PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. G. Fowlds, Mrs. Fowlds, I and family arrived by the Mararoa from the South this morning. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward), Lady Ward, and Miss Aileen Ward left for Hawkes Bay this morning. Mr. Charles Holdsworth, general manager ot the Union Steam Ship Company, was a passenger by tho Mararoa from Lyttlfcton this morning. The Hon. G. J. Smith, M.L.C., of Christchurch, and Mrs. Smith, who have been on a visit to Europe, returned to New Zealand by the lonic to-day. • His Excellency the Governor has intimated his intention of being present at the farewell lecture to be given by Lieutenant Knox, of the Navy League, this evening. There is reason to believe that the number of students at Wellington College next term will be very much greater than in any previous term. The college will re-open next week. The Hospital Trustees to-day passed a resolution to the follow ing effect : — "That the lesignation of Dr. Gilray be received with sincere regret for the loss of his services to the hospital, and wishing him every success in his future career." Mr. T. A. Peterkin, Mayor of the ] Lower Hutt, is at present lying ill. He was unable to attend the meeting of the Borough Council last night. A vote of sympathy with the mayor was passed by ' the council. The council also passed ;i vote of condolence with Councillor Ross j | on the death of his mother. j ! Mr. G. J. Anderson, M.P. for Ma- ! | taura, was entertained (says a Press Association telegram from Gore) at a t social last night, attended by representatives from all parts of the constituency, | and was presented with a purse for Mrs. Anderson, containing a cheque for £150, as a token of the esteem of his supporters. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Lewis and Miss Lewis intend proceeding to England, leaving Wellington 26th March, and catching the Asturias at Sydney. They will return to New Zealand about next Christmas. During his stay in the Old Country Mr. Lewis will visit his parents, whom he has not seen for thirty years. Mr. J. Danks, at the meeting of the Hospital Trustees this morning, was congratulated by the chairman (Hon. C. M. Luke) on his return as a trustee. Mr. Danks, said the chairman, was following in the steps of an honourable father, and preserving unbroken a connection with the Hospital Trustees extending over twenty-five years. Mr. Danks suitably responded. The board of governors of Canterbury College yesterday resolved (according to a Press Association message) that in consideration of his long, continuous, and distinguished service Professor C. H. H. Cook be, during the pleasure of the board, appointed an Emeritus professor of mathematics. The board adopted the recommendation of a special committee, declining to appoint Professor Bickerton Emeritus professor of cos-mo-physics, though Professor Bickerton's tenacity of purpose in advancing his theory regarding partial impact was recognised. Mr. and Mrs. John Arnott, of Wellington, celebrated theii golden wedding yesterday at the residence of their youngest, daughter, Mrs. John Arcus, { Hataitai. Mr. and Mrs. Arnott were married fifty years ago at Glasgow, Scotland, of which city both were natives, and since then, except for two or threo years in Melbourne, they have resided in New Zealand. Mr. Arnott was one of the founders of the Grey River Argus, and he also "started a paper at Hastings, but for some years past he has been employed at the Government Printing Office. The members of the family present yesterday were: — Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cooper, from Reef ton; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Martin, from New Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. John Arcus, Hataitai ; Mr. and Mrs. Norman John Arnott, from Melbourne ; the Misses Christina and Winifred Arnott ; Mr- and Mrs. Goldie, of Island Bay ; the Misses Barkley (3), and the Misses Martin (2) ; eight grandchildren and two great-grand-children. Of Mr. and Mrs. Arnott's ten children there are now living five daughters and one son. Only one daughter has died— Mrs. W. B. Barkley. Referring t^. the death of Captain Kenrick Hill, at Poraitc, at the age of 79 years, the Hawkes Bay Herald says the deceased was born in the North of Ireland, and was a son of Mr. John Hill, of Bellaghy Castle, for over fifty years magistrate for the counties of Derry and Antrim. Captain Hill was educated at the Grace Hill Academy, and joined Lord Donegal's regiment in 1854. In 1855 he was gazetted to the 31st Regiment, and served in the Crimea j for six months, and afterwards accompanied his regiment to Malta, Gibraltar, and other posts. He exchanged to tne 14th Regiment in 1857, and came to New Zealand in 1860, and went through a five years' campaign in the Maori wars. He then sold out of the army and settled down as a sheepfarmer in Hawkes Bay province. For twenty years, Captain Hill, m partnership with Captain Gordon, had a run on the Heretaunga Plains. In 1893 Captain Hill purchased his partner's interest in the latter property, and leased it to his son, Mr. Dudley Hill, and purchased the property where he resided till his death. He married a daughter of the late Mr. Charles French, of Dublin, and is survived by his wife and two children, the latter being Mr. Dudley Hill, of Fernhill, and "Mrs. A. S. G. Carlyon, of Gwavas.