PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7928, 11 October 1911, Page 6

PERSONALIA

His Excellency tlie Governor will pay a visit of inspection to-day to _ the various institutions of the Salvation Army in Wellington. Commencing at 10.30 a.m., Lord Islington will visit. the Army’s Shelter, then the People’s Palace, the Maternity Homo • in Thompson street, and the Children’s Home and Rescue Home in Owen street. ; He will be accompanied by Colonel Birkensnaw and Brigadier Bray. The death has occurred at Reefton, as the result of an accident, of Mr J. A. Montgomerie, for over thirty years district surveyor on the West Coast, Mr L. R. Phillipps, M.P. for U'aito mata, was yesterday granted seven days leave of absence from the House of Representatives on account of' illness, v The Prime Minister. Sir Joseph Ward, resumed his place in tho House of Representatives yesterday, and was heartily congratulated by members of both parties on his recovery from indisposition. Tho Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch 'Presbyteries have . nominated the Eev. A, Cameron, of Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, as Moderator of the General Assembly for 1912-13. ■■ Mr L. S. Jennings has been nominated from Canterbury College as the Rhodes scholar this year. Mr r Jemnngs has high scholastic attainments, and has made Jus mark in athletics. He is one of the foremost Canterbury tennis players.—Press Association. A Sydney cable message states- that Madame Melba, who had been indisposed and consequently unable to appear with the Grand Opera Company, has now recovered, and on Monday night appeared in “Paust,” scoring a splendid success.

The presentation of the Certificate or Honour conferred on Police Constable Sleeth by the Chapter-General of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem will bo made by his Excellency the Governor, Knight of Justice of the Order, at Government House, to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The following weird reference to a well-known Now , Zealander is taken from New York “Info" "Maggie Papa kura, the Maori chief, while besieging a British regiment in a native New Zealand fortification, learned that tho foe had run out of ammunition. He at once sent in a supply, so as to make tho fight a fair one. Maggie has since been civilised." The death is announced- at Dunedin of Mr S. H. Mirams, ex-city / surveyor, at the age of seventy-five years. He was born at Sheerness, Kent (Eng.), and at tho age of twenty sailed for Melbourne whore for some years ho was employed by a firm of architects and engineers. In ISC2 he arrived in Dunellii and became assistant engineer under the Provincial Government of Otago, retiring two years later to commence practice as an architect and engineer. He became city surveyor for Dunedin in 18C3, a position he resigned in 1901, when he became secretary to' the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board. In 1903 he Retired owing to ill-health.