PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6052, 9 November 1906, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Bishop and Mrs Wallis leave for Sydney by the Moeraki, which sails frota Wellington to-duy. Mr H. F. Allen, secretary of the Wellington Industrial Association, returned from Christchurch yesterday. . The Hon. J. McGowan, Minister of justice and Mines, returned to Wellington from Christchurch yesterday morning. •' Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., has been appointed chairman of tho Manawatu Licensing Committee in place of Mr At. ii. Stanford, S.M. The Hon. Mr Garrard, of New South Wales, an old New Zealander, arrived ip Wellington by the Waikaro yesterday on route to Christchurch. Captain C. W. Todd, formerly of tho Union Steam. Ship Company, arrived.by the Waikare from Sydney yesterday on a holiday trip to New Zealand. Dr Findlay, chairman of directors of the “New Zealand Times” Company, who has been in Australia on professional business, returned by the ■Waikare yesterday. Mr J. E. March, Superintendent of Village Settlements, who has been in Christchurch during the last few days explaining the workers’ homes scheme to intending applicants, goes on to ■Dunedin this week in connection with iho same mission. At Diincdin yesterday the Presbyterian General Assembly presented Dr Kidoy, of Napier, with a ’portrait of himself in oil, and a purse of sovereigns, in recognition of his twentytwo years’ service as clerk and treasurer to tho Assembly. Dr Sidey asked that the portrait bo given to the convener of tho Theological Committee, to place with those of men who had left them. The following delegates are representing tho Wellington Presbytery at tho General Presbyterian Assembly at Dunedin: —Voting members; Revs. J. Paterson, Dr Gibb, t J. Tv. Elliott, J. Gibson Smith, J. Aitken, J. J. Bates, W. Woollass, W. Shirer, Messrs T. P. Allen, W. Allen, M. Ross, G. Troup, D. Finlayson, James Barry. Non-vot-ing members: Revs. W. Marshall, J. McCaw, A. Thomson, J. A. Brown, J. 0. Jamieson, A. T. Thompson, P. C. Rennie, W. J. Comrie, Mr J. O. Duff. Messrs Devlin, M.P., and O’Donoran, the representatives of the Irish Nationalist Party, who aro at present touring Australia, leave Melbourne on the 28th inst. by the Warrimoo for the Bluff. They will visit various towns in the, .South Island, and deliver addresses, and it is expected that they will bo in Christchurch and 'Wellington during Christmas week. A visit will be made to Blenheim from Wellington. On leaving this city for Auckland the envoys will travel by different routes, one visiting Mastorton, Hastings, Napier, and Gisborne, and the other Palmerston North, Wanganui, and Stratford. Messrs Deviin ■and O’Donovan leave Auckland ou January 11th for London, via San Francisco. Commenting upon the resignation of Air J. A. Kinsella, Chief Dairy Commissioner, the “Oarnaru Mail” remarks editorially:—“Mr Kinsella ought not . to go without some fitting recognition of the invaluable work ho has accomplished in tho interest of the dairy industry in Now Zealand. Notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary, there is no butter iu the British markets that surpasses in quality that from Now Zealand, nnd Mr Kinsella is mainly to be thanked for that. He has been so conscientious, so indefatigable, so jealous of his own and the colony’s reputation, that even Canada realises that she has some leeway to make up, and that this remote end of the world is forging ahead of even Denmark in tho quality of its butter. One of the Canadian Commissioners confided to a representative of this paper the other day that ho was delighted with the New Zealand products ho saw being sold in Liverpool. Not only was tho butter excellent, and quite equal to that, from Denmark, but tho mutton nnd lamb were delicious, and such as are only too seldom tasted.