PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2751, 20 April 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■ .■ ; ' Tho Hons. Sir Joseph Ward and It. M'Nab were passengers from the south : by tho Maori yesterday. Lady Russell has received a oable- ; gram announcing the death oil. April 11, at Heath House, Petersfield, Hants, of Captain Andrew Hamilton Russell, aged 79 years, father of General Sir Andrew Russell, and brother ,of the late the Hon. Sir W. Russell Russell. The late .Captain Andrew Hamilton Russell was born in England, and came out to New Zealand as a child with his father, Lieutenant-Colonel tho Hon. Andrew Hamilton Russell. After spending a few years in Hawke's Bay, he went 'Home ■to Sandhurst, and later returned to New Zealand, attached to the 14th Regiment, but he afterwards exchanged to the 58th, his father's regiment. In the early 'sixties, in conjunction with his brother, Sir William, he took up land, first at Redcliffe (Taradale), and afterwards at Flaxmere and Tuanui. He returned to England about 1880, where he hits sinoe Uved. Much sympathy, is extended to General Sir Andrew Russell in the loss of his father. Aregrettable fact is that General RiisBeU, who was. informed of- his'father's illness, was unable, owing to his military duties, to hasten Home to Bee him before' ho died. The Rev. T. Halliday, of Lahs- . downe, Mastertort, has declined the call from the .congregation of the' Whakartane Presbyterian Church. Word has been received bv Mr. Rolaiid Powell that his brother, Mr. "W. H. Powell,- who went Home on the Remuera, has been posted to the Royal Garrison Artillery, and went into thd ■Officers' Training Corps at the beginning of March. Mr. Powell, had been staying with "bis cousin, General Sit 'Francis Thomas, K.C.B. - Mr. A. E. Kernot will leave, on a Visit,to Australia, by the Manuka tomorrow. t Sir.- Arthur Mack, son of' Mr. Mack, of Jenkins and Mack, left New Zealand last December _ for London, where ha proposed enlisting in the artillery; Unfortunately he was taken ill with 'rheumatic fever. . His father has now received word that he is at Torquay, and making a good recovery. 3lr. Gerald • Stead, the well-known North Canterbury runholder and face, horse owner, has enlisted in the'artillery. Mr. Henry ; Burns, a well-known farmer of Apiti, and a member of. the 'Pohangina County Council, is dead, aged 53. Tlie death-is announced of Mr. Albert ■■Bishop, of Marion, a Maori war veteran, at. the age of 74. Mr. E. R. TJssher, for many years in ■ the New Zealand' Government Service, died at. Dunediri last week. He was ■ .born in Canada 77 years ago, and was brought'up as a civil engineer and surveyor. In 1863 he was appointed an , officer of the Soads Department under the Otago Provincial Government. He oontinued in the position till 1868, when, with many others, he retired from the Betvice. Until 1871 he was engaged in private.practice, and was-then appoint-' vsa to the Publio . Works • Department, 'under Mr. W. N. Blair, 'Engineer-in-Chief. In 1887 he was made a district engineer. '.Mr. Charles Jl'Mahon mil arrive in .Wellington from Auckland. Mr. T. G. Gumsey, who for the padt -peven yeais has occupied the position of instructor in-applied art at-the 1 Christchurch School of • Art; has been appointed by the' Board of Governors of Canterbury College to the ( newly-created ■ position- of chief instructor. Mr. W. 0. Chester-man, late of the ' staff of ths railway, has ' been transferred to Wellington. : .-The ,Clutha_ Presbytery ,at its last -meeting unanimously agreed to recom- ' mend the llev. A. Gray, of Ravensbourne, as Moderator of Synod for the year 1917. Mr. George T. Weston wrote to the Canterbury College Boa I'd of. Governors at its meeting on Monday resigning his position as a member of. the board, as lie had joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. The chaihrian moved that the resignation should, bs accepfc.ed frith regret; The motioii was second- ■ ed by Dean Harper and carried. Mr., George Renriie, who has been a feeiniier of the .Canterbury Board of governors for about eight years, will •shortly leave for Taiipiflt, and at Monday'sl meeting, of the board he received from the ohainhan (Air. J. 0. Adams), ■on behalf of tbe-.board, their cordial ■aj?ilreciatibh of his services and regret at his departure. '"Commissioner and Mrs. Hodder, of tte Salvation Arniyi have just completed a tour including Waihij Taiiranga, Rotoruhi Opotiki, and Pukekohe, ana .will conduct special Easter services in Auckland. At llotorua some 40 return,ed soldiers met the Commissioner at • tea in the Salvation. Army Institute as .a slight mark of their appreciation of the efforts of the Army on their behalf. The institute , has proved, altogether top small, aiid is to be enlarged jmmediatcly. 'Mr; Joseph Enoch Jackson, ah old ■ resident of Petone, died yesterday at the age of 63 years. The late Mr. Jackson, who-was tbe only son of the late Mr. EdiVin Jackson (after whom Jackson Street was named) came to New . Zealand when a child ili tlie Indian Queen in '1854. He went to. school at what was then called "the old blockhouse," near to where the Hutt ' Bridge iurtv stands, at a time When there were about three houses in Petone. Later, Mr. Jackson was employed on the staff* 'of the Wellington 'Independent" and the "New Zealand times .as foreman printer. Remov- ' ihg to Wainui, the deceased gentleman engaged for sortie years in fanning' purSuits, finally settling it Petone. AltogdtheiyMr. Jackson resided about fifty. Eine years in the''district, and for some ' time was a trustee of t.he Methodist ' Ciuirch at Waiinli. He leaves a wife, oiie daiigliter (Miss L'. Jackson), and ' two sons, Mr. M. Jackson,, of' Onebiinga, and Mr. E. Jacksoii, of Petone. Mr. Frederick Shipman' arrived from the south yesterday to meet Mr. Paul Dufatilt, the Frencli-Canadian tenor, ' who is due from San Francisco by the Jloana to-morrow. Mr. Dufault will leaye for the south, to-inbrrow evening, and . will open his New Zealand season ' at Duhediii.