PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18342, 7 March 1923, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

'Sir Robert Stout, ' Chief Justice,. fc«, i»^S turned to Dtinedin from Inv6rcargill. : Mr. H. N. Sewell, of Diinedln, Mid Mr C. Griffiths, of Rotorua, are at the Royal It Hotel. ■ -.' m>* Mr. W. E. Richardson, Mayc* of Northcote, has.left on a visit to New Plymouth, proceeding via Te Kuiti. , " " ', Mr. A. J. Wynne, of the "Siuiwi^ D*. partment, Wellington, leaves this ing for Whangarei. He is at the Central > : Hotel. Messrs. K. and A. R. Harton, and Mr. v •' E. Hyde, of Sydney, and Mr. J. .4" Smith, of Melbourne, are at the Grand -■? Hotel. « >- Mr. 3. A. Young, M.P., passed through.- i "'", Auckland yesterday on a visit to Northern] '■'& Wairoa. Ha will return at the end of '■'"■ this week. ''••••■' ;■ ;.^« Mr. R. Evatt, late of the Department•!•£ of Agriculture, is at present lying serf. *f ! J :; ously ill at the Brougham Street Hot- yV; pitai, Wellington, $3mk Messrs. T. V. Bishop and C. C. Odlin, of Wellington" Mr. S. Charlton, of Taupo, and Mr. W. S. Green, of Sydney, are at ?i"|* the Central Hotel. ~•;' 'Mm Mr. D. Aiken, general manager of the.■■■••■■'# Union Steam Ship Company, was a passenger for Sydney by the Maunganui3*|| from Wellington on Sunday. «.';;ifi Mr. Ashley E. Clayton, general i& manager for the Prudential Assurance'i Wt Company, Limited, left last night by the l| '•■■l Main Trunk express for Wellington. '■'■;:£. Dr. P. S. Foster has been granted tcmWim months' leave of absence from his duties on the honorary staff of the Christchurca |||f Hospital to enable him to visit America. iaJM Mr. R. W. F. Wood, town clerk of Otv | huhu, was admitted as a solicitor of the''v 1 ' Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Herdman *. ;'of yesterday, on the motion of Mr. Hog-||ij ben. -. i§Mm Mr. Justice Salmond, who prenided at ')M the quarterly sittings of the Napier %& Supreme Court, has returned to Welling--;-| ton, accompanied by his associate,/ Mr. J. Gamble. . , § " Mr. W. R. Cox, formerly of Canterbury College, his left for England. Mr. " Cox was awarded an exhibition tenable ■ f at the works of the Central Electrio Com- ; ||| pany. Birmingham ~-,, • Mr. L. R. R. Denny has been appointed fljl to the staff of the Christchurch Technical College. Mr. Denny, who is a graduate of Canterbury College, is at present .t-n'Cf the staff of the Fairlie School. .';^s| Messrs. H. A. Beauchamp, T. H. But- ' ler, Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. H. Gibbons, of Wellington, Mr. Eric Sterman, of Pal- :|gii merston North, and Mr. J. A. Neilson, of Napier, aw at the Grand Hotel. " ;|!p ■ •": &sij Major H. C. Grace, M.C., son of the%, late Archdeacon Grace, of Blenheim, and ||| nephew of Lieutenant-Colonel Grace, of |jC| Nelson, has been appointed, at the in- .■• stance of the Indian Government, tojangpl important post at the Court of the Gaekwar of Baroda, where he is acting as ad- v /£ viser and companion of the heir to the throne. Major Grace was educated i, at If f]| Nelson College, whence he passed into-.XI the Indian Army being gazetted ito ;!#$ Prince Albert Victor's Own Regiment of .^ ! Cavalry. All his military service in Indias has been with this unit, and with, it he served through the Mescpotamian 'cam-;";! paign, and was at the taking of Bagdad"! :■ and the decisive defeat of the Turks in & ' the neighbourhood of Mosul. Though h»JS]j was \ fortunate ?'n passing " unscathed through the ' campaign, be was badly in- 1 jured at polo during a gymkhana ■" held jfjjß when peace was declared,- and was in-'-'■:<£ valided u< .England for . a prolonged > '.'■■ . period- - Subsequently on returning to /lis , regiment he, was selected to fill tho post-.! referred to. h 'jM