PERSONAL ITEMS’

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 226, 12 June 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS’

Vice-Reg a*. His Excellency the Governor-Gene-ral, Viscount Jellicoe, accompanied by Cantatas A. R. Curtis and R. G. Southey, A.D.C.’s, and Sir Alfred Pickford, Boy Scouts Commissioner, arrived by the Main Trunk express from Auckland yesterday. Lord Jollicoo presided at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday afternoon, and on Thursday afternoon will open Parliament. Her Excellency Viscountess Jellicoe will arrive in Wellington from tho north to-morrow.

Viscount Ullswater, G.C.8., cousin of Lord Lonsdale, succeeds Viscount Chelmsford as President of the Marylebone Cricket Club, the governing taxlv of tlie game. Widely remembered as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1905' to 1921, Lord Ullswater is a well-known supporter of all sporttan activities. As a- cricketer, Lord Ullswater played on several occasions in the annual match between tho Lords and Commons.

Sir Harry and Lady Lauder, with Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Carroll, arrived from Auckland by yesterday’s express and went south last evening.

One of the most popular cricketers and cricket writers of his time, Mr. P. F. Warner, the old international, who visited New Zealand, recently underwent a serious operation in London for internal trouble. , ■-Owing to injuries to his knee, during his recent visit to Now Zealand, Air. A. C. MacLaren has resigned his position at cricket instructor et Old Trafford.

The death of Mr. Geo. Wilkins occurred on Thursday last at Wanganui East, after a long and painful illness. Born in England 68 years ago, he arrived in New Zealand with his parents at the age of five years, lhey settW in the Hutt Valley.. The late Air. Wilkins followed farming for 40 years in that district, and retired some ten years ago to Wanganui East. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family of three sons and four daughters. “On Saturday before the Chief Justice Sir Robert Stout, Mr. Ivor George Prichard was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court on the motion of Mr. E. S. Stafford. Word has been received from London that Dr. Sydney D. Rhind , h . as passed tho examination admitting him to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr C. C. Ddlin left yesterday mornin<r by motor for Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay. He is expected to leave Napier for Wellington about the end of the week.

Sir Alfred Pickford has accepted an invitation to be the chief guest and speaker at a New Zealand Club luncheon on June 20. The literary staffs of the three Wellington daily papers gathered together on Saturday evening to farewell Messrs. G. P. Natusch (“Evening Post. ), It. L. R. Marshall (Dominion), and L R. Freeman (“New Zealand Times )> who have accepted positions on the Daily Guardian/* about to bo established in Sydney. There was a representative gathering of newspaper men, and the guests were complimented by Alessrs. R. A. Loughnan, J. Parker, C. Weston, J. A. Shand, and H. T. B. Drew. Regret was expressed at the loss New Zealand journalism would suffer, but. it was a tribute to the profession and a tribute to the high standard of work done on the New Zealand newspapers that Australia should come here for its senior men. Messrs. Natusch, Marshall and Freeman replied, their speeches dwelling on the regret they had in parting with so many good friends and associates. Reference was also made during the evening to three South Island journalists who were also answering the call to Sydney, and to those New Zealanders already well established in their profession across the Tasman. A number of musical items added to the pleasures of the evening.