PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16344, 26 September 1916, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dp.. Leslie Gould, of the Napier Hoj. pita!, is at present on a visit to Auckland. Cabled advice has been received that Captain Alfred Clark, of Auckland, has been promoted major. Mr. A. Hurt, jiin., returned to Auckland froii r visit to Wellington by the Main Trlink train yesterday afternoon. Captaii Bone, marine superintendent for (lie yew Zealand Shipping Company, arrived in Auckland yesterday afternoon by the .Main Trunk express. He is staying at Glenalvon. Monsignor Oillan, who last week visited the goldfields and Waikato. organising tile Catholic Federation in the towns of those districts, joined yesterday's midday express train at Frankton' for tho .South. Mr. Justice Hosking arrived in Auckland from Wellington by the ■ xpress yesterday afternoon. He will preside in 'the Supreme Court this morning at the t>ial of the five Maoris charged with complicity in the affray at Maungapohatu on the occasion of the arrest of the "prophet" Rua. Mr. A. A. Stuart Monteath, barrister and solicitor, of Wellington, died yester day, after a long illness, at the age of 65. Mr. Monteath, who was president of the Moderate League, was at one time manager of the National Dank at Reefton. Some years ago he was member of Parliament for Inangahua and Te Arc, Wellington. Mr. J. J. Virgo, field secretary •.« the British National Council of the Y.M.C.A., arrived in Auckland yesterday hum Sydney by the Westralia. Owing to the late arrival of the vessel it was nearly 5 p.m. when Mr. Virgo landed. He was' formally welcomed at, the wharf by Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P. In the evening he addressed the members of the local branch of t'ao association, and afterwards spoke at a public meeting held at tho Town Hall. Mr. Virgo will leave for Kotorua by the express this morning en route for tho South. His New Zealand tour will occupy about a fortnight, and he will be accompanied thereon by Mr. E. C. Brownell, national secretary for New Zealand of tho Y.M.C.A.