PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6996, 9 December 1909, Page 7

PERSONALIA

Dr Deamer and Mrs Deamer, late of Fcatheraton,, returned to New Zealand by the Marama from Sydney yesterday. They found the Australian climato too trying. Tho Rev. Fathers Murray (Superior of the Eedemptorist Order in New Zealand), O'Farrell, and Bannon were passengers from Sydney yesterday by the Marama.

Mrs Dalrymp'le, wife of Mr J. G. W. Dalrymple, of Wellington, died yesterday. Tho deceased had been in ill-health for some months, and spent some time in tho sanatorium at Otaki.

Professor Hunter, of Victoria College, who has been on a visit to Sydney as a delegato of the Now Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, returned to Wellington by yesterday's steamer. Mr John Roberts, C.M.G., Dunediii, managing partner of Murray, Roberts and Co., arrived in Wellington yesterday from a visit to tho Old Country. He joined the Marama at Vancouver. Mr Richard Tingey, of Wellington, and Mr Albert Tingey, of p'almerston North, who have been 'on a visit to America, Canada, Great Britain and the Continent, returned to Wellington by the Marama yesterday. They joined that vessel at Vancouver. Mr F. F. Muecke, M. 8., B.Ch., formerly of Adelaide, who has been apgiinted surgeon to the London Throat ospital, is married to Madame Ada Crossley, the eminent contralto singer. He at one time held the appointment of senior clinical assistant at the Hospital for Diseases of the Tkjoat, Golden square, London. Tho Rev. Dr Wilbur Chapman, who conducted very successful missions in, Australia recently, has found it. necessary, acting upon medical advice, to take a prolonged rest from his evangelistic labours. While addressing a meeting at Seoul, in Korea, he was seized with sudden illness. Ho had a similar experience on the folio-wing day, and on consulting a physician, Dr Chapman found that ho was suffering from .an affection of the heart. Latest • advices are to tho effect that he is making favourable progress.

After fortv-five years of public life, Sir Philip Fysh took his seat in the Federal Parliament last week for the last time. During the day opportunity was taken by a number of members on both sides of the House to bid farewell to the veteran member. Mr Deakin. wished Sir Philip a long period of leisure, which he had so well earned, and congratulated him on his useful public service. "I hope," said Mr Deakm, "that when I am seventy-five years of age I will preserve as much of youthful vigonr as Sir Philip has done/ Sir Philip Fysh made a feeling response. He has left for Tasmania.

Passengers by the steamer Marama yesterday included Mr C. H. Izard and Mrs and Mr S. Izard, who have been on a holiday to the United Kingdom and America : the Rev. J. Moore Ritchie, .of Wellington, who has been on - a visit to England, Newfoundland, Canada and the United States; Captain Grainger, marine surveyor of the P. and 0. Company in Sydney, and Mrs Grainger; Mr M. 'Cohen, who has been on a visit to the United States and Australia; Mr J. H. Von Haast (brother of Mr H. F. Von Haast, of Wellington), who has been away from New Zealand for some years in Burmah and Canada, and is now settling in Canterbury.

Mr Edward -Saunders, of the "Lyttelton Times" literary staff, who went Home as secretary to Sir Ernest Shackleton, returned yesterday. He says that. English, folk generally are not taking sides very definitely as far as the Cook-Peary controversy is concerned. They are satisfied, to let the two Americans thresh out the matter. The announcement that the North Pole had beeni attained did have the effect of arousing a general desire in England that the Union Jack should float over the South Pole. Captain Scott is financing his expedition by means of public subscriptions, and he will leave next year from Lyttelton with a well-equipped vessel. He will probably be acconiDanied by some members of Sir Ernest ShUckleton'e expedition. Mr A. I*. Wilding, who with Norman B. Brookes rtirried off the Davis Cup at the resent tennis championship in Sydney, airrived in Wellington yesterday by the Marama. Speaking of the contest, Mr Wilding saya it vt*je a, very fine one, but the Australasians held their own against the Americans all ; the time. The latter are a trifle young yet, but inexperience was, in the m'ain, the cause of their opponents' downfall. Brookes was in his best form for the cup; he is a marvellous volleyer, with a bunch of bewildering serves, amd in this, Mr Wilding believes, lieu the secret of Brookes' dominance. The New Zealand delegate to the tennis conference, Professor Hunter, did much, says Mr Wilding, towards healing the breach between Australia and New Zealand. Mr Lin Jun Chao (the first Chinese Consul-General fox the German Dependencies in the South Pacific), attended by his English secretary (Mr Lam Chak Kwan) and his Chinese secretary (Mr Tsin Tso Hon), reached Sydney last week by the Changsha, on his way to Samoa, the headquarters of the new Consulate. Mr Lin. is among the foremost of the advanced type of young men in the Chi- j nese Empire. He passed through the' Tientsin University, where he studied under Professor Eames, of Oxford. At Tientsin Mr L'ih chose law, and became prefect in the Chinese degrees. ' For several years after leaving the Chinese academy he occupied various responsible posts under Imperial appointment, and last year was dispatched to Samoa as a commissioner to inquire into the alleged ill-treatment of the Chinese coolies by the representatives of the German, planters. Upon his return to China, after making investigations in the Pacific, Mr Lin was appointed assistant secretary to the Viceroy of Canton. Two months j later he became chief secretary ■to the Chinese Amban in. Thibet.