PERSONAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 110, 15 June 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Col. G. J. Smith returned from the north by the Maori yesterday. Mr George Rutherford, of Springbank, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace.

A Press Association cable message states that Mr Theodore Roosevelt has arrived in England and is staying with Mr Arthur H. Lee, M.P. Sir Joseph Ward arrived from the north yesterday and left for the South by the first express this morning.

Mr and Mrs W. P. Hambleton, of Greymouth, and Mr H. F. Moss, of Dunc<3in, are staying at the Clarendon Hotel.

Messrs E. W. M. Carter and W. J. Runciman, of Dannevirke, and F. W. Robinson, of Reefton, are staying at Coker's Hotel.

The Rev. T. Hamilton, vicar of Fendalton, will be" Installed as canon, in succession to the Bishop of Waiapu, at the Cathedral to-morrow afternoon.

Captain John Grigg, of the New Zealand "Forces Motor Reserve of Officers (Canterbury section) has resigned his commission. Mr J. R. Cullen has been appointed a lieutenant in the same body. Professor E. E. Prince, Canadian Commissioner of Fisheries, and Mr L. F. Avson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries to the New Zealand Government, left Christchurch for Wellington on Saturday evening. ... The Hon. W. Fraser, Minister of Public Works, is to visit the Kaikoura District this week. He will deliver an address on Thursday, and on Friday he will be driven round the district and entertained at a banquet by local associations.

Visitors to Christchurch who are staying at Warner's Hotel include MessrsE. S. Morley, W. I.Akroyd, and E. Boyd, all of Melbourne; Mr and Mrs H. M'Lean (Mt. Hutt), Mr and Mrs A. S. Orbell (Waikouaiti), and Miss Downie Stewart (Dnnedin).

Mr James Hislop, Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs,' passed through Christchurch, on his way to Invercargill, on Saturday. Mr Hislop is to meet Sir Hartmann Just, Assistant UnderSecretary for the Colonies and Secretary to" the Imperial Conference, at Bluff to-morrow.

Colonel J. R. Purdy, T.D., of Wellington, who has been Director of Medical Services since the establishment of the territorial system, has fulfilled the term of his appointment, and has been transferred to the reserve of officers. His successor is Colonel W. J. Will, V.D., of Dunedin. The Hon. J. Allen, Minister of Finance and of Defence, arrived from Wellington yesterday, accompanied by his private secretary, Mr F. G. Matthews, and left for Dunedin by the first express to-day with Miss Allen. Mr Allen will speak at Kaitangata, which is in his constituency, this evening. Mr S. J." Collett, Government Tourist Agent at Dunedin, passed through Lyttelton on Saturday on his way back to Dunedin. - Mr Collett has had a five week's trip through the North Island resorts, and has made good use of his time, and speaks in high praise of the excellent arrangements as now carried out by the Department. The annual report of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Public Service Association contains the following paragraph: —"It is with regret that we have to announce that Mr H. S. Cordery, chairman of the branch for the current year, who has been most untiring and energetic in his efforts to advance the interests of the branch, has been compelled to vacate the chairmanship on account of a breakdown in health, and we trust that his trip to the Old Country will completely restore him.''

Mr T. R. Cresswell, principal of the Rangiora High School, has been temporarily appointed, for six months, Assistant Inspector-General of Secondary Schools, Dr Anderson, who held that position, succeeding Mr G. Hogben as Inspector-General of Schools. Mr Cresswell will ask the Rangiora High School Committee for leave of absence for the period of his appointment. Mr Cresswell was previously on the staff of the Wanganui High School, and had also been a member of the staff of the Wanganui Technical College. Mr Fred Pirani, the Reform candidate for Wanganui, met with a serious accident this morning. While motor cycling through to Wanganui to address a Reform League meeting, Mr Pirani met a mob of sheep near Bonny Glen, four miles from Marton. He had passed through them safely, when a sheep doubled back and struck the cycle, which canted over on to the rider's right leg, causing a compound fracture between the knee and the ankle. Mr Pirani was brought on to Marton.— Press Association.

Mr J. M. King, who has retired, on superannuation, from the position of Commissioner of Taxes, is succeeded by Mr D. G. Clark. Mr Clark is a son of the late Mr George Clark, who was connected with the Lands and Deeds Office in the early '6o's, and who landed in Wellington in 1865. The new commissioner was born in Wellington in 1868, and joined the Department in 1885. He has served in the same Department ever since, with the exception of a year and a-half, when he was accountant to the Government in connection with the New Zealand International Exhibition at Christchurch.