PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14926, 26 February 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON.

[from orn OWN correspondent.j

London, January 19. Lord Ranfcrly has been elected a member of the Court of Assistants of the Pattenraakers' Company, Major T. W. McDonald, officer commanding the junior cadets in New Zealand, will be attached for 12 months to the regular forces at Aldersliot. Mr. T. Boyd Scott (Rotorua) has come to England to follow his profession as an engineer. Before settling down to the mam purport of his visit he has been touring in Scotland. Mr. William S. Parkinson (New Zealand) has just been elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute. Mrs. Hume Lindsay has been elected an associate. Mr. Felix McGuire - (Hawera) has been appointed an honorary corresponding secrei tary. _ Brigadier-General R. H. Davies (commanding the Sixth Infantry Brigade) is attending this week a conference of officers of the General Staff at the Staff College, Camberley. During the conference, which is of a confidential character, all the officers are in residence in the college. Mr. T. J. Colo (Auckland) will reach New Zealand again about the .middle of March, after an absence of 18 months. He spent 12 months in post-graduate work in dentistry in America, and for the remainder of the time has been gaining experience in England. He will be a passenger, by the Orvieto. 1 Lieut.-Colonel A. Bauchop having con- ' eluded a year's attachment at the staff college at Camberley, has been ordered by ! the New Zealand Government to study the j administration of the London division of j the territorial force. At the close of j : this course lie returns to New Zealand to j [ the command of a district. This week the callers at the New Zealand Government office have been: Mr. E. A. Earnshaw (Wellington), Mr. T. Boyd Scott (Rotorua), the Rev. R. Rathe (Auckland), Dr. Clennell Fenwick (Christ- J church), Mr. and Mrs. Leo Buller (Wei- ! lington), and Mr. .1. Van Staveren (Wei- j lington). Thirty applications were received by tho High Commissioner in reply to the advertisement for two veterinary officers for the Agicuitural Department of the New | Zealand Government. The salary is £300 ' per annum. The successful candidates are j Mr. Jacob 'Hope Piinner and Mr. Edwin ! Eli Elphick. Mr. Prinner graduated at the Royal Veterinary College, Edinburgh, and has practised his profession for four years at Chester-lc-Street. He is a Harris gold medallist for pathology. Mr. Elphick qualified in London in '1904. He took a diploma in veterinary- hygiene in Liverpool in 1907. and has been the veterinary officer to a large coal company.

| Tilts Yorkshire Post announces the death lof Mr. William Mortimer' Baines at his residence, Bell Hall, near Naburn, York, at the age of 81. Mr. Baines came of an old East Riding family, who have held the fine old Jacobean residence of Bell Hall for many generations. At quite an early age he went to New Zealand, where he remained a long time engaged in sheepfarming. Returning to England between 50 and 40 years ago lie took up his residence at the old home of the family. Mr. Baines, who was somewhat of a 'recluse, taking little or no part in public affairs, was a very interesting personality and a keen agriculturist. During his New Zealand experiences he developed great mechanical resourcefulness, and lie spent many hours in a workshop, which he had fitted up at Bell Hall, being never so happy as when engaged in woodcarving, turnerv and similar pursuits. He made most of the gates on his own estate. Mr. Baines leaves a widow and a large family, several of his children being in the colonies and in India, in which country one of the sons holds a Government appointment.

The Right Hon. Caroline Stuart, Dowager Countess of Seafield, of Cullen House. Cullon, Banffshire, of Castle Grant, Elgin, and of Balmacan House, Inverness, widow of the seventh Ear] of Seafield, left, in addition to real estate of great value, personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £210,095. She left a large number of legacies and charitable bequests. For the benefit of the Hon. Trevor Ogilvie Grant, second son of the 10th Earl of Seafield,' brother of the present peer and the precent heir, she left a sum not exceeding £10.000, to be administered by trustees';' to each daughter of the 10th Earl the sisters of the present peer, the late Countess bequeathed an annuity not exceeding £300. Her real estate is left to her trustees to pay an annuity of £4000 to the present earl, and subject to stringent provisions regarding the proper upkeep of the estate and maintenance of the notable buildings thereon, to accumulate the income .until the estate shall bo free from any debt, and then to hold the same upon trust for the holders of the title of the Earl of Seafield.