PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5669, 17 August 1905, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Air Gilbert Carson, of the AAanganni ‘ Chronicle,” is at oremnt on a visit to Wellington,

y ir \V. Uo.vron. of Bowron Bros.. Chri <\ eh urelg Ikivos on a trip to Knglaml hy the lonic to-day. Dr P. T. Putnam, vrho recently retail 11 ckI from Kngland, has commcncsc U», :<•.• of his profession in Palmer.ton Norik.

Mr Hirrv IJlkjs-*. contractor, of Hopper street,'will c.-.t-rt the hy-clcction tor tin, C ity Coimcil. AH Biggs Ims ii moniker of the Mount ( non Snimol Commit too for tin: p< sc liltwn

At .St. Mark's Chinch yesterday af-;(-nionn Mi.. Lovislmm, of Pine street, was Oiarri. ,1 to Mr Harry Je.,sop, of the imuutcni'.llTO Inaticli of the Railway il l 11,1 111. Mr T. it, i'lson acted as U„: m.ni.

.1 London w-W« mc-sago .states that liiu.-u Alexandra intend.-, to spend a tori night at Balmoral, in tiio Highlands, uml V.it! ilis'ii go to Copenhagen, on a visit to tier parents, tho King and (Jureii it.; Denmark.

Miss Certnide Baber. daughter of the tale.Mi r. f. Baber, of Mcnvalo, Christchurch, died in Wellington early yesterday morning after a short illness. Miss Labor joined tile nursing stall of tin; Welling! on Hospital about a year ago. She had been ill for tho past few clays with scarlet fever. Her death was cpmc unexpected. ilr Jjesborougli, the representative of Messrs T. Cook and Sous at Rotorua, is mi a visit to Wellington, lie states that while tho volume of business done at Rotorua daring tho past -xmsou was the largest on record, there was a marked lulling off in the number of over-sea tourists, as compel ml with previous seasons. Tho following were recent callers at tho Tourist Department: —James Paterson, jnnr., i'ort Alolynoux ; David Kay Mat aura ; Mrs 11. Y. and -Meta .Lethbridge, -Mrs F. Y. and D. Lethbridge, Fedding; -Misses Holmes, Rakaia ; L. Hawkesworlh and L. Brent, Rotorua; Mr and Airs F. E. Jcnks and Miss A. Jenks, Foxton ■ Miss -Vi. Thomson, Clinton; T. I’. Allen, Petersham, Mow .South Wales.

Air Richard Mitchell, cricket coach for Eton from 1800-1597. capt.aln ot the Oxford University Cricket Club 18(131805, who died on April lUtli last, aged •sixty-two years, left estate of tho gross value of £48,450, with net personality £41,197. Among tho great cricketers who wore formerly his pupils were 15. J. T. Ijosmnqiict, (I. Thornton, Lord Harris, tho Lyttelton brothers, and the Hem Ivo Jliigli (Lord Darnley).

A Press Association message states that Mr George Fanlknor, one of Napier’s early settlors, who had been in business there as a coachbuildcr for nearly forty years, died yesterday. Deceased was for many years a member of the Borough Council and of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards, mr.d of the latter bodies ho was for some years treasurer. Ho was also one of the founders and a trustee of the Working Alen’s Club.

There was a very large attendance at the funeral of the late Mr Clement Winter, inspector of the Hank of Australasia, whoso interment at tilio Karori cemetery took place yesterday afternoon. The cortege included the principal officers of all the banks in the city, and many representative commercial men of Wellington, among whom the deceased was very highly esteemed. Airs Winter has received evidences of tho great respect in ■which her late husband was held from all parts of tho Australasian colonics.

Air William Houghton, who arrived by tho Athehic from London, to join the Inspecting staff of tho National Bank, entered tho service of the hank in London more than twenty years ago. Ho was appointed to the colonial staff in 1889; but after several years of colonial experience, his services were again required in Loudon, and ho returned to England in 1896. Air Houghton is well known to large numbers of colonials who have visited London, and ho has many friends to welcome him back to New Zealand.

Tho Department of Agriculture has engaged Aliss Nora Breen to ho one of tho two lady dairy instructors which it recently decided to appoint. Aliss Breen, who has only been in New Zealand a few months, was at the Alunstcr Dairy School, Cork, from 1900 to 1904, and holds tho diplomas of that institution, besides having had four years’ practical experience in a creamery and private dairies. Aliss Breen’s duties will bo to visit farms where there are fairly largo dairies, and give instruction in butter-making. Of course, it will bo impossible to visit all the smaller private dairies. Tho death of Air Henry Clark, at Clarksville, Otago, at tho age of eightyfive years—news of which was publisher! in the ‘■Times” yesterday—removes a well-known figure in public and private life in Otago. Air Clark was ono of tho first settlers in Otago. He arrived in the early forties, and soon afterwards settled at Clarksville (named after him), where ho resided ever since. Deceased took a great interest in political, educational, and agricultural questions. For many years ho was one of tho foremost- members of the Provincial Council of Otago. He occupied a sent on tho Otago Land Board from its inception until a couple of years ago, when ho was compelled to resign through failing health, ’lllO Otago Education Board claimed his services for a long term. Like many other early colonists of the South, Air Clark had a good deal to do with the growth of tho Otago A. and P. Society. He was connected with almost every local body in his district, and was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church in Otago throughout his life-time. Mr ‘Bote” Hughes (says a cablegram from Melbourne) is dead. Air Hughes was ono of the hest-known theatrical agents and managers in the colonies, having boon for more than twenty-two years a frequent visitor to the various centres on behalf of various attractions, mostly of renown. Ho represented the J. C. Williamson firm for several years. When la=t in Wellington— as manager of the Van Biono Company, but a few months ago—Air Hughes was in very indifferent, health, though he bore his suffering with that ’ spirit of cheerfulness which had made him popular with all ho met. Soon after the wreck of tho Elingamito at the Three Kings (in November, 1902), Air Hughes organised a costume cricket match on the Wellington College green, in aid of the sufferers by that disaster. The Alusgrovo Company, which Air Hughes wa» then representing, and tho Pollard Opera Company, took up the project with enthusiasm, and it was an unqualified success. A very large sum of money was raised, and tho credit was undoubtedly due in large measure to the initiative and energetic managerial skill of tho late Air Hughes.