PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 245, 4 July 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Honour Mr. Justice Hoskiiijr returned to Welligton from Gisborne last evening. JDr l'rengley was a passenger for the south by tho'Maori last night. 31 r. Cornelius O'Uorman. aged 83 years, died at' his residence. Stafford Street, Duuedin, on Wednesday. He was bom at Clonmel, Tipperury. and at twentyfive years of age emigrated to Australia, where lie was. engaged on the Bendigo Bolii&elds. and two years later he arrived at Gabriel's Gully. After a number of successful years at go dmining Mr. O Gorman engaged in farming at Tunpeka Hat, where he remained until eleven years ago. when he retired and went to Dunedin to reside. Mr Edward Wadham, an old settler of'the Wairarapa, who has been farming it tho Wainpawa for ninny years, Has ;'ed at the asc of lifty-thvee. He was he eldest, son of Mr. H. Wadham, of (Kqn. who has still a family of fourtoon living. The health of Mr. A. E. Eriey, of Eose- | nonth, still remains unsatisfactory. The Wellington Education Boanl aniiounras thn following appointments:Vahiatua District High School secondary assistant. Miss B. ttobson; Sbamwm, temporary assistant: Mr. J. T. Ckrko; Training College, temporary assisUin , Miss K? F. Kerr; Eketahuna Di.»lr cl High School, temporary assistant. Miss EM Bladen: Endeavour Met, sole toacher, Mies W. Burets; Ivaitara, sole ench'r Mi« K. T. Stuskw; Belvoderc, Stant, Miss 31. 31. Simmonds: Berhampore assistant, Miss L O. Taylor; Eastern Hutt, assistant, Miss E. L. Duley; 3rarnimi, temporary assistant. Mrs.'«. V. Hislop. MiHtary oftieevs who went south by the 3faori last nieht included Lieutcnant-Col-onel Gunn, Colonel Rcakcs, and Colonel Hunter.

Jlr. T. E. Wallace, secretary oi tho Marino .Engineers' Institute, Wellington, has been advised of ihe death at l)nneilin at the age of 91. of Mr. WiUjaw Baiinatync, the oldest chief marine onirineer in New Zealand. Mr. Banuaiyne, ,i-1, 0 was born in tho Old Country, went oat to Melbourne when a young man, and was on tho engine room stalls of several vessels in Australian waters before ho joined tho Union Company in its early days'. He remained in tho soirici! until he was quite R0 years of age, iiml had since- been residing in Dunedin. Ho ivas'hekl in high esteem by the dm;c : tors of tho Union Company, ami also by all who wero associated wjtti him on board ship, ami made himself very p<>P«lan iwilli tho travelling public. Mr. Georgo Baniiatyne, of Waikanao, formerly of Messrs. Bannafync and Hunter, Wellington, and Mr. James Banniilyiie, oliicf engineer of the Kittawa, are two of ins eons.

Mr.'John Hill, of Merivate, Christ-I church, one of Canterbury"k earlier pioneers, died on Monday. Born in Cornwall in 1836, Ihe late Jlr. Hill arrived at Lytleiloii in tho ship fir Georgo Seymour, on December 16, 1850. "With his brother ho farmed at Feiidalton for nomo yi-nrs, and in about 18IU moved to A\est Mellon. Dm-ing his long residence in ihe districl .Mr. Hill took an active interest in matters of public welfare, occupying a seat on the school committee for thirty..vears, including^several terms Oβ chairman, and was also a member of tho library committee for many years. Mr. Hill was lay reader in the Anglican Church, which he was largely instrumental in securing for the districl. Mrs. Hill predeceased her husband four years a«o. Mr. Hill is survived by four eons ,and five daughters, and a number of grandchildren.