PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15174, 13 December 1912, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Bisnop Jvuus (of Christchurch), who is returning from England, has arr i> e 4 a Sydney. He will leave for New Zealand on December 28. * ;

(Commissioner Richards, of the Salvation Armv, who has been oil a brief visit to Auckland, left for Ashurst, en route for Wellington, last evening by the Mam Trunk express.

Mr. J. A. Young, M.P. for Waikato, is at present in Auckland, having been called to the city owing to the illness «»£ his only sister, who died yesterday, no will remain in Auckland for several flavs.

Miss C. A. Carrington. of bt. M<"y • College, Ponsonbv, the onlv Auckland candidate who passed in the higher thcoreti ; cal examination of the Trinity Col leg Mueio this year, gained her diploma m the art of teaching with 76 per cent, ot mar

Mr. Martin Chapman, K.C., a brother of Mr. Justice Chapman, is retiring from the firm of Messrs. Chapman, fckerrett, Wvlie. and Tripp, solicitors, Wellington. He* will transfer his share of the business to his present partners, and cease the practice of his profession.

Mr. J. M. Mennie. who recently donated a sum of £200 for the purpose of erecting a band stand in the Exhibition grounds, was accorded a vote of thanks by the City Council last evening. In reply, Mr. Mennie stated that if it was necessary the citv engineer had his authority to expend more than the sum mentioned.

Mr. E. W. Burgess.Who has just retired from the position of traffic manager of tho Auckland Harbour Board, after 42 years service, was the recipient this week of an afternoon tea and . coffee service and a suit and dressing-case combined from tho receiving stevedores engaged in business on the Auckland wharves. Mr. G. 'Winston® made the presentation.

The Bishop of Melanesia, tlw Right Rev. Dr. C. J. Wood, arrived in Auckland from his diocese by the Mission steamer Southern Cross yesterday. Ho was accompanied by Captain Maloney, the Revs. A. H. Hopkins. W. H. Sage, and F. H. Drew, and Mr. F. A. Crasbaw. Dr; Wood will remain in New Zealand till,' April next, when the Southern Cross will return to the Islands. .... V'"'

Ex-Judge Von Sturmer, of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, who arrived in Wellington by the Manuka on Wednesday, intends to" spend two months' holiday in the Dominion with relatives and friends on the west coast of the South Island, in Taranaki, and in the Auckland 'district. . Mr. Von Stunner, who was a magistrate at Hokianga in the old days, •was. a friend of Maning, the author of Old New Zealand," and of the late Mr. Jno. Webster. He went to New Zealand in 1856.. At. a gathering of members, of the New Zealand Association in Sydney, .who met last Friday to bid him "au revoir," Mr. Von Stunner's health was proposed by Mr. E. H. Montgomery (New Zealand "Government. agent in Sydney), and Mr. J. T. Lang," secretary of the association,, and enthusiastically honoured, the veteran relating a number of interesting reminiscences of Maori life in the course .of his reply.