MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 21

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr John Baillie, of Wellington, has had two of his pictures accepted for the Liverpool Art Exhibition.

Messrs W. Booth andH. Braithwaite have been elected councillors for the Carterton riding of the Wairarapa South county.

Mr Ernest J. Parker, managing director of Huddart, Parker and Co., Limited, passed through Wellington by the Mararoa, en mute for Sydney.

The Rev Daniel McDonald, elected as Moderater of the Presbyterian Assembly of Victoria, is the first native-born Australian to occupy that position.

Mr C. Burnett, solicitor, and family, of Wanganui, contemplate a trip to England about the end of the year. They expect to be absent about six or eight months.

Mr W. A. Kennedy, who has been acting as manager of the Wellington office of the Union Steamship Company, has been permanently appointed to that position.

The Hon Mrs Wellesley, better known as Miss Kate Vaughan, the eminent English actress, was a passenger to Wellington by the Wakatipu on Tuesday. Mrs Wellesley will return to England by the Gothic.

Sir Herbert Kitchener, Sirdar of the Egyptian army, is a New Zealander by birth Bis father, Colonel Kitchener, settled in Otago many years ago, and he himself is still interested in property there.

Mr Wm. Blaxall, acting-manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Westport, was married at St. John’s Church, Wanganui, on Wednesday, to Miss Edith Julias, second daughter of Mr F. Julius, of Dunedin.

News has been received of the death of Prior Vaughan, whose recent visit to these colonies will be remembered. He was seized with apoplexy while dining at St. Peters Priory Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and died three days afterward. He was for some time in bad health. Prior Vaughan was a brother of Cardinal Vaughan.

I understand (writes our Wanganui correspondent) that Mr James PurnelL Town Clerk who has been champion rifle shot of the Colony and twice runner-up for that position, intends to take a trip Home next year to compete at the English National Meeting at Bisley, if he can make the necessary arrangements.

Sincere regret is felt at the announcement ot the death of Mrs T. T. Miller, second daughter of Mr John Duthie. Mrs Miller, who was the wife of Mr T T Miller, manager of the Hawera branch of the Bank ot Australasia, was widely esteemed for her amiable qualities, and her death will be doeply regretted. She was only 29 years ot ago.

The Rev A. P. Davidson, M.A., late of St. Fergus and Knox Church, Dunedin, has been elected unanimously to the Free Church of Skirling in Peeblesshu-e. Mr Davidson only the other day declined an offer from the commissioners appointed to select a minister for the pastorate of Union Church, Valparaiso, at a salary of £750.

The friends of Mr A. Wall, who was fox some years a master at the Wellington College, ianci who went Home by the last tripot the itimutaka to study medicine, will be interested to learn that within 24 hours ot his arrival in London he went in for an examination, and gained a .£SO entrance scholarship to Guy’s Hospital.

The officers of the Survey and Land Department in Canterbury presented Mr J. W. A Marchant, the Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands, with a handsome clock, suitably inscribed, as a token ol their respect and esteem upon the occasion ot his promotion to the Wellington district. Mr Shanks, the chief draughtsman, made the presentation in a happy speech.

jjij r w. P. Stewart, of Hastings, the \weli- known Highland dancer and piper, Las suffered a heavy loss by losing a. portmanteau containing his Highland costume., bagpipes and 22 gold _ and ailyer medals won by him at different periods, and which he values at £6O. Mr Stewart arrived in Wellington b3 r the express ttain on Tuesday night, and on reaching his hotel found that he had forgotten his portmanteau. Enquiries were made at the railway station, hut it was found that no portmautcau answering to the description of the one owjied by Mr t Stewart had come down-by the train. It is ; probable that he left it at Palmerston North ■ when embarking on the train there.

'J'ho late Mr P. S. Macdonnell, the once famv.us Australian cricketer, was tho son of f'he Hon JVlorgan Augustus Macdonnell, an Jrishm&U of good family, who was called to tfee Par y.t Gray’s Inn in 1555, einigraoed to "Victoria m Xi*ii>4, and ill tno follow tug 3 was returned to the Victorian Parliament by the combined counties of Villiors and Heytcisbuvy. Patrick carsfield Mac iOuiicli tho Patrick was dropped and Percy .-üb-,t>tubed when he became an international cricketing celebrity—was educated at et. iratrioK s Soman Catholic College, Melbourne. It was i&s a. member of the college eleven, in contests •with the local Scotch College and Church ot IE upland Grammar School, that young Macdonnell first manifested his. cricketing »rowess, To bis brother collegians he was always the genial and good-looking 1 at Macdonnell.

! Says the London Daily Chrouicle A Conservative evening contemporary a tew days ago, in alluding to the arrest of No. 1, alleged that a brother of his was a distinguished civil servant in a British colony. Beyond the identity of name, there was not, wo believe, the slightest foundation for the suggestion. The reference was obviously to Mr Charles Tynan, M.A., LL'^, of the Education Department of the colony of Victoria. News of his death, at the early age of 46, is brought by yesterday s mail. The facts of his life seem to negative any immediative relationship with No. - spent his boyhood on the Baiiarat goldfields, from which he proceeded to the Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne, afterwards attaining high honours at University of Melbourne. Joining the Education Department as an assistant inspector he rose by degrees to the highest office under the JVlipjster of Public Instruction,

Judge Edwards returned to Wellington on Saturday morning.

Messrs Skerrett and Gully, who left Wellington recently on a trip to the South Sea Islands and Australia, returned by the Wakatipu on Tuesday morning, both looking much the better for their trip.

We regret to state that the wife of Mr Brown (chief stevedore for the New Zealand Shipping Company) died on Tuesday morning. Out of respect to her memory the flags on the Kakaia wore flown at half-mast.

Sir James Hector is now on a visit to the West Coast of the South Island, where he has gone to report upon the new seams of coal which have recently been discovered in the Grey Valley, with a view to deciding upon their value and workableness.

The employees of the Gear Company’s Cuba street shop on Tuesday presented Mr R. W. Dixon, for some time past manager of the establishment, with a gold scarf pin as a mark of their respect and esteem on the occasion of his leaving to take up the duties of manager of the Petone branch of the firm’s business.

The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society has appointed Mr F. Hartmann, as district agent in charge of its business in Wellington city, Wairarapa, Nelson, Marlborough and Hawke’s Bay. Mr Hartmann had acted for some time past as Wellington district manager for the Mutual Life Association of Australasia.

The Rev J. Kennedy Elliott has returned from Wanganui, where he lias been taking liis turn at filling the pulpit of St. Paul’s Church, rendered vacant by the serious illness of the Rev James Treadwell who — according to the latest reports—is not expected to recover.

We are sorry to have to record the death, after a long and painful illness, of Mrs P. Scanlon, at College street. She was an old and well-respected resident of the West Coast, and for the last 20 years has resided in Wellington. Mrs Scanlon was highly respected and esteemed by all her friends, and will be deeply regretted by them.

In a recently published book concerning the “ Grand Old Man,” the following passage occurs : Although Mr Gladstone is preeminently a talker in society, yet he does not disdain the other arts by which people who dine out contrive to spend their time. In his younger days he used to be quite noted for singing. There aro legends of the wonderful effect with which he was wont to render a favourite Scotch song, and irreverent gossips have even declared that on one occasion Mr Gladstone brought down the drawingroom by the vivacity and rollicking spirit with which he sang the well-known ‘‘ Camptown Races.” His society has always been an immense addition to the company to which he was invited. No one could be more simple or more ready to take a back seat. He can talk about anything, and pours out a flood of information, ol anecdote, and of illustration upon any theme that may be started in a fashion that makes tho ordinary visitor feel that the best service he can render is to listen.

Mr W. McCutcheon, who for the past fifteen months has occupied the position of accountant to the local branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., was on Tuesday the recipient of a very handsome travelling clock suitably inscribed, presented by his fellow-officers on the occasion of his retiring from tho service to joing Messrs T. and S. Morrin and Co., Auckland. The presentation was made by Mr Hanna, the local manager, who expressed his sincere regret at the loss of such a valuable officer as Mr McCutcheon had proved himself to be during tho thirteen years he had been on the company’s stafl, and wished him every success in his new sphere, which was heartily applauded by the officers present. Mr Boclle, on behalf of the general manager’s staff, also made a few eulogistic remarks, to which Mr McCutcheon replied in a neat little speech. During his stay in Wellington Mr McCutcheon has made quite a number of friends, who, while sorry to lose him, will be glad to hear of h;s future prosperity. Mr McKniglit. who for sorpe time has had charge of the produce department of the Company, will succeed Mr McCutcheon as accountant.

The Courier, Brisbane, of October 28th, has the following on the “ departure of the Rev A. C. Hoggins ” for New Zealand The Rev T. .Topes, the Kev Canon Osborne, the Rev C. Codling, the Rev W. 'I hompson, and a number of friends and members of many of the Brisbane churches assembled at the A.U.S.N. wharf yesterday, and bid an affection xte farewell to the Rev A. C. Hoggins, }} A., on the occasion of his departure by the Eprimbla for Wellington, New Zealand. The following address was presented to him by the liny T. Jones: “ Brisbane, 27th October, I Si; 6 —Dear Mr Hoggins,—On behalf of soipe of your personal friends, I have been requested to convey to you this expression of regret at your approaching departure from this goloay : it is regarded as a loss to the community that a man of your scholarly attainments should lipye to leave us. You will take with you from ot. Helena and Dunwich such testimonials as mast he specially gratifying to you as a cler-. ytnan of the Church of England. VVe wish, however, as citizens to record our sense of your services in the intellectual life of tho community, especially your addresses on those vital questions which bear upon us as men of the world to do our duty in the various positions in which we are placed. As a preacher you will be missed by many of your fellow-churchmen, and as one endowed with a talented grasp of social problems, you will not bo the less missed by a large body of citizens who have listened with pleasure and profit to your contributions to the university extension scheme. We trust you will accept this slight assurance of our respect and good -wishes as an encouragement to your further efforts to devote your talents to the work which you are so well qualified to carry out in your new sphere of labour in New Zealand. —(Signed) T. Jones, late Archdeacon of Darling Downs, diocese of Brisbane.”

Mr Barney Barnato, of South African fame, has secured the control of the mines in Ontario for a quarter of a million sterling 1 .

It is reported that M. Nelidoff, Russian Ambassador at Conscantinople, is likely to succeed the late Prince Lobanoff as Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs.