PERSONALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6704, 30 December 1908, Page 5

PERSONALIA.

Tho TTimo Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, '/oavL.s this fm-niiitf far Invercargill. Uo returns to about January Mil. A. Vvohb A Bsoc'iuiion cable nicssa«o from Sydney Hlatoa that Lady Ifonor vVard, cMckl daughter of the Oovornor-ficneral of Australia, has been operated on lor apnemlicitiß, and that she ih '.veil. Mr J. A. Clilrulh, tho retiring > Chief Voteriuarian, who is to lea,ve Wellington for .Melbourne, on tho 11th. wit., will bo i-ntertaiued at dinner by members of his profession in Wellim'tou next Monday evening. Mr 11. F. Crosbie, derk-in-ehargo of tho district, stock cdfici* of the Dopartment of Agriculture, lias been transform! to Masterlon. Ho will bo succeed;>d in Wellington by Mr K. A, Farrin''ton, formerly of Alastorlon. Sir Rupert Clarke arrived in Auckland mi Snndav trom Meihournc. by the Victoria, in order to KUpcrinicml the launching of a ketch that has been built for him by Mr C. ihuley, jun., of Auckiand.

Captain Tukc, of H.M.S. Victorious, brother of the Lev. Canon Tuke. of ‘Napier, has been appointed IvingV* Hari)ou at Devouport in succession U, Captain Omniauney, promolccl to lie Rear-Admiral. Captain Take entered lie- service mi lonij ago as IH7O, and ho nerved in the Niger expedition of 1879 and went through the Lgyplian War of mv*.

Mrs Ivlizabclh Mo Donne! I. matron at the Auckland police station, died at her residence, < J’f.’orkc street, on Saturday evening. She was the widow of tho into Comdable Luke .McDonnell, who mot ha? death an Urn result of work performed in recovering bodies in connection with tho wreck of tin- Wairarapa. In 1901 Mrs McDonnell was appointed to the position of matron at the Auckland police elation.

Boatswain Tipper, late of tho Royal Navy, who died last month at Hictcn Heath, near Bhix*wsbury. England, at the ago of DO, was one of the few survivors of those who fought in the Now Zealand war in ISIS. Ho saw service in manv parts of tho world, having taken part: in tho Crimean campaign, tin* China war, and many expeditions against tho pirates who in the year* gone by infested the const of Africa and tho waters cast of Suez. Mr Svdnev 'Mack, barrister-at-law of Now South Wales, who with Mrs Mack, is now on a short holiday visit to Wellington, comes of a literary slock. Miss Louise Mack, a sister, has made a name as a contributor of poems and stories to the Sydney “Bulletin." This lady (who is now Mrs* Creed) Is iu Loudon, C;iigaged iu literary work for one of the big 'papers, and is also writing a novel. Another sister, Mrs Harrison (formerly Mi** Ain v Alack) is the editress of the woman's columns of tho “Sydney Morning Herald." The Rev. E. ,T. Sola, who arrived by the Tainui on Saturday night from London. i* the now Incumbent of St. Andrew, Bulls. Air Sola was married at St. Alban the Martyr. Wcstclift, a few days before his departure, to Mies Cicely Grogson, of We-tclitf, daughter of Air nnd Mm Frederic Grcgeon. TluTceremony, which was fully choral, was performed by the Von. Archdeacon of Leicester, uncle and godfather of tho brido, assisted by tho Rev. W. G. Barclay, stepmother of tho bridegroom, and tho Kov. C. H. Rogers, vicar of St. Alban's.

Another veteran of tlio Now Zealand tis ckvul—Atajor-Ceneial C. Blewitt, lute of tho Gsth (York and Lancaster) Regiment, who. died in England Inst month at tho ripo old age of 8-1. Ho was gazetted to tho VOth Regiment in 180-1, but subsequently exchanged into the 65th. Ho served in the New Zealand campaign, being present at the storming of Jtnnginohia and tho capture of Onikan. at which ho commanded a detached force. He was mentioned in despatches in June, 3hG5. General JHewitt subsequently commanded tho West Riding and tho Leicestershire Regimental districts. In. 1301 ho wns awarded tho Distinguished Service Order. Auguste Van Eieno, will-known in New Zealand and Australia ns the ’cello player of '‘Broken Melody" fame, wont into the streets of London one morning in November with his ’cello and played and collected.as he did forty years ago before Sir Michael Costa rescued him from tho gutter. Herr Van Biene played in several well-known London thoroughfares, including Arundel street, oil Coventry street, Drurv lane, tho HayImirket, and Pnnton street. The enm ho collected was 15s 2d—and this, augmented by a .£5 note he sent to tho Music Hall Benevolent Fund. Forty years ago a ragged and starving boy of seventeen wns discovered playing in Hanover square by Sir Michael Costa. The great man, struck hv his wonderful execution, stopped and 'asked him why ho wns playing in the gutter, mid Van Biene replied "Pnrceqnc j’ni faira.” The lad. Van Biene, was engaged as one of the ’cello players in the Covont Garden orchestra, lie then vowed that every year on tho anniversary of his deliverance from starvation he would go back to the streets and play, and he has never broken his TOW.