PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5643, 18 July 1905, Page 5

PER SONAL.

A telegram from Auckland records the death of Mr John Lambert Tolo, surveyor, ami brother of tho lion, J. A. Tolo.

Mr James Maekny, chief clerk to tho Labour Department, left for Dunedin last, evening to attend the sitting of tho Arbitration Court there.

Mr W. A. Flavell, Wellington manager for tho West.port Coal Company, who has been demined at ids homo tlirough a sprained ankle, was able to attend ids office yesterday. Tho Premier ha- consented to take the olmir at a lecture to bo given by tho Rev. J. R. Flynn Anderson, of Johannesburg, on the -7th inst. fhe subject will be “.South Africa." Mr Harold 'Beauchamp, ConsniarAgent for France, draws our attention to^tho fact that the tri-colour was flying over Iris office f.Messrs W. M. Bannatyno and Cods) on Friday last in commemoration of the taking' of tho Hostile. Mr R. A. Loughnan, who was secretary to the Land Commission, which finished its duties last week, was entertained at the Parliamentary Buildings yesterday by tho staff of official reporters with the Commission, and presented with a souvenir of regard. At tho City Council Chambers at Christchurch Professor Rutherford was officially welcomed by the Mayor, on behalf of the citizens. About thirty gentlemen wore present, representing the City Council authorities, Canterbury College (whore the professor received his early university training), and others.

Tho following wore recent callers at the Tourist Department:—Mrs Gordon, London; I. L. Madden, Auckland : John Clarke, Otago: J. T. Wilson,' Christchurch ; Henry Brown, Melbourne; W. Bennett, Roirorua: H. S. Park, Taihapo ; Rudolph Roby, London: M. J. Solmiidt, Berlin; Alice M. Budd, Stratford : Daisy Lcckic, London; C. Evans, Wanganui. Tho death has occurred, at tho ago of eighty-seven, of Mr David McEwen, one of the pioneers of Manawatu. Ho landed in Now Zealand in 18-11, and went, to tho district in 18(58, and in 1870, when tho first postal facilities wore established at Palmerston, ho was made postmaster, receiving no salary. The post ollico was then at Karore, six miles from tho present site. His son, Mr Harry McEwen, was tho first contractor for carrying tho mails to the Upper Manawatu. Mr McEwen, who had been living in retirement for some years, was highly respected through out. the Manawatu. Mr Major John Gay, an old resident of Parnell, Auckland, died yesterday, aged sixty-eight years. A Press Association message states that deceased, who was a builder, was for over forty yearn closely associated with the parish of Parnell, and for the last eighteen years had been people’s churchwarden at St. Mary’s Cathedral. He was presented at tho last annual meeting with an illuminated address and a service of plate. No one in Auckland probably was so rich iu reminiscences of tho pioneers of tho Church of England in New Zealand, and the Melanesia Bishops Solwyn and Patterson, as tho into Mr Gay. Ho was engaged by Bishop Sehvyn to build Bishopsconrt, Parnell, and Bishop Patterson took him down to Norfolk Island, where iio erected tho first building there for tho Melanesian Mission. He was also closely associated in tho early days with Sir William Martin. Deceased served with tho militia through tho Maori war, for which ho received a New Zealand war medal.