PERSONAL MATTEKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTEKS.

Mr. G. Shirtcliffe returned from Auckland yesterday. Mr. Justice Chapman arrived in Wellington yesterday evening. Mr. Geo. Kirk, a well-known settler in Poverty Bay, is on a visit to Wellington. Already, remarks the Hawera Star, candidates are materialising in view of the general elections in November next year. Mr. E. L. Barton, Mayor of Hawera, has declared his intention of contesting the Patea seat. Mr. Barton will stand as an Independent. Among the passengers on the Tainui, which is due at Wellington about Sunday evening next from London, is the Rev. C. G. Mutter, who has been appointed curate at St. Peter's Church. Mr. Mutter formerly belonged to the Wolverhampton Brotherhood, and was | stationed at Porirua for some time. Captain J. Jones, late of the ferry steamer Duchess, was entertained on [ I that vessel yesterday evening by a i large number of his friends, who presented him with a gold watch as a mark of esteem. A number of congratulatory speeches were made, and hearty cheers given for Captain Jones, who j suitably responded. j Mr. Daniel Ryan, who has been connected with the local office of Huddart, Parker, and Co. since its establishment, and held the ppsition of chief clerk, has been appointed manager of the branch the company intends establishiug in Auckland. Mr. Ryan is well known and popular in Wellington. He was educated at the local Marist Bros.' School and St. Patrick's College. Mr. A. Haywood, of Blenheim (formerly of Wellington) has received news that his second son, Mr. Leo Haywood, who has been studying dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., has passed the final examination for Che degree of D.D.S. Mr. Leo Haywood intends going to London immediately to take a special course at the Royal Dental Hospital. He expects to return to New .Zealand to commence practice about the end of the year. Presiding at the weekly meeting of the Wellington Shakespeare Club last evening, Mr. J. W. Joynt alluded to the, death, just cabled, of ' the veteran scholar, Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Among all the learned societies whicn he had founded, perhaps none was more interesting than the "New Shakespeare Society," in which he, Fleay, Dowden, Ingram, and others laboured to find clues to the chronological order of the plays from internal evidence, chiefly from features of the versification. This enquiry, pursued cautiously and scientifically, led to most faithful results. Mr. Joynt gave uome personal reminiscences of Dr. Furnivall. He was no pedant or -bookworm, but a man j of wondrous brightness and vitality. He was a great oarsman, and on his eightyfifth birthday rowed bow oar thirteen miles up the Thames, and then walked four miles across country to an inn, where a birthday party was to be held j in his honour. The last time he (the speaker) had met him he had given some interesting reminiscences of Domett, and | his relations to Browning. There passed away this morning at | 6 o'clock, at his residence, Roxburgh- i street, an old and respected citizen in , the person of Mr. John Arnott, J.P., after a long and painful illness-. Mr. Arnolt was 73 years of age, having been born in Glasgow in 1837. He married in 1859, and shortly afterwards he and his wife sailed for Melbourne, and came on to New Zealand, landing in Dunedin in 1863, where he was employed on the Otago Daily Times, then under the editorial management of Sir Julius Vogel I and Mr. B. L. Farjeon. The gold dis-covery-on the West Coast then attracted Mr. Arnott, and with the late Hon. James Kerr, M.L.C., and Mr. J. Keogh as partners he started the first newspaper in Greymouth, now known as the i Grey River Argus. He was secretary of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board there for a period of 31 years. In 1886 the deceased gentleman started a, paper in Hastings, and shortly afterwards came to Wellington, where he was employed in the Government Printing Office until a few months ago, when he waß retired under the superannuation scheme. Last year Mr. and Mrs. Arnott celebrated their golden wedding. ' Mrs. Arnott survives her husband, and there are five daughters and one son, nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.