PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 245, 31 January 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL.

h is understood that Mr J. R. Rood, K.O. f Auckland, is to he appointed a Judgi 01 tho Supreme Court.. spending a holiday at Blenheim. • n 'b'chan, an employee of the Wood ' honntv Council, was overtaken by t. sudden illness and died.

< ,-^ r 'R’d -drs Hope Gibbons have returni r to W anganui from their extended tour °1 Canada, Groat Britain, mid the Continent, journeying back via the Suez route. Cr. J. W. licanlnml, Deputy-Mayor o! Christchurch, has decided to contest the Mayoralty'of the city at the forthcoming ’municipal elections.

1 ho. death is reported of Prinee Peter •Aloxoivitcli Kropotkin, the Russian geographer, aged 79. Prince Kropotkin was secretary to the Physical Geography section of the Geographical Society. He had served several terms in prison, principally in connection with revolutionary publications.

! Mr F. V Frazer, late Assistant-Public Service Commissioner, was to-day sworn in bt Wellington by tho Chief Justice as Judge of the Arbitration Court. Ho will leave for Auckland next Wednesday to preside ,ot sittings of the Arbitration Couyt In that city.—Press Association. Mr Norman Wallace lias received advice from his father, Mr Jas. Wallace, who is at present on a tour of Canada, United States and England, that ho expects to sail on his return voyage to New Zealand on February 24th. Ho should arrive in New Zealand about (lie first week in April. A Sydney cable says: The body of Mr George Darrell, the veteran author and actor-manager, has been washed ashore on tho beach near Manly. He loft the home of a friend where lie lived on Thursday night. A note was subsequently found in the room, merely stating that ho had gone on a voyage. Deceased was over 70, and well-known in New Zealand, where he made his debut as an actor. Mr C. G Nanmann, of the staff of the Palmerston North Post Office Savings Bank, whose transfer to Wanganui was recently announced, left Palmerston North on Saturday for liis new sphere of duties. Mr Naumann was a prominent member of the Palmerston North Orchestral Society. Mr John Walton,, of Wellington, lias arrived in Palmerston North to take up tho position of district accountant at tho Post Office.

The Rev. F. H. Petrie, vicar of St. Barnard’s Church, Roseneath, Wellington, preached his farewell sermon, last night. After the service the congregation gathered around to wish him God speed in his new sphere of labour, and to present him and Mrs Petrie with tokens of regard. Mr Petrie is leaving for Feilding to fill the charge, ol Archdeacon Inness-Jones, who becomes vicar of St. Barnard’s.

Mr V. Thompson, ot the local Court staff, relinquished his post to-day in order to enter a missionary college in Wellington, his ultimate aim being to> carry the Gospel into Central Africa. When the Court rose shortly after mid-day to-day, th,e Magistrate (Mr J. L.. Stout) presided at a pleasant little event in. the solicitors library when the Court officials and members of the police force mot together to farewell their departing c'ollcague. On behalf of the police force Mr Stout asked Mr Thompson to accept an attache case and on behalf of the Court officials an umbrella with silver-mounted handle. Complimentary reference was made by Mr Stout to tho zeal Mr Thompson had displayed in his work in the Justice Dopartmont, and he expressed tho conviction that Mr Thompson would devote the same energy to the new sphere of work into which ho felt that he had boon called. Mr W. E. Cave, Registrar of the Court, Senior-Sergeant Fraser and DetectiveSergeant Quirko endorsed and amplified the first speaker’s remarks. During, his residence in this town Mr Thompson has boon an active member of the Salvation Army Band. To-morrow evening members oil that body and their friends will meet at a valedictory social in Mr Thompson’s 110110111',