PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 16, 20 January 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. G. L. Stead, of Canterbury, arrived from the South by the Mararoa this morning.

Mr. Acton Adams, of Diuiedin, was a passenger by the Mararoa from the South this morning.

Sir- George Clifford, president of the Racing Conference, arrived from the South by the Mararoa this moning. .

The death is announced of Mr. T. W. Poole, of Ponsonby. father of Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P. He was seventy-four years of age.

.Mr. D. H. Fox,, who died, at Napier on Tuesday, had resided there for fiftysix years, and was for some time on the telegraphic staff of the Post Office.

Messrs. R. W. Kane and'W. Watson, directors of the Bank of New Zealand, have returned to. Wellington from a tour of the North Auckland district.

Mr. P. Selig, general manager of the Christehurch Press Company, was a passenger for Lyttelton by the Maori last night.

The Rev. D. Haultain and the Rev. T. Knox, both of Sydney, arrived at Auckland by the Riverina on Monday,' on a •tour of the North Island.

Captain H. Cashman, in command of the Defence steamer Lady. Roberts, at Auckland, during the past eight or nine years, has resigned and gone to Australia.,

Major Maguire, medical superintendent of the 'Auckland Hospital, who left for Egypt a year ago as second in command of No. 2 Stationary Hospital, under Col. Parkes, has cabled that he will return in March.

Dr. A. M'Gregor Grant, who for the past eleven months has been actingmedical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, and who. has received a, commission as captain in the New Zealand Medical Corps, has joined tbe-Awapuni Camp.

It is extremely doubtful (says the New Zealand Herald) whether the military medical officers will allow Mr. A. Harris, M.P. for Waitemata, to proceedto Samoa as 'a wireless . operator, for which purpose he enlisted some weeks ago. Since the accident which" lately happened to him at Narrow Neck Camp, Mr. Harris has been under medical treatment, and so far the verdict of the military authorities is decidedly adverse, to his going on service.

Mr. A. A. P Mackenzie, manager of Messrs. Harringtons, New Zealand, Ltd., Photographic Works " Department, who is leaving Wellington to start business on his own account in the new military camp at Featherston, was yesterday presented with a handsome present, as a mark of esteem, by the firm and his employees. Tho general manager, Mr. H. T Brittain, in making the presentation,- eulogised Mr. Mackenzie's services, to the firm, and' wished him every success in his new venture-

Mr. George Lill, who died at. Christchurch on Monday, was born in 1838, at. Huttoft, Lincolnshire, England, and landed at Lyttelton, by the snip Glenmark in 1865. He first, began farming at Templeton, and afterwards acquired considerable property at Dunsandel. He possessed a well-known stud flock of English Leicesters,. bred from Threlkeld ewes and Ernest Gray -rams, and was also successful in taking numerous first prizes with cattle. He filled positions on the Selwyn School Committee, Dunsandel Domain Board, Cemetery Board, and North Rakaia Road Board.

A hundred years ago on Tuesday last, states the Auckland Star, Mr. George S. Barker, of- Claudelands, Hamilton, was born in military barracks .at. Calcutta, India. His father was Sergeant/ Barker, of the. Bengalier Native Company. Mr. Barker's early recollections' are of the synagogue, eight miles from the barracks, where he received some education. At 12 years of age he entered a riding school, and two years later joined his father's,' company ' on ha If-pay. At this time the natives were very troublesome, and the British troops were kept in constant readiness for outbreaks. 'On one occasion Mr. Barker fought in a desperate engagement in a gorge 300 miles from Calcutta. After twelve years' service in tho Army Mr. Barker was given his discharge and went to England. He married Miss Jane Wood, 'of Halifax, and ten years' later, finding conditions in England hard, he embarked on the ship' James Booth, and, with his wife, arrived at Auckland on 3rd .April, 1851. In New Zealand the. soldier took part in the Maori -'War, 'and later on joinued the rush to the' Thames goldfields.' Mr. Barker went to Hamilton in 1877, and has resided there/since. Mr.. Barker is not a teetollar arid has smoked since he was a very small.boy.