PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 22, 9 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. Vail Utslvieren; Wellington, is at present in Hastings. Press? Cablegfarrr from Paris announces of Baroness Alphonse de R6t.hscßsdL Mr. and Mrs. VL M*>'Lert,son left Hastings by the mail train to-day for Wellington, where they intend to spend a fortnight’s holiday. Two Napier townsmen, Messrs. J. C. Bryant and A. B. Gibson left yesterday for Taupo district on a noliday visit.

The death is announced by cable of the death of Sir John Aird, Commissioner of Lieutenancy for the City of London. A New York cable says that Barney Oldfield, the American automobilist record holder, sails for Australia next week.

! A Wellington writer says : —Mr. T. A. Urwin, vice-pifesident of the New Zealand Veterans’ Association, and an old resident of Wellington, died at 3 o’clock yesterday. The deceased joined the British navy in 1853, and took part in the Russian war in 1854 and 1855. He was on board H.M. S. Iris on the Australian station, and was with that ship in 1859, when she was ordered to New Zealand in consequence of the Maori wars. He was one of 150 bluejackets who marched from Manukau to New Plymouth, and assisted to quell the Maori disturbances in Taranaki. Irwin returned to England in the Iris, left the navy, and came back to New Zealand in 1862.

A press wire states that Mr. J. Orchiston has been appointed en-gineer-in-chief of the Telegraph Department of the retirement of Mr. J. K. Logan, superintendent of electric lines. He was formerly in Auckland, and seventeen years ago on Mr. Logan’s appointment he succeeded him as inspector of telegraphs at Dunedin. Mr. Orchiston was born in Aberdeen in 1857, and arrived in New Zealand with his parents in 1862. In 1874 he joined the telegraph service as a cadet, and was promoted in the same year to the charge of the Hawera station. In 1877 he was promoted to the Construction branch at Wellington, and subsequently was appointed sub-inspector of telegraphs for the Wellington district, being afterwards transferred to Auckland and then to Dunedin.