PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13809, 25 August 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Major Shepherd. Sergeant-at-Arms ■in-the House of Representatives, who has lately been an occupant of a private hospital in Wellington, was sufficiently recovered on Friday, says the "Dominion," to leave for hi© home at Auckland. The Bishop of Waiapu, who has been offered the Bishopric of Auckland, returned to Napier from Wellington on Friday evening. He received & great many messages from all parts of tlie dioceso urging him to remain, but he will not decide what answer he will make to the Auckland Synod for a few days. A Press Association telegram from Greymouth states that Captain Connor, Harbourmaster, who has been seriously ill for the past week, is now in a precarious condition. Tho Rev. A. Macdonald Aspland, minister of the Courtenay Place Congregational Church; has received a unanimous invitation to the pastorate of Emmanuel Congregational Church, PalmeTston North, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. D. Hird, M.A. says the "New Zealand Times." Mr. Aspland will take time to consider the call. At the final sitting of the Counties Conference on Friday, Mr. A. E. Jull, of Waipawa, was re-elected president of the New Zealand Counties' Association, and Messrs. J. G. Wilson (Manawatu) and C. J. Harper (Ashburton) were appointed.! the vice-presidents. Votes of thanks were passed to the Hons W. Fraser and F. W. Lang, M.'sP., the retiring vSce-presidentis,; and to Mr. H. J. Richards, late treasurer, and the retiring members of the executive.

Mr Colin Maedonald Gilray, who was chosen as the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1907, and who has since been- in Great Britain prosecuting his studies, returned to New Zealand by the steamer Rotorua. Mr. Gilray is one of the best known of all the Rhodeß Scholars appointed from the Dominion since the inception of the scheme in 1903. His fame rests not only on his scholastic attainments, which are great, but also on his prominence in the athletic world. H« is a son of Professor Gilray, of the University of Otago, and he intends to practice law at Dunedin.