NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15552, 9 March 1914, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

fraoiC OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] London, January 30. Callers at the High Commissioner's office during the current week have included Mr. L, K. Winter and Mrs. James Buchanan of Auckland. ■

Captain J. R Bridson, E.N., who is well-known m New Zealand waters, has been appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral u. <_~ Marescaux as captain in charge and lungs harbourmaster at Portland. Admiral Marescanx was promoted to flag rank last December..

The Rev. W. E. Lush, vicar of Jkpinnany Auckland, is returning to New Zealand by the Athenic from Plymouth on February 7. He has travelled from Hastings to lona, from Torquay to Norfolk, and has included 17 cathedrals in his visits, besides many other interesting places. Mr. Lush is in the verv best of" health, and feels benefited in many ways by the change.

Friends in many parts of New Zealand will hear with regret of the death of the Kev. J. M. Adcock, who was educated for the ministry at Bishopdale, Nelson, and had charge at different times of Temuka, Bnghtwater, Timaru, and Motueka. Mr. Adcock graduated at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, where he was curat* of St. Barnatas. At the time of his death he was rector of Welles borough, Kent. He had gone to Switzerland as holiday chaplain, and contracted typhoid' fever. Mr. Adcock was a fine all-round athlete, having played cricket for Warwickshire and New Zealand and football for Aston Villa,

While Sir John Gorst, the veteran of the Waikato wars, was lying ill in London, his wife died at their country seat, Castle Combe, Wilts, of an illness which had lasted 11 days. Lady Gorst was a daughter of the Bev. Lorenzo Moore, of Chrißtcliurch, and she met and lecamo engaged to Sir John when he was on his way out to New Zealand in a sailing ship in 1859. He had intended, is said, after completing his brilliant career at Cambridge, to engage in missionary work under Bishop Selwyn. He accepted from the Governor the post of commissioner in the Waikato, where, with his young wife, he passed through some stirring incidents of the wars. They left in 1863 and came, back to England, where Sir John read for the Bar. There he had a highly successful career, culminating in his appointment to be Solicitor-General. Sir Join and Lady Gorst had five sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Sir John Eldon Gorst, was. British Agent in Egypt until his death in 1911. Another son is Mr. Harold Gorst, an author and journalist. Mr. Harold Gorst and two sisters, Lady Sykes and Mrs. Clarkson, were with their mother when she died, after being two days unconscious.