PERSONAL NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 5, 31 January 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr., Mrs. aud Miss SchiepobtlolT, ot .Samara, Russia, are at present visitors to Wellington. Mr. Jack Arnst, brother of Richard Arnst, world’s champion sculler, arrived iu Wellington from Lomk>n last week. Mr. Arthur M. Myers, M.P., is at present in Rotorua. He intends to spend a holiday at Mount Cook prior to the meeting of Parliament on February 15. Professor Coleridge Farr, of Christchurch, who has been for a trip round the world, returned to Wellington by the Moeraki last week. The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister foi

Railways (says a Press Association telegram from Rotorua), is still at Taupo, where he is enjoying some excellent fishing. Cable advice was received last week .from Hay. New South Wales, that the. Fev. Canon Richards had cabled notifying hit acceptance of nomination as vicar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Auekla nd. A new research scholarship in physics has been allotted by the Victoria College C< uncil to Mr. Al. Alexander. B.S'e, of Otago Universify. The scholarship, which is worth £ 100 per annum, is due to the generosity of a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Official notice of the resignation of Bishop Mules from the see of Nelson was conveyed to the Primate of New Zealand, Bishop Nevill, on his arrival in Ne v Zealand by the Tainui on Wednesday. The Primate told a reporter that a meeting of the synod would be summoned in due course, and steps taken to fill the vacancy caused by Bishop Huies' resignation.