PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 4, 5 July 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-BEGAL. : Their Excellencies the Governor-Gen-eral and Viscountess Jellicoe, ' will entertain the ■members of the British Empire Exhibition Mission at dinner at Government House to-night. On Saturday, their Excellencies will attend the races at Trentham, and in the evening His Excellency will present the prizes' at the Royal' New Zealand Yacht Squadron's smoke concert. On the 17th inst., their Excellencies' will leave on a touv of the Wairarapa arid East Coast districts. :

A Press Association message from Nelson reports the death of Mr. John Oldham, aged 92 years. Deceased was descendant of the Oldhams of Werneth Abbey, Lancashire. - He was a keen explorer in the early daya of NewZealand, and arrived in the Dominion in 1851. He was the first to cross the Tak'aka" hills, and found the first gold in the'Takaka River.

Mr. T. Brook, who succeeds Mr. G, H. -M'Clure as Commissioner of Crown Lands, for the AVellington district, arrived _ from the South this morning. He will take up his duties next week.

.Upon the occasion of his ' marriage, Mr. G. S. Bright, secretary of the Wellington Rowing Club,' was entertained last evening by a mimber of his friends and club members. On behalf of the club, the ca,pt;iin (Mr. Symonds) presented Mr. Bright with a clock, suitably inscribed, and in doing so, expressed the best wishes of his fellow-rowers, i Mr. Bright' suitably replied.

The death took place suddenly last night, fit his residence, 4. Baden-road, Kilbirnie, of Mr. John M'Kenzie Urquhart. Born in Ardross, Rose-shire, he arrived in New Zealand fifty-eight yeara ago, and though formerly engaged in storekeeping in the South Island, had been connected with the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, for the past, twenty years. Owing to a breakdown'in health some three years ago, he retired on superannuation, and, though' he had not enjoyed good health for some time, his death came quite unexpectedly. Deceased, who was the :eldest nephew of the late Sir John M'Kenzie, leaves a widow and a grown-up family.

Mr. J. C. Smith, MSc, a student in the department of chemistry at the Auckland University College, and a former student at Victoria College, Wellington, has been awarded by the commissioners the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship for 1922. Cabled information to this effect has been re- ; ceived from the New Zealand University agont ■■ in, England. The scholarship >is valued at £250 a year, and is tenablefor two years, with the possibility of extension to a 'third.year. Mr. Smith last year carried out at the Auckland University College a research in chemistry of great merit, and is at present on hi 3 way to England to continue Mb investigations. The successful student is the son of Mr. H. G. Smith, general manager - for New Zealand of the. Phoenix Assurance Company.

Mr. 0. H. N. Hehnore, who died in England a few days ago, earned much distinction on the football and cricket fields. He represented Canterbury a.s half-back against Otago in 1880-81-83-84----35-86, against Auckland in 1883, againet Wellington in 1885-87, and against England (A. E. Stoddait's team) in 1888. He was a membar of the New Zealand team which toured New South Wales in 1884, and which won every match it played. Mr. Helmore was a Fellow of Christ's College at the time of his death, and was nresidsnt of the Christ's College Old Boys' Association in 1911. He sat for some time in the. Diocesan Synod, and was a churchwarden and vestryman of the parish of Eangiora and afterwards of .Merivale. He- was formerly captain of the Eangiora Rifles, and he held , a number of semi-public offices wliile living in Rangiora. He was married in 1893 to a daughter of the Hon. Ernest Gray, of Hoon Hay, and is survived by his widow, one son, and two daughters. His younger json was killed in France. A gathering of the Chiistchurch Bar held in the Supreme Court. Christchnrch, on Monday, paid a tribute to the 3ate Mr. Helmore's memory.