PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 377, 22 November 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the ■. Governor-Geuoral, Viscount 1 Jellicoe, will spend next weekend lit Waikauae, and on the Monday will :iiotor through Levin and Foxton to Marton, unveiling a war memorial at Rongotea on route. At Marton Ilis Excellency will board the Main Trunk train for Auckland and will later proceed to Dargaville to open the Trouson Memorial Park. He will return to Wellington on December 3. Viscountess Jellicoe will accompany His Excellency on his northern tour. Mr and Mrs E. W. Holbrook are returning to-day from a visit to the south. . Mr .1. G. 1.. Hewitt, Resident Comnii.v sioner of Uarotonga', arrived at Wellington by the Tahiti yesterday. The death has taken place at Trenthum Military Hospital as a result of war service of Lieutenant James Joseph Trainer. Sir Phillip -I'ro'.-tor, of London, was a passenger by tiie Tahiti, which arrived at Wellington yesterday fron. San Francisco, Mrs Nathaniel Payne, who was one of the oldest, and best known residents of Thames, died in Auckland recently. Dr I. I']. Paris. Medical Officer of Health for the. Wellington district, has resigned his 4 position, and ~ intends to enter private- ' practice. Mr S. P. McCallum, of Ashburton, the New Zealand Rhodes scholar, has arrived in England, and is to enter Hertford College, Oxford. Miss Early, who was matron of the Aotea Hospital, Cairo, is returning to New Zealand, and iviil reach Wellington about the 27th iust. Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Education) was a passenger for Wellington on the Main Trunk express this morning. Mr J. A. Nash. M.P., accompanied him from , Palmcrston North. Mr A. W. Eames, Official Assignee at Chrislchurch, will reiiro on superannuation at the end of December, at his own request, Mr Eames was previously senior inspector to the Audit Department, in which he had 30 yearn' service. The stewards of the Foxton Racing Club have presented Dr. Mandl, club surgeon for the past 14 years, with a handsome pair of binoculars, suitably inscribed, as a token of ' esteem. Dr. Mandl will be leaving Foxton • at an early elate. There died at the Cavershani Benevolent ' Institution last week Mrs Caroline Anderson, in her 97th year. Mrs Anderson was one' of the baud of nurses who went out to the Crimea under Florence Nightingale, and she aslo served as u nurse in the Indian | Mutiny. i The' Rev. Archibald E. Hunt, of the I Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, i Wellington, lias been unanimousß received as a minister ol [he Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, without probation, by the j General Assembly now sitting in Dunedin. 1 The death has occurred at Greymouth at , the age ol 85 years of Mr Clement Paifitt, < a pioneer of the district, who has been a i prominent investor in gold-mining and a i member of various local bodies. Mr W I Parfitt, Deputy-Mayor of Greymouth, is a son of deceased. 1 The death is announced of Mrs Hancock, j an old resident of Wellington, who passed away yesterday after a short illness. Tho [ deceased lady arrived in Wellington with her husband, the late Mr John Hancock, J in the Ship Star of India in November, ' 1874. and had resided in Wellington ever . since. ,'

Professor MacMillan Brown, of Christchurch, will be the guest of the officers of the. Chilian training ship General Bai'qucdano, which is leaving Wellington to-day tor Chile, accompanying the vessel as far as Easter Island, which will be the sloop's first port of call on her voyage to Valpa rr.i'so,

Captain C. 'E. Fleming, superintendent of marine at Auckland, who is to retire at the end of the present month under the Government retrenchment scheme affecting officers over 60 years of age, was tendered a farewell by members of the Auckland legal profession and presented with a cheque for a substantial amount. Mr R. A. Anderson has been appointed Vice-Consul for Belgium in luvereargill. The appointment, which is the first of its kind to be made in Southland, with the exception of the Consul for Norway, stationed at Bluff, is in consequence a recommendation made by the Belgian Loiistil-Generai for Australia and New Zealand.

Seeing that the Power District Provisional Committee had concluded its work CV Oram slated at Inst night's meeting of ihe Borough Council that, he wished to pay a compliment to its chairman, the Mayor (Mr J. A. Nash. M.P.). The thanks of ihe ratepayers and the council were due to him for the energy and despatch with which ho had handled tho committee's business.

Archbishop Cattanco, Papal delegate for Australasia, who is making a tour of the Dominion, will arrive in Palmerston North early this evening from Napier. A special ceremony will be held in the Catholic Church" on his arrival, following which the parishioners will have an opportunity of meeting the distinguished visitor at a social evening. Mr M. Dennehy, who for five years past has been a member of the Grand Council of the Locomotive Euginedrivers, Firemen and Cleaners' Association, has resigned owing to ill-health, and at the E.F.C.A. smoke concert at Wellington on Saturday night he was presented with a silver tea and coffee service as a mark of esteem from the Wellington branch of the association. Sir Joseph-Ward returned to Wellington yestcrdav bv the Tahiti, accompanied by Lady Ward'and Mr Pat Ward. Ho was welcomed on the wharf by a number of members of Parliament, Legislative Councillors, and prominent eituons. Cheers were given for Sir Joseph, who, in acknowledging fhe reception, said he was delighted to be back in New Zealand. To pressmen he said he was well in health, but for the present he declined to bo interviewed.—Press Association.