PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 431, 10 August 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Air. Norman Christie is gazetted an Inspector of Scenic Reserves.

Mrs. ,T. T. Blake and Miss Blake left Hastings for Auckland this morning.

The Hon. AA’. D. S. MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture, left AA’ellington this morning for Napier. He proceeds through to Gisborne. The Rev. Archibald Brown, recently pastor of the East London Tabernacle, is expected io arrive in Auckland this month, and has consented to take part in the diamond jubilee service of the Baptist Tabernacle.

Bishop Cleary's condition is somewhat morn reassuring. The Sydney doctors slate that although the nerve shocks are not diminishing in frequency- or intensity, they have not so far affected the heart.—Press Association.

Mr. Carlyle Ferguson, who for the past two years has been editor of the “Temuka Leader.” passed through Christchurch last week on his way to Suva, Fiji, where he takes up the editorship of the Fiji ’’ I'imes.

Aliss Olwcn Lloyd George, daughter <>t Air. aud Mrs. Llyod George, went over to France last month for t he purpose of nursing the wounded at. the front, having undergone a euitse of Training in order to qualify for this duty.

Mr. George Fache, who died recently ar Queenstown, aged 85 years, followed the goldfields in Ballarat, Bendigo, and Melbourne diggings in the "fifties," came over to Gabriel’s Gully rush, Otago, in 1862. and from there subsequently went to the AA’esi Coast.

We have much pleasure in announcing that Messrs Logan, Williams and White, the well-known firm Of solicitors, have admitted into partnership Mr. A. W. Parkinson, solicitor, who has for some years been acting as managing clerk to that firm.

The Defence .Minister has been advised by telegram that. SurgeonGeneral Henderson, who is to assume control of the New Zealand Army Aledieal Services, sailed from Marseilles on his way here on August 1. He should, therefore, reach the. Dominion early next month. Air. Lloy i.l George’s brother, Mr. AA ilham George, has refused nomination as Liberal candidate for the vacancy in the Arfon Division. This is not the first time that he has declined to stand for a safe Liberal seat. His view is that he can render quite as useful public service in local government as he could in Parliament.

Air. G. I'. Furby, Assistant-Inspec-tor of Post Offices, who was educated at Christ’s College, and joined the Telegraph Depart ment as a cadet at. Hokitika on 17th February, 1870, retired on his own accord" oh Ist August, after over forty-five years in the Government service. Before going to Christchurch he was postmaster at Hamilton. Mr. F. AA’. Furby. of the Prime Minister’s staff, is his son.

Gradually the little circle of Trench immigrants who arrived in Akaroa under the auspices of the Nanto Bordelaise, is being narrowed, it being further depleted by the death of Claude Jean Baptiste Feveneaux, last night, aged 88 years. Deceased was borne on 29 th October, 1828, in the Commune de Ruffey, Canton de Bletterens, France, and with his parents, was one of the band of emigrants to arrive in Akaroa harbour in the Comte de Paris in 1810. At the age of 19 he married Madeline Catherine Libeau, also an emigrant on the Comte de Paris. By the death of Mr. Geo. Nicholson, at the patriarchal age of 9S, which would have attracted wider attention in peaceful times, there has just passed away one of the original pioneers who helped to make South Africa part of Great, Britain. Mr. Nicholson had met many leading personages in the early Victorian era before he migrated to the banks of the Limpopo, where ho became a famous lion hunter and trader. He was the last survivor of the battle of Boomplaats. Mr. Nicholson’s name is perpetuated by Nicholson s Nek, where he onco farmer].