PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 130, 1 June 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. W. Fraser returned to Wellington from the South this morning.

Mr. John Laurenson has been appointed censor of telegraph messages at Wellington, vice Mr. G. G. Rose.

■ Mr. T. H. Eliingham has been elected unopposed as the elective member of the' Land Board for a term of two years.

Mr. W. Sibba-ld is gazetted Registrar (If Marriages, Births, arid-Deaths for the Wairau District.

Mr. Joseph Dawson has been leappointed a member oJ the Wellington Land Board.

Mr. Mark. Smith returned to Wellington yestbrday afternbbii "after a lengthy visit to*'the northern portion of the island.

' The Hon. J. Duffell. a, member of the West Australian Legislative Council, who is at jH-esent spending a holiday in New Zealand, paid a visit to Trentham Camp yesterday.

Mr. T. W. Leys, chairman of the Auckland University College Council — who has been ill \Vellingt6h for a day or two—left for the North by the Main Trunk express this afternoon.

The Rev. R. do Lambert, of Westpbft, who was forilierly a telegraphist, has volunteered for national service, and will probably give part-time services at Westport post and telegraph office.

Mr. W. R. Baghall, member for St. George iil the New South Wales Legislative Assenibly, who has been visiting relatives in New Zealand^ has returned to 1 Sydney. ■" ,

'I\vo prisoners, Allan Wilford North (theft and forgery) and Sidney Clarence M'Carthy (carnal knowledge), will come up for sentence afe iO a.m. at the Supreme Court to-morrow. His Honour] the Chief Justice (Sir Eobert Stout) will'preside. . ■.

Mr. G. A. Skeltqn; an old Taranaki settler, died at Bell Block on Sunday, aged 79 years. The late Mr: arrived in New Plymoutii in 1863 as a member of the Army Hospital Corps, having served in the Crimea. He was married in 1868 to a niece of the late Hon. Wi Tako Ngatata (Miss Mary Cook):

An old'and rriucli-respected resident of Auckland, Mr. Reuben Nicholls, died at tlie lioiiie df his sbii, Mr. J. ft. Nidhollsi TliiimW, last wg&U. Born Hear Ciiestertield,, .Derbyshire, Etigland, 81V years ago, Mr. iSTiciibiis crime tb New Zealand in the old ship Tybufnia in 1863 witn. a company of. Nonconformist settlers. Like many another new settler, | he was, in the same year^ called for ser- | vice against the discbritehted Maoris, 1 and -went into eiiirip ai Otahuhu, bntr owirig tb the MaoHs haying tjuieted down, the conipaliy was disbanded soon j afterwards. In 1864-debased went td Cbt'bmaiidel, aild was for s&me years interested in mining", tliere, When it was in its first stages; alid later on; when the Thames gdldilelds wSre opehe'd, hd took up Ills residence at Thames; and was for many years a prominent member of the community: Mr. Nicholls was a well known and much respected member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, arid Was one of the founders' of the Order at Thames. About 46 years agd deceased returned 'to Auckland, and, until five or six years ago, followed his 1 trade ad a range-maker.