PERSONAL

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11558, 20 February 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL

The Bishop of Nelson is absent from Nelson on a visitation to the West Coast, On Sunday he was at Greymouth where he held a Confirmation service at which forty condidates were presented for confirmation. Mr E. B. Burdekin has been appointed Registrar of Brands for the Nelson district, vice Mr A. T. P. Hubbard. Mr Frank Hurley, who has been connected with the insurance portion of Messrs J. H. Cock and Co.'s business ior some years, left for Wellington yesterday to take up a similar position with Messrs J. H. Bethune and Co. Mr Hurley has taken a keen interest in athletics during his lesidence in Nelson, having been Secretary for the N. A. A. and C. C. for some time, and also for the Nelson Football Club, in addition^ to being a useful player, and his services to those clubs will be greatly missed. MrZWilliam Turnbull, of the longestablished firm of Thomas Turnbull, F.R.1.8.A., and Son, architects, Wellington, has received the highest honour in the gift of the Royal Institute of British Architects, he having been elected a Fellow of the Institute at its last meeting. The Rev Dean McKenna, of Masterton, who has been on a visit to Nelson in connection with the Stoke Orphange, returned to Wellington by the Wainui yesterday. The Rev C. W. Gordon— better known as "Ralph Connor"— is devoting some of the royalties he derives from his stories to encourag' ing the Institutional Church Movement in Canada. 'Mile. Delores, most charming of vocalists, will revisit the colonies this year. Mr J. N. Tait, of Melbourne, has engaged her for a series of twenty-five concerts in Australia and New Zealand, commencing next August. Miss Doris Boulc, of Auckland, is at present settled in Brussels, where she hopes to spend a year or two, and perhaps three. Miss Boult is studying in Brussels with Charlotte Ruegger, a prominent professor of the violin. Very deep regret is felt among ministers and members of the Methodist Church on account of serious failure in health of the Rev. C. H. Kelly, President of the English Conference. All Mr Kelly's appointments extending to April, have been cancelled. Mr S. J. Flewellyn (formerlFof the Ship Hotel, Nelson), has sold out of the Alhambra Hotel, Wellington, to Mr Wilkinson, of the Princess Theatre Hotel. The Rev E. S. Ufford, who -vrote "Throw Out the Life Line," one of the most famous of the sacred songs which Mr D. L. Moody introduced into England, lives in Springfield, Mass. He wrote the hymn and the music twenty years ago, inspired by the sight of an old wreck halfhidden by the sands on the sea shore near Boston. The late Bishop Westcott, of Durham, gave four sons to the Foreign Mission Field, and one of these — the Rev Foss Weatcott— has lately been raised to the Episcopate as Bishop of Chhota Nagpur. Before leaving Cawnpore, where he had labored with much success, Mr Westcott was "garlanded with pink roses" by the non-Christian natives, who also presented him with an address recognising the great services he bad rendwred to their city.