PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 302, 15 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General has taken Mr.. T. S. Elworthy’s house- at Pareora, near Timaru, and intends to occupy it for a few months from December next. Her Excellency Lady Jellicoe and suite will be present at the initial performance of "Romeo and Juliet,” by the Allan Wilkie Shakespearean Company at the Grand Opera House to-night.

The Minister of Education (Hon. C. J Parr) has returned from a visit to Tokanui, where the new institution for the detention of criminal lunatics probably will be erected. The Minister of Defence (Sir Heaton Rhodes) is in the South Island, and is expected back in Wellington to-morrow. Mr. C. M. Littlejohn, of Oamarn, as visiting Wellington. At the gathering tendered to the All Blacks at Eastbourne last evening, tho Mayor; on behalf of the residents, presented Mr. E. Roberts with a silver teaset as a mark of their appreciation of hie groat performances as a footballer. Mr. Roberts feelingly responded. A Press Association telegram from Nelson reports the death of Mr. H. O. Ledger, aged 83. He was a leading Nelson resident. Appreciation of the services rendered tn Victoria College by the late Mr. J. G W Aitken was expressed at a meeting of the College Council last night. Mr. Aitken was at one time a member of the council’s finance committee, and his judgment and knowledge were of great value to the council. The esteem in which the late Air. James Kellow was held was testified to by tho large and very representative attendance at his funeral yesterday morning. Before the cortege left town a service was held at the Taranaki Street Alethodist Church, where a most impressive service was conducted by the Revs. H. E. Bellhouse and J. G. Chapman,' the latter delivering a fine eulogy on the character of the deceased, and the valuable work, extending over many years, which ho hud done for the Church. The service concluded with the playing of Chopin’s "Afarche 1' unebre by Mr. 11. Temple White. The chief mourners were the three sons of the de. ceased, Alessrs. Ernest, Albert, and Wilfred Kellow. Tho service at the graveside was supplemented by Masonic funeral rites, Air. Kellow having been an old member of Lodge Pacific. Those present included representatives from the commercial, professional, and Church circled of the community.