PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1927, Page 9

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Henry Cowan, M.P., and Lady Cowan will be the guests of honour at a luncheon given by the English-speak-ing Union to-morrow. Mr. Thomas B. Dwan was a passenger to-day for Sydney by the TJUmaroa. Dr. E. Marsden returned to Wellington from the South by the Wahine this morning. The Hon. D. T. Fleming, M.L.C., arriyed in Wellington from the South this morning. Mr. P. Selig, of Christchurch, left by the TJUmaroa to-day on a visit to Sydney. Mr. J. J. .M'Grath left Wellington this afternoon by the XJlimaroa for a visit to Sydney. , Mr. Cecil W. Hankins, of Messrs. Holdens, Ltd., Adelaide, who has been visiting New Zealand, leaves for Australia to-day by the TJUmaroa. Mr. J. W. Macdonald, Public Trustee, is visiting Auckland on departmental business. He will return to Wellington on Monday. Mr. Justice Herdman arrived from Auckland, and Mr.- Justice Adams arrived from Christchurch to-day, to attend the sittings of the Court of Appeal next week. Mr. C. C. Willis, of Wellington, has been appointed, from forty' appUcants, to the secretaryship of the Masterton Dairy Company, which is being relinquished by Mr. Richard Brown after 19 years' service. Mr. Willis takes up his new position at the beginning of October. , Dr. T. J. Hughes, Medical Officer of Health at Auckland will leave New Zealand in December for India, where lie will represent tho Dominion^ at a conference .of medical men organised by the League of Nations. Last year, a similar conference was held in Japan. Dr. Hughes will afterwards tour India and will be absent from the Dominion for four months. Cable advice has been received from London of tho death of Mr. Alfred A. Selig, eldest son of the late Eev. B. A. SeUg, of Wellington, in his 79th year. He was born at Penzance, Cornwall, and camo out with his parents to Australia 65 years ago. After living in Melbourne for some time he came with his parents and the rest of his family to Wellington by the Scotia, and soon afterwards was indentured to the firm of Jacob Joseph and Co., general merchants. Later he went to Christchurch, and spent some year there. Forty-seven years ago he went to London, and took up hia permanent residence there, retiring from business some years ago. He lived at St. Leon-ard's-on-Sea. He leaves a widow and one son and one daughter. . Messrs. P. SeUg (Christchurc?i) and H. Selig (Sydney), are brothers of deceased, and Mrs. G. Benjamin, of Sydney, is a sister. The death took place last night after a very brief illness of Major- Wilmot C. Quinnell, M.R.C.V.S., M.R.5.1., a well-known resident of Wellington. Major Quinnell was the second son of Brigade-Major Richard James Quinnell, some time of the British East India Company and Punjab Medical Service, who served through the Indian Mutiny and the Sutleg campaign. The late Major Quinnell was born ia England 66 years ago, and educated at Bishop Cotton's School in Simla. Ho aat for his entranco examination to Sandhurst at the same time as General Godley, but was rejected because of weak eyesight, and entered the Royal. Veterinary College, London, from which he qualified in 1891. An appointment under tho New South Wales Government followed, and Major Quinnell went out to Australia as Chief Inspector of Stock in Queensland, coming over to New Zealand in 1906 to join the veterinary division at Wellington. From this position ho resigned to enter private practice, but when the war broke out offered hi 3 services to the Imperial Government and was gazetted Captain in the A.1.F., being second in command of Romsoy Remount Depot. Service with tho Royal Naval Division and as Assistant-Director of Veterinary" Services to the 63rd Division at Chelinsford followed. On the break-up of the sth Army, tho late Major Quinnell, although over age, volunteered for service in France, and suffered shellshock -in a ZeppeUn raid in Boulogne. i rom there he returned to England and was with tho 53rd Highland Division in Glasgow until the middel of 1919 when ho returned to Wellington and again commenced private practice Major Quinnell, who was honorary votormarian to various agricultural societies, leaves a widow, three sons, and a daughter. '