PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 4 January 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

■ * ■ Mr L.,.0. Hooker and Mr Iv, A, Douglas left by car this moru .ig *::;. route for Masterton on a shoi\ hviiday. They will go afterwards w lington before returning to Huv.vv;v Miss B. Howard, of the stall • :-i ;!■-; telephone exchange at Mastertoii. is- -:-c a visit to her people at Manaiu. Miss Howard was for a considerable .:. c in ~the exchange at Manaia. A Press Association niessaj^ iron. l. Wellington reports the death ot JoL:i James Gamble, aged" 80 years, ;. -.veil--known citizen since 1864, and i\-r ;r-.-y years associated with the i-riu::zg. trade. The death occurred at Neii*;:i oiMonday morning of Mr John .V'uiculn.. Calder, at the age of 69, a- son oi ih^ late- James Bell Calder 3 and member of a well-known Port Nelson uuiiilj. Deceased leaves a widow and two Harried daughters—Mrs N. A. Veruoe, oi Nelson, and Mrs J. H. Thorp, of Mapua. The late Mr Calder was v prominent bowler, and was one oi the founders and a past-president oi the. Maitai Club, and was one of the' be^v bowlers in the districts I Archbishop Mannix, of Melbourne.. and Bishop McCarthy, of Sandhurst. will arrive in Auckland from Sydney on th« loth, inst., en route to Wellington to attend the ceremonies conected with the golden jubilee of Archbishop Redwood. The Apostolic Delegate for Australasia, Dr Catttmeo, hasalso arranged to attend the jubilee. The celebrations will begin on Sunday. February 24. j Lord Leverhulme, now visiting Wvi-> lington, has made a gift to the NevrZealand Academy of Fine Arts of an: oil painting by Ruth Holliugsworth,. - now Mrs R. S. Hellabv, of Auckland. The painting is entitled "Odette," and is a fine example of the artist's work. Lord Leverhuline presented a oicture - painted by Tissot to the Auckland Art Gallery. A London cablegram reports the? - death of the Rev. Sabine Bariiig- ( Gould, aged 90. Mr Baring-Gould was - vicar of New Trenchardj Devon, and T . owned an estate of 3000 acres. He has? - ; been writing steadily since 1854 novels, religious, and historical works. Many * of his novels were very popular. -Mcßt * of them dealt with Dartmoor and. i, North Devon, with whom the writer f was familiar. j The Right Rev. L. S. Kempthorne, the newly-consecrated Bishop of Polynesia, has reached New Zealand from England. He is at present visiting, his father, the Yen. Arch- , deacon J. P. Kempthorne, of Brightwater, Nelson. The bishop is a New Zealander by birth, and a former student of Nelson College -and St. John's College, Auckland. He will ■ leave in February for Suva, which is his headquarters. 1 A visitor to Wellington is Professor . W. B. Thomson, -of Toronto Univer- > sity, Canada. Professor Thomson ars rived via Auckland and Rotorua, and .is on a world tour investigating i methods of afforestation and botanical matters generally, which has already included Great Britain, South Africa, I and Australia. In comuany with Dr , Cockayne, hon. botanist" to the Fores- , try Department, he leaves for Christchurch and Otira,, subsequently pro- . ceedmg to Arthur's Pass to collect . specimens, and then coming on to ! New Plymouth, where he will continue the work on Mount Egmont. He goes north to Auckland in time to catch the Niagara for his return to Canada