ABOUT PEOPLE.

Southland Times, Issue 16688, 17 March 1911, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE.

A Wellington telegram states that the final list of mililar; appointments was promulgated yesterday as follows: —To be attached to the gem 'al staff, Major Hughes. Captains Richardson. Duigan, and Robinson, Lieutenant Thornton; to he "Assistant - Adjutant - General, Captain Chesney; Assistant - Quartermaster - General Captain Browne; Assistant - Adjutant, and Assistant-Quarter-master - General. Wellington District, Lieutenant Bosworth; Brigade Majors (mounted), Canterbury, Captain Barton, Otago. Captain Grant. Wellington, Captain Whyte; (infantry) Auckland, Lieutenant Melville. The Otago appointments are as follows; To be Adjutants —Mounted: Lieutenants Banks, Glendening and Hay. Infantry: Lieutenants Eraser. Hudson. Henderson and Richardson, temporarily attached to the district staff as inspector of senior cadets. Lieutenant Thoms; temporarily attached to infantry brigade staffs and to proceed later to England or 1 .dia for instruction. Lieutenant Burn; temporarily attached to district staff, Lieutenant Wheeler; area non-commissioned officers. Sergeant - majors Burgess. Catto, Alexander. Cuff, Donaldson, Edwards. Ivimey, Muir. McCurdy. McGrun, Stevenson, Wright, sergeant - majors of regiments and battalions. Conolly (mounted), Healey and Roberts (infantry). Some thirty members of the Invercargill Cycling Club met in the club-rooms last evening for the purpose of making a presentation to Mr P. Dawson, lately accountant for Messrs Thomson, Bridget" and Co., and now transferred to the head office at Dunedin, in a similar capacity. Mr R. B. McKay (President) stated that Mr Dawson had been an active member of the club during the past twelve years in every office except that of secretary, and the present position of the club was in a large measure due to his efforts. His departure for Dunedin was of such a hurried nature that there was not sufficient time to do anything, but now that he hud come back for a couple of days they had an opportunity, and lie asked .Mr Dawson to accept a case of pipes together with a billiard cue and case. Mr .1. McXamara (ex-President) also spoke in feeling terms. Air D. A. Mitchell asked Mr Dawson to accept on behalf of his holp-meot a pair of Doulton vases. Mr Dawson suitably replied and said be hoped to be able to entertain them when any of them came to Dunedin. Grand Master Bro. R. Armiger, 1.0.0. F., who arrived in Invercargill on Tuesday, has had a busy time whilst in Southland. On Wednesday he visited Otautau. and last night ho paid an official visit to the Pioneer Lodge of Southland. He loaves by this morning’s express for Dannevlrke, where he will open a new lodge on Monday next. He will attend the Grand Lodge Session at Palmerston North on Tuesday, and will assist at the opening of a new lodge at Wanganui on. the Friday following. Bro. Armiger will be accompanied to-day by I.P.G.M. Bro. Crawley, whose destination is Palmerston North, • where he will attend the Grand Lodge Session.

Mr Alex . Bissett, who is leaving Temuka to settle in Southland, was entertained by the Temuka Caledonian Society and presented with a gold muff chain for Mrs Bissctt, and also a silver afternoon tea set and silver tray. Mr Bissctt had been a director of the Temuka Caledonian Society for 22 years, and had been foremost in everything for the good of sport and the district generally. In acknowledging the presentation, Mr Bissctt said that if any of his Temuka friends visited Southland he would be very disappointed if they did not call on himself and Mrs Bissett. Sir James W. Black, of the National Bank at Port Chalmers (formerly accountant at Invercargill) who has been transferred to the North Dunedin branch of the institution, was bade farewell to by a number of citizens in the Council Chambers. Port Chalmers on Wednesday. The Mayor (Mr F. W. Platts) presided, and a pleasant social evening was spent, pleasure being generally expressed at Mr Black’s promotion and regret at his departure. A tangible proof of the high esteem in which Mr Black is held by the business and general community was presented during the evening, and after the recipient had made a suitable reply the gathering dispersed.

It is almost certain that President Taft and Mr Judson Harmon will be the only two candidates for the next Presidential contest, in the United States. The London correspondent of the N. 7j. Times writes on February 3rd:—Lady Stout enters next week upon a lecturing tour which will keep her constantly engaged until the middle of March. Her activities are divided between the work of the Women’s Social and Political Union and other “Votes for Women” bodies, and the British Women’s Temperance Association. She goes first to Sussex, then to Manchester and Blackburn, then over to Yorkshire and back to London, where she is to lecture in the Bijou Theatre on behalf of the Women’s Freedom League. Her programme is a very full one, and will keep her constantly on the move. Lady Stout tells me that, in addition to all hef platform work, she has to answer twenty letters a day on suffrage and tempera.-ce questions. and tills sometimes keeps her working until 2 o’clock in the morning. When her daughter leaves Rodean School for l, er holidays in the middle of March, Lady Stout will ->ke a wellearned rest, and go with her son, Mr O. E. Stout (now at Cambridge University) and her daughter' on a month’s holiday trip to Venice. Florence and Rome. Air J. Farrell, representing the J. C. Williamson Co., arrived in town last night to make arrangements for the production of "The Lion and the Mouse.” by Miss Catherine Grey, on Friday next. A London cable states that the Rev. John Lax, of Stainmore. Westmoreland, whom the Consistory Court recently found guilty of misconduct, has been deprived of his living. A Sydney cable records the death of the Rev. Dr Fraser, a prominent Congregationalist and principal of Camden College. London Truth says that Dr Wallis, until recently Bishop of Wellington. New Zealand, will probably be appointed Archdeacon of Wilts. and will assist the Bishop of Salisbury in routine work. A Melbourne message states that among the passengers ’■>■ the Arawa is Mr Samuel Turner, F.R.G.S., en route to New Zealand on a mountaineering tour. During the voyage he put up a world’s skipping record to keep himself in climbing trim.