PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, 1 July 1908, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES.

Dr. Chas. Gore, Bishop of Birmingham, has undergone an operation for appendicitis.

The death is announced of Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock, ex-Governor of Tasmania, in his 64th year. The Rev. W. E. Gillam, hon. chaplain of the Ist Regiment Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers, has been raised to the rank of Colonel.

Madame Clara Butt and Mr. Kennerley Rumford received a great welcome at the Albert Hall after their return from Australasia.

The many friends of Dr. T. G. Davy, formerly of the Thames and Auckland, will regret to hear of his death, which took place at Perth on June 1. Mrs Newall, wife of Colonel Newall, of Wellington, died last week. She was a sister of Colonel Roberts, formerly Stipendiary Magistrate at Tauranga. Mr T. M. Cunninghame, who has held the position of town clerk of Oamaru for 22 years, has resigned as from Ist January next, owing to failing health. Mr Owen James Hodge was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court on June 26 by His Honor Mr. Justice Edwards, on the motion of Mr F. E. Baume, K.C. The death is announced of Canon Geo. Goodman, formerly incumbent of Christ Church, Geelong, at the age of 87 years. For 50 years, from 1855 to 1905, he occupied the pulpit of Christ Church. Senior-Detective Bishop, who has been appointed chief detective of the Christchurch police, vice Chief-Detective Chrystal, who is retiring from the service, takes up duty in his new sphere on July Ist.

Mr Jas. Coutts,'late inspector of mines, who was well known and respected on the Thames goldfield, died last week. He had been manager of some leading mines prior to his acceptance of a Government appointment.

The Rev. Ralph Bray, assistant curate at Dunstan, Southland, has been appointed to assist the Rev. A. M. Johnson, viear of St. Mark’s, Wellington. Mr Bray, who is a young man, is a member of an old Dunedin family. Members of the Wellington Law Society, Dr McArthur, S.M., and Mr Riddell, S.M., officially bade farewell to SubInspector O’Donovan to-day. Sub-In-Inspeetor O”Doncvan on Saturday last on the occasion of his leaving to take charge of the new district of Palmerston North.

'Mr C. J. Ward, who left Auckland eight years ago to take up the management of Skelton, Fostick and Co.'s boot factory in Christchurch, was the recipient of a presentation on Friday night prior to taking up the position of manager of Hannah’s new factory in Wellington. Mr. B. C. Robbins, who for the past 25 years has been a resident of Hawera, and taken a leading part in tne civic life of the town, was on June 22 farewelled by the townspeople prior to his departure for Wellington, where he will in future reside. Mr. Robbins was presented with an address, accompanied with purse of sovereigns.

The Earl of Dudley's brother, the Hon. John Hubert Ward, was married to-day to Miss Whitelaw Reid, daughter of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador at John Hubert Ward, was married on June 23rd to Miss Whitelaw Reid, daughter of Mr. Whitelaw Reid. American Ambassador at London. The King and Queen attended the wedding, and the presents were valued at £60,000. The Rev. R. H. Catherwood, formerly in the charge of St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland, who recently resigned his position on tfie grounds of ill-health, afterwards taking up the position of secretary to the local Young Men’s ( hristian Association, has again been comp lied to give up work in Auckland. Acting

on medical advice, he leaves Auckland on Tuesday to take up his residence in Central Otago. Old friends of Harry Basley who knew him iu the Bank of New Zealand service in Auckland, Thames, Paeroa, and Hamilton, will be sorry to hear of his early demise at the age of 34. After leaving New Zealand he joined the staff of the Commercial Bank of Australia at Sydney, and was manager of its branch at Katoomba at the t<e of his death, which took place at Sydney ou Wednesday last, the 24th June, after a short illness of three weeks. Mr J. K. Lowe, who for the last nine years has been engineer in charge of the works on the Auckland-Penrose section, but who has been promoted to take charge of the Main Trunk railway between Marton and Frankton, was farewelled by the railway employees on Saturday last at Newmarket, and presented with a gold wateh, suitably inscribed, a pair of binoculars, and a purse of sovereigns. Mr Lowe was also asked to accept, for Mrs Lowe, a handsome set of silver entree dishes and a dainty travelling ease. Captain Hope-Johnstone, cousin of the late Lord Linlithgow, who has just concluded an interesting caravan and automobile excursion through New Zealand, is to leave Auckland next month for Tahiti. During the past month, the captain has accompanied the British football team on its travel, and has displayed a most kindly interest in its ivel£g.re. A boy, between four and five years of age, son of Mr Edward Byron, of Mataura, was playing about on Saturday evening when he was suddenly attacked by serious illness. It was found that, unobserved, the child had climbed the mantelpiece and taken a box of -iron pit’■ re.veral of which he swallowed. A doctor was in attendance quickly, but the child succumbed. While Mrs Hardy, a resident of Lerwick House, Manukau-road, Parnell, was lifting her husband out of bed on June 29, Mr. Hardy expired and Mrs. Hardy dropped dead almost* immediately afterwards, the cause of death presumably being heart disease in both cases. MiHardy had been an invalid for years. LONDON, May 22. A clever young New Zealand violinist, Miss Vera French, gave a recital last Friday evening at the Aeolian Hall, assisted by a contingent of the London Symphony Orchestra under Herr Nikisch. Miss French is an Auckland girl, but her musical training has been acquired in England and on the Continent during the. past nine or ten years. She has studied at Brighton with George Menges and at Prague with Sevcik, and latterly has been studying with Leon Sametini, the well-known Dutch violinist. Her capabilities as a violinist were tested on Friday night by the performance of two concertos of widely different types—Mozart’s Concerto in E flat and that by Vieuxtemps iu'F sharp minor, to which were added Bach’s Aria, Ysave’s “Le Reve,” and Wieniawski’s familiar “Souvenir de Moseou." Miss French had a most cordial reception, and delighted her audience by the rich beauty of her tone and the smoothness and facility of her technique. She is to give a second recital shortly at the Bochstein Hall.

The Bishop of Auckland took part in the annual conference of the Mothers’ Union held at the Church House last Friday, May 15. Referring to the humanitarian legislation of New Zealand, he expressed the opinion that this had a tendency to soften and weaken the race, and that its robustness might quite easily be eliminated. He also spoke strongly against the system of secular education in New Zealand. Bishop Neligan was present also at the 207th anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and spoke of the two classes of colonists in New Zealand—the colonist from England and the na-tive-born eolonist. Both classes of men were Empire-makers, and the religious care of those men was the primary duty and glad privilege of the S.P.G. It was for such men that the Society was first founded. The question throughout the greater part of the British Empire was how they were going to keep the white man Christian. This was a question for the clergy, but not for the clergy alone. The Bishop also took part in the annual meeting of the Missions to Seamen, and spoke in support of a resolution which testified that the Society was deserving of the most generous support. Mr F. 11. Wood, of Tauranga, who is acting as special correspondent for tha

•Bay of Plenty Times ” and other papers while on hie travels, has arrived in London after a scamper through two continents. He has been travelling for five months, and in that time has visited the Philippines, China, Japan (where he spent six weeks), Egypt, Greece, Constantinople. the Balkans, Buda Pestli. Switzerland and Paris. He has booked his return passage to New Zealand by the “lonic,” sailing on July 23, but before then he hopes to take a run through Scotland and Ireland.

The Bishop of Nelson and his wife and daughter arrived in London by the P. and O. liner Asturias, on her last trip. The Bishop will attend the Pan-Anglican Congress and the Lambeth Canference, and expects to remain about live months in this country.

Mr Charles Glidden, who visited New Zealand some time back on his motor tour of the world, arrived in London this week. Mr Glidden’s last trip comprised some 4161 miles in Egypt, Syria, Greece, Italy, and France, thereby bringing his total mileage up to 45,628 miles in 39 countries. He has mapped out for himself 50,000 miles world’s tour on his car. Already Mr and Mrs Glidden and their faithful Napier car have broken much fresh ground, including visits to the Arctic Circle, the extreme South of New Zealand, Jerusalem, the Khyber Pass (scene of the present military operations), and Mexico.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s office—Mr. Alfred Geo. Terry (Dunedin), Mr. Waller J. West (Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Allen (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. A. Coxhead (Stratford), Mr. Albert A. Stichbury (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oxford (Christchurch), Mrs. Sydney Pattison (Hastings), Miss Tosswill (Hastings), Mr. G. K. Macdonald (Christchurch), Mr. David E. Hutton (Wanganui), Mr. T. W. Stringer, Mr. E. W. Roper (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. T. Ryman (Christchurch), Mr. M. E. Fouhy (Auckland), Mr. Frank J. Farrell (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. W. .1. Prector (Dunedin), Mr. J. M. Geddis (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bealy (Christchurch), Mr. Thomas Martin (Christchurch), Mr. Walter Hortnell (Amberley), Mr. T. McCarthy (Taranaki). Mr. Andrew King (Taranaki), Mr. Robert B. Snodgrass (Nelson), Tflr. Jas. Hing (Greymouth). Mr. and Mrs. Murray Hobbs (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. Gee (Christchurch), Mr. E. G. Keve (Timaru), Mr. W. B. Lodge (Gisborne) Mr. Joseph Kelsall (Wellington, Mr. Wm. Houlker, junr. (Nelson). Mr. W. Kirkaldy (Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Acland (Christchurch), Mr. F. 11. Wood (Tauranga), Mr. and Mrs. R. J .Reynolds (Gisborne), Mr. John Coom (Wellington), Mrs. Montague (Wellington). Mr. .1. H. G. Holm (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. H. Holmes and Miss J. Holmes (Feilding), Mr. R. S. Rutherford (Wellington). Mr. H. C. Evans (Gisborne), Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Arrowsmith (N. Plymouth), Mr. C. Henry Barry (Cook islands), Mr. and Mrs. Murdock (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Waldegrave.

Monsignor the Count Vay de Vaya, who visited New Zealand a year or two ago. lias just been appointed by the Emperor of Austria to the Abbacy of St. Martin, in Hungary. He recently journeyed to America on an emigrant ship, and he has prepared a volume giving his opinions of men and things in the great Republic. This book is entitled “The Inner Life of the United States,” and it .will shortly be published by Mr. Murray.

Mr Wiiliam Boocock, of Wellington, and his daughter, Mrs H. J. Sullivan, who arrived by the Mooltan on April 24, spent a fortnight in London and then went north to Bradford. This week they are taking a trip round Killarney and the South of Ireland, whence they return to London to see the exhibition. Afterwards they will visit Paris and join the Mooltan at Marseilles in August, eii route for Australia and New Zealand.

Mr R. T. Booth, of Nelson, and his daughter. Miss ' Booth, arrived on the 9th inst. by the P. and 0. liner Moldavia after an enjoyable trip, in the course of which they visited about a dozen cities, and were charmed with almost all of them. Mr Booth and his daughter arc on a holiday trip, and propose to spend about three months in this country, visiting various parts of England. Wales, and Scotland, and finally spending a few days in Paris before joining a P. and O. steamer at Marseilles Outward bound.