PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. On Wednesday evening next the Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson propose to leave Wellington for Dunedin and Invercargill and for an official tour of several districts in Southland. . On or about January 20 Their Excellencies will go into residence at “Elmwood,”- Papanui Road, Christchurch, lor three weeks or a month, and early in March propose to pay their customary annual visit to Auckland, where they will take up residence at Government House.

Mr. Justice Herdman left Auckland by the Marama last week, en route for England. He was accompanied by Mrs. Herdman and Miss Joyce Herdman. „ The Hon. T. S. Weston, M.L.C., arrived in Wellington on Saturday from the north. Mr. J. C. Rolleston, M.P. for Waitomo, left Wellington for the north on Saturday. Dr. Bevan Brown, of Christchurch, passed through Wellington over the week-end on his way north. A press Association cablegram from Hobart announces the death of Mr. Edward Henry Butler, a prominent legal practitioner and former representative Tasmanian cricketer, aged 77. Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal leader, accompanied by Dame Margaret Lloyd George and other members, of his family, has arrived at Rio de Janeiro, states a British Official Wireless message. Major-General the Honourable Alexander Hore-Ruthven, V.C., has been appointed Governor of South Australia in place of Sir Tom Bridges, whose term of office has expired, says a Press Asociation message from London. Mr. J. W. Nancarrow, flying officer of the Royal Air Force, left Wellington by the Maunganui on Friday to return to India after a holiday spent in New Zealand. _ . , . • The death of Mr. Louis Sinclair ts announced by an A.P.A. and “Sun cable message from London. Born in Paris in 1861, of English parents, the late Mr. Sinclair was educated at University College, London, and at Continental colleges. He migrated to Australia in 1878 and started life on the staff of the “Argus,” Melbourne. He was subsequently engaged in commercial pursuits, but retired from business at 25 years of age. _ Being deeply interested in commercial questions, lie was entirely instrumental in forming the Commercial Committee of the House of Commons in 1899, and was its honorarc’ secretary. He initiated Anglo-French Parliamentary visits, being Conservative member for Romford division of Essex from 1897 to. 1906. Mr Sinclair was the appellant tn the Birkbeck Bank disaster, and secured equal and proper treatment to the depositors. In 1913 he re-formed the Commercial Committee of the House of Commons, and was entirely responsible for the formation of commercial committees in the Parliaments of Europe, fn recognition of his services he was appointed permanent honorary secre-tarv-general of the Commercial InterParliamentary Congress. During the war he served in the R.A.C. War Transport Service. Tie visited Australia and New Zealand, and formed commercial committees in the Federal Parliament and in the Parliaments of Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia. He was the author of several publication#.