PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2390, 20 February 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Their Honours the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) and Mr. Justice Edwards ■will leave for ' Napier this morning to hear the petition lodged against the return of Dr. It. M'Nab as member of Parliament for the Hawko's Bay seatMr. Justice Chapman left for Te Kuiti last night in connection with the Taumarunui election petition. Mr. Justice Hosking proceeds to Palmerston North oil Monday to preside at the Supremo Court sittings in that town. A cablegram a few days ago stated that a New Zealander named M'Donald had been drowned through the wreck of tho barquo Andromeda in a gale at Falmouth. It is feared, says a Press Association telegram from Dunedin, that tha. deceased is Allen M'Donald, aged 19 years, son of Captain M'Donald, of Port Chalmers. He left the schooner Huia' at Auckland in order to join tho Andro. meda before she left for Falmouth. Dr. Sommerville, late of St. Andrew's, • Scotland, the_ newly-appointed Professor of Mathematics, who succeeds Professor, Picben at Victoria College, and Dr. Marden,_ Professor of Natural Philosophy, Professor Laby's successor, are both passengers by the Rotorua, due to arrive hero from London on March 17.Nine Catholic priests arrived in Auckland by the steamer Riverina from Sydney on Wednesday. They are all on holiday and intend touring New Zealand. Some members of the party, have not long been out from tho British. Isles. Mr. J.' W. H. Scotland', the New. Zealand aviator,''and Mr. H. Morris, until recently a member of the mechanical staff ,of The Dominion, sailed ...for England yesterday afternoon. Their intention is to join the Flying Corps at Home. Professor Laby, who has been appointed to the Chair of Natural Philosophy in the Melbourne University, and Mrs. Laby left for Sydney en route for Melbourne by the tllimaroa yesterday, evening. ' . The Rev. Fathers B. M'Kiernan, J. O'Flynh, and J.' J.' Costelloo left' fori: Sydney by the Tllimaroa last evening. ; The Rev. Dr. Kennedy has returned to Wellington from Christchurch.

A Press Association telegram received yesterday from Dunedin records tha death of Mr. J. F. M.' .Fraser, K.C., Crowii Prosecutor for the Dunedin district; aged 63 years. The late Mr. Fraser was a native of Guernsey, and arrived in New Zealand when a child of six years, in 1858/ He was admitted to the Bar in 1875, and two years later, established himself in business in Palmerston South. Four years later he. commenced practice in Dunedin,. where since 1898, he has acted as Crown Prosecutor. He was one of the first New Zealand barristers to be raised to . the degree of K.C. In educational matters he served as a member of the Otago Education Board and also as a Governor of the Dunedin Girls' and Boys' High Schools.' He leaves a widow and one daughter. .

The members of the "Seven. Little Australians" Company left Sydney for Wellington direct yesterday. Little Cecil Haines, formerly of Wellington, is a member of the combination.

A Press Association,, message from Sydney states that Kakanamoku Cunha, the champion swimmer, was a passenger oii ; tlio Moeraki, which sailed, from the New South Wales port at . 1 p.m. yesterday.

■ Brigadier and Mrs. Bray, of national headquarters of the Salvation Army, have left for. Feilding, where they will, meet Commissioner and Mrs. Hodder, who aro conducting meetings there tomorrow. Brigadier and Mrs. Bray subsequently accompany the Commissioner, in Taranaki. .:

On Monday, March 1, the Government Messengers' Association will tender a farewell at Hall's rooms ft) Mr.' H Flynn, who is leaving for the front. Occasion will be taken at the gathering to present Mr. R. Cashman with tha certificate of the Royal Humane Society, awarded'him ; for~ saving the life of a boy some months ago off Clyde Quayv.

Among the' passengers who left for' Sydney by the Ulimaroa yesterday, werai Mr. H. Otterson, C.M.G., late clerk to the House of Representatives;-Mr.. J.; W: H. Scotland, tho New Zealand: aviator j and Miss Swainsoii, known in a tutorial capacity in this city.

Mr. Bert Rache, a well-known. Australian orchestral conductor and oom* poser, and son of Mr. J. G. Rash; 'of; Wellington, is visiting Wellington after an absenoe of some years. , For a long timo Mr. Rache was conductor at the Sydney Tivoli Theatre, and afterwards acted in a similar capacity at BrennanFuller's National Amphitheatre.' He is : now en route to Auckland as musical director, of the Nellie Stewart Company, which.commences a tour of New Zealand in that city on March 2. ! Dr. Mortensen, tho eminent Danish scientist, who has'been making investigations into _tli9 natural history of this country during the past two months, loft for Sydney ,by tho Ulimaroa last evening. He has found matter of great scientific interest during his, peregrina-, tions in New Zealand, and has expressed himself as very grateful for the considerate treatment that has been no- , corded to _ him throughout his very pleasant visit. "■ ;.

Mr. D. Doake, who left for TTentham; last week, is ono of Otago's cleverest boys (says the "North' Otago Times"). He was dux of the Otago Boys' High School in his last year there, and subsequently ho earned, a reputation for tho possession of brains at Canterbury College, where ho has been an engineering student for the past two or thrco years. Mr. Doake is making more than a usual sacrifice in going to tho war, since in leaving N<iw Zealand he makes a break in a successful academic career. .Last night there was a gathering, of tho Literary Department of Thb Dominion to bid farewell to . Mr. L. Fennell, who has left the paper to take; up a position on' tho Dannevirke "News." Mr. D. Morgan, chief reader, on behalf of the staff, presented a iise-' ful travelling bag to Mr. Fennell, and iu a . fitting speech referred to his usefulness in the office. The recipient suitably responded. The London "Times"- reports •' that Captain Charles Harold Reynell Watts, who got his commission in tho Northamptonshire Regiment from the New Zealand Local Military Forces in January, 1906, was killed in an engagemont at the front.

Mr. Bean, stationmaster at Timaru, left yesterday for Lyttelton to take charge there. Before leaving the staff ■presented him witli a purse of sovereigns.—Press Association. ■) A Press Association message from Sydney states that the Rev. Dr. Brown sailed by the Moeraki to attend the New Zealand Methodist Conference. Constable R. J. Adams, of the Jlonirt Cook Police staff, is' leaving for the West Coast to-day on transfer. : Yesterday afternoon his comrades at tha station assembled to extend him good wishes, and .at the_ same-time presented him with a parting gift.