PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. W. E. Hacxett, of Auckland, returned yesterday from a trip to Sydney. ' Sir James Carroll left Wellington yesterday for Gisborno in order to make a tout of his electorate. . ... Mr. W.J. Ralph, of Auckland, who is visiting Australia* will return to Auckland " by, the Makura 011 November 24. v Mr. Chas.' Shand, of Balclutha, Otago, who is visiting various parts of the North Island, is at present spending a tew dins in Auckland. .Mr Leo. M. Elvers (president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce) is at present confined to his house by an attack of. influenza. • Mr. F. P. Bartlev, a son of Mr. Walter Bart lev, of Ponsonby, arrived in Sydney from Shanghai last week, and went on to Melbourne. He has six months holiday, most, of which will be spent in New* • Zealand. Ho will be "in Auckland in about a week. Mr. Theodore C. Taylor, Liberal mem- • ber in the British House of Commons for the Radcliffe-eum-Farnworth division of Lancashire, and the head of a big firm of woollen manufacturers, is at present in Sydney, and is to come on to Auckland by the Malieno on the 15th inst. He is much interested in profit-sharing, which he practises in his own business, employing over 1400 workpeople. ' ' Mr- Cecil J. Ryan, a New Zealand baritone, who met with comparatively little encouragement in Sydney and proceeded to New York, via London, writes that lie has, after five days in that city, signed a contract.with Chandler to plav the- lead in a new opera called "Betsy." with Grace La Rue (who recently married Mr. Byron Chandler, the well-known millionaire) as the star. Mr. Alfred Decry, lately with "The Gay Gordons Company, has also "been allotted a part in the new opera " Betsy." Mr. Ryan, who is a Christchurch boy, lived for several years in Auckland,* where he was employed in the telephone exchange. * Concerning Mr. A. «T. Black, formerly of Auckland, the Theatre savs:— J. filack. at present with George Stephenion's Costume Comedy Company as musical monologuist, is a fully ordained Angliran clergyman. At the time he joined Mr. Stephenson, a little over three months igo, Mr. Black was—and had been for 12 . years . previously—disporting the cloth in Auckland. He took to the stage because he possessed exceptional gifts for his present lino of work, because lie desired a change, and because he could not see that there was any reason why his religious . roßvictiona should come into conflict with what he is now doing!"