PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 302, 15 September 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. H. J. Marriner, of Ohristchurch, is at present on a visit to Wellington, Mr. Matthew Murdoch, a member of the City Council, and Mrs. Murdoch, have returned from a trip to England. Mr. Watson Reid, of Glasgow, who is making' a tour of New Zealand, is at present staying at tho Grand Hotel. Mr. C. P. Skorrett, K.C., who has been indisposed for somo time past, was able to attend at his office yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Empson, of the Wanganui Collegiato School, are at present on a visit to Wellington, and arc staying at the Grand Hotel. Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of tho Employers' Federation, left for Napier yesterday morning in connection with the sitting of the Arbitration Court. Mr. S. J. M'Lean, late of Crofton,' Wellington, and a late member of the .Wellington Highland ltifles, died in Melbourne on September 10 of appendicitis, after a very short illness. Mr. Baillie, Chief Librarian at Wellington, who has been on a trip to America, ,is now well on his way back to tho Dominion. He. is returning via Canada, and is expected to bo once again in New Zealand about October 11. Mr. James O'Galligan, an old Wellington resident, who came to New Zealand from the Old Country as a surveyor in the early days, and was subsequently in tho Government Bervice, died at his residence, Bolton Street, on Sunday. Deceased was 86 years of age. A Nelson Press Association telegram statos that a movement is on foot to erect a memorial to tho late • Hon. Albert Pitt, Attorney-General and Defence Minister. A shilling subscription is-boing raised, andfit is proposed that the memorial should take the form or a statue in tho Queen's Gardens. A movement is on foot among a portion of the residents of Northland and Karori to entertain at a banquet Messrs. W. H. Field, M.P., and A. C. Pearce, ex-Mayor of Karori, in recognition of the public services rendered by those gentlemen to tho districts. It is anticipated that the banquet will take place early in October. Nows of the death of Mr. James Hamilton, who was well-known in business and Stock Exchange circles .in New Zealand, Tasmania, and Melbourne, will be Teceived (says the Melbourno "Age" of September 5) by his numerous friends with deep regret. The late Mr. Hamilton was a member of the Stock Exchange of Melbourne for nearly nineteen years.' The deceased gentleman, who passed away after a brief illness, leaves a widow and one son. The' now Readership in English at Oxford, established by the munificence of the Goldsmiths' Company, has been filled by the election of Mr. David Nichol Smith, a graduate of Edinburgh University, and Professor of the English Language and Literature at Armstrong College in Newcastle, and also known as a writer on English literature. Tho new Lectureship in German at Oxford has been given to Dr. Erich Budde, a young German scholar, who has studied at Munich, .Vienna, and Jena. Mr. William Jackson Popej F.R.S., has been elected to succeed Dr. Liveing as Pro-fessor-of Chemistry at Cambridge University. Mr. Pope holds the Chair of Chemistry both in the University of Manchester and at, the Municipal School of Technology in that city. Ho was educated in London, at Finsbury Technical College, arid at the Central Technical College, and has contributed papers of. original, research to the proceedings of learned societies. The new professor is thirty-eight years old. Private advice received yesterday announced the death of Mr. J. J. Callaghan, well-known in Australian school teaching circles,' and president of the New South Wales Teachers' Association for some time. The late Mr. Callaghan,' who was about 60 years of age, has been in a frail state of health for some time past; He had to retire from active work about two years ago, since when he has been living in retirement. Deceased was born in Bafchurst, New South Wales, and was educated, at St. Stanislaus' College. He leaves a wife and family of thirteen, two of his sons, Messrs. J, J. Callaghan and J. W. Callaghan, residing in Wellington. • The appointment of Mr. H. -A. Miers to tho Principalship of London. University removes from Oxford a singularly able professor. Born in South America in 1858, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, Mr. Miers has held • since 1895 the Waynflete Professorship of Mineralogy, and has also filled many important administrative posts. In particular, he is secretary to the delegates of the museum,- and as such is concerned with the whole organisation ' of scientific work in Oxford; ,he is also a delegate of the Clarendon Press; and a- member of the Hebdomadal Council,, and in these and many other linos of work .'he has been recognised as a man of high ..scientific attainments, of great ability, of wise judgment, unusual tact, .and an experience which ranges/'over many! finds' of men and three continents. .( "Mr. Pember Reeves's fesignation of the' High Commissionership of' New Zealand to take up the position of Director of tho London School of Economics: is at this juncture important," • says the "Saturday Review." "Tariff Reformers may hope for more from it than Mr. Reeves, whose discretion has never been challenged, would himself admit. The economics of New Zealand, in which ha was trained, point only-',one way.' Mr. Reeves is a great social reformer, and'much of the socialistic legislation; of the colony was carried by him in the days just before and after Mr. Seddon became: Premier. Business first and idealist theories -afterwards were the practice of New.; Zealand when-he was one of her Ministers.' Since ho has been in' London ho has shown himself a keen Imperialist, and he has already avowed his belief that vast possibilities will present themselves at the London School of Economics of training men for colonial work as well as municipal. Eloquencei-and economics will go hand in hand under jMr. Reeves's directorship." • 1 The death occurred oji Sunday of Mr. Malcolm B. Snoad,. tea importer, who for many years conducted business in premises in Upper Willis Streetf recently demolished to' provide a site for the Y.M.C.A., and sinco then in shop premises in the Royal Oak Hotel building. The deceased'"was member of the London Stock Exchange, and, on resign- 1 ing to take up farming pursuits in New Zealand, he was voted il'handsome present in recognition of the respect in' which ho was held. Mr. Snoad was' a native of Ashford in Kent, and was 73 years of' age. He farmed in Canterbury for a'time, and then joined the staff of the Government Life Insurance, resigning that position to' become secretary of tho ; Wellington ' Underwriters.' Association. Ho leaves a,widow: and family of four sons and a daughter (Mrs. Weatherall, of Wellington). Ono /of his. sons, Mr. Gordon Snoad, is manager of Edward Anderson and Co.'s wholesale department, Mr. Dudley Snoad is with the' firm of G. B. Kent and Co., London, and Mr. Frank Snoad is on tho staff 'of the' Wellington brancln of Briscoo and Co. The 'fourth son is. Mr. Malcolm Snoad, of MaHawatu. Tho deceased gentleman was a man of culture, and was well liked by all -who knew him.