PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 273, 17 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. Clement Wrasire was n -,*&*■ terday for Auckland., ," ' : Mr. H. Duncan Robertson left by +W Main Trunk on. Tuesday ni<rht for th Southland. probabty return V* to Auckland shortly before, the end of ■-• the month. - .; Mr Charles Petterson, of Dunedin, was yesterday appointed manager of the Waimate gas works, in- .place of 2Jj. G Marriott, who goes to Elthami " There were 16 applicants. Mr. Justice Cooper will preside at the criminal sessions opening at Auckland on Monday next. Accompanied,toy his associate, Mr. A, Oooper, he nvill leave for Auckland, on Friday. At a , meeting of the Duricdin City Council last night the Town Clerk Qlr. ißichards) sent in Ms resignation, ■* to take effect from March 1, 1911, The resignation was; accepted with regret.— (Press Association.) Mr. and Mrs. H. Prime and family, of Onehunga, a»l Mrs. J. W. Prime; • sen.. ■ Wiii be passengers by the R.M.s. Maitai for San Francisco on Saturday. It is Mr. Prime's intention to settle either in Vancouver or California. -•_. • . Mr. Myers, the weH-known' Wellington .lawyer, intends going for a trip to England in January, and has booked passages for himself and ibis wife and. fckeir .-■■ •family >by the lonic. He will probably, v be away for some ten or eleven.: months. A Press Association telegram records the death at Wellington, of Mi - . G. Gray, aged 64, brother-of the late Mr. Ws Gray, for many years secretary ai the; Po3t Office. Deceaeed was until recently controller of the Money Order arid Post Office Savings Bank. On Tuesday night* Pride Waihi Lodge of Druids tendered, a farewell social to P.D.G. Bro. Malcolmson, who leaving Waihi lib go farming at Papakura. Bro. Cooper,, oh. behalf of the lodge, presented Mr. Malcolmson with two : bnautiful chairs, and the secretary-read ah.; address. Sir Maurice O'Borke., M.L.C., has : been notified , of ■his-election as a vice-president of the Historical Society of Dublin, which has 'been- in existence since, 1745. The president is Lord! Ashbourne, and ■the vice-presidents include many distinguished, personages of Jheland. Sir Maurice OTlorke is the , only colonial' ■presidentMr. and, .'Mrs. Porteous '. celebrated their golden wedding on Friday evening last among upwards of a hundred rela■tivee and friends in the Franklin-road schoolroom. The 'happy couple, who were the recipients of numerous cori-v granulations, were married in Lancashire : 50 years .ago, and arrived in Auckland 47 years back. Mr. Keri Told te Ahu, one of the principal chiefs in the Waikato, is at.present in Wellington giving evidence on -the Hine charges alleged against Mr. Henare ;: Kajhaui M.P. The "Waikato Times" states that, -while in Wellington he-will interview Mr. Massey fe his candidature jfor the Northern Maori District, in which, it is His present intention to op-. . : pose the sitting member, Dr. Buck. , : Mr. J. Hammond, who," accprding to a :~ > cable message received,from London yesterday, is to proceed to-Australia .Avith-vv , tvw> British is a son of, the late t&t. Joseph. Hammond, formerly owner of the Bulls-racecourse.. Mr. Hammond has resided for some years in Seaford, .England. He is a skilled aviator,'the first colonial to hold a certificate as Pilote Aviateur of Aero Club of France. On Ms second flight he covered five miles across country, at a height of 2000 feet in his Sanchez-Beza bi-planc. He.has flown at Eheims, BethanyvVitry, y and in other parts of France. Maibr Jackson Keddell,.ei-Stipendjary Magistrate, of Oainaru, died suddenly ■ - .this morning,'aged 791 Deceased, set- :; , tied in Otago in 1862, andin the early days' of "settlement was Coroner on ;the Goldfields. During the Maori War he served in the BiOitafy forces ■ under , General Sir Dunca-n Cameron in the \ Waikato "campaign, obtaining the rank 'of major.' He wae- subsecLuently api pointed ■ Stipendiary -Magistrate., and ■I Warden at the' Thaimes Goldhelds;- and ] -afterwards served :in a .Similar "capacity ; at Coromandel, Greymouth,.. Central Otago," andT'Oamaru: , ' Deceased was a j Past-Master in tne Masonic/ Order.— j (Pfess Ae3ociatioii.l . : . _■ • ! The death is announced, ii Ihis 71st I year of Mr. John Edwin Davies, who -was for thirty-three years headmaster of St. Stephen's Native School, Parnell, from which position he. retired early in 1904 Shortly after ihis arrival in, the colony in 1871, Mx. Davies took over ■the .headmastershipof St. Stephen's, his motive being mainly a missionary one, and *he strong sense of duty which ne showed throughout to career earned him widespread α-espect. IVom tne : echolaatic and diara*ter-T>uUding jpmnt °L view, the success of tas. efforts is shown ' in such pupUe. as Dr. Pomare (native health officer), the Rev. F. Bennett, and , other prominent mem!ber3jof ] the orace. Mr. Davies was a native of Wells, Somerset, England, where Ms youthful activities, tofk *he form of educational, and missionaay work in connection with ttte England. He had failing health for some time, and _iis death was nofc unexpected. Sα eldest son is Mr. W. C. Davies, agricultural msSicWto ,the Wellmgton Education Board, and, an old Auckland boy, at wresent resident in GreytxwTi (WairaSSf <**<* *<***** o£ deceased's fami are the Eev. Herbert Daries, of I CMnese Village Mission at Canton; Mr. Frank Davieo, a member of the stoff