PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 5, 7 January 1928, Page 15

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. On Wednesday evening, 11th January; t the Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson propose to leave Wellington for Dunedin and Invercargill and i»r an official tour of several districts in Southland. On or about 20th January Their Excellencies will go into residence M "Elmwood," Papanui road, Chrittchurch, for three weeks or a month, a«4 early in. March propose to pay their customary annual visit to Auckland^ where they will take up residence at Government House. On Tuesday next, 10th January, Their Excellencies will hold a garden party at Government House, Wellington. Those in possession of invitatlont for a similar function which was to have been held on the 22nd November last, but which was unavoidably postponed, are requested to regard the invitatious as holding good for 10th January. Mr. J. M. Samson was a passenger to Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday on! a business trip to Australia. Mr. D. Beese, chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Council, who ha» been visiting Wellington, left for the South' last evening. Mr. A. T. Davies, formerly of Wellington and well known as ex-president of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Council, was in Wellington for the recent championships, and returned to Auckland this week. Mr. J. W. Nancarrow, flying officer of the Eoyal Air Force, left Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday to return to India after a holiday spent in New Zealand. Mr. Justice Herdman left Auckland by the Marama yesterday, en route for England. He was accompanied by Mrs. Herdman and Miss Joyce Herdman. A Press Association cablegram from Hobart this afternoon announces the death of Mr. Edward Henry Butler, a prominent legal practitioner, . and former representative Tasmanian cricketer, aged 77. Word has been received in New Zealand of the death of the Bey. T. H. Darlow, M.A. For 25 years Mr. Darlow was the literary superintendent of ■the British and Foreign Bible Society, and edited their magazines the "Bible in the World" and "Gleaningß." As a writer his books have been well known over the whole Christian world.