PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14103, 3 July 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Minister for Justice (Hon. Dr. Findlay) has accepted an invitation to formally open the new courthouse at Cambridge. Lady Plunket will arrive in Auckland with her children by this morning's Mam; Trunk express, and will take up her residence ab Government House. Mr. and Mrs. N. MacNicol, of Wellington, arrived from Rotorua by the express last evening. They will proceed to Sydney by the Mokoia, on Monday. Mr. E. Clifton, director of the Government experimental farms, was a passenger by the express from Wellington yesterday. He will remain in Auckland for several days, and will stay at the Gm-ftd Hotel.: The Very Rev. Dr.',' Kennedy who 'is leaving St. Mary's, Meanee, to take up the rectorship of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, has received a presentation from the parishioners and others testifying to the esteem he has won during his 16 years'" residence in the district (says a 'Napier Press Association message). A memorial photograph of the late Huria Matenga, of Cable Bay, Nelson, who saved the crew of the ship Delaware, in 1863, and earned the title of the Grace Darling of New Zealand, was unveiled by the Hon. James Carroll, Acting-Prime Minister, at the Missions to Seamen institute last night {says a Wellington Press Association message). Mr. H. N. Holmes, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Y.M.C.A., has received a letter from Mr. J. J. Virgo, secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Sydney, stating that Dr. Chapman and Mr. Alexander, the evangelists, who are now carrying out a most successful mission in Sydney, will visit New Zealand within two years. Mr. Virgo will visit Wellington next September to assist in a series of in celebration of the seventh anniversary of the Wellington branch of the Y.M 1..A. Sub-Inspector Norwood, who has been transferred from Dunedin to Wellington, was farewelled at Dunedin yesterday (says a, Press Association message). Mr. H.'Widdowson, S.M.. voiced the satisfaction of the Bench at the manner in which Sub-Inspector Norwood had performed his duties. The able manner in which he had conducted cases showed how carefully they had been prepared, and His Worship "said he felt personal pleasure in congratulating the sub-inspector on x his transfer, which he took to mean an acknowledgment of his worth. Mr. Hanlon, on behalf of the legal profession, made several appropriate remarks.