PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 237, 21 June 1926, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association cablegram from Sydney announces the death of Mr. Henry Moses, known as the “Father” of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, aged 94 years. The death of Mr. tVard Lyons, a prominent actor, is reported from Perth by the Press Assn. A Press Association cable message from Sydney announces the death of the Rev. Harold Wheen, a prominent Methodist clergyman, aged 58. Mr. H. Bidone, Consul-General for Argentina, who attended the National Dairy Show at Palmerston North, returned to Wellington on Saturday. He was accompanied by Mrs and Miss Bidone.

Sir. Carlson E. Holmes, of the Goldberg Advertising Agency, Ltd., has accepted a position with the Gordon unit Gotvh Advertising Agency, Ltd., Wellington.

Captain W. H. Cottrell, C.M.G., 0.8. E, R.N.V.R., who came to New Zealand last year, was so delighted with everything during a stay of eight months that he has come back again on another long visit, and, as on the previous occasion, will make Wellington his headquarters, at the home of his third married daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Axworthy, in Kelburn. His second married daughter, Mrs. E. N. Dempster, and two children, accompanied him from England to join her husband, who arrived hete six weeks ago with the object of the young family settling down as permanent residents in the Dominion.

Captain De La Cour Cornwall, who died at Nelson on Thursday night last, was a well-known commander of vessels of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s fleet. Joining the company as an apprentice about 1885, his association with the firm dates back to the days of sailing ships. He held command of a number .of steamers during his career, and resigned in September, 1925, when he gave up command of the Turakina owing to ill health. Captain Cornwall’s war service was carried out as a commander of convoys. He was a R.N.A. reserve captain, having had twelve months training in the Navy on the Pacific station some years ago. Among the vessels commanded by the late Captain Cornwall was the steamer Kaipara. He was master of that ship when she became stranded in Rangitoto Channel on January 14, 1910. At the sitting of the Nautical Court, which inquired into the stranding, it was found that when the vessel was in the fairway of Rangitoto Channel she struck a submerged and uncharted rock. The decision of the Court was that the casualtv was not in any way caused by the default, carelessness, negligent navigation, or any error of judgment on the part of the master, but was due entirely to the erroneous and misleading information in the chart.