the south by the- Maori: this : morning:-^ShsJ., Ward,: Hon. 1 : R.. H. Rhodes, and tho Hon.,J, Barr. , : V Mr. Gordon Harper has been'selected:' as' the Government candidate for: the. ■■ Riccarton^eat.—Press Association. ( Mr. John Sheridan, of . Gisborne,'i6 a > visitor to Wellington. a Tlio Anglican Synod'passed the fol-lowing-resolution yesterday afternoon: —"That,-this: Synod desires to express . 'its sense of. the great loss, it has sustained 'in', tho death of ono of; its :oldest momb'efs, _ James Dudley Ryder Hewitt; captain in the Royal Navy; : .and' to place on record its thankfulness to Almighty God for tho example of a , life ,of faith and righteousness set .before us by His faithful servant; called ,to' rest'.a -few- days. after ■ ha -withdrew >: • from-the Synod last year." ' : Included .amongst recent visitors nt. . the Empire Hotel are Messrs.: J. 11. Redpath (Christchurch); ■ L; . Suswein (Auckland); F. . Dawson-Walker •, (Lon- >v. don), R. M. Gatcnby,. (Hastings), .T. - Adair .(Gisborne),.-H. ,W...Taylor, (Auckland), A. Bedenvell (Sydney), T; ■W. Waite' (Dunedin). P.;Ti Coimell;(Christ-. church), R. Wallaco.,(Cliristohurcli), J. B. Norris (Christchurch),Mrs.. }\ T . 1 Cooper (Masterton)', Mrs. F. •Ci Bunny : (Carterton), Mrs. G. -Perry. >lFeilding), . . - Mr. and Mrs. E. A.. Archer ■ (Christchurch). ■ • i