PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. A. B. Kalauglier was a passenger by yesterday’s Main Trunk express to Wellington. Mr. V. Riddiford arrived in Wellington by the Limited express yesterday. Professor Peren arrived from the north by yesterday’s express. Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Government Statistician, left for the south last night. Mr. F. Milner, M.A., principal of Waitakj Boys’ High School, arrived by Sunday’s ferry steamer from Lyttelton.

Mr. Dougald Ferguson, one of the pioneer settlers of Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay, is dead, says a Press Association message. He was born at Glencoe, Argylshire, in 1856, and came to New Zealand in the early ’sixties with his parents, two brothers, and three sisters, in the sailing ship Constance. They landed at Napier, and settled at Tamamu. Later, the deceased and his brother John took up farming in the Poverty Bay district, ahd had manv stirring experiences. During the Te Kooti massacre one brother, Finlay, was murdered with three other men by Te Kooti or his followers in 1868.

Mr. E. J. Hvams, Consul for Czecho-Slovakia, is leaving for Sydney by the s.s.. Makura to-day. Dr. S. M. T Lambert, of the Rockefeller Foundation, was a passenger by the Makura, which arrived from the Cook Islands on Sunday night. Dr. Lambert is accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Lambert.

Mr. D. A.. Rutherford,. superintendent of schools, Samoa, is at present visiting ’ Wellington in connection with island education matters. Mr. D. W. Hoodless, superintendent of schools, Fiji, is also on a visit to Wellington. Mr. IL Binstead, superintendent of schools, Rarotonga, left for Auckland by the express on Sunday evening.

Mr. Zane Grey, the well-known Californian novelist, accompanied by Captain L. D. Mitchell and his wife, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and Miss M. K. Smith, of New York City, are visiting Wellington. They are to leave for Auckland by the daylight Limited this morning. Among the tourists to arrice from America by the Makura yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lamb, of .Washington ; Mr. Harold K. Hochschild, of New York; and Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Rogers, of San Francisco.

Dr. E. L. Marchant has returned from a holiday trip to the north, spent mostly in the thermal regions. Viscount Allenbv has arrived at Sydney, and been given a civic reception, a Press Association message states.

The Minister of Lands (Hon. A. D. McLeod) returned to Wellington yesterday from tlie Manawatu district.

The Minister of Marine (Hon. G. J. Anderson) left for the south last night. He is expected to return to Wellington on Friday.