PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7448, 24 May 1911, Page 6

PERSONALIA

Mr I E. Davis, ol .me Waihi Company, lias boon appointed electrical instructor at the Thames School of Minos. Mr James Mackenzie, Commissioner of Crown Lands, who has been indisposed for some days, is now much improved and expects to be at his office in a day or two. Mr E. Tregear, late Secretary of La-, hour, interviewed in. Sydney, stated that he had not yet decided whether he would enter politics or operate as a free lance with pen and voice in the cause of labour. On the motion of Hr 11. Buddie, Mr 11. E. Anderson, of Messrs Buller, Anderson, and Buddie, was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court yesterday by his Honor the Chief Justice. Tho Hons. J. Carroll, G. Fowlds, D. Buddo, and A. T. Ngata aro in Wellington to-day. The Hon. J. A. Millar is at Wanganui, Hon.' T. Mackenzie at Auckland, and Hon. 11. McKenzie at Lawrence. Mr I' 1 . W. Reid, director of the Karangahake School of Mines, has been ap-, pointed instructor in metallurgy and chemistry at the South'Australian School of Mines, Adelaide. ■ . Mr Anderson, late manager of the Timaru branch of the Hank ot New Zealand, succeeds Mr R. W. Halse as manager of the Hastings branch. The latter is entering into private business. It is notified that Mr A. Dauge has been appointed Consul of : Belgium at Sydney, with jurisdiction over the States of New South Wales and Queensland, the Dominion of New Zealand and tho British possessions in the Pacific Ocean. Bishop Julius, who met .with a motor oar accident a few days ago, informed a "'Press" representative that he was making very good progress towards recovery, his chief trouble, however, being a broken rib. Mrs Julius, on tho otner hand, ■ was still very feeble, and was suffering severely from shock. She was very much bruised and shaken, and a collar-bone was broken. At present Mrs Julius was in a private hospital at Timaru, and he hardly knew when it would be possible for her to return, to Christchurch. Mr Hector Mac Lean, M.A., M.Sc-, of Otago University, at present a student of tuc United Free Church Divinity College, Glasgow, has recently completed a three months' engagement as locum tenens at Belmont United Free Church, Glasgow. This pulpit is one of the most notable in the W-est End of Glasgow. Mr Mac Lean had to preach on Sabbath each month, and exchange on the other Sabbaths with visiting ministers. He had to conduct 1 tho weekly wayer meeting, and do the pastoral work of 1 the congregation. Hellas engaged to 'spend tho summer as assistant bo one of the ministers of the city of Inverness.