PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 75, 12 March 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. Gibson, of the Tonson Garlick Company. Limited, Auckland, is in Napier on a busine.ss visit. The Prince of Wales will visit Germany on the 17th instant and spend a portion of the vacation at the German Court. A London cablegram 10-day reports the death of Viscount Tredegar. Lord Lieut, of Monmouth since 1899. —Press Association. The Hon. AV. Fraser. Minister for Public Works, arrived in Napier by the express last evening and went, on to Gisborne by the Takapuna. Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh, M.P. for Wellington South, is a present visiting Napier. He is staling with his brother, Mr. John Hindmarsh, at Greenmeadows. Bv the last San Francisco mail Mr. T. P. Gilfedder. F.R.A.S., Auckland, has been advised that a body of scientists intend meeting brother confreres at Auckland, during Exhibition time, if such a conference can be organised. The Rev. A. Don. who has worked for many years as a missionary among the Chinese of Otago cm! Southland, is, in accordance with the decision of the responsible mittee of the Presbyterian Churcli. to be transferred to Auekl.m i. where the Chinese population >s greater than in the south.• A London correspondent states that Air. J. J. Hammond, the wellknown aviator, who hails from New Zealand, and intends to return there in the summer, took up aviation quite unexpectedly, having come over here for a holiday in I9(>8. He his achieved a record in aviation circles by never having hail any sort of cident. Before'* leaving he has undertaken to give exhibition flights at Eastbourne.

Air. C. F, 11. Pollock, of the Commercial Union Insurance Comp.nr • staff. AVellington, has been promoted to the managership of the Napitw branch of the company He Jeiv-s for Napier at the end of the month. The New Zealand Club, of which Air. Pollock has been secretary smci the departure of Mr. H. N. Holmes, will entertain him prior to his tmparture. Mr. A ,S. Mac Shane siw < < <•<!- Air. Pollock as iviatj. <>> the club.-- "New Zealand Tinies."

Mr. A. T. Ngata, M.P.. and family left by th« express this morning for the south.

The Hon. J. McGowen, Labour Premier of New South Wales, denies the rumour that he is resigning the Premiership to become AgentGeneral. Mr. McGowen confirms the statement that he intends to retire from the leadership of the Labour Party and the present Parliament. He declares that the responsibilities attaching to office weighed on him very heavily lately, and in justice to himself he feels it necessary to rcliquish it. He does not say that lie is retiring from politics altogether, but he will never again accept office. On Tuesday evening the employeesof Mrs. J. H. Williams, Te Apiti station, entertained the manager, Mr. E, H. Pierce, at a smoke concert and presented him writMjf dressing case as a small token of he esteem in which they held him. The presentation was made by Mr. Stowe. Mr. Pierce returned thanks and expressed the hope that he would see them all again on his return. Songs and recitations were given by Messrs. Mills, Eaton, Floyd and Machassie. The health of the guest of the evening was drunk with musical honours and the three times three singing of “He’s a jolly good fellow.” Mr. Pierce leaves Sydney on the Ostcrley on the 26th instant on a trip to the Old Country. Mr. H. lan Simson, who recently left Hawke’s Bay to take up his residence in Wanganui, was met by a number of citizens and representatives of sports bodies at the Carlton Club Hotel, Hastings, last evening, for the purpose of bidding him farewell, Mr. B. C. McCormick presiding over an assemblage of about forty people. Apologies were received from Mr. A. L. D. Fraser and a number of others. During the evening, the chairman, on behalf «f those present and the Hastings Tennis Club, asked the guest of-the evening -to accept a pair of f)eld glasses, suitably inscribed, for il mself and a gold mounted ebony nair brush and comb, also suitably inscribed, for Mrs. Simson, acejmcompanied by best wishes for their future happiness and prosperity. Speeches of a complimentary nature were also made by Messrs. J. R. Gillespie, G. Maddison, A. Rainbow (on behalf of the Hastings Teams Club), E. J. W. Hallett (hockey), S. Baird (swimming), H. G. P. Mortensen (angling), A. O. Wellwnod, Byrne, G. Stevenson and N. Beatson, and the health of Mr. .-and Mrs, Simson, which- was proposed by Mr. J. H. Colebourne, was drunk with enthusiasm. In reply, Mr. Simson expressed his .gratitude - for the handsome tokens which he had been asked to accept, and prcciatively of the eulogistic reference to Mrs. Simson and himself. • The health of Mr. Vive Smith wiS * also toasted, and the proceedings terminated- with the singing . uf “Auld Lang Syne.” The Prime Minister was entertained at luncheon yesterday in the United Service Jlotel, Christchurch, by Mr. H. D. Acland, president Of the Provincial executive of the Canterbury branch of the Reform League. In proposing the toast l trf: the Prime Minister, Mr. Acland said that as he understood them, tn&, principles for which the Reform' Party stood were, the principle* of the development of the individual Fberty of every citizen of the Dominion. We in New Zealand were taking a humble part in trying to solve the grandest political idea , e \ 6 f produced, namely the system of Government based on the system- of free democracies. We were trying to solve what principles belonged to separate States, and what belonged to the Empire as a whole. He believed the principles advocated by their guest of the day would produce a true and honest democracy, while the princ’ples opposed to him would be found to be those of a sham de- . mocracy which would ultimately prove to be nothing less than class prejudice. In expressing his appreciation of the manner in which the toast was honoured, Mr. Massey agreed that the principles for which he* stood were those of government by the people for the people, and in the best interests of the people. Every man in public life, whether, municipal or general,, found it getting into his blood, and other interests becoming small in comparison. Whether a man retired voluntarily or compulsorily, it should be his aim to leave the country better than he found it. That was his own aim, and also, he was sure, that of the Mayor of Christchurch.