PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 929, 30 January 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Governor-General, _ Lord' Jellicoe, accompanied by Lady Jellicoe and all the members of their family, excepting the Hon. Lucy Jellicoe. who is still in Sydney, left Auckland on Friday in the Government steamer Tutaliekai to visit various ports oil the east coast of the North Auckland district. His Excellency will visit Kawakawa and other places by motor. Messrs J. Aiken and J. A. Colquhoun were elected members at yesterday’s meeting of the Luncheon Club. Mr A. McCarthy, Crown Solicitor of Western Samoa, who is on three months’ furlough, is at present in Wellington.

Mrs A. A- Martin, who returned to Wellington about a fortnight ago from a visit to England, was a visitor to Palmerston North during the week-end. The executive of the Reform Party in Wellington has decided to entertain the Prime Minister and Mrs Massey at the Wellington Town Hall on Wednesday, February 6th.

The Hon. M. Cohen, M.L.C., for many years editorial chief of the Dunedin Star, from whioh important post he recently retired on account of ill-health, is spending a few days in Wanganui. The Hon. Edward Newman, C.M.G., M.L.C., and Mrs Newman will leave for England by the Rotorua on February 9. Mr Newman expects to be back in the Dominion in August.

A;i arrival at Wellington by the Maunganui on Monday was Mr Frank Tait, of the directorate-of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., who is visiting the Dominion with Mrs Tait after an absence of ten years.

Feeling reference to the death of Mr James Mitchell, who was a member of the Palmerston North Orchestral Society, was made at last night’s meeting of that body by the chairman, Mr A. Skerman, and a motion of condolence with the relatives of the deceased gentleman was parried in silence, all standing. The friends of Miss Lydia Dalefield, Gillespie’s line, will be interested to hear that she was successful in the recent examinations held at Victoria College for the B.A. degree. Miss Dalefield sat for three subjects, English, French and Latin, and gained a first-clas3 pass in each, a most creditable' performance for a young first year student. Professor R. Speight, who holds the chair of geology in Canterbury College, is at present the .guest of Mr L. J. Wild, of Feilding. They intend to make a geological examination of the Pohangina river valley, especially with reference to the quantity and quality of the limestone located there. 1

Captain Preece, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis, is reported to be making excellent progress towards recovery. At yesterday’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a motion of sympathy was passed with Captain Preece, when the hope was expressed that he would soon be restored to complete health. Mr P. J. Drew, chief timber expert of the New South Wales Forestry Commission, who is on a visit to the Dominion in connection with complaints concerning Australian hardwood, was in Palmerston North yesterday. In company with Mr. W. A. Waters, chief engineer of the ManawatuOroua Power Board, he visited the hydroelectric works at Mangahao. Advice has been received in Wellington that a visit might be expected about the middle of next month from Mr W. P. McElhone, president of the New South Wales Cricket Association. Mr McElhone was for many years a member of the executive, and was a founder of the present Board of Control. ex-Lord Mayor of Sydney, and at present alderman of the city. Mr J. O’Grady, who has been mentioned as the probable British Ambassador to Russia, has been a Labour M.P. since and is a former president of the Trades Union Conference. He undertook a mission to Russia in March, 1917, in the interest of Russia’s support of the Allies’ cause, and in 1920 he negotiated with Russian Soviet representatives at Copenhagen for the release and repatriation of British prisoners of war and civilian! in Russia. He was educated at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School, Bristol, and learned the furniture making trade, lie is secretary of the National Federation of General Works.

Mr William Acton Adams, an early Nelson colonist, died in London recently, at the age of 80 years. Mr Adams, who arrived in Nelson in 1850, with his parents, Avas the eldest son of the late Mr William Adams, first Superintendent of Marlborough, and leader of the movement for the separation of the Wairau district from Nelson, which resulted in the creation of the Marlborough Province in 1859. Mr Acton Adams, who formerly was a partner in the Nelson legal firm of Messrs Adams and Kingdon, represented Nelson in the House of Representatives for a term in 1879. He afterAvards resided in Canteibury, but removed to England several years ago. He leaves three sons and a daughter.

On Saturday last, Mr A. E. C'ostall, a native of Wellington, died at Makowhai, near Rongotea at the age of 61 years. It must be nearly 40 years since Mr Costall (who waa born in Wellington) and his brother Mr Fred. Costall, took up land in the Campbell Settlement (now known as Rongotea), felled tho bush, and turned the land into a good farm (says the Dominion). Thirty years ago the brothers separated, and Mr A. E. Costall went to Pahiatua, again to face bush-clearing and making a farm out of virgin forest. Four years ago he returned to the district in which he started, and was farming at Makowhai till his death. He was tho third son of the late Mr J. Costall, superintendent of the Government Printing Office, and married Miss Carter, 8.A., principal of the Okonre Training College. Besides the widow, four daughters and one son survive him, the eldest being 19 years of age. Distinguished visitors to Wellington at present are the Earl and Countess of Harrowby, who arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui on Monday with their daughter. Lady Frances Ryder. Lord Ilarrowby, who is a partner in Coutts and Company s Bank, London, is the fifth earl, the line being created in 1809. The. Earl of liarrowby was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has held a commission in the Staffordshire Yeomanry. He was M P for Gravesend from 1898 to 1900. During the dark days of the war the Earl and Countess of Harrowby were noted for their lavish entertainment of the A.Lb. and N Z E.F. Every comfort was provided at their London home and at their country seat in Staffordshire. Lord and Lady Harrowby, together with their daughter will return to Sydney at an early date, and will in all probability visit various parts of hew South Wales.