PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15201, 15 January 1913, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Captain Raines, ;of Napier, is 'at present visiting Auckland, and is staying at I the Star Hotel. ■' Mr. T. Buxton, M.P. for Temuka and Mrs. Buxton, leave on a visit to England early next month. Mr. Douglas Archibald, meteorologist, is a passenger for Auckland by the R.M.b. Maloja, which is duo hero on Friday next. Messrs. C. A. Ewen and A. H. Turn- , bull have been appointed members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. '-•: Mr. F. V. Frazer, SJVL, will in future preside over the meetings of the Marsden, Kaipara, Manukau, and Franklin Licensing Committees. Dr. N. W. Murray has taken. the place of Dr. Makgill as surgeon of Mount Eden gaol. Dr. Murray will also act as police "surgeon at Auckland. The Rev. W. Beattv and Mr. W. J. Speight left Auckland by the mid-day express yesterday to attend the Anglican General Synod at Nelson. Dr. 'Valintinc, Inspector-General of Hospitals, arrived in Auckland yesterday in connection with the inquiry into the administration of St. Helens Home. Mr. James Paterson been appointed Vice-Consul of Russia at Auckland, with jurisdiction over the provincial districts of v Auckland, Taranaki, and Hawke a Bay. • Mr. A. Hobson was yesterday elected president of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board for the current year (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington.) The Auckland Presbytery last night . granted the Rev. R. L. Walker, of St. James's church, Auckland, eight months leave of absence to enable him to visit England.,' , . . ' The Rev. T. Carrie, of Kaitangata, has received a call to Manger© and Otahuhu. At a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery last night- the call was sustained, and it was decided to place it in Mr. Curries hands.. . ; • ' ■'■Mr. Evelyn Wrench, chief organiser of the Overseas Club, will return to Wellington from the South on Sunday next. He will be accorded a civic reception by the Mayor on Monday, and will remain in ;;;, Wellington for the rest of the week. * • The resignation of the Rev. J. Sutherland, home missionary at Dargavillc, was accepted bv the Auckland Presbytery last night. The presbytery appointed the Revs. D. D. Scott. W. Trotter, and W. McLean a deputation to meet the Dargaville congregation and office-bearers in con- . ference. ' v '• .■ .■•■ .-. [ ; ■ •-'"■■ Lord Plunket, formerly Governor of New Zealand, did not forget his friends on the West Coast when the occasion for the season's greetings came round. The Mayor of Ross was among those to be remembered, and His Lordship wrote a personal note, in which he .said: "I hope the mines are doing '■> well, and that the water is being kept down, and the hospitable and friendly town of Ross • flourishing. Remember me to my friends. I very Often recall my happy and interesting and un- >, sophisticated times on the West ' Coast. Kia ora.' - ,'" Rev. Father [Holbrook, administrator of St. Patrick's Cathedral, i leaves next r Frii day by , the ■P. ' and 0. steamer [; Maloja. upon a visit to the Old Country. He will leave i the " vessel at Port Said in company with Bishop Clnne, of West Australia, who joins the Maloja at Freemantle. The ,[ party propose visiting the 1 Holy Land, to Constanti- , nople and Southern Burope, and < attendi ing the Eucharistic Congress at Malta in April : next. They then journey through France to England, and to Ireland. ,* The return journey will be made through America. ; Father Holbrook : [expects to reach Auckland in the early part of 1914. In the concert chamber of the Town Hall this evening, an address will be pre- \ sented to : Father Holbrook, % and also a purse of sovereigns.