PERSONALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6493, 13 April 1908, Page 5

PERSONALIA.

Ifon. J, McGowan wll i leave for Auckland morning.

Tho Hon. Oliver Samuel, M.L.C., i» at f resent in town. Tho Rov. Father Edge, parish priest of Ponsonby, haa arrived, in Wellington to fciko part; iii tho Holy Week ceremonies. Mr Harold Beauchamp has been reelected chairman of directors of the Bank Df New Zealand for the ensuing financial year.

At n, meeting of the Police Provident Fund Board on Saturday morning Constable N, Marsh, of Pembroke, wiw panted a pension of .£72 ts 9d per anfiurn.

Tlio Hon. Dr. Findlay, K.C., will leave •or tho north this morning. Ho will bo ■ibi-ie.nl for about a week, transacting in \ uoklati<l btwinwa connected with tho departments xumloi* his control.

Mr A. M. Finlnyson, who was tho .‘Ha-go candidate for tho Rhodes scholarship this year, has been awarded by tho Senate of Now Zealanrl University the exhibition science scholarship for 1008. Brother N. Turner, W.M., and Brother T. Voyco, secretary, will represent tho Loyal Orange Lodge No. 1, of Christchurch, ut the meeting of tho Grand Lodge to bo held at Wellington during Foster.

Mr C. Colobrook, who wjw landing purveyor ut Wellington for koiijo years before being promoted to Collector of Casio ms at Timaru, Inis resigned from the service to enter into bus me." .s in AucKland aa u Customhouse agent.

Professor J. MocmiUau Brown, of Christchurch, who has been attending the imvting of the University Somite, will return to Christchurch to-night. Next month ho will leave on a trip to Cliiuu and Japan.

Miss Bowman, who has been appointed matron of the Babies’ Hospital at Karifcano, (Jbago, qualified as a nurse at the Chnstohurf-; iU. and lias also examination. bnico Jm ihuu, sue ha« been engaged as mi raing sister by the Dunedin Alothodiet 'Central Mission, whore she had much experience of infants, '■ Mr It. G. Hill, secretary of tho Auckland Provincial Dairymen's Association, has boon appointed to a position on the staff of Messrs .1. B. Mac Ewan and Co., of Wellington, and will take up his residence hero. Mr Hill is a prominent member of tho Auckland Choral and Orchestral Societies and tho Battalion Baud.

Mr and Mrs D. B. Harris, of Palmorjjtxm North, have received a cable from London, stating that their soil Victor, a young violinist of much promise, wellknown throughout the Dominion, is seriously ill of meningitis. Our Palmerston correspondent wire's that a code cable of two words arrived hist night (which could not bo do-coded in Palmerston), ami which, is canning great anxiety to the young man’s parents. The Bov. A. B. Osborne, M.A., who if? the next minister to take charge of St. John's, is a native of Victoria and a graduate of Melbourne University. He irtudiod theology at Ormond College, and in a licentiate of- the presbytery of Melbourne. For some time Mr Opljorno was assistant to the Bov. Pr Meiklejohn in South Melbourne. From that position ho was called to the charge of Chalmers Church, Launceston, and while in Tasmania ho was moderator of the General Assembly of that State. Eighteen months ego he was transferred to Wnrrnambool, in Victoria.

Professor Vladimir V. do Sviatlowsky, of the University of St. Petersburg, who has been commissioned bv the Russian Government to inquire into the methods of industrial arbitration in vogue in other countries, arrived in New Zealand from America, and is now visiting Wellington. Ito will leave for Sydney on Friday to study the success of the wages boards and arbitration boards in Victoria and New South Wales. Thence ho will proceed to London, where lie is to receive some help from the Board of Trad’e, and will write his report. While there he will also assist the Board of Trade in the preparation of its report on the labour conditions of Russia. Professor Sviatlowsky will return to his duties at the Imperial University in September. Ho Is staying at the Grand Hotel. General regret is expressed at Christchurch at the death of Captain James Lancelot Berryman, which occurred on Saturday at his residence. Opawa. Captain Berryman, who was fifty years of nge. was the third son of the late Bev. Tames Wise Berryman, of Giles Wisbech, England., and was a nephew of the late Hon. William Bolleston. Ho chose a seaman's calling, and was a cadet on H.M.S. Worcester at the same time as the famous Admiral Togo and. Captain J. Mareiol, now Superintendent of Mercantile Marine nt Lyttelton. Ho was afterwards in the service of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company, the Shire Lino, and the Now Zealand Shipping Company. Ho retired from the sea several years ago, and resided in Lyttelton, and afterwards at Opawa. Captain Berryman had been ailing for some time, but only took to hie boil on Thursday last.