PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 305, 19 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association message from London states that tho autumn concert season is in full swing, and Miss Rosina Buckman has had a highly successful season. After assisting in Hereford at Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater,” she booked for Powell’s Celebrity concerts in all the principal cities, and Chappell’s Ballad concerts. She has accepted tho principal part in tho French opera “Arianne et Barba Bleu Lascala,” at Milan. It is (he first production of tho opera in Italy, though it is well known in Paris. Mr. C. S. Kensington, Crown lands ranger at Tauranga. is to retire from tho Government eorvieo at the end of September. He was appointed ranger in 190-1, and since then has been stationed at Tauranga and Opotiki. A Press Association message from Christchurch states that Mr. John (Miles Verrail, well known throughout the Dominion as a pioneer State Bank adv>cato. died nt his residence, Swannanoa, at the age of 72 years.

Air. F. W. Baxter, youngest son of Mrs. W. E. Baxter, formerly a student at Auckland University College, has accepted an appointment as assistant lecturer in English at King’s College, a branch of London University. Mr. Baxter volunteered for active service, and while nt the. front was given an Expeditionary’ Force Scholarship at Worcester College, Oxford. Ho secured the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Scholarship, tho highest Oxford prize in English, and later obtained his degree, with first-class honours in English Literature. Mr. 11. Frost, chairman of tho Auckland Rugby Union, who has been visiting Wellington, left for Auckland by tho express on Saturday. The Rev. A. W. Brough, who is making his third visit to Auckland as a deputation from the Ixmdon .Missionary Society, will arrive from Sydney by the Mahino to-day. Mr. Brough has been a resident of Southern India for 27 years.

Mr. Scott Colville, touring manager for J. and N. Tait, arrived yesterday from tho south to complete arrangements for the concert’s to 'be given by Mischa Levitzki, tho famous Russian pianist.