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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17286, 29 September 1916, Page 7

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Mr Justice Stringer returned from tho north yesterday. Mr L. M Isitt, M.P., visited, the hydrb-electrical works at Lako Coleridge yostorday. s Captain F. Post, of tho New Zealand Transport Board, arrived from Wellington yesterday. Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.0., vyill be entertained by six school districts in Wairarapa to mark his years’ service on tho Wellington Education Board. Mr Harold Gregson, who has been judging the music sections of tho Dunedin competitions, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He will leave for the north to-morrefv. | Mr Wyvern Wilson will aot as Stipendiary Magistrate at> Nelson while Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., is attending to his duties as a member of the Canterbury Military Service Appeal Board. I Appreciation of -the services of Mr ; ‘C. W. Palmer, during his term of office as honorary secretary of ‘the Wellingi ton * branch of the Navy League, is mentioned in the annual report of that body, of which Mr Palmer has been elected a life member. ' ’ '. i The English edition of the “ Metho- ' dist Times ” states that at the Wes/leyan Conference in London a short time ago, one of tho distinguished visitors was “Colonel ‘the Hon G. J. Smith; a bronzed Methodist from New Zealand.” Othey.distinguished visitors ‘ introduced to the conference were Lieui tenant-Cmonel the Itev J. A. Luxford, iC.M.G'., and Mr Thomas Allen, of ! Auckland. . , .... The “New'' Zealand Methodist Times ”■ contaihs a long obituary notice of the Rev Joseph Sharp, who was stationed’ at, Christchurch, in the *• seventies,” and, later, at Ashburton, Geraldine, Timaru; New Plymouth, Dunedin, Wnimate, Tcmuka, Edendale, Auckland, Thames and Devonport. He passed away at the last-named place on August 15. On two occasions he was elected president of the Primitive Methodist Conference. The funeral of the late Mr H.'.W. Piper, which took place on Tuesday at Duvauchelle, was very largely attended, as'in addition tt> a large gathering of Peninsula people, many friends mo-' tored from Christchurch. The Rev J. W. Hayward conducted tho sendee and delivered a very sympathetic address. Tho ceremony was concluded with three volleys by a firing party from the C.Y.0., and the “Last Post” was sounded by the trumpeter ! Three sons of the Rev W. J. Williams, of, Sumner., met in London recently under interesting circumstances. One,* Lance-Corporal Aubrey L. Williams, was wounded in Franco by fragments of shrapnel and was sent to a London hospital for treatment. Another was Captain Owen Williams; of the training camp on Salisbury Plaint and later ordered to prance. The other , was Dr Harold Williams, of Petrograo, who has contributed brilliant articles on the war to .the “Daily Chronicle,” and who was visiting England at the time to ’give lectures at a slimmer | school at Cambridge on “ Russian Na- ' tionalities.” J A Press Association message from Sydney received a few days ago announced that the estate of the lato Captain D. J. 'Williams is valued at £29,297. Captain Williams was a former resident of Newcastle, and died at his homo at Epping, Sydney, on July 15. He arrived in-New South Wales fifty years ago, and engaged in maritime pursuits. For aboitt eight years he .was engaged in the trade between Newcastle and - New Zealand and Mauritius. In 3 874 he was appointed manager of the Black Ball line of sailing ships, engaged in the AustralianNew Zealand trade. In 1876 he was appointed by tho Union Steam Ship Company to watch the interests of‘the steamer Wakatipu. Prom then on for forty years ho was manager at Newcastle for. that company. Ho resigned i his position in December, 1914. . Capj tain Williams .was,a native of Gravesend, England.