PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 238, 22 June 1926, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Chief Justice (Hon. C. P. Skerrett) has returned to Wellington from attending the Supreme Court sittings at Gisborne. Mr. Justice Ostler returned on Saturday from Nelson, where he presided at the sittings of the Supreme Court there.

The Rev. Father Mahoney, of Boulcott Street, returned from a trip to Australia by the Tahiti yesterday. Father McCarthy came back by the same steamer.

Judge Ayson, who has been on furlough in New Zealand for some weeks past, will leave for Rarotonga to-day bv the Tahiti.

Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Graham, of Sydney, are through passengers to. San Francisco by the Tahiti, which is to sail from Wellington to-day. Mr. Ward Lyons, the actor, whose death was reported from Perth (West Australia) yesterday, was a very well known performer in provincial Australia, and had made several visits to New Zealand. Comparatively late in life he made the biggest "hit” of his career, when, under the management of Mr. Philip Lytton, be played the title role in “Cappy Ricks,” a dramatisation of Peter B, Kyne’s popular novel of the same name. Mr. Lvtton is a manager who usually operates in the provincial towns, but with this success Mr. E. J. Carroll was induced to allow the play to occupy the stage of the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne, where it ran for some twelve weeks, with Mr. Lyons in the lead. Last vear the company came to New Zealand, with Mr. Lyons as lead, and in the course of a five months’ tour made a substantial profit. Mr. R. Moffitt, who has been manager of the National Bank at Te Aro, Wellington, for several years past, has received notice of his transfer to the general manager’s office, Wellington, to take up inspection duties. Mr. A. T. Kibbell, late manager of the Symonds Street branch, Auckland, will succeed Mr. Moffitt at Te Aro. Mr. John Hamer, manager for John Fuller and Sons at Dunedin, will leave on a trip to the United States by the Tahiti to-day.

Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Ryan, of Boulcott Terrace, are leaving for San Francisco to-day by the Tahiti for the purpose of taking up their residence there.

Mr. P. E. Teppena, Consul for the Netherlands and Dutch East Indies, who is proceeding on holiday to J’apeete is a through passenger by the Tahiti.

Mr. W. 11. Taitt (of . Wellington) left for Auckland last night. The death of Mr. Smith T. Greenwell, a Maori War veteran, aged 83 years, is announced by a Press Association message from Sydney.

Mr. P. N. Jeffreys, who is to succeed Mr. R. McK. McLennan in change of the Union Steam Ship Company’s trans-Pacific services department at Wellington, was a passenger from Vancouver to Auckland by the Niagara, which, a Press Association message states, arrived there yesterday.

Professor H. Stewart, of Canterbury College, has been appointed to the Chair of Latin in the University of Leeds, England, states a Press Association message. He will assume his new duties in October. He will succeed Professor B. M. Connal, a distinguished early graduate of Canterbury College.

Auckland passengers on the Niagara mchidcd Mr. William Backhaus, the noted German pianist, who is on his way to Australia, after which he will return to New Zealand. Air. Ronald Chamberlain, examiner of the Trinity College of Music, who will spend six months in the North Island; Stanislaus Zbysko, the world’s champion wrestler, and four members of tile Dunedin Rotary Club, who are returning from the Honolulu conference; Messrs. J. Fletcher, R. G. Hudson, H. Guthrie and J. Brown.—Press Assn.

New Zealand representatives of Paramount returned from the convention held recently in Sydney by the a s Tahiti vester’dav. They included: —Messrs. Reg. P. 'Davison (publicitv manager), T. Hanson (booking manager),' and W. A. KritiVh (of the Paramount sales department). Mr._W. W. Duff (general manager of Wellington), will return from Sydney at a later date.