About People

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19989, 4 November 1927, Page 6

About People

Mr A. R. Donaldson leaves to-day for Napier. He will return next week.

Mr B. L. Dallar, Controller-General cf Prisons, was in Wanganui yesterday and inspected the gaol.

The Rev. G. S. King arrived in Wanganui from. A’. asterton this week. He will be in chxtrgc of the Wanganui East Presbyterian Church.

Mr S. J. Collett, chief clerk of the Government Tourist Department was in Wanganui yesterday and leaves for Wellington this morning.

A Masterton message states that the Rev. E. O. Blauures, of Dunedin has accepta). a unanimous call to act ai> senior minister of Masterton Methodist Circuit.

A London message states th>t new Associates of the Royal Academy are Mr Francis Dodd and Mrs Laura Knight, who is the first woman associate for over a century.

The death is reported in a New York message of John Luther Long, author of “Madame Butterfly.” John Luther Long was born in 1861 and wrote “Madame Butterfly” in 189». Another play of his which will be remembered was “The Darling of the Gods,” in conjunction with David Belasco, in. 1902.

Visitors to Wanganui who are staying at the Rutland Hotel are Messrs P. Bennett, J. Franklin (Auckland), T. H. Black (New Plymouth), W. C. Crane, S. Innes Jones, F. Armstrong, A. Curtis, A. F. Jones (Wellington), L. Spcechley, W. Macdonald, V. L. Sinclair (Palmerston North), H. McLead and Honnor (Hastings) and J. ClarK (Napier). The following appointments to Gover-nor-General’s staff are gazetted: to be military secretary and to assume duties of private secretary, Captain Edward Patrick Ogilvie Boyle, Royal Scots Fusiliers; to be official secretary, Mr Albert Cecil Day, C.M.G., GJ3.E.; to be aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Edward Lindsay Orr-Ewing, M.C., Tfce Black Watch; to be assistant private secretary, Lord Waleran.

The Rev. T. H. Eccersall, who for the past three years has been stationed at the Wanganui East Baptist Cl’”rch, will leave this city on Wedncsd: xt for Otahuh. During his stay in ..anganui he has held positions as secretary and treasurer of the Bible in Schools Association, president of the local branch of the New Zealand Alliance in Rangitikei, and has been associated with the Ministers’ Associaton.