PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

His Excellency the Governor arrives at Gisborne next Friday, coming overland by motor from Rototua, and leaving on Sunday for the South. During his visit to Gisborne. Lord Islington will \&s the foundation stone of the new hospital and of Holy Trinity Church, and will probably turn the first sod of the Gisborne end of the Napier-Gisborne railway, the Hangaroa route having been decided on, according to a telegram received in Gifiborne from Sir James Carroll. The Rev. T. P. Fortune is to be licensed to the cure of Rongotea on Friday next by the Bishop of Wellington. Mr. R. V. Lynch, Chief Clerk of Internal Affairs, has retired on pension after nearly forty years' service. Mr. G. P. Nowton succeeds Mr. Lynch as chief clerk. ' Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Employers' Federation, has been granted a month's leave of absence, and will spend his holidays at Rotorua ahd on the Wanganui River, Mr. J. E. Gilby, after thirty-five years' service, has" retired on superannuation from the Wanganui East Town Railway Workshops, and received a presentation from his comrades. Mr. H. G. Oswald, an old fesident of Auckland, died on Thursday last, at his residence, Parnell, Auckland. Mr. Oswald arrived in Auckland from Belfast in the early '60's, and for five years was in the employ of Messrs. Arch. Clark and Sons. He then took the position of mahager of the clothing department of Messrs W. M' Arthur and Co., and later set up on his own account in Ponsonby. A Press Association telegram from New Plymouth states : — "Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., died early this morning, aged sixty years. He sat on the Bench on Tuesday last, but had to adjourn the CouH on account of illness. He was a son of Sir William Titzherbert, and was himself an M.H.R. in the 'eighties. Death was due to cancer." Mr. Fitzherbert was born in Welling- | ton, and educated at Christ' 3 College, Christchurch, and Melbourne University. He was admitted to the Bar in 1875, and was for a time a member of, the firm of Barton and Fitzberbert, and later of the firm of Buckley, Stafford, ancl Fitzherbert. From 1884 to 1890 he was a member of the House of Representatives, his constituency being the Hutt. He took an interest in volun•teering in his younger days, and was captain of the Petone (Wellington] Navals. For some years before his appointment as Stipendiary Magistrate at New Plymouth, in 1907, Mr. Fitzherbert practised his profession at Palinerston North.