PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 23 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cable announces the death : of Jb\ * Griffiths, a former champion ; wrestler, of New Zealand. Mr. C. O'Hara and Mr. D. Plowman, of this town, leave on Thursday via Wellington for a three months' tour of tho Australian States. Mr. James Kell, Inspector of the Bank of Australasia at Sydney, has been appointed deputy-Governor of tho Federal Bank. —Cable item. A private cable was received in Wellington last night announcing the death, in Sydney, of Mr E. J. Finch, late inspector "of the Bank of New South Wales foi New Zealand. i Mr Gordon L. Conrad, advance representative for the Plimmer-Denniston Dramatic Co., arrived in town yesterday to make arrangements for the company's -appearance in the Opera House Nov. 2nd "and 4th. After 19 years' service with the Auckland Harbour Board, 18 of which he i has been harbour-master and dock-mas-j ter, Captain A. Duder, harbour-master and chief pilot, has handed in his re- j signation on grounds of ill-health. — j Press Association. ! Miss Fraser, who has accepted the position of lady principal of the proposed Presbyterian Ladies' College in Hawke's Bay, has arrived in New Zealand, and is at present at Havelock North. The Rev. A. Grant has returned from a visit to Wellington in the interests of the college. Mr Grant reports that his Wellington mission was most successful, and that he received one donation of £100. New Zealand passengers by the Otaray, which arrived at Melbourne yesterday, are the Rev McLaughlin, and Messrs Moves. Midleton,. McEwan, Thompson, Reid, Cameron, Russell, Burgoyne, Busfield, Good, George, Galbraith, Hctherington, Harrison (two>. Jenkins, Laidlaw, Miller, Packer, Taylor, Whitmore, Ball, Hay ward, Deluen. Stratton, Tyler and T. Taylor; Mts,dames Moves, Walton, Gore, Reid (and two children), Cameron, Finch, Hether•ington, 'Harrison, Jfenkins, Laidlaw, Packer (and two children). Smith, Whitmore, Wood, Ball, Hayward, *tratton, Tyler and Wright; Misses Walton, Kerr. Burgoyne, Harrison, Laidlaw (2). and Taylor. There aio G2 in the th rd class.