PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15885, 5 April 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. .T. Hunter-Brown, of T 7airon, Hawkc's Bay, is staying at, the Grand' Hotel.

Dr. Raymond Balls arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Maheno. Ho is staving at the Central Hotel.

The Rev. Father O'Reilly, of Newcastle, was a passenger to Auckland yesterday hv the Maheno. He ls staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr. A. C. Hopwimd, of Quebec, is staving at the rand Hotel, having come to Auckland yestelflay from Sydney by thesteamer Maheno. The Right. Hon. Sir Henry Weedon, ex Lord .Mayor of Melbourne, arrived by the steamer Maheno yesterday. Sir Henry, who is staying at the Grand Hotel, is visiting New Zealand for the fishing season. [ Mr. Robert Bell, a proprietor of t.he lAshburton Mail and Guardian, has. says [a Press Association message, been ap I pointed one of the delegates of the New 'Zealand Newspaper Proprietors' Association to proceed to the International Press Congress to be held at the Panama F.xhi- ■ latum in San Francisu in July. ' Mr. Alfred A. Winslow. who has been Consul General for the f'nited States at Valparaiso since 1906, lias l.een appointed I American Consul! lonei al lor New Zen i land, in succession to Mr. .1. 1 Rrittain. who leaves by the Makuia to day. to take up his duties as l'onsnl-licneval for Australia. Mr. Wins!' was previously Consul General at Guatemala. Central j America, and at Liege, Ilelgitiin. Among the m<mhers of the erew of H.M.S. ' Formidable who wen- drowned lieu the battleship was torpedoed on New Year's Dav. was Midshipman Trevor Masters, eldest son of Mrs. \\. F. Slayter and her former husband, the late Lieut. Masters R.N. Some years ago Mr. and Mrs. Slavter, accompanied by the lie ceased, visited New Zealand, and spent a few weeks in Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. 11. M. Smeeton, who hare been on a world tour, returned to Auck land by the Maheno yesterday. They were accompanied by two children, the eldest daughter, Miss Edna Smeeton, having to be left at Sydney, owing to an attack of rheumatism. She is expected to arrive next week. Mr. Smeeton and family are staying at Cargen. Mr. War wick James Smeeton, son of Mr. H. M Smeeton. has served in King Edward s Horse, and was stationed at Ipswich. After l.ve months' service as a trooper, he received his commission in the Royal ! Field Artillery as second lieutenant. He I has been gazetted to the reserve brigade, from which troops are sent to the Continent, and may be there now. Almost »1! those in King Edward's Horse are uni versitv men, and they come from all over the Empire.