PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17113, 19 March 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. V. Of. Lamer relumed from WelWTfv ton yesterday. ™ t] Mr. G. L. Baseley, of Melbourne, it ft « l! the Grand Hotel . Mr. snd Mrs. Char ton Dawcon, of Cambridge, are at the Grand Hotel. Mrs. D. Benthron, who arrived in Southland in 1863. died at Invercargill fag week, aged 93. Mr. G. Fache, secretary to the War Pensions Board, is on a visit to Auckland. He is at the Grand Hotel. Dr. A. W. Averiil, Anglican Bishop 0 Auckland, left last evening on a tour of the northern portion of the diocese. Mr. J. T. Bishop, of the staff of the Magistrate's Court, Auckland, has received notice of transfer to Wellington, Mr. George Jobberns, 8.A., of Rlccarton, and Mr. Patrick Gallagher, B.Ag.Se., Melbourne, have been appointed agricultural instructors under the Otago Lduca. tion Board. Mr. F. W. HaybiUle. of Wellington, who has been on ambulance service it France all through the war, accompanied bv bis wife, is returning to New Zealand by the Athenic. Alderman R. W. Richards, who has been elected Lord Mayor of Sydney, tor? >. town clerk of Dunedin from the end c : 1905 until early in 1911, when be returned to Sydney. This is the third time that ho has been called to the Mayoral chair oi Sydney. I Among the passengers arriving bv the 1 steamer Athenic are Lt.-Col. Bettington, who was specially appointed by the War Office to advise the New Zealand Govern- ; ment on aviation matters, and Major Brandon, R.F.C., who brought down one of the first Zeppelins in England, says a Press Association message. Dr. Sadlier, Bishop of Kelson, is to leave England for New Zealand about the middle of this month. It is probable that Corporal H. Sadlier, who has been absent for two years on active service, will make the homeward journey with his father, and, a.'ter a short stay bore, return to England to enter Cambridge University,