PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16479, 19 February 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Bishop Nevill left for Wellington last night.

Major Murray arrived from the north yesterday.

Canon Garland left for Wellington last night.

Mr G. W. Davidson arrived from the north yesterday.

Mr W. Reynolds arrived from Wet lington yesterday. \ "

Canon Sedgwick, bishop elect of Waiapu left for Napier last night.

Archdeacon Woodford left for tho north last evening.

Messrs J. H. Boyd and C. W. Adamß left for Wellington last evening.

Mr A. W. M'Kenzie, of Glasgow, arrived in Christchurch yesterday.

Colonel S. Newell (vVsllington) an:iv*d in Christchurch last night from Te> muka.

The Hon W. A. Holman, Premier of New South Wales, and Mrs Holman arrived from the north yesterday.

Mr and Mrs J. P. Wellwood, of Hastings, are at present visiting Christchurch. : ;

Mr J. Blair Mason, engineer to the Otago Harbour Board, arrived from the north yesterday.

Mr. A. P. Smith and Mr F. A. Gunderstin, of Hanmer Springs, are in Christchurch at present.

Mr J. B. Discaciati, of, Greymouth, arrived from Wellington by the ferry boat yesterday. ..,

Mr S. F. Whitcombe arrived from Dunedin on Tuesday night.and left'for Hanmer Springs yesterday. ' .'1; 3

Messrs H. Lee, C. A. Ponsford and W. G. Johnston arrived from. Wellington yesterday by the Maitai.

Mr C. Holdsworth, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived from Wellington yesterday.

Drs Ardath, Little, Levinge, Teichelman, Mather, Barnett and Perry ."arrived from Wellington yesterday.

Major-General Godley, Commandant of the New Zealand Defence i< orces, accompanied by Mrs Godley, arrived from Wellington yesterday.

Mr James Mitchell, managing director of Messrs Beath and Co., will leave on.March.s for.a business tour of England, the Continent and ARt/rica.;

Messrs G. A. Irvine (Wellington), H. M. Saunders (Auckland), A. E. Stephens (Sydney), F. L. Bower (South America) and H. D. Boys (Melbourne) arrived in Christchurch yesterday.

A cable message states that Prince George of Battenborg, who visited the dominion'last year as sub-lieuheaant in H.M.S. New Zealand, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant.

At a meeting of the "Sumner Fire Brigade held last night, Superintendent Carter was appointed delegate to the Fire Brigade Association's meeting fto be held at Akaroa nest month.

Mr E. T, Norris,. assistant registrar of the University of> NevrZealand, hi* been appointed registrar of Victoria College m place of Mr C. P. Powles, who will retire at the end of the month. Mr Norris was formerly headmaster of £ho Ashburton High School.

Dr M. Birks, medical superintendent of the Broken HiU Hospital, New South Wales, wb,o has-been attending the Medical Congress, 'is in Christchurch on a visit to his brother, Mr Lawrence Birks, engineer of the Lake Coleridge water-power works. Dr Birks will return to Syaney by the Moeraki, which leaves Wellington tomorrow.

Mr T; E. Y. Seddon, M.P., with Miss Seddon, was to leave Lake Wanaka, in Otago, this week, and ride over the Haast Pass to Okuru. From that, point,Mr Seddon will commence a tour of South Westland, and hopes to reach Hokitika in about three weeks' time. Miss Seddon will accompany her brother as far as Waiau, near the Franz Josef glacier, on the horseback trip, and from that joint will return to Hokitika and Wellington at the close of her holiday leave.

Sincere regret was expressed in local shipping circles when news was received of the death at. Parnell, Auckland, _on Sunday, of Captain Robert Guthrie Hutton, a master mariner, well known here. Captain Hutton was for many yeara in the Union Company's service, joining when the Red Funnel Line purchased the Island steamer Richmond (now the Haupiri), which was employed in the Island service out of Auckland. Later he was given command of the Navua, and called regularly at Wellington. He retired about two years ago. The late , Captain Hutton was sixty-one years of , age. . ; •' '

Mr B. M. Wilson, General Manager of the Department of Tourists and Health Resorts, arrived from Wellington by the Maori yesterday, and left for the South by the second express. Mr Wilson/ is on his way to inspect the new Hermitage at Mount Cook; after which he will travel overland, by way of the Copeland Pass, to the West Coast. He will go through to Reefton, and thence to Marina Hot Springs, which he will inspect, with •the object of reporting on the p'.ospects of opening them up as'a vev attraction for tourists. __ He will afterwards proceed to Nelson and Wellington. : -

It is stated that Professor David Starr Jordan, M.Sc., M.D., rector of the Leland-Stanford University, California, is to visit Australia early in March, and will remain some weeks. He will be primarily concerned with the affairs of his university, but he will five addresses on various subjects. Dr ordan is a director of the World's Peace Foundation, which was organised in July, 1910. He has delivered many lectures in Hawaii, America and the Far East, and during his present tour is taking the opportunity of giving a series of lectures in England, Scotland,, France, Belgium and Germany. ._ Dr Jordan has written copiously on various subjects—Eugenics, Peace, etc.—and his book, " The Human Harvest," and a collection of essays entitled "War and Waste," has attracted considerable attention in literary circles. Dr Jordan went to tho Far East with the object of studying the Eastern question at first hand. He visited Auckland m 1907, and delivered some , interesting addresses throughout the dominion ' upon university methods. ' «<