PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7047, 8 February 1910, Page 7

PERSONALIA

Mr J. Lomas, Chief Inspector of Factories, is on a visit of inspection m the Taranaki district.

Mir H. S. WardeH has become a patron of tho Wellington Art Club, and has made a substantial donation to it© funds. Tho induction of the Rev, A. C. W. Standage to the Kelburno Presbyterian Church will take place this evening. Professor Marshall, of Dunedin, has booked passage for San Francisco, via Papeete, by th© Hauroto, leaving Wellington to-aay.

Miss Jessie Moore, 8.A.. M.Sc., of Dunedin, has been appointed to tho position of mathematical mistress at tho Napior Girls' High School. Tho Hon. D. Buddo (Minister of Internal Affairs) wall represent tho Ministry at the opening of tho Horowhenua A. a-nd show at Levin to-morrow. Th© Hon. G. Fowlde, Minister of Education, returns to Wellington from the South this morning. Yesterday ho visited Rangiora and inspected some of the schools there.

Air F. C. Raphael, secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council, will arrive in Welling ton to-morrow morning from Christchurch to be present at the welcome' to th© Australian cricketers. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, was visiting Lake Brunner and the Rotomanu settlement yesterday and went on to Westport by tho Arahura last night, returning to Greymooith on Thursday, when he will bo entertained at a banquet. It is understood (says a Press Association's message from Dunedin) that Air J. G. L. Hewitt, a local solicitor, has been appointed to the Magistracy, and that he will leave Dunedin shortly to take up duties at Hokitika. Mr Scott Symington, engineer to the .Christchurch Tramway Board, waa granted leave by the board yesterday (says a Christchurch Press Association message) to meet the special committee set up by the Invercargill Council to advis© regarding the power scheme for the Invercargill tramways. Last week, in the board-room of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Melbourne, Mr G. A. Bussell was presented, on the occasion of his retirement from the management of the Australasian branch, with a silver salver from the principal officers and attorneys of the company in Australia and Now Zealand, and a silver fern bowl from the staff of the Melbourne office. The presentations were made by the submanager, Mr O. R. Colquhoun (who succeeds to the. management). A pleasant little function took place at the Bank of New Zealand yesterday, when the accountant, Mf J. H. Mentiplay, on th© eve of hris departure to take up th© position dl relieving manager, was presented by hie brother officers with a silver ©alver, a set of carvers and a pipe in token of the esteem in which, he is held by thorn. The manager, in making the presentation, referred to Mr Mentipiay's long association vrith th© Welldjugton office, and while expressing regret at losing him, congratulated bun on his promotion.

Cable advice boa been received in Melbourne that Miss Tittoll Brune, the American actress, has scored another success in London. With Mr H. B. Irving's company she has made a successful appearance in the production of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," a dramatised version of the remarkable story written by the late Eobert Louis Stevenson. Hiss Prune plays the character of Lady Carew, and in the newspaper criticisms of the successful production of the play, her acting is warmly commended. Hr Thomas Ballinger, of Wellington, received a "wireless" yesterday from two of his sons—Messrs A. G. Ballinger and W. H. Ballinger—who are travelling from San Francisco to Papeete by the Mariposa. The message was as follows: —"Tropics. Well.” It was handed in to the office on the steamer at 2.10 p.m. lost Saturday, and sent to San Francisco by "wireless. It went over the land lines to Vancouver, thence to Doubtless Bay by the Pacific Cable, being finally received at the Wellington office at 10.5 a.m. yesterday. Both brothers are on their way hack to New Zealand. Mr W. H. Ballinger has been studying the higher branches of electricity at Home for the last three years. Mr W. N. Prayne, a well-known prospector, whose death occurred in an attempt to reaoh Tanaml (S.A.), had a long and successful career as a prospector in all parts of Australia. He was about sixty-two years old, and a bachelor. Mr W. B. Holmesley, second in command of the party, telegraphed: —"We failed to roach the -field via Treuer ranges. We got out sixty miles, and wore driven back. There was no water, and it was terribly hot. All the native walls 'and holes were dried up. Prayne, the leader, perished while trying, to locate water. We made' hack to the line of Barrow Greek- I had to leave the loading, and ride on, perishing, land as a last resort, cut the wires and went north, hoping to meet the linemen^for repairs. We got water on the road.”