PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14310, 2 March 1907, Page 11

PERSONAL.

The Hon W- Hall-Joncs, Acting-Pre-mier, arrived from Wellington by the s.s. Rotomahana yesterday morning. The Hon G. Fowlds paid a -visit to St Mary’s Home, Richmond, yesterday morning. . The Rev Father Keogh, SurgeonGeneral Sherman and Dr Hosking, arrived from Sydney by the s.s. M arnmoo yesterday morning. * “ Dr Andrews was a. passenger by-the same steamer from Wellington. Mr F. J. Arnold, M.H.R., is on a visit to Christchurch. . Colonel Davies was a passenger i by the first express from the south last of the Macmahon Dramatic Company arrived from the south, by the second express last nigW‘The Hon J. A. Millar left for Wellington by the s.s. Maheno yesterday evening* _ Professor Cook left for Sydney yesterday by the s.s. Maheno. Mr Justice Chapman left tor v\ ellington yesterday evening by the s.s. Rotomahana. Mr C. Holdsworth, general manager of the Union Steamship Company, was a passenger by the s.s. Maheno from Dunedin for Sydney. '■ Mr T. E. Donne, the Superintendent of the Tourist Department, will arrive in Christchurch to-day. The name of Miss M. G. Foster was omitted from the list of these who passed the recent teachers’ examinations. She passed in five subjects in Class C. , At the- Supreme Court yesterday Mr W. R. Bain was admitted as a solicitor of the Supremo Court, on the application of Mr T. G. Russell. j Mr John Tinline, whose death, at Nelson, was announced on Tuesday, was born in Scotland in 1821, and settled in Wellington as a storekeeper, with the late Major Durie, in 1840. Two years later he established a business in Nelson, but the destruction by fire of the Wellington premises ruined the new venture. When Governor Fitzroy arrived in Nelson in 1844 ho gave Mr Tinline an official position, in which he remained for eight years, when he took up sheep-farming, becoming the owner of several large rims iu Marlborough. His Wangapeka run was recently sold to the Government. Ho took no part in politics, 1 but a very real interest in educational matters in Nelson, and there are three scholarships bearing his name. Some ’ years ago, when on a visit to his native place,. Jedburgh, he presented that town with a public park. Mr Tinline was the firstwhite man to travel from Nelson to Marlborough. He did so in company with a native boy, and he was almost the first white man to go from Wanganui to Wellington during the Maori troubles. On behalf of the Government ho bought from the -Natives the site of the town of Pictou, and he wins the only survivor of the original purchasers of land in the Wairau. His surviving relatives are a sister and her son, who reside in South Australia, and a nephew and niece, who are in Great Britain.