PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7263, 20 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Dr 'Martin, who is ill with septicaemia, underwent an operation yesterday, and is now progressing favourably.

The lato Bishop of Auckland, Br Keligan, leaves "Wellington for London ab uoou to-day by the. Tongariro. Mr Leslie Fell, L.N.C.M., lato of Weilington and Johnsonville, lias been appointed organist to the Catholic Church,' Hastings. Mr W. F. Massey is suffering from influenza, and will probably not be able to take his- place in Parliament for oi few days.

Sir William Russell lias leased a country house at Lewes, Susses. . He will probably spend the winter in the South* of France.

King George and Queen Mary's visit? to King Manuel of Portugal at Wood-' nortou on Saturday will be a private and unofficial one.

The Rev. Canon Stuart, Canon Ivens, and Rev., J, O. X ? itzgerald, of the Anglican mission, loft Wellington last evening for Christchurch. Mr H. H, TonijNsebt, manager of Toj Aro House, who with Mrs Tompeott had! boon spending a holiday in Picfcoa, haa returned ho Wellington. Sir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay, will be married on November 4th to Mrs Reynolds, widow of Captain Reynolds, Codnam Range, Eamp-» shire. *

Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart., was to leave England on October 14th, with Bs.dyl Gooch, on the s.s. Otway for Melbourne! and Now Zealand. Sir Daniel intendedl to mote a rounddhe-worid tour. Hr S. E. Wright, Napier, mil repre-! sent the Hawke's Bay employers ai; a sitting of the Conciliation Council to bo held in Wellington to-morrow to consider the saddlers' dispute. The Rev. J. Fergnsbn, formerly pi In* veroargill, and now of the Phillip street Presbyterian Church, Sydney, arrived by the Hoanla yesterday , bn a short visit to the Dominion. He went south by the Jlnraroa last evening. '

Pa&sengera by the Moana from Sydneyj yesterday included Mr E. T. Taylor, who returned fropr a trip to the Old Couni try; Mr James Doylo, chief city inspeoj tor; Captains Holm and Solvander, ondl Dr Hosting.

Mr H. floor manager of Olympia Kink, leaves AVellington on Monday for Auckland to make an at> tempt on th® sixty-nine hours’ continu-i pus skating record put up By pbkard all Sydney recently. Chief Judge Jackson Palmer will hold a sitting of the Native Land Court ntJ Hastings to-morrow, in connection with the partition of the Oinahu No. 2 block. He leaves Hastings on Saturday to attend the Native Appellate Court at Oko-i roire. .

Passengers who have hooked for London by the Tongayiro, jailing to-day, inJ elude the Her. J. A. Buttress. Mess re F. IJ. Weiss, if. G. McLellan. J. K. Bartlett, and j. F. Walsh (Wellington), Major , Cl X' Scott (Auckland), and Mr J. C. Sumner (New Plymouth). A Frees Association cable meeeago received from London, last night gtutea that 'Colonel A. J. Godloy, C. 8., tho newly-appointed Compwndant of t)w Now Zealand Forces, hae been gazetted to the rank of Major-General while IN tho Dominion.

Notts was roccdved fry cable from London yesterday of the marriage of Mr'K.t H. Vassall and Miss Gwendoline Phase-’ Morris, second daughter of Mr R. CimsoM orris, "formerly "of Wellington. Md Vassal! was in New' Zealand with thd last team of English footballers? At the close of his engagement with Miss Nellie Stewart’s tour; Mr Oregon McMahon will join the Allan. Hamilton miinagenj.ent, and head, a comedy company'to play .‘t A Message front Mgjg, ? “The Two Mr Wcatherbys,” _ and o Vanity Pair. , ' This company will b« organised for-the small towns of the Oommonwealth and Now'Zealand. Miss Amy Murphy, the well-known Now Zealand vocalist, arrived from Syd-‘ ney yesterday by the Mcana. She baa been engaged for a concert tour of the Dominion. The company, which is un-| der th® management of Mr Charles A. Norman,' also includes Miss Mabel Fowler (dramatic soprano), Miss Edith, Nevili" (contralto), Mr Walter Whyte (tenor), Miss Nellie Black (contralto and violinist),'and Mr Louis Blitz (’cellist). The tour is tp begin ip Dunedin at thoi end of the month.- ’

With reference fo thp cablegram iron* i3risbp.no on Tuesday announcing the death of George Armstrong, a New Zealander, on the steamer Changsha, there is reason to believe, says a Press Association telegram from Dunedin, that the deceased Mr George Armstrong, formerly of Dunedin, who liad been in. the 'employ of the Parpoalc Dredging Company in tbe Philippines. Advice ■vyas reoeoyed that he intended returning by a boat" leaving two days before the Changsha, but inquiry by cablegram Ims elicited the information. that ho sailed by the Changsha. His brother, Mr Robert Armstrong,::, will leave to-morrow to interview the captain of the Changsha on the matter.