PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11000, 12 February 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

' Mr H.Mackay arrived from Wellington this morning. Mr.T. G. Wells, of Adelaide, arrived in Christchurch this morning. Mr P. Friedlander, of Ashburtnn, arrived in town la-st night. Mr 0. Kelleway, tbo Noir South "Wales cricketer, will arrive in. Christ-ehurcli'to-morrow morning. He is not ■with Mr A. Sims's team, as reported, but is visiting the dominion on. a business tour. Mr Nelson Stedman, an artjtfctie photographer well-known in Christchurch, has been engaged by the Wugiier Thirty Thousand Club to take, pictures of the many beauty spots to bo found in that locality. '" His Excellency the Governor arrived in Christchurch from Wellington todav. He opened the exhibition of tbo late Mr Van der Velden's pictures in' the Art Gallery, at 3 n.m.,, and he will present prizes at Christ's Collego this evening. I Among the visitors to Wainui-o-mata •with members of the Wellington City Council on their annual 'inspection of (that city's water supply wore Mr 11. R. ij Smith, town clerk of Chrijitchurch, and I'Mrs Smith, who are spending a holiday in Wellington, and Mr W. G. Scott, of Glasgow, who is touring Australasia. ■ Canon Sedgwick (Bishop-elect of Waiapu) will preach hia farewell sermon 1 at St Luke's Church'next Sunday evening. The Canon, .Mrs and Miss Sedgwick leave for Napier on Wednesday, February 18. Tlie consecration will take place on SuiWay, February 22, at the Napier Cathedral.

'(. Mr James Mackenzie, the new Un-der-Secretary of Crown Lands, Mr Wilmot, who succeeds bfini as SurveyorGeneral, and Mr W. F. Marsh, who is promoted to chief draughtsman at Wellington, were all, educated at the Otago Boys' High School, telegraphs the Dunedin correspondent of tho "Star."

'• .An energetic German named E. Ranft, who climbs mountains for his own is going to dig his feet into the sides of Mount Oook (M.L.) this month, says a Sydney ex- ■ change. He leaves Sydney with this intent, forthwith. ; Mount Oook is a hostile and . perpqrj'dicular animal, and few people rail from the top of it twice, i

■ Among the spectators of the orieket match at Eden Bark on Monday afternoon were th * Prime Minister (Right Hon W. F. and the Postmas-ter-General (Hon. R. H. Rhodes), They watched the closing hour of the match and afterwards met the two captains, Mr A. Sims and Mr L. G. Hemus, and the manager of the Australian team, Mr F. Laver, set afternoon tea.

Mr Roy Bajpall, member for St •George in the ;Ne-w South Wales State Assembly, arrived in Auckland from Sydney by the Maheno on Sunday on a health-recruiting trip, as he has lately suffered from a severe illness. Mr Big- . nail is an Aucklander by birth, being ,the eldest son of the late Mr Albert \Bagnall. At the elections in December he defeated the deputy-leader of the Liberal Party. The Rev Mr Job, who takes up his duties as pastor of the Linwood Congregational Church at an early date, is Australian-born, and served some years at the printing trade, after which ha proceeded to Cliff House Theological College. He then engaged in mission work in Peru, and two years and a half ago took up mission work at Kawhia, under the auspices of the Congregational Union, in which work he has met ■with much.' success.

The death took place at Waihopo . last week of Mr Edwin Cuff, son of an I old&Canterbury settler. The deceased ■ volunteered in July, 1869, to join the , Tararua (Thames) Rifle Volunteers for ' trie defence of Alexandra, Waikato, which was threatened by Te Kuiti. Mr . Cuff was a sergeant .in the defending ' company. Messrs Ibbctson, Hepburn I and J. T. Marshall, and Mr Nicholas Marsh, of Wellington, were also in the same company as Mr Cuff.

f Froyn the " Bulletin "•—Mr W. B. Soanttrott, who has made a habit of be- , ihg Mayor of Invercargill (M.L.), is passing through this waterside paradise , for the dominion. He is just back from a ten months', scamper on the other side, so 1 suppose he has been unanimously elected ex-Mayor by way of a ; change. The Madrilander is a land and 1 estate agent, and an old identity in the gusty town which David Christie Mur--13-ay wrongly credited with the most J southerly street lamp in the world. And | be said there was an intoxicated Scot (leaning against it. J. During 1913 Maorilander Wilding ' won the world's grass court tennis , championship at Wimbleton, the world's hard court championship at [Paris, and tho world's covered court championship at Stockholm. No other player has ever annexed the triple title tan the same year. , In the three congests Wilding lost only four sets—all, | strange to say, to 'French players. iM'Longhlin couldn't win a set against him at Wimbledon; but at Paris, where the champion had to "play through," Decugis won tWo sets and Gobert one. At Stockholm, where Wilding also j':' played through," he lost one set to Germot, in the final. If any tennis player ever really deserved the title of ' champion of the world, Anthony Wilding seems to be the man.—Sydney ."Bulletin."

A peculiarly interesting circumstance is mentioned in tho annual report of St Mark's, tho parish church of Kennington, London (says the " Guardian"). Dr Darlington, the vicar, states that at present lais only colleague at the church is the Rev Hoani Parata, who went to his. last Holy Week. Mr Parata, fie adds, is justly proud of the fact that he belongs to the great Maori race, and in July last ho was married at St Mark's to Miss Cowie, a NeW Zealand lady. Dr Darlington adds:—"My colleague is a man of such unique experiences and great capabilities that 1 feel we cannot hope to keep him her© for long before some indeIjendent sphere of work is offered to n'm."

| Mr Henry Bracy, one of the bestknown figures connected with the Aus-. I tralasian stage as singer, stage director. ; entrepreneur, and malinger in front or (the house, is retiring from theatrical life. Mr Bracy lias been -connected (■with the firm of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., j for the past eighteen years. The late Mr Williamson left him five hundred shares iu the company, and at a recent j meeting the directors came to the 'generous determination to pension their j old friend for life as from the last New Year's Day. Mr Bracy first arrived in Australia in 1874. His Inst stage appearance was as Fairfax in " The Yeoman of the Guard" at Bendigo, about six yea re ago. In March Mr Bracy leaves for a tour of America and ; England, but he will return to Aus'tralia. J In proposing the- health of the Wellington City valuer (Mr James Ames) at ike City Council's picnic at Wainui iCouncillor T. C. A. Hislop said that in ithe course of a recent conversation with iMv Ames that gentleman had informed him that he could remember when the City Council staff consisted of a head 'clerk, a junior clerk, and a message ,boy, all of whom were combined in—Mr i James Ames. When he had occasion |to visit the bank to deposit .some of the city's funds, he had to close the office, lost burglars should enter, and steal the municipal treasures. A few months 'ago Mr Ames had been asked to take a long holiday, but he did not remain 'away nearly as long as they were prepared to allow him to do. ' His strong :*ense of .duty impelled him to return to work as soon as he was a hie. In reply, Mr Ames said that he had been forty'bis years in the service of the Corporation, and hoped that he would be there forty-six years longer. He thanked Mr Hislop and the Mayor for the [honour they had clone him, but would : not make a long speech a-s ho had [promised his wife to go feniing. [.(Laughter).