PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 100, 24 October 1913, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

' VICE-REGAL. His Excelietic'y the GoVertlof, Lord Liverpool, and the Couhtefes df Liverpool will attend the races to-morrow. EN Excellency will return frbhl Tferitham in time to attend the Boys' Institute Pageant at 3 o'clockj His Excellency tlie Governor and party will attend the 1 performance of Genee and the Eussian ballet at the Opera House next Monday evening. The Governor has hotified his acceptance of the position 6f patrori to the Rose and Carnation ClUb, ahd to the National Swefet Pea Scfdety\ ftfr the current year. Mr. J. S. BHfaHdeH. nianajer, DtlrildfJ Rubber Company, Jeft for Christchurch last eveilflg. Sir George Clifford, President of the Bating Conference, arrived from Christchurch this morning. Mr. W. H. Triggs, editor of the Christchui'ch Pi-ess, has beert re-elected a vicepregide'nt of the 1 English Institute of Journalists. Mtf. $. Ldmas, Secretary for Labour, is at present in Mastertb'H oti Workers' dwellings biieirfess. Me Is expected to return to Wellington tHM ev«iffiiig. Mr. P". Seiig, manager of 'the Ciiristchurch Press Company, who has , been on a visit to Australia, arrived in Wellington from Auckland yesterday afternoon. Captain John' Thomas Midgley, Corps' j of New Zealand iChgineers, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces officer's de'coi-atiori for a service" of 20 years 63 days. Mr.i J. Coyle, secretary to thfe Wellington Hospital add Charitable-* Aid Board, was yesterday gl-aritdd his anilUal leavei and will leave by the s.s. Maunganui to-night, eil route to Melbourne, via Sydney. The appointnieMs bf Mr. battles Hislop (Chief Electoral Qfficer), Mr. G. G. Hodgkirig (Deputy-Electoral Officer^, and Mr. W. \V. Codk (Registrar of ' Births, Deaths, aftd Marriages, Weriington) are gazetted. The Rev. James Gumming, bf WaiIcinai, South Island, has accepted a call to the charge bf the Onslow Presbyterian district in succession to the Itev. E. Inglis, who has gone to Auckland. The induction Will take place in Wellington towards the end of next month* A Press Association message from Dafinevifke states that Mi 1 . 8. Tansley, Who has* been Clerk of the CoUf fc at Dahnevirke for many years, artd wlio has retired Oft riiipei-anhtiatioh, \vas yesterday presented With a purse of sovereigns dtld iln illurniriated address by the townspeople in appreciation bf the way lie lias discharged the duties of his office. Mr. F. KershaW has. beeH appointed overseer to the Hutt Rivet Board, in succession to Mr. E. Fisher, who has' resigned in order to take a similar position With' the Palmefston-Kaifanga Paver Board. On Wednesday , evening Jlr. Fisher was the recipient of a presentation from the board's employees, as a token of the esteem, in which he was held. Corhmisidnef Richards, of the Salvation Army, on concluding his toUr in the South Island, will return to Wellington^ and later will leave for Auckland. On Sunday, 16th November, he will conduct services there, and during the following days will visit Paeroa, ) Thames^ Waihi, and Hamilton. The Commissioner wil) also devote one day to the" inebriate homes. The Chief | Secretary will accompany the Commissioner to Auckland, where he will be formally welcomed on 15th and 16th prox. Mr. Thomas Thomson, M.1.M.E., In spectoi* of Mines for the Southern District of the Dominion, has been appointed manager of the Waipa Collieries, Ltd.. at I'd Akate'a, in the Waikato, about eighty miles south of Auckland, in which Wellington capitalists are largely interested. Mr. Thomson has had considerable experience in New Zealand and British Columbia. In 19(57 he was appointed assistant civil engineer to the Westport Coal Company, and for the three succeeding years was ma-flager of the Ironbridge Colliery, bel6nging to the same company. He was then appointed Inspector 'of Mines in succession to Mr. Eobert M'lntosh, A.0.5.M., who for the past few years has been metallurgist for the Dominion Company's gold and scheelite tiiine, iti the ,Marlborough district, which is principally controlled by Wellington investors. Mr. Thomson hotds first-class certificates nrder Lhe Coalmines and Mining Acts, and is therefore competent to act as manager of either coal or gold mines. Mr. F. E. M'Kenzie, 8.A., who has been selected as the Wellington candidate for this year's Rhodes Scholarship is 22 years of age and the son of Mr. Kenneth M'Kenzie, sheepfarmer, of Kimbolton. He received his primary school education at Mangarimu, gaining a Junior Board Scholarship at the age of 12 years. He then worked through the Wanganui College, passing the matriculation and solicitor's general knowledge examinations in 1907. He was successively a farmer and a teacher until, ill WJ9) he passed first year Univeisity terms. In 1910 he passed the first section of the B.A. and LL.B. degrees. In 1911 he obtained the Teacher's B. Certificate, and in 1912 he gained the B.A. degree, witining the Senior Univprsity Scholarship in jurisprudence 1 , English history, and constitutional history. He also passed a section of the LL.B. degree in five subjects. This year he is sitting for the final of the LL.B., tho results of which will be available before the election of the Rhodes Scholar for 1913-14. He is also sitting for honours in political ecience. Mr, M'Kenzie lias been in the Victoria / College first fifteen for two years, is one of the leading boxing men, also being of the Tfoxuig Club. He is also a, successful competitor in the Hutt Valley and Mangarimu Pigeon Clubs, fie is a prominent member of the Debating Society, having spoken in the- Plunket M^dal competition, and is an active member in the tennis, athletic, rifle shooting, and shimming clubs connected -with S^tgria pnUfgej ' "