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PERSONAL.
the various gentlemen who have occupied
the position of Governor of South
Australia durmgNbhe last 30 years have
manifested great interest in the Y.M.C.A.
in Adelaide, and Sir Day Bosanquet has
intimated his desire to become thoroughly
acquainted with the work of the institution.
He communicated his wishes to the
president, ex-president, and general secretary
of the institution on Monday during
an interview at Government House, and
it was arranged that his Excellency and
party should visit the association premises
to-morrow evening. The viceregal party
will be met by the board of management
and officials, and conducted over the
building. They will be escorted through
the numerous rooms and balls, including
the gymnasium, and the system on which
the association is worked will be explained.
Sir Day Bosanquet intends to
take an active interest in the "association,
and it is hoped that during his career as
Governor of South Australia the board will
be able to follow the example of other
similar institutions in Australia, and provide
an up-to-date building, as the present
1 premises are far from suitable for Y.M.C.A.
| work according to modern methods.
The names most prominently mentioned
in connection with the Archbishop of
Sydney, according to the "Sydney Morning
i Herald," are Archbishop Donaldson, of
Brisbane, a son of the first Premier of
New South Wales; Archdeacon Wright, of
Manchester, one of the finest preachers ' is
the North to England;! Canon Denton
Thompson, of Birmingham; Canon Alexander,
of St. Paul's Cathedral. London; the
Rev. F. S. Webster, rector of All South,
London; and Dr. Griffiths Thomas, principal
of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
The president of the Methodist Conference
(Rev. W. G. Clarke) has issued invitations
to an "At Home" in the Pirie-street
lecture-hall on Friday evening, to enable
ministers, their wives and sons and daughters
and others, to meet several members
of the Conference who recently celebrated
the jubilee of their ministry. The ministers
referred to are the Revs. J. Goodwin
and T. Piper, who were ordained in 1858,
and the Revs. H. T. Burgess, R. S Casely,
and C. H. Goldsmith, who became ministers
in 1859, in connection with Mr.
Casey's jubilee, a celebration meeting will
be held in the Kent Town Methodist lecture-hall
this evening. 1
Dr. W. Maloney, who represents Melbourne
in the Federal Parliament, in an
address to a public meeting at Prospect
last evening, related how" he became a
member of Parliament. Twenty years "ago,
he said, there was some dissatisfaction
with a certain candidate for West Melbourne,
and he was asked to stand. At
first he laughed heartily at the idea. Prca '
sure was brought to bear on him however,
and he said, "Give me five minutes and I
will see." He went home and said to
his mother.- "The boys want me to stand
for Parliament." ' To his surprise his
mother did not laugh at, the idea, but said",
"Well, I expect you had better, and I will
pay your expenses.-" He knew that when
in England he had been robbed, of his
rights, but he knew nothing of politics.
Nevertheless he was sent to Parliament to
represent West Melbourne. That was
before there was a Labor Party in the
Legislature of Victoria, but as a medical
man he saw the terrible privations) caused
by the great maritime strike in the homes
of his patients, and he joined the Labor
Party to seek to alleviate the sufferings of
the poor. of The
Hon. A. A. Kirkpatrick, the new
Agent-General, is due to arrive at his London
office to-morrow. He will at once take
over the duties from Mr. Whiting, who has
acted as Agent-General since the resigna-
tion of Mr. Jenkins last year. " ,
Sir Philip Brocklehurst, the young baro-
net who accompanied' Lieutenant Shackleton's
expedition to the South'Pole,'waa
barely 20 years of age when he left New,
Zealand with the Nimrod. He was one of
the party who accompanied Professor
i David and Mr. Douglas Mawson on their
now celebrated climb to the top di Mount
Erebus. Lieutenant Shackleton told his
audience on Monday night that both Sir
Philip's feet were frost-bitten early in the
climb, and went quite black. The gallant
young gentleman, however, declined to stay
behind, and he succeeded in reaching the
edge of the new crater. The exertion restored
his feet to their normal use, but he
lost one of his'toes./'which," said Lieuten
I ant Shackleton, he now carries round with
a him in a bottle." Sir Philip was educated
at Eton and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
and his ancestral home is at Swythamley
Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire. He comes of
a family which settled in the county shortly
after the Reformation. ' '
Madame Melba will arrive in Sydney
from Auckland on May 28, and will be
the guest of the Governor-General and
Lady Dudley during her stay in that city.
An outline pencil drawing of Madame
Melba by the Duchess of Rutland was on
view in the exhibition of the Royal
Amateur Art Society in London last month.
Dr. William Maloney, M.H.R., arrived in
Adelaide from Melbourne by the empress on
Tuesday. <"
Sir William McMillan, a former Treasurer
of New South Wales and an ex-mem-
ber of the House of Representatives, arrived
in Adelaide by the express on Tuesday
morning. He has come over to meet Lady
iMeUtiuan, who is returning on Saturday
in the R.M.S. Mooltan from a trip to England,
and Sir William McMillan will join
the vessel here.
Mr. W. J. Cowell, of Messrs. Nicholls
and Cowell, was elected a member of the
Stock Exchange of Adelaide on Tuesday
afternoon. Mr.
John Henry Geddes, who formed the
London Central Markets Cold Storage Corporation,
and was the founder of the Australasian
Chamber of Commerce in London
J and the Australasian Club, died suddenly
early last month at Folkestone.
At the conclusion of the service at the
Flinders-street Baptist Church on Sunday
morning last the Rev. P. Fleming made
eulogistic, reference to the late Mr. J.
Lavis, an old member of the congregation.
Twenty senior women students in the
University of California have protested
that the French novels assigned for their
reading lessons are "too shocking." They
sent a delegation to their instructor (Professor
Chambers) complaining of Dumas'
"demi-monde," "Le Fils Natural," Camille
Aiwjer'a "Le Jour, de FJutev"- "leave"
"Le Marriage d'Olympe," and other works
Professor Chambers will in future substitute
soberer novels by Marcel Prevost
Anatole France, Prosper Merimee, and
others.
Dr. E. Walter Morris has been appointed
surgeon in the South Australian Naval
Militia from April 23. Dr. B. H. Morris,
who went to China with the Protector
some years ago. is still staff surgeon in the
Naval Militia. > .'
Among the passengers on the Blue
Anchor liner Geelong, which left the Outer
Harbour Tuesday, was Mr. P. N. Christie,
principal assistant engineer of the Sydney,
Harbor Trust, who is going to London on
business for the New South Wales Government.
- by
Mr. James Millar, of Horsham, who is
taking a 10 months' trip to South Africa,
Europe, Egypt, Palestine, and India, left by
the steamer Geelong on Tuesday. Mr.
Millar, who has already travelled three .
times" around the world, has, during the
residence in Horsham, been a member of-,
the borough council, mayor for two years and
chairman of the local water trust, . In
his younger days he was employed in the
late Hon. J. G. Ramsay's agricultural implement
business at Mount Barker. 5. Mr
J. J Watson, telegraph manager,
in this State, who has occupied the posi- tion
for the past 20 years, and is now on r
furlough, will retire at the end of June.,
It is expected that Ma'place-will be filled ?>
by a local officer. The
Rev. D. A. Cameron, M.A modera-"
tor of the Victorian Presbytery, has been
visiting the Lucindale- and Kingston dia
tricts. It is probable that each will be,
formed into a separate church. 'at
Sir William Manning, an ex-Lord Mayor'
of Sydney, will be a passenger from. Adela's
side to London by the P. & 0. mail'
steamer India to-morrow Lieutenant
Shackleton will sail by the same vessel ,-*-['
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