PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Joseph Ward left for Rotorua last night. Hon. A. M. Myers left for Auckland last night. Mr. Hugh Miller has been appointed Deputy-Registrar of* Marriages, Births, and Deaths {or the Carterton district. Mr. 0. E. Dempsy is gazetted a public auditor under the Friendly Societies Act. Chief Detective F.. Bishop, of Dunedin, will return to the South .Island tonight. Mr. A. M. Ferguson, Belgian Consul &y Auckland, was a passenger to WeL lington from London by the Tainui yesterday. Mr. W. J. Hindman, of the Napier State Fire Insurance Office, has been transferred to the Head Office at Wellington. Mr. C. E. Richardson is gazetted as acting Vice-Consul-of Russia, during the absence of the Vice-Consul, Mr. Ultan M'Ca.be. Mr. Arthur Clothier, officer in charge of the Valuation Department at Dunedin, is spending a few days' holiday in Wellington. Mr. F. W. Venn, of Shannon, who has been very ill, is now much better, and able to take motor-car drives in Wellington. The Yen. Anhdeacon Evans, of New Plymouth, has been offered and accepted the position of Anglican chaplain on board the hospital ship Maheno., Mr. Weber Todman has been appointed assistant-secretary of the Wellh»gton Hotel and Restaurant Employees'' Unionl ' Mr. Ashford (New South Wales Minister for Agriculture) is a passenger by the Makura (which left Sydney for Auckland and Vancouver at 5 p.m. yesterday), on a holiday trip to New Zealand. At its meeting last evening, the Wellington Swimming Club expressed its sense, of loss sustained by the. deaths 'at the front of Messrs. Lance Bridge and George Patterson.

Mr. D. C. Bates, Government Meteorologist, returned this morning from a visit to Auckland and the East Coast. He has inspected the meteorological stations at Auckland, Rotorua, Gisborne, and Napier.. . ' ■ . Mr. E. A. Simpson, formerly secretary of the Wellington Storemen's Union and the Match. Factory Employees' Union, has enlisted for service in the Medical Corps with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, and will go into. camp at Awapuni next week. Before he left Invercargill to take charge of the Vivian-street Baptist Church, Wellington, the Rev. J. k. Archer was presented by his late congregation with a purse of sovereigns. Airs. Archer received a silver epergne.

■ Mr. Robert Hogg, of the Bank of New South Wales, Masterton, who was seriously injured through a collision between his motor-cycle and a' train at the Upper Plain, is reported to.be progressing favourably. ... Mr. Alfred Leggatt died suddenly at Charleston, West Coast, on Saturday afternoon, whilst on his way to a funeral. The cause of death was heart disease. Deceased, who was 82 years of age, had been a resident of the district for fifty years.

Reference was made at the annual meeting of the Wellington Swimming Club last evening to the death of the Hon. John Duthie, who was described as an ardent supporter of the club. It was decided to' write a letter of sympathy to the deceased gentleman's relatives.

At the meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday, Dr.'Tolhurst was elected acf-ing-surgeon on tho honorary medical staff of the Wellington Hospital, vice Dr. J. S. Elliott. There were four arjplicants for the position. No applicaLlions were received for the position of acting-physician, and the appointment of a. successor to Dr. Robertson was left in the hands of the Medical Superintendent.

Mi-. 0. R. Williams, who for the last two years has held the position of salesman 'with Messrs. M'Kay Bros., Invercargill, and for three years previously was with the local branch of the' New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, has been appointed managing auctioneer with Messrs. Griffiths and Co.. Ltd., of Wellington.

Mr. W. A. Midwinter, a prominent member of Christ Church, .Coromandel, superintendent of the school and organist, a.nd a licensed lay reader, has volunteered for the front, and been accepted. Prior to his departure from Coromandel, the choir and congregation of the church presented him with a gold cross suitably engraved.

His Excellency Archbishop Cerretti, Papal Delegate, left Wellington hist night for Dunedin. Before leaving he paid calls on the Prime Minister, his Honour the Chief Justice, the Mayor, and Sir Joseph .Ward. While in the South his Excellency will visit the Cold Lakes, will later go on to Napier and Auckland, and liis fmal. oificial act in New Zealand will bo the Consecration, on 27th February, of Monsignor Brodie as Bishop of Christchurch.

The Wanganui Chronicle announces that-Dr. John Smyth. Principal of the Victorian Teachers' Training College, who is a New Zealander, serving the State here, first as; a teacher, then as inspector in the Wanganui district, leaving in the interim for English university training, then spending three periods of his.life V.in Germany,' finishing with an extended course at the. University of Jena, has been appointed the first Professor of Education to the Melbourne University.

The Rev. J. A. Rogers, 8.A.,, has been nominated for institution to the. incumbency of All Saints, Nelson. Mr. Rogers, who has been in the Nelson diocese for nearly three years, had a • distinguished career at Trinity College, Dublin. . He was sizar in 1906, and took classical honours and middle and senior grade Hebrew prizes, 19D9.. He won the Wall Scholarship in Semitic languages, 1910. He also was awarded the Salmon and Butcher prizes in Hebrpw and Aramaic. During the past three y^ars he has been examiner in Hebrew in tjie New Zealand University. Mr. Rogers was ordained in 1910 to the curacy of Stradone, in the diocese of Kilmore. For the past twelve imonths he has been acting as locum tenens for Archdeacon York at Greymouth, and he is at present officiating at All Saints, Nelson, until the retirement of the Rev. W. S. Lucas.