PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13050, 9 March 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. P. Bond returned to Nelson yesterday Irom Quconstown. Lieut-Colonel Hawkins, \'.D.,().C'.D left by tlie Araliura yesterday ii'oniin<: on his return to Christchurcii. A Sydney cable says that the Governor, Lord Chclinsl'ord, is taking ii trip to England. The death is announced of Dr Douglas, of Quoc:if>to\vii, who «'as in charge of the Frankton Hospital from LSO-i to 1910. A Sydney press cable says thai Prince Leopold of Hattenberg, wht had been ill, has now conipleU-ly recovered. Tlip Key W. S. Lucas, .Mrs. Lucas and Miss Lucas are passengers by thi Patpcna, arriving this lr.ovning, m: tli>?ir return from the Old Country. Vice-Admiral Sir licdwortli Lambton has been promoted to the rank oi admiral, says a London cabto. The death is announced by a Sydney cable of Mr J. C. Xoild, an ex senator. Dr. AY. C. I'i'i-cival. of Cambridge. Waikato, ami Dr C. li. Si-'liuniakcr. formcily of Gisbornc havr been .-Appointed Government. meciie;il ofKters lit Raratonga and Nine respectively. Mr. Frederick Carrick, formerly j >•<)■ minout in yaehing circles, lias retired from the postal service on superannuation, after 25 years' servicf in Wellington, I'icton and Nelson. Mr. C. E. Nakler (an old Nel:;on resident) who has been District Land Registrar at Inrereargill, has been promoted to a similar position at LHinediu. J)r Frengley, District H'.-.ltli Office: Wellington, has been np|)ointed ;; c;!ical secretary of the Public Health Department. He has also been appointed senior district health ofiicoj- for the Wellington, idawke's Bay, Marilnrough, and Nelson districts. Mr I'1. A. Ik la Mare, of the staff of the Department of Internal Affairs, leaves on a trip to England next month. It is Mr. De la Mare's intention to be, present at the Empire Festival sports. The Hon. li. M'Kcnzie (Minister for Public Works) is accompanying Mr W. S. Maedonald ('member for the Bay of Plenty) over a portion of his electorate, and will then work down to Napier from Gisbonic over the route of the proposed railway. Dr Bell, late Director of Geological Survey in New Zealand, leases New Zealand on Friday next. He proceeds to Sydney, and visits New Caledonia, en route to England. From England he goes to Canada. Mr Peter Clarke, of tho Geological Survey oflice, accompanies Dr. Bell. Mr Edwin Doidge, editor and proprietor of the "Cootamundra Lineral" (New South Wales), is a visitor to Wellington (says the "New Zealand Times"). Mr Doidge was connected with the press at the Thames over thirty years ago. His son is now on tho reporting staff of the "Auckland Star." The Konian Catholic Archbishop of Wellington intends going to Perth, West Australia, to assist at the consecration of the Wight Ilev. Dr. dune, who has been appointed Bishop of Perth in succession to the lUght .Key Dr. Gibney, resigned. A Christclnireh press message says that at a gathering yesterday afternoon of representatives of local i'nnn implement manufacturers and also of firms in other parts of the Dominion, a presentation was made to Mr. A. P. Campbell (for the past seven years manager in New Zeal.and of Messrs Massicy, Harris1 and Co) who leaves to-morrow, for Auckland en route for Canada In acknowledging the gifts, Mr Campbell paid a high tribute to the workmanship and quality of New Zealand manufactured implements. A visitor to New Zealand during the coming year will be Viscount Campden., oldest son of the third Earl of Gainsborough. He is coming out with Dr. Charks Harriss' Sheffield Choir, of which body his sister Lady Norah Noel, is to be one of tho soloists. In 1908 Viscount Campdon received appointment to the British Legation at Christiana as Attache. He is a lieutenant in tho -sth Gloucestershire Regiment. He is in his 27th year. Mr. Charles Zaehariah, of the I'iiblis Trust Office, who was appointed district manager at New Plymouth a few month back, has received word of further promotion, says the "NewZealand Times", having been appointed district manager for the Public Trust Office for the whole of Taranaki. and reserves agent in charge of \\ vs.t Coast Settlement Reserves, with headquarters at Hawera. The late Mrs. G. Morcom, whose death occurred at Blenheim on Friday evening, after a short illness, was born in Cornwall, and cam© out to New Zealand by the ship Magnum Bonum in 18G3, landing in Nel'-mi. With the exception of a few months spent in that city, says the "Express" she had lived in Blenheim ever since. By her death the Methodist Church loses a sta-nncli adherent, who. in the early days, worked hard in the interests of tho church.