PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8181, 24 July 1912, Page 7

PERSONALIA

Tho Hon. R. H. Rhodes (PosimastcrJontral) returns from tho south, by the Maori this morning. Sir Arthur and Lady Guinnees left by ho Main Trunk exprebs lor Rotorua yesterday. They return next Tuesday. Mr G. London has been granted leave of absence from tho Hospital Board luring his holiday visit to Australia. Tho Hon. W. Fraser (Minister for Public Works) left by the Main Trunk xpress yesterday for Taumarunui and To Kuiti. Ho returns to-morrow.

A Press Association telegram, states that Mr G. A. Pix>er left Dunedin yesterday to assume duties as traffic super* iiitendent of railways in the North Island.

The Primo Minister (Don. W. F. Massey) and tho lion. W. H. Herries (Minister for Railways) returned to Wellington by tho Main. Trunk express yesterday.

Mr Martin, of Wanganui, who has been appointed agricultural instructor under tho South Canterbury Education Board, takes up his duties on September Ist (says a Press Association telegram from Timaru).

Tho Baptist Church, Ponsonby, Auckland, has decided to invite the Rev. J. K. Archer, of Napier, to its pastorate, which was vacated at the end of last year by tho Rev. Alfred North, who has become tho general organiser of the Baptist Union of New Zealand.

Mr Charles Wray Palliser, AatingIligh Commissioner for Now Zealand, and Mr T. E. Donne,, head of iho Tourist Department, were presented to the King on Juno 10th at a reception given at Buckingham Palace, as delegates of the Radio-Telegrapbio Conference.

Mr 11. Bromley, of Rotorua, has been appointed manager of the’ new hostelry on the northern slop© of Mount Egmont. The house is of concrete, and is now being furnished. It is to he fitted with electric light, and will be ready for the reception of visitors on Soptemt>er Ist,

Mr Tennyson Smith, tho temperance lecturer, has been ordered by his medical adviser to cancel all engagements in Australia. Ho has, therefore, decided to take a rest, and then return to England, where he hopes to resume his mission, Mr Smith met with an accident in May last, when ho fell through a coal-bunker hole on 'a steamer at Devonport (Tasmania), and from this ho has not yet recovered. Miss Eileen Castles left Melbourne for Euroue by the it-M.S- Moldavia last week." She will leave the vessel at Marseilles and join her sister. Miss Amy Castles, at Vienna. The two Australian singers will open at the Imperial Opera House, Vienna, in September. Miss Amy Castles, who has been appointed Court singer at Vienna, has entered into an engagement extending over five years with tho management of tho Imperial Opera House. Mr E. L. Outhwaito, who has just been elected to the House of Commons _ for Hanley seat, is a Victorian and a journalist. Some years ago he went to England and conducted the “Daily News campaign in favor of a land tax. In 1906 ho opposed Mr Joseph Chamberlain as Liberal candidate, but did not succeed. In Victoria Mr Outhwaite was associated with the late Mr Max Hirsch. Ho wont through the South African campaign as war correspondent.

Mr A. Gordon Weecho has been, appointed superintendent in Australia of the P. and O. Company, in place of Mr E. Trplawny, who has retired. Mr Weecho has been associated with the P. and O. Company for thirty-one years. He started in the London office, and afterwards went to Bombay t in the interests of tho company, remaining there for throe years. He has been associated with the Sydney office for twenty-three years, and during that time frequently acted as superintendent in the Commonwealth.

The Hon. Maurice Baring, fourth eon of Lord Revelstoke, is a passenger by the mail steamer Osterley, which reached Fremantle yesterday from London. Mr Baring, who is en route for New Zealand on a health trip, is a wellknown journalist and author, and was for several years in the diplomatic service at Paris, Copenhagen, and Borne. Ho acted as war correspondent for the "Morning Post" in the Russo-Japanese war, and was In Constantinople for that paper during the revolution of 1909, which unseated Abdul Hamid. News from London by the last mail shows that Mr W. D. Lysnar, ex-Mayor of Gisborne, is making excellent progress towards . recovery. He has placed himself under the care of Dr Richard, son Cross, a leading eye specialist, who holds out definite hope that with rest and treatment Mr Lysnar will soon be as strong as ever. • When free of the doctor, Mr Lysnar and his family purposo touring Lngland and Scotland by motor with, later, a short mn on the Continent. They hope to return to New Zealand towards the end of the year.

Madame Melba wiU leave Melbourne on August 7th for Europe. Mr John Lemmone, her Australian representative, stated last week that Madame Melba would proceed by the Otranto to Toulon, thence to Paris, to replenish her wardrobe. She would appear at Royal Albert Hall, London, on October sth, and make a tour of twenty-five English towns, finishing at Bradford, on December Cth. With her would be Ysaye, the great Belgian violinist, Wilhelm Backhaus, the eminent German pianist, and a new symphony orchestra, conducted by Landon Ronald. A communication had been received from Messrs Schulz, Curtains and Powell, Madame Melba's English representatives, who stated that the success of the tour, both artistically and financially, was assured. She had two magnificent offers from America for next year, besides the 1913 Covent Garden grand opera season. These inducements would prevent her returning to Australia in 1914 in all probability, and possibly she would not arrive before 1915.

A fish with a special Act of Parliament all to itself is highly interesting. Quite recently a splendid photo was obtained of the Pilot of the French Pass Pelorus Jack—and copies are now for sale at Sharland and Coy.. Photo Stores, Lambton quay, *