PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

» I. VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool are attending the Wellington Racing Club's meeting at Trefitham to-day. Their Excellencies leave Wellington for Christchurch on Monday evening. On arrival they will be welcomed by the j Mayor of Lyfctelton, and at noon the i Mayor of Christchruch extends to them I a civic welcome and luncheon. In the I afternoon the Earl of Liverpool will lay | tho foundation stone of the King George jV. Coronation Hospital. His Excellency holds a levee at 4 p.m. During their stay in Christchruch Lord and 'Lady Liverpool will fc© the guests of Mr. A. E. G, Rhodes, Te Koraha, Merfvale. On Wednesday Their Excellencies leave Ctaristehureh for Dunedin, where they will receive an address of welcome from the Mayor and Councillors at the Town Hall. Lord Liverpool holds a levee on Thursday. Their Excellencies will stay with Dr. Liiido Ferguson. \ Lord and Lady Liverpool return to Christchurch on Friday next, and will ; attend the C.J.C. Summer Meeting on Saturday, retarding to Wellington on Sunday, 2nd February* : The Hon. W. F. Massey is on his -way ; to-day from Taupo to Rotorua, and the : Hoa. W. Frage* is at Cromwell. The Hon. F, M. B. Fisher returned from , Blettbeiia last night. The other Cafci* ' ne"t Ministers afe 1 in town. The flon. , W. H. Herriea will leave on the 28th inst for Hastings, where he will attend a ' banquet to Mr. H. M. Campbell, M.P., ,on the following day. He will visit Napier before returning to Wellington. Mr. A. A, Corrigan left for the South last night. — ' • The Rev. Fsthef M'Manus, of Inglewood, will succeed the late Father Cos* tello as administrator of St. Patrick's j parish, Palmerston North, I Mr, Herbert Stock, of the Now Zea- : land Tmeury staff, -who t eoently under* : wefli a serious Operation in Nurae : Luea&'« private hospital, id making an : excellent recovery. The Very Rev, Fathef Keogh, of Hastings, has arrived in Wellington to , attend! the annual retreat of the Marist I Fathers of ths Wellington diocese, which : commences on Monday next. The Registrar-General (Mr. F. W. Mansfield) has left for Tasmania to en* quire into the working of the Hare-Black method of voting at the general election which is taking place in that State. Mir. George Allport, Secretary for Marine, who went round the South Islarfd in the Hinemoa inspecting light' houses and attending to other departmental matters, returned to Wellington yesterday, Dr. S. Hardwick Smith (Medical Superintendent of Wellington Hospital), who has been granted leave of absence in order that he may revisit Great Britain, left for London by the Wakanui this morning. A Press, Association message from Gis« borne states :— News has been received of the death at Bombay yesterday ' of Mr. Percival Barker, a well-known sheep farifler, who 1 was returning to Gisbome from England, via Japan and India, after a honeymoon trip, lt> is understood that Mr. J. J, L. Borke, the Examiner of Titles and De< jrnty District Laad Begistrar at Wellington, has been approached with a view of his becoming a Candidate for a seat on the Public Service Appeal Board, which will shortly be constitutedin accordance with the Act of last session. Owing to continued ill-health, the secretary aad treasurer of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Mr. R. F. Cuthbertson) tendered his resignation at yesterday's meeting of directors. H« mentioned that he had occupied the position for almost thirty years. The resignation was accepted with regret, and Mr. Denniston Oathbertson was unanimously elected to the position at the same salary as his predecessor (£2OO per annum"). At the Anglican General Synod, which h sitting at Nelson, the following resolution was carried yesterday :— "That this Synod desires to place on record ite high appreciation of the services rendered to the Church by the Bight Rev. F. Wallis, D.D., particularly in connection with the Board of Theological Studies, which has benefited largely by his enthusiasm and life scholarships, and, further, that the Synod extends to Bfehop Wallis heartfelt sympathy with him in his continued illness, and praya that he may be restored to euch strength as will enable 'him to resume his work," A. motion expressing eatia faction that Bishop Neligan's health has been largely restored was also carried.

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