PERSONAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6313, 13 September 1907, Page 4

PERSONAL

Honorary Veterinary Lieutenant-Cot* onel John A. Gilruth, principal veterinary officer to the forces, has been appointed veterinary lientenant i colonel.

Lieutenant J. T. Midgley, of the Canterbury Engineers, has been awarded the long service medal for twenty years one hundred and twelve days' service.

Mr G. J. Scott, the Deputy Official Assignee at Ifelmereton .North, who has been unwell for some time, yesterday left on a holiday trip.

Mr H. lan Simpson* chairman of the Hastings branch of the Farmers' Umofi, will be a candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat at next general election. Mr D. J- Corcoran, of Dunedin, haa been appointed secretary of the New Zealand Athletic Union, in place of Mr T. P. Gilfedder, resigned. Mr J. O. Arbuckle, who has been identified with the whole history of the Tuepeka district in Otago, is about to take up his residence in tho North Island. He was four years Mayor of Lawrence. Misses McGregor and Davey, who are going out to undertake mission work, are to»leave Wellington to-day by tha Miowera for Sydney, en route for Madras, where they will be stationed.

Tho late Mr Richard Mansfield, acton, manager, of London and New York, whose death was announced recently, was generally accepted in the United States as the greatest living exponent of Shake, spearian and classic plays. A song by Miss •A. Medley, of Wcl. lington, has been accepted by Booscy and Co., of London, and irill.be sungin England by Miss, Mildred Jones, of the Alban! Company, as soon as the present tonr is concluded,

An invitation from the Carterton Presbyterian, congregation to the Bov. Lawrence Thompson, M.A., of North Taieri, to become ite minister was considered by the 'Wellington Presbytery at a special meeting yesterday, and was forwarded to Mr Thompson. The tardy recovery of Miss Jessie Mselachian from tlie severe, illness .which prostrated her at Blenheim during tho past fortnight has necessitated cancelling the whole of the balance of the New Zealand tour. Her medical adviser has ordered Miss Maclachlan a period -of complete rest ere she can venture upon her Melbourne season, which is fixed for October sth.