MORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 63, 15 March 1906, Page 2

MORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

The Hon. C. H. Mills is visiting Auckland.

Colonel C. Kitcßelteiy brother of Lord Kitchener, arrived at Wellington from'the North last week. •

Mr T. Mills, of the "Wellington Post," is spending a holiday in Ticton.

There is no truth in the v statement-.'• that General Babington is returning . to England before the conclusion oB '; his engagement with the New Zealand " Government in October next.

Miss Mary E. Richmond, daughter of the late Judge Richmond, has been nominated for the vacancy in tho Board of Governors of the 'Wellington College and Girls' High School.

Mr J. J. Guest, headmaster of ..Te<* Oreo re School, Masterfoii, has heen appointed to . the charge «of TeoneSchool, Chatham Island. The Chatham Island School is not under an Education Board, but is controlled by the Minister for Education.

Bishop Nevill recently stated that owing to his influence four ministers of other denominations had joined the Church Province of New' Zealand. One of them (the Rev. D. Jamieson, M.A.) preached at St. Paul's Cathedral. Dunedin, on Sunday evening. Writing at the beginning of last month, a London "correspondent says: —Dr. A: N. .Fell, erstwhile of NewZealand", who is unquestionably the best wing three-quarter that the Scot-' tish Rugby Union can call upon for their international matches, has been passed over in the selection of a team to represent Scotland against Wales. The only feasible explanation of the mystery is that Fell declined (quite* rightly) to play for Scotland against * Ins tellow-New Zealanders last November. With any. other union his -de-" .cison to stand out of the match against his own country would have been approved of and accepted as a matter of course, but the Scottish Union insisted on selecting him.despite Ins intimation that he did not wish to play. Fell was thus placed in the tui- % pleasant position of having to decline" a second time the unsought-for honor or a place in the Scottish fifteen.