PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. M. M. Heinemann returned to Wellington , to-day after spending several weeks at Auckland and Botoma. The Bey. Father Uhlenberg, who has been associated witli St. Patrick's Parish, Mastbrton, for over'four years, has been transferred/to Kilbirnie, Wellington. Father Uhlenberg...will leave for his new 'station, in about throe weeks. Among the guests at the Grand Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Morritt (Napier), Messrs. G. Millar, J. B. Cruikshank (New Plymouth), W. B. Easton (Pongaroa), . G. Huggins (Dannovirko), and D. M. Millar (Hamilton). _ ' ■■* ■••■.■. ; Mr. T. C. List, proprietor of the "Taranald Daily News," arrived in Wellington yesterday from New Plymouth, and is staying at the Grand Hotel. . ■ p . ■ . Tho. Eight Eev. L. S. Kenrpthorne, Bishop of Polynesia, arrived at Auckland from Suva by the Aorangi on Sunday on a honeymoon, .trip to New ZJi--1 and and also to attend a meeting of General Synod in Christehureh. Bishop Kempthorne attended the Lambeth Conference and" "returned to the headquarters of his diocese at Suva- about a month, ago. ■ -~ . Mr. Hugh Hamilton, director of the Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd., Melbourne, accompanied by Mrs. Hamilton, is on the R.M.S. Monowai, en route to San Francisco. .They, expect to be away seven months,.and.will return via South Africa. Sir.. Alexander Boberts, Mayor ■ of Lower Hutt, informed his,council last evening that he had been advised that the operation recently undergone, by Fire Superintendent Slinn to .his eye had been entirely successful. Captain P. S. Peterson, who is retiring from the position of president of the Wellington Merchant Service Guild, was given a presentation by/ members of the guild last evening. Captain Peterson has been a member of- the guild since 190-7 and its president since 1925. . ..." Visitors to Wellington staying at the Hotel St. Georgo include Dr. and Mrs. W. Simmons (Connecticut, U.S.A.), Dr. and Mrs. Furnivall (Devon, England), Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Coulsell (Melbourne), Mr. and Mrs. Hudson (Dunedin), Messrs, W. Ladendorff (Sydney), D. B. Davies (Perth), H. Marehant (Auckland), T. Bedpath, N. Alexander (Christehureh), B. M'Bitehie (Edm* burgh), M. Braun, W. JvtaeLeay (Valparaiso, .Chili), E. Andrew, and K. Dempsey (New Plymouth). A motion of condolence with the family of the late, Mr. George T. London, was passed by the Petone Borough Council last night: The Mayor (Mr. D. M'Kenzie) ;said that anyone who had met Mr. London never forgot his animation and his intelligence. Before the age of twenty lie was a self-Tuade man. As a journalist he had industriously kept abreast of contemporary history, and had given the public .the wealth of his well-stored mind. His general knowledge was no less remark; able than the fluency and correctness of his conversation; Steadfast in all nis friendships, he- possessed the grand virtue of gratitude. He was : the friend of everybody, and easily earned the. title of "Nature's gentleman." :• ' Eeferenee to the death of Mr. S. A. Longuet was made at the weekly luncheon of the -Wellington Rotary Club to-day. The president, ■ Dr. F. Bowerbank, said that all must deeply regret the loss of Mr. Longuet, and feel the greatest sympathy for his family, including tho two sons, who so bravely went to assist their father. Mr. Longuet was a' foundation member of the Botary Club; he was/a pattern, in.many ways, wi>s loved,. by. his. Children and loved by his. staff; ';It- had', been agreed to arrange'a memorial to- Mr. Lbnguetj and the directors would shortly meet to consider the .form it.should take. Mr. Longuet .practised'"Rotary, and gave up his life to. save a little orphan girl. Those present stood while Mr. Harison Cook sang Home*'s* "Requiem to the well-known lines of Robert Louis Stevenson, "Under the wide and starry sky." > !:.