PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9594, 4 February 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Adjutant Frank Melksham, one of the most popular Salvation Army officers ever stationed here, was present at Commissioner Hay's meetiug iv Mastertou on Wednesday night, and was kept busy renewing old friendships.

Messrs A. E. Relf aud J. H. Board, cricket coaches at Auckland aud Napier, respectively, will leave for Loudon by the A*rawa on February 24th.

We are pleased to learn that Mrs A. J. Parton, who has been seriously ill in Wellington for some weeks, is vow convalescent, and will probably be able to return to Masterton in the course of a week or so.

Themissioners who will conduct the Auglicau Geueral Missiou iv New Zealand, accordiLg to a cablegram received by Bishop Wallis, will include Revs. V. H. Stuart, E. A. Stuart, Fitzgerald, Rees, H. Lillingston, Hepher, Tupper-Carey, Stack ley aud Horan.

A Press Association cablegram from Perth, received at 10.50 a.m., states that the Premier of Westralia (Hon. N. J. Moore) will leave on a visit to London next week. Hon. F. Wilson, Minister of Public Works, will be Acting-Premier.

A Press Association message states that Sir George Alexander Drummond, a member of the Dominion Seuate aud President of the Bank of Montreal aud a director of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and other enterprises, is dead, aged eighty-one.

Mr Anthony Wilding, the wellknown international tennis player, leaves Lyttelion this afternoon by the s.s. Ulimaroa, via the Bluff, for Melbourne, where he joins the Geeloug. He goes first to South Africa to play iv a teunis tournament at Johannesburg, aud theu ou to Eugland to compete in the championship at Wimbledon.

Miss Katherine Grey, Mr J. G. Williamson's newly-imported American leading lady, has made a great hit in Sydney in "The Liou and the Mouse. " Iv this play, which deals with "frenzied finance," Mr Julius Kuight appears as au unscrupulous American millionaire, but the role hardly suits him so well as those of the romantic and heroic order with which the popular actor has always been associated in Australasia.

English papers received by this week's mail coutaiu details of the sad motor accident by which the Hon. Archie Gordon, son of Lord Aberdeen, lost his life. A pathetic feature in connection with the fatality is that the deceased, who was only twentyfive years of age, was shortly to have been married to Miss Violet Asquith, daughter of England's Prime Minister.

Sir Charles Wyndham's proposed visit to Australasia early this year does not give much promise of eventuating, for the popular actor has entered into engagements which will keep him busy in Eugland and America for some time to come.

Mr J. J. Virgo, who is acting as uatioual secretary of the V.M.C.A. in Australasia, visited Victoria last week. He met the national committee iv Melbourne. The committee endorsed the proposal to have the next triennial conference in Wellington, New Zealaud, in October. The proposal to have au Australasian room in the Sir George Williams Memorial building iv London was also endorsed, as was the proposition to hold the inter-State tournament at Adelaide this year.

The Otago Daily Times understands that in the event of Dr Bell, Director of the Government Geological Survey Department, not accompanying Commander Scott on his expeditiou to the South Pole, Mr J. Allan Thomson, the first Rhodes Scholar from New Zealaud, is likely to be offered the position of geologist from New Zealand with tbe expedition. Mr Thomson is at present assistant to Dr McLaren in working out the formation of tne gold-beariug country of five of the principal mines in Kalgoorlie on penological lives.