PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9532, 1 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

■ rm- ■■■- : -v; ■ '." ■ ;! - ';■;■ :.-#. ~.' • ; ■;-' .:;■£>■''■*-■■;■: '--..* ■■'. -/-■ : > .... i : . BoMns«g»tor Maraack is at present visiting Jtacrtihi on police business. / Air Walter Buchanan, member for Wsiarrived in Auckland from y Vah•Uttvsr M to-day. £Owlnf|« otetiraaed ill-health; Bishop CroMlay, who is at present in Melbourne, tmjimpm she Anglican bishopric of , Auckland. ; ■;,■ dhn J &riM ' «jfe»g-Ch»f Clerk in •IftWJNriSW'* wifl retire at tho •nd ofthe year in conformity with the decision of the Public Service Commission. jjfff ?*""**• Csrrott has now.quite reoov•twd from his recent severe illness, and yesterday left the private hospital at Wellington, where he has been receiving treatment SHU E. H. Hiley, the newly-appointed General Manager of the New Zealand Railwaye, will leave England in August, arriving in the Dominion toward the end of September. many friends of Nurse Roby. of Grey •Wet, will regret to learn that »he'has been eompelled to undergo an operation for appendioitit, which was performed at an early ■oar yesterday morning. lif l X) ? don '«*■* «t*tos that the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (an ex-Cabinet Minister! has been operated upon, and his condition is CTJtkab He became seriously ill after dining •j tha Foreign Office. A later report states last he is progressing favourably The condition^ of Mr William Foster, headmaster of the Petone High School, •ho has been laid up the past week or two *ttf* of pleurisy, bat greatly imsroyed, and he is expected to be about again is a fortnight's time, says the Post.! _Among the passengers by the Niagara, which arrived in Auckland to-day, is the Director of the Salvation Army's Emigrant Department, Commissioner Lamb, i who spends three weeks in New Zealand j •M six weeks in, Australia. He returns via Colombo to join General Booth on his trip to Canada. The London Standard announces the approaching marriage of Hon. Lionel Hdllam Tennyson, grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and heir to the barony, to Lady Ellen Rachel, second daughter of the Earl of Wharncliffe. The prospective bridegroom, Wfie is m lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, is twenty-four years of age, and thai bride-elect is only nineteen. Constable L. W. Wattors, of the local police, who is resigning from the force and Jeeves for Auckland, was entertained by hie fellow-comrades last evening. On their behalf Detective-Sergeant Quirke presented Constable Watters with a silver tea service. and in doing so made feeling reference to the excellent qualities of their comrade. The recipient suitably responded. It is Constable Wattere' intention to take over a hotel in Auckland. Mr John Townley known as Gieborne's "grand old man," who was Mayor for some years, and is at present chairman of the Harbour Board, has (says a Press Association telegram) resigned his position as superintendent of the fire brigade, after close on 30 yearn' service. The resignation was necessary on account of the legal opinion that Mr Townley could not retain his seat on the Board and be an active fireman as well. Mr Townley resigned hie position as •»P«£|fc>dent, and was reelected as chair■aanwfne Fire Board for the ensuing year. The death is announced of an Ellearaere pioneer, in the person of Mr Joseph Young, at the age of 91. Mr Young was born in Ireland, and landed at Melbourne in 1847. He afterwards crossed to New Zealand, landing at Dunedin. where he was employed for some time helping to lay out the citv. He afterwards took part in Gabriel's Gullv and Skipper's Guily rushes, and then went across to the West Coast. Ho went to • Canterbury in 1864. and bought a farm at Lakeside, on which he lived till a short time before his death. He was married in 1869, aim his wife survives him. VAt the office of Messrs Dalgety and Co., Maaterton, on Saturday afternoon, Messrs J. B. Moodie and J. B. Thomson, manager •OS auctioneer respectively, were made presentations. Mr Moodie leaves to take up an important position in the Wellington oAoe, and Mr Thomson hu been inPpkted ?™ Dannevirke Mr Moodie was presented with a handsome Dutch hall clock and a else of pipes, Mr Coulter making the presentation, and referring to the high esteem in which Mr Moodie has been held during bis eight years as manager of the branch. Mr Moodie then presented Mr Thomson with a set of binoculars, and. on behalf of toe staff, wished him every success in his mw sphere. It is now stated that Mr J. Lomas, Secretary for Labour, will retire from the £ublic service on March 31st next. Mr omas joined the Labour Department in 1891, the year of its foundation, and has been connected with it continuously ever since. The two officers first appointed to the head office staff were; Mr E. Tregear, lata Secretary for Labour, and Mr Lomas. In 1893 Mr Lomas went to Christchuroh as inspector in charge, and he continued in that position- for twelve years. About six years ago he was transferred to Wellington as Deputy Chief Inspector. SubseJuently he succeeded Mr M'Kay as Chief nspector, Registrar of Industrial Unions, and Superintendent of Workers' Dwellings. Two years ago Mr Lomas succeeded Mr Tregear as Secretary for Labour. This position he still holds, and, in addition, he is Chief Inspector, Registrar of Industrial Unions, and Superintendent of Workers' Dwellings. The officer next senior to Mr Lomas in the Labour Department is Mr F. W. Rowley, who is Deputv-Chief Inspector and Deputy-Registrar of Unions. A very old colonist—Mrs Cecelia Friberg—died at Makotuku (Hawke's Bay) on Friday. With her husband, the late Bror Eric Friberg, she came to the Dominion about 1869, and settled first in Auckland,, moving to Hawke's Bay a few years later. She has lived in this province ever since. After a residence of some years in Clive she and her husband moved to Waipukurau—in those days so tiny a village that it only contained twelve houses. In the late seventics they took up land in Makotuku, and were very much identified with the settlement of the surrounding district. Many of the early settlers in Norsewood and the German and Danish line, besides those in Makotuku, says the Dannevirko News, remember gratefully the almost parental care ' shown to them by Mr Friberg and his wife. Mr Friberg was" the first Justice of the Peace in that district, and held the first session of the Ormondville Magistrate's Court under a spreading tree, for want of a suitable building. After her husband's death, which occurred a short time after the move to Makotuku. Mrs Friberg continued to render help to her neighbours. H"r knowledge of languages was invaluable to the Germans and Scandinavians, whom she helped to colonise there, as she was able to interpret to them all necessary papers and explain much of the legal formalities with regard to the acquisition of their land. In sickness die was their constant friend and helper, in business their adviser, and at all times she took the keenest interest in those among whom she lived. For some years •he was a member of the school committee in Makotuku, and on two occasions she acted as agent for the distribution of relief funds raised in Napier and elsewhere after disastrous bush fires. She was also a very active helper in the church to which she attached herself in this country. Mrs Fribera; was a native of Germany, born in Lubeck on August 31st,, 1839. Sine* coming to this 9he had never returned to her own country. She leaves a son. Rot. Nils Frib*rt?, of Kaikoura (formerly second master of College street school. Pafmerston North), and four daughters. She was buried beside her hnsband, in the Norsewood cemetery, on Sunday afternoon. Eleven fur sets for 9s lid each are aaaonr tha showroom bargains atCollinson and Cunninghams' s colossal mid-winter sale. These ars handsome goods, usually from 12s Id to 22s 6d per set. Astrskant, Sealettes and Imitation Ermine comprisa the varieties offered. Thia little ooteris of big bargains ii shown in one of the windows.—Advt.