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Mr D. S. Binnie left this morning for Christchurch.
The Bishop of Nelson (the Rt Rev. P. W. Stephenson) and Mrs Stephenson are visiting the Buller district. Captain L. Crowe, who for the last 22 years has been master of the Marine Department’s dredge Eileen Ward, al Westport, retired on Friday, after 29 years’ service. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Long will leave on Thursday for Auckland, where he will attend the consecration next Sunday of the Most Rev. Father McKeefry, coadjutor Archbishopelect of Wellington.
The Bishop of Lichfield (Dr. E. S. Woods), who will represent the Archbishop of Canterbury at church centenary celebrations in Melbourne, will visit New Zealand this year, and is expected to visit Christchurch on December 21.
Sir Patrick Duff, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, and Lady Duff are returning to New Zealand, in the Port Phillip, which sailed from London on October 10, and is expected at Auckland in mid-November. —(P.A.)
Sir Bernard Lomas Walker, K.8.E., chairman of the West Riding County Council, Yorkshire, accompanied by Lady Walker, arrived by the Corinthic at Wellington yesterday. Sir Bernard Walker will spend six weeks investigating the administration of education, highways, and' health.
Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, ‘has nominated this year’s president of the Students’ Association, Mr R. H. Thornton, B.Agr. Sc., for a Rhodes Scholarship. At present Mr Thornton is engaged on a soil biology research project as part,of his course for the M.Agr. Sc. degree. Should he be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, he hopes to work at Oxford with Sir Howard Florey’s team of research workers and to study features of microbial antagonisms and interrelationships. Mr C. W. Ostenfeld, a son of Captain V. C. Ostenfeld, of the Anchor Company’s staff, and a grandson of Mr and Mrs W. Robertson, of Greymouth, has joined the Shell Oil Company’s staff, as a junior officer. He will service in the Pacific and the Atlantic as a junior officer with headquarters at Singapore. Mr Ostenfeld, who was educated at the Grey Main School and Nelson College, recently secured his second officer’s ticket.
The following are guests at the Albion Hotel: Messrs K. Leamy, G. Tiviss (Wellington), F. Allardyce, A. S. Richardson, G. Rowse (Nelson), J. Stewart, F. Simpson, J. Donaldson, L. R. Allan (Christchurch), J. H. Forbes, J. L. Gasson, Mr and Mrs Wilson (Dunedin), Miss A. Ramsay (Hokitika), Mr and lifrs L. E. Cam-den,-Mr and Mrs Harris (Auckland),
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