PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2220, 5 August 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The following received invitations to dinner at Government House on Monday evening:—Tho Hon. the Speaker ot the Legislative Colulc.il; the Hon W M.L.C.; Hon. B. Harris, W L.C.j Hon. J. G. W. Aitken, M.L.C.; Hon. T. Thompson, M.L.C: Mr.. H Olterson, C.M.G.; Mr. D. C. Bates, Mr.R. W. M'Villy, Mr. J. Cullen, Mr! l>. Robertson,! 1.5.0.; Mr. D. Buick, M.P.; Mr. L. M. Isitt, M.P.; Mr. E. P.Jiee, M.P.; Mr. .TV. Nosworthy, M.P.; Mr. W. B. Montgomery, Mr. & G. Twiss, Mr. B. M. Wilson, Mr. J. Einan Smith, Mr. -. G. Hogben, MA • Hon. J. Barr, M.L.C; Mr. TV. D. S. Mac Donald, M.P.; Mr. G. TV'. Forbes, M.P.; Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P.; Mr. H. Atmore, M.P.; and Mr. J. G Coates, M.P. A call from the congregation of St. David's, Petone, addressed to the Rev. A._ Bruce Todd (Geraldine), signed by 115 members and '44 nbn-comnruhicant members, was placed before a special meeting of, the, TVellingtoivPresbytery l?ycsterday,' arid, was"' sustained. It was agreed l that tie indnotion 'of the Rev Bruce Todd be held at Petone on Thursday, September ,3. ' : ' ■ ■' " .■ By the death on Saturday morning of Mrs. J. C. Doull, of Ponsonby, Auckland has lost another of her , early pioneers. The deceased lady, who was m her 77th year,'with, her late ihusband, Mr.. J. C. Doulj, arrived in Auckland by the Lord Burleigh 58 years ago\ At the time of the Maori.wars slio and her husband were living on a farm at Papakura. The deceased leaves a grown-up' family'of four sons.- .'. ' '". Tlie Hansard: staff has been strengthened by the addition to it of Mr. A. E. Briggs,' already a member of the Parliamentary corps of shorthand writers. Mr. Briggs has been one of the Committee reporters .to Parliament for some twelve years, and in times of pressure has on many occasions acted as a temporary, member of the Hansard staff. The Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon, pastor of Central Church, Topeka, U.S.A., arrived in Sydney from San Francisco on the Sonoma on Monday last, on his way to New Zealand as a Congregational Church missioner. has had a distinguished, career as a preacher and author. Mr. Sheldon was born at Wellsville,'New York, in 1857. He was educated at the Phillips Academy, theVßroSyn"' University, and ,tho Andover Theological Seminar}', and ordained *a ■. Cphg/egational ministor ■in 1886, and pasto/' at Waterbury in 1889. In tlio same year he"was made,pastor of tJie Topoka .Church, a' position ho has held ever since ; Mr. Sheldon is a prolific writer, and in the last 24 years has brought out 24 books, one of which, "In His Steps," aroused world-wide interest. Other publications include:-, "Richard Bruce" (his first book), "Lend a Hand," "The Miracle of Markham," "For Christ and for. the Church," "Edward Blake," "Tlie Reformer," and "The Good Fight."- In 1909 Mr. Sheldon edited. tbA ''■ 'Topeka Capital" for one week as a distinctive Christian daily. He is also the editor of- "One Hundred and One Poems of the'Dav," : published in 1896.