PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11215, 22 October 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Rev Wright (Oamaru) is staying at Coker's.

The Rev J. J. North returned "from Wellington' to-day.

The Hon R. Moore. M.L.C., left for Wellington last evening- • Captain Widdowson left for Wellington last evening; Adjutant and Mrs Carter left for Wellington, last evening. Mr M. L. Reading went south by the second expi-ess to-day. Mr J. B. Laurenson went north, by tho ferry steamer last night. Messrs R. R. Macmahon (Nelson) and W. Silver aro. staying at the Clarendon.

. Messrs A- W. Rutherford (Wellington), P. Neil (Dunedin), W. Preedy (Wellington) and J. Burt (Dunodin) arc guests at Warner's.

At a meeting of the directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company held yesterday, Mr A. W. Bennett was appointed general manager for the. colonies. .One of the-first New Zealandors to bo wounded in the war was Lieutenant B. C. Freyberg, of. the Royal Naval Reserve, who was in action with the British Naval Division at Antwerp. Private cable advice states that Lieutenant Freyberg, who received a in the arni, is progressing satisfactorily, and is now m London. His friends in swimming circles throughout Now Zealand will be pleased to hear that he has just been promoted to the rank of captain. Mr Raphael Rooho, who recently returned from Germany and Switzerland, after some exciting experiences, says that the war is popular in Germany, but tho hatred of England is almost beyond 'belief. The papers were full of the disgrace of Prince Lichnowsky, tho German Ambassador in London, who is said to have misled the Ivaiser about tho certainty of civil war in Ireland and the mutiny of the officers in the British Army, and also to have informed his Sovereign that Englaud would never declare V'ar on >)ermany. The Kaiser has refused to see him sinco his return, and his career is said in the German papers to bo 'closed.','

The hour record runner, Jeqn Bouin, was killed iu tho war. Bouin was one of tho fiuest distance runners the world has soon. His struggle with Hannes Kolehmainen (Finland) in the 5000 metres race at tho Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1012, in which he was beaten by a bfcie yard, was a sigat nnv.iT to bo forgotten 0y those who witnessed it. Strephon, of the " Athletic News," in _ commenting on tho race, referred to it <e ss the grandest stnigglo between distance runners I have ever witnessed. . . For tho first time for many years I was forced to cheer. I cheered the Finn; I cheered tho heroic Frenchman for his gallant clfort. If cvor there bo such another race may I be (present to see it." Bouin held innumerable French records, in addition to two wcjrld's records, viz., 10,000 metres (six miles 876 yards), 30min 58 4-sscc, and 15,000 metres (nine miles 564 yards), in 47 ruin 18sec.