PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 244, 13 October 1903, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Captain T. Q. East, superintendent fur •the Tyscr line, is leaving to-night for ■Napier.

Mr George Dunnett, of the Oceanic Steamship Co., went to Wellington yesterday.

The Rev. Mr Matterson Is a passenger on the Moana from Vancouver, who comes to Auckland.

The Rev. Joseph King, a representative of the London Missionary Society, is at present in the South.

Mr. Joseph Joseph and a party leave Wellington for Auckland via the Wa-n----ganuij Taupo and the Hot Lakes this ■week.

Mr A. II- Buchanan, produce superintendent New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co., arrived in Auckland this morning from Wellington. Dr. Collins has been granted three days' leave by the Hospital Board in order that he may take a trip in H.M.sLizard during her cruise round the Gulf. Among the passengers who tranship to Auckland from the Moana from Vancouver are Mr and Mrs Patrick and child, Mr and Mrs Dewar, Mr and Mrs Collett, and Mr and Mrs A. Moore. Mr McDonald, foreman shipwright for the Union Company, is now in Fiji superintending the repairing of the hulk La Plata. When the repairs have been completed the hulk will be towed to Auckland.

Lady Chermside and maid arrived by the Wcstralia to-day and took quarters at the Star Hotel. Lady Chermside is the wife of the State Governor of Queensland, and she has come to this colony to visit Rotorua. Before leaving the colony His Excellency the Governor hopes to make the trip from Taumaranui down the Wanganui River. If so he will probably be accompanied by the Hon. J. Carroll. Native Minister.

Dr and Mrs Martin, Wellington, are amon" the Moana's passengers to Sydney from Vancouver. Dr. Martin went to Japan from Wellington for the benefit of his health, and it is presumed that he has returned via Europe and Canada.

Mr M. Lichtenstein, representing the Westminster Abbey Glee and Concert Party, has arrived in Auckland to arrange for three concerts to be given at the°Opera House, commencing on Tuesday next

Pensions have been granted to the following officers of .the Customs Department:—Mr David Day, £175 10/; Mr Henry Bedford, £215 16/8; Mr Wilson, Heap's, £308 15/, all to commence from January Ist, 1904.

Mr. Cecil Jones, New Zealand manager for the Huddart Parker Company, left by the Victoria on a visit to Melbourne. The Right Rev. Monsignor O'Reilly, of the Thames, was in town to-day. He haa booked a passage lay the Westraiia for. Gisborne.

Mr T. F. Martin, who has held the position of Wellington City Solicitor since 1884, is resigning the position owing to the demands of his private practice. Mr Martin is recognised as one of the first authorities in the colony on municipal law.

The phenomenal 12 year old son of Bandmaster Mellor (of Timaru Garrison Band, and late of Waihi Band), who, it will be remembered, won the E-flat horn solo competition at Masterton in February, has now won the same event at Timaru.

Lord Ranfurly stated at a meeting of the V.M.C.A. in Wellington that he had been associated with the V.M.C.A. jit Home in England as far back as he could remember. Both he and Lady Ranfurly, he said, were intensely interested in the work of this and the y.w.ca.

Mr D. Day, who, after forty years' service in the Customs Department, has retired, has been presented at Duntdin with two upholstered armchairs and a purse of money. The Collector of Customs at Dunedin also gave him a parting gift of_ some bronze Greek ornaments and a rug.

Mr George George, Director of Technical Education, left Auckland yesterday evening for the Thames. Mr George, who will be away from Auckland -for about a fortnight, will visit Thames, Paeroa, Waihi, Cambridge, Hamilton, and other places, and confer with local educationalists to see what can be done an the way of introducing manual training into the primary schools, of establishing evening technical classes, of fitting up district high, schools for practical science teaching, and of drawing up a scheme of agricultural education irom the primary schools upwards.

Dr. William Brown, who has just resigned the chairmanship of the "Otago High School Governors to go to Rotorua, is one of the best-known medicoes in Dunedin. He is a man of advanced age, and has practised in Bracken's '"romantic city" for many years, attaining an enviable popularity with all classes. He is in appearance the type of the old English family doctor. He Avas one of the first chairmen of the lately-constituted Drainage Board in Dunedin, and his medical knowledge proved very valuable in their deliberations. It is a mistake (according to the "Lyttelton Times") to suppose that the late Lord Lyttelton, one of the founders of Canterbury, owning much property in that province. The small block of land in Gloucester-street, Christchurch, passed into the hands of the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, who has now sold the vacant lots to a syndicate. It is recorded that Lord Lyttelton and others came forward at a time when the Canterbury Company was in financial difficulties, and made advances from their private means of thousands and tens of thousands to save the scheme from ruin.

A portrait of the late Mr Justice H. S. Chapman was unveiled by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) yesterday in the Appeal Court, Wellington. Mr 'Brown, president of the local Law Society, read a characteristic sketch of the late judge, who was the first judge appointed to Wellington, and who had been so closely connected with Wakefield, Selwyn and others in the early days of the colony. Sir Robert Stout mentioned that Mr Justice Chapman had adniittcd him to the bar. He had also enjoyed the unique position of being intimately connected with the history of four important colonies —Canada, Tasmania, Victoria and New Zealand, and the distinction of knowing intimately Bueh men as Bentham and J. S. MilL The ceremony was the more interesting because Mr Justice F. R. Chapman took his seat on the Supreme Court Bench yesterday.