PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7301, 3 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Mr Justice Chapman leaves this morn» ing for AVestport to preside nt tho session of the Supreme Court opening there next week. Since returning from Thorndon private hospital to his homo in Kelburne, Mr E. S. Baldwin has been suffering from an acute attack of pleurisy. His Excellency the Governor has conferred noon Contain A. B. Hislox>, V,X>(Betired'List), the rank of Major, with effect from . September 21st last. Mr E, Tregear, Secretary for Labour, left by tho Main Trunk express yesterday on a visit to Auckland. Ho will bo absent from AVellington about a week. General orders issued by the Council of Defence state that Captain C. B. Harton, Post and Telegraph Eifles, has been granted a certificate for tho rank of Major. Mr B. Arnst, champion sculler, left Wellington lost evening by the Dlimaroa for Sydney, where he goes: into training, lor the big sculling handicap , to bo rowed on tlio Parramatta in February." Mr AV. Pryor, secretory of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation, is. leaving on Monday evening for Dunedin, to attend a sitting of the Arbitration Court there. He will be absent from AVellington about a fortnight. At a largely attended meeting of citizens it was decided. to ask Mr J. D. Hull to contest:the Mayoralty of Christ-, church, and a requisition to him was signed by all present and is being largely signed by others, says the Press Association.

Out of -fifteen applications, the AA’anganui ..Harbour, Board. last evening selected Mr Peter Mclntyre as pilot and! harbourmaster. Mr Mclntyre, who ia captain of the Stormbird, has been trading to AVaugnnui for tho past fourteen years without accident, says tho Press Association.

During the supper adjournment bf the House of Representatives last night, the members of the Press Gallery took the opportunity of biddin g good-bye to Mr G. L. Gilmour, of tho "New Zealand! Times” staff, who leaves this morning for Sydney, via Auckland. Tho chairman of the. Gallery, Mr J. J. Grealish, in proposing the health of tho departing journalist, wished him every success in the wider field to 1 which he is going. Mr Arthur St. Clair, of the Bank of New South Wales, has been transferred to Sydney, He was a member of tho Thorndon Swimming Club . for some time, and is well known in musical; circles, having assisted as tnor in Mount St. Grard’s Church choir. Ho was also an old and prominent member ot tho Athletic Football Club’s committee., Mr St. Clair left by the Ulimaroa yesterday. ; .

Among the .passengers who arrived: at" Wellington ;hy; yesterday afternoon's Main Trunk train Was Mr L. S. Benjamin, managing director of, Messrs Ivronheimer, , Ltd., Melbourne, . and - well known in commercial circles 'throughout the Dominion., ... Mr Benjamin was for some years, in charge of Messrs,,Kronheiiner's interests in New Zealand,, relinquishing this‘position to take up his present one with thefirm. He will spend about a month! in New Zealand, returning, to Australia hy the next P. and 0. liner from Auckland. ■ Eev. E. S. Gray will leave Christchurch on December 15th. He has held the pastorate of the Oxford ;, terrace, Baptist Church for over eight years, and Teels that the strain of the work necessitates a change, k The church has granted liim furlough for nine months.' Kir and Mrs Gray will 1 visit Australia and 1 then proceed to India to inspect and report upon the mission : work being done by tine New Zealand; Baptist churches in; Brahmanharia and Chandpur. . • They .will afterwards go to England and America, where they will represent tho New Zeua land, churches at the Pan-Baptist Congress to bo held next year in X’hila* delphia.