PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1910, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

o Hi 9 Excellency the Governor (Lord Plunket) arrived in Wellington from Palmerston North yesterday, and will remain here until after the funeral of the late King Edward on 20th inst. He hopes to visit Christchurch from 26th to 28th May, and is not taking part in any public engagements whatever for the present. The Hon. J. 'Anstey, M.L.C., is on a visit to Wellington. Mr. J. Georgetti has been appointed a member of the Wellington Land Board. Dr. J. P. S. Jamieson is gazetted Public Vaccinator for the Eketahuna district, Mr. C. J. Reakes, M.R.C.V.S., Director of the Live Stock Division of 'the Agricultural Department, returned to town yesterday from a business visit to the North. Mr. W. W. Cook has ben appointed Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, Births, and Deaths for Palmerston North, and Mrs. H. E. Ashwell to, a similar position at Raetihi. The death is announced of Mr. John M'Dougall, shipwright, at Nortncote, Auckland, on Tuesday last. He was aged 78, and settled in New Jleaiand some 30 years ago, after being in the East Indies trade. He was for many years a member of the Royal Arch Chapter of Freemasons. Mr. Cecil Jameson, the young Wellington artist, has had the distinction of having a pictura hung at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Mr. Jameson, who was represented by several notable woi-ks at the two last exhibitions of th'e New Zealand Academy of Fne Arts, is about to leave the Allan Fraser Art College at Arbroath, where he won a scholarship entitling him to* foilr years' tuition. There were 40 other candidates. He will, now settle down in England to follow art as tiis profession. Mr. 0. N. Worsley was also an exhibitor at the Royal Hibernia> Academy. Mr. Robin Clanc, whose appointment as private secretary to Baron Islington, New Zealand's new Governor was announced some time ago, is well known in Sydney and Melbourne, says a Sydney exchange: — The genia 1 Governor, Sir Harry Rawson, never served the Empire at any of our cup or steeplechase meetings without the assistance of Mr. Clark. He will make a useful secretary, being a graduate ot the thoroughly sound Wallington-Nevill diplomatic school. Incidentally, he should be of service to social climbers from tha Commonwealth who trip to New Zealand, and who might, in other circumstances, havo remained vice-Tegally unknown Government has decided 'to recommend that the New Zealand cross be conferred on Mr. H. "W. Northcroft, who, up till last year, was a stipendiary magistrate in the Waikato. Mr. North- J croft was born in England in 1846, and '■ arrived in New Zealand fifty-nino years ago. While quite a youth he joined the colonial forces in Taranaki at the outbreak of the Maori war, serving there and in Wanganui. For eighteen years he was seldom out of the held, participating in m,ore than fifty engagements, and escaping without a wound, though he always displayed great bravery. For his conspicuous gallantry in rescuing Farrier-Major at Pungarehu, in October, 1866, Private Economedes at Tiritiri Moaua in November, 1866, and Private Watt at Otauto in March, 1563, he was specially recommended for decoration. He received the New Zealand war medal in 1868, and when peace was restored he became Resident Magistrate for the Waikato district, and subsequently served in that capacity for 30 years.