PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3330, 12 January 1898, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir John Hall has been laid up with influenza.

Mr Kernot left on a trip for the Sounds by [he Flora last night.

Before leaving Westport for Wellington the Rev Father Costello was presented with a purse of sovereigns.

The Premier suffered from a slight attack of influenza during his West Coast trip, but at last advices was quite himself again. Captain Anthony and Mr Williams were each presented with a set of pipes by tho passengers of tho steamer Rotorua on her Sounds excursion.

Mr J. Forster, Agent-General of Immigration, Fiji, is spending part of three months* leave of absence in New Zealand, where hia young family are being educated. Messrs J. G. L. Hewitt, W. G. Rid Jell, Paul Lemon, E. D, Mosley and A. U. Tonkinson, of Otago, have been notified that they have passed the final examination as solicitors of the Supreme Court.

Captain Babot, marine superintendent of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company in the North Island, who has been in very poor health for some time past, will leave for Lyttelton, en route for the Hanmcr Plains, today. It is to be hoped that ho will be ranch benefited by the change.

Tho Rev Thomas W. Rowley, M. A., who recently accompanied Bishop NeviU from England, has been appended tutor in addition to the warden uf Selwyn College, and assistant to tho vioar in the Dauecin Cathedral and district. Mr Kewley was under Dr Bradley at Marlborough, graduated at Now College, Oxford, and subsequently studied at (Juddesdon under the present Bishop of Lincoln

Mr James Allen, M.H R. for Bruce, who recently left New Zealand on a holiday trip to England and the Continent, will go first to Dresden to meet his wife and daughter, and m company with them will spend five weeks in Italy. After that a week will bo spent in Paris and a month in England. Mr Allen will return with h’s family by tho CanadianPacific Railway and the Vancouver steamer, along with Captain Russell, in time for tho opening of Parliament. In the course of an article by Mr Gladstone in the Melbourne dealing with the youth of Arthur Henry Hallam, the hero of “ In Memoriam,” Mr Gladstone speaks of Hallam’s contemporaries at Eton. Some of them were, ho says, “such in their calibre as to mark the period. One of them was George Selwyn, afterwards Bishop of New Zealand, and then of Lichfield, a man whoso character is summed up, from alpha to omega, in the single word ‘ noble,* and whose high office, in a large measure, it was to reintroduce among tho Anglican clergy the pure heroic typo.” It will b© remembered that some months ago Mr Arenas, a well-known Christchurch resident, took Home a thermometer for testing the temperature in the freezing chambers of steamers. In a report to the A gontGeneral, Mr H. C. Cameron,the New Zealand Produce Commissioner, refers to the invention, which ho says met with approval on all sides, from representatives of the Underwriters* Associations, meat importers and agents, and the shipping companies. Mr Cameron has been trying to assist Mr Arenas in getting the invention used on the New Zealand vessels, and it seemed as if there was every prospect of his efforts being successful. The thermometer was exhibited at Lloyds, and was to have been shown at tbe Shipping Exchange. Meantime it was placed on show at Jowin crescent in the city, but this was unfortunately tho very centre of a district which was destroyed by fire in Mr Arenas* absence* and the thermometer was destroyed. Mr Arenas had not brought the specifications for the invention from New Zealand with him, and had not determined what he would do about the matter at latest advices. Mr Cameron says it will be a matter to be deplored if he does not have another thermometer made at once.