PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15027, 22 March 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

I General Richardson is expected to reach New Zealand about the 10th April. A London cable says that Madame Melba arrives at Liverpool to-day. Constable Berthelsen, who has been transferred to Tenui, will leave Nelson on Thursday next. Mr Philip Luseombe Hollings, barrister and solicitor, of Masterton, has been appointed a stipendiary magistrate, and will go to Blenheim, says a Press Assojciation message from Masterton. A Masterton telegram states that a prominent business man of that town in the person of Mr James Elliott died yesterday at the age of 64 years. Sir Aston Webb/ the well-known architect, has 'been elected President of the Royal Academy in succession to Sir Edward Poynter. who resigned. Major A. de B. Brandon, D.5.0., M.0., Royal Air Force, the "New Zea-i laivier who won world renown in success- j fully .fighting Zeppelin raiders in thej vicinity of London, returned to Welling-' ton by the Athenic. Mr Henry Herbert Wise, secretary of Wise's Directories, died at Dunedin last week, aged 45. He was tlie third son of Mr Henry Wise, founder of the directories, and under the title of secre- | tary, was virtually managing, director. iHe is survived by his wife ..and three children.

His Grace Archbishop Redwood celebrated on Monday the forty-sixth anniversary of his consecration as a bishop. He told the Wellington Hibernian Society ab their annual Communion breakfast that he had to get a special indult from the Holy See to be consecrated on St. Patrick's Day, ■which he had s desired on account of his long association with Du.ndalk College and generally with Irish people in their own country?

, The Rev. Joseph White, Presbyterian minister, has died at Levin, at the age of SO years t He came to New Zealand in the early 'sixties as a missionary under commission from the United Free Chxirches of England. After hording various important parishes in this denomination he joined the Presbyterian Church in 1887 and held parishes throughout the Dominion. He retired from active work in ISIO.