PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5726, 23 October 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lord Blanket returned from Nelson last night by tho Tntanckai.

The Right Hon A. J. Balfour, Prime .Minister of Great Britain, has been presented with the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh.

Air Gilbert Anderson, manager of tho Christchurch Alcat Company, arrived iu Wellington from Palmerston on Saturday evening, and went on to Lyttelton by steamer. Mr W. A. Bowie, accountant at the Public Works Office at Stratford, will leave in a few days to study medicine at, Kdinhurgh University. Air AV. Alois',ah, of the Stratford staff, will also leave about tho same time to enter Edinburgh University. During an interval at tho Wellington Racing Club’s meeting on Saturday afternoon, members of tho press handed the club’s secretary, Mr A. K. Whyte, a case containing gold-mounted cigar and cigarette-holders as a souvenir of Air Whyte’s connection with press representatives on the club’s old course. Tho members of Miss Jessie Alaobiehlan’s concert company returned to Wellington on Saturday evening from a incut j successful tour of tho West Coast and Taranaki. They left hy tho steamer for Lyttelton to appear in Dunedin, Timarii, and Christchurch before returning to Wellington. They will give performances in Wellington on November tlth and lOtli.

Afr R. J. Pauli, general manager of tho Ocean, Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Ltd., lias spent some weeks in Now /calami, one of tho results of his visit being to strengthen the local hoard, which will now consist of tho following:—Air Harold Beauchamp (chairman), of IJunna.ty.no and Co., Air Guy Johnston, of Johnston and Co., Ltd.; Air Arthur E. Pearce, of Lovin and Co., Ltd., and Sir Joseph G. Ward.

Three of tho members of tho Permanent Artillery who were injured by tho explosion at Fort Ballanco on November 2ml last —Corporal Petersen, Gunners O’Neill and Fordyco—are being retained in tho Permanent Artillery till next January, when they .arc to be brought up for a second medical examination to seo if fit to remain in tho service; tho other two men—Gunners Slines and Swoency—are to bo discharged, and any claim they may have for consideration will bo dealt with by tho Government. Mr 0. P. Davis, of Gisborne, has returned from a holiday trip to Vancouver, and is at present in Wellington. Whilo on tho Pacifio coast ho stayed for a time at tho famous Banff House in tho Rocky Mountains. The guests numbered about a hundred and forty, and included tho GovernorGeneral of Canada, Earl Grey. While at Vancouver Mr Davis met Mr AclandHood, formerly a well-known squatter in Poverty Bay. Ho had just arrived from a visit to Japan, and was bo struck with Vancouver that ho was thinking of settling there. A cable message from London announces tho death of Mr Philip Menncll. editor of tho “British Australasian.” Abandoning tho law in 1875 Mr Mennoll left England for- Australia, whore ho entered into journalism. Ho was for a timo a leader-writer on tho Melbourne “Ago,” and in 1883 proceeded to London, where ho represented tho cable syndicate controlled by tho “Ago” for tbo supply of British and foreign news. He revisited Australia in 1891 as special correspondent for the “Daily Chronicle,” in 1895 for “The Times,” and in 1900 for the “Morning Post.” Mr Mennejl was best known as author of “A Dictionary of Australian Biography.” Hio well-known war correspondent and lecturer, Captain Scott Harden, has been tho recipient of a valuable honour, namely, tho Order of the Red Cross of Japan. Tho news reached him at Ceylon from a brother at homo, where tho Red Cross, and the order in writing accompanying it, await him. Tho deed for which it was awarded was merely help and refreshment accorded to a wounded Japanese soldier on tho battlefield ; but tho act of humanity was soon and reported to headquarters and recognition has como from Tokio in duo course—but one more sign of tho completeness of organisation and genuineness of appreciation shown by tho Japanese in all their actions.