PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12537, 26 June 1901, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Justice Cooper was a passenger from the south yesterday by, the express. Miss J. McKellar, 8.A., of Dunedin, has been appointed assistant mistress at the Wanganui Girls’ College. The Eev W. M’Cuilly and. Lieutenant Thorp, R.N., arrived from Wellington by the e.s. Tarawera yesterday morning. Mr W. H. Prioe, late sub-manager for the Union Steamship Company at Lyttelton, who has been promoted to the position of traffic manager at Wellington, is to leave for that city to-day. At a meeting of the employees at the Petone * Railway Workshops a resolution was carried expressing gratification at the conferment of a knighthood on Sir Joseph Ward. Arrangements were also put in train for making him a presentation to mark the occasion. A telegram from Auckland states that the Hon W. Hail-Jones, Minister of Public Works, arrived there yesterday morning, accompanied by.has wife and daughter, on a holiday trip. They will leave for Rotorrua this morning, and will make a short stay in the Hot Lakes district. Mr Heywood, son of the Secretary to the Treasury, who went to South Africa ae a trooper, has. been appointed to a captaincy in the Duke of York’s ,Own Rifles, now dn Cap® Colony. Sergeant Golding, one of the veterans who took part in the recent demonstrations in Wellington, arrived in Wellington on Oct. 1, 1847, to join the 65t£h Regiment, to which he belonged. He 'has lived! to see the Empire Oity grow out of the primeval wilderness, and to take part In the reception of a scion of Royalty, whoso father, the King, was but a child of seven years when Sergeant Golding arrived m New Zealand. The old soldier is mow resident in Taranaki. The Hon W. O. Walker returned to Wellington last night. Lieutenant-Colonel Sommcrvillo went north by last night's steamer. Captain Oolbecfc, a well-known Auckland citizen, died last night, aged seventy-three. Deceased was at one time a director of tho Bank of New Zealand.