PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16358, 30 September 1913, Page 8

PERSONAL.

The Rev Father O'Connell left fort; Wellington last evening. . i

Mr T. H. Davey, M.P., returned to, Wellington last night. ',

The Hon G. J. Smith, M.L.C., lefo. for Wellington last evening.

Mr F. H. Smith, . M.P., left for, Wellington by the Mararoa last night.;'

The Hon J. Anstey, MJL.C, left for Wellington by the Mararoa last even-' ing.

The Hon J. Barr, M.L.C., was & pas* senger by the Mararoa for 'Wellington last evening.

Professor W. T. Mills arrived from Dunedin last evening, and will leave for Wellington this evening.

A cable message from Melbourne states- that Dr Strong has resigned the charge of the Australian Church.

A cable message states that Mr Hugh 0. Latter, of Cheltenham College staff, has been appointed headmaster of the Collegiate School, Wanganui. •

Mr F. Daily, who has been in the employ of Messrs Millichamp and Sons, : nurserymen, Asliburton, for fourteen;| years, has been appointed curator of i the Temuka Domain. ' ' j

The Hon R. H. Rhodes. PostmasterGeneral, arrived in Christcburch on» Sunday, and spent the evening at hiaj home m Tai Tapu. Yesterday after-: noon he opened the Southbridge Publio j Domain, and in the evening left by "the ] Mararoa for Wellington. 1

A cable, message states that Baron; Nicolies, a Hungarian nobleman, has • arrived at Brisbane, from a shoot--ting trip to China! He in- j tended to go into the interior; as far as the Tibetan border, but was: stopped by the recent revolution, andii next year will try again. Baron Nicolies is a noted hunter of big game, and has visited every corner or the earth with the exception of New Zealand and South America.

Sir Thomas Brock, R.A., has completed his design for the statue of Captain Cook, w-hich is to be erected close to the Admiralty Archway, in Spring Gardens, London. The memorial, which will be 9ft high, is the outcome, of a suggestion which was made some, voars ago bv Sir Joseph Carruthers, ex-: Prime Minister of New South Wales,. that a, memorial of the great voyager, should be erected in the metropolis.! The only Loudon memorial to Captain Cook is a tablet over the door of 88, i Mile End Road, where he lived' when, home from his travels, and another on' ( the walls of the Colonial Office, which,.; of course, is not readily accessible toi the general public.

The death of Father Ohrwalder, who for eight years was a prisoner, among, the dervishes and escaped, has ocourred at Omdurman. The career of Father Ohrwalder is one of the' romances of the Sudan. Born at Lana, near Meran, in the Tvrol. in 1856, he went to Cairo in 1879, after being _ trained as a missionary. In the following year he went up to Khartoum, and in 1889 he was captured by the Mahdists in the Dar Nuba. For* eight years he was hpld in captivitv bv the dervishes, and after several fruitless attempts to escape he succeeded, after eluding his captors, in reaching the .Egyptian outposts at Korosko. His adventures, among the Mahdists are described hf him in a book published in 1892.

Mrs George Hartman, aged nineteen, who has been married only two months, has decided to share a living death with her husband, who had been adjudged a leper at St Louis, and will he sent to a" leper farm. Hartman was a soK dier in the Philippines, and once guarded a. leper camp there. The only other occupant of the leper farm is a Chinaman. The husband tried his hardest to persuade his wife to remainaway, but she replied: "No; I'm youf, wife for better or for worse. My place is bv your side." Like her husband' and the Chinese leper, she will have to wear a white robe and a monk-like cowl covering her face".' A bell will be attached to her neck, that the ringing may mark the approach of one with the. plague.

A Press Association telegram from In* vercargill states that Sir Joseph WaM ton. FTR.G.S.. a member of the British Parliamentary party, arrived at the, Bluff by the steamer from Melbourne vesterday, and afterwards left for, Queenstown, where ho will remain tiii Wednesdav.. He will tour the domm- ; ion, remaining in New Zealand about a month, and will later visit South tralia and Western He m-l tends to learn all he can iu New Zea~. land agriculturally, commercially and politically. He told a. reporter that British overseas trade this year would easilv break all previous records; also,, that'England would have to seriously consider the establishment of. a system of military training similar to that in vo<me in New Zealand and Australia.

Lord Ripen, who was recently th« King's host, has taken no part in public life since he retired from the House of Commons in 1880; yet, according, to the laws of heredity he should be a keen politician. His grandfather! served as Prime Minister, and his ; father (who was born at 10, Dowmnsf Street) hold office in every Liberal Administration formed between 1863 ana 1905. Moreover, the roll of his ancestrv bears two of the greatest names in'the political history of England. Dr Gordon Hake, who attended Lord Ripon's grandfather, describes him as " a descendant both of Hampden and Cromwell. The head «P"*S ltatlv %?L the Cromwell family W 1858 was_Mf Field, the apothecary to Christ s, Hospital; the next was Count Pal™); of Genoa, and then came Lord Ripon.

" The late. Herr August Bebel, leader of the German Social Democratic Party, had not delivered, any great speech dur-; inc the last five years," says a, correspondent of the London " Daily Chronicle." "I saw him n few weeks ago. when he looked old, shrivelledl and broken, with the stamp of death on his face. Ho will be cremated; in Zurich, with which town he had intimate associations. It is pleasant to notice tl at this strenuous fighter, who all his Mo had been the object of the rancorous hatred of his opponents, is spoken ot now in word, of kindly aPPF<f atl ™ and esteem for his great gifts, hw sterling honesty of character, and the sinceriTv with which he held his convictions. Even his bitterest enemies recognise that Germany has lost a great citizen."