PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7020, 7 January 1910, Page 7

PERSONALIA

His Excellonev the Governor, Lord Plunket, and party of five are at Tokaanu, camping in fishing huts on the longariro river. ' Mr P. S Pope, Secretary for Agriculture, is on a visit to Auckland and ltotorua.

The passengers who arrived last night bv the Navua from Suva and Auckland, were Miss Alves, Captain Kaad (of Levnka), and Mr Gibson. Mr H. D. Bell, K.C., who has been on a ten months' visit to Europe, has returned to Australia, and expects to leave Sydney for AYdfongton on the 15th {net. '

Mr Farquhar Young, for many years, connected with the Telegraph Department in Dunedin and elsewhere, has retired from the service in order to taKe up music teaching in Christchurch. Edwin J. Spilman, an electrician emnloved at the Gear works, Petone, and a son of Mr D. Spilman, Government AVterinarian, died at his parents' residence, Waiwetu, on Wednesday ilie funeral will bake place to-day. A wedding of exceptional interest for Hastings took place in St. Matthews Church on Tuesday morning, when the Eev. Gordon Biddle united in matrimony Mr Andrew Lowe, sometime Chinese missionary at Wellington, to Miss Christina Lo Kcong, of Wellington, and formerly of Dunedin. Both parties are fullblooded Chinese.

The death is reported of an old pioneer, Mr Tom Bwncss. of Caboni, Eakiraki, who pawed away on December £otu (writes the Fiji correspondent of tlie " New Zealand Herald >. After serving in many a severe action in the Waikato and elsewhere under Von Tempsky, he .icamo to Fiji in 1870, and ever slnco has been heart and soul in planting. His efforts to encourage cotton-growing alone made his work valuable.

Lord Kitchener has telegraphed to Sir Joseph Ward:—"l propose the, following itinerary for New Zealand-.—Leave Melbourne in H.M.S. Encounter on February 12th; arrive at the Bluff on 17th, thence by rail to Dunedin same day. Leave Dunedin February 21s* for Christchurch, arriving there same day. Leave Christchurch on tho evening of the 23rd, and arrive at Wellington following morning. Leave Wellington on the 28th for Auckland, and arrive on March Ist, my official visit to the Dominion ending there about March 3rd.—Kitchener, Brisbane."

The Rev. Brother John, assistant of the Marist Order; Auckland, left for Sydney on Monday evening. The following changes have been made in the Auckland staff of the order :—Brother George, superior of the Pitt street School, appointed to the Sacred Heart College; Brother Phelan, of Napier,' to take charge of the Pitt street School; Brother ißoniface, of Wellington, to Wanganni; Brother Palladius, also of Wellington, to {Napier; Brother Paul Benjamin takes icharge of the Old Boys' Club at Pitt 'streot, and the Rev. Brother Anselon succeeds Brother Alfe in Greymouth. Tho Rev. Joseph Blight, formerly of the Waimate and Temuka Methodist circuits, now in charge of the Thames Church, will, under medical advice, retire temporarily from the active work of the ministry at the ensuing conference in Dunedm. Mr Blight has given twenty-one years to ministerial service. The Rev. Thomas Fee, president of the Methodist'Conference, has given notice that he will apply for permission to rest from active work during the year 1911. Mr Fee will then have given thirtythree years to ministerial work, including special activities in the cause of temperance reform. A London cablegram received this morning states that the death of Sir Frederick Darley, Chief Justice of New South Wales (announced in yesterday's "limes"), occurred on Tuesday evening. Sir Frederick had been ailing since his arrival in: London' from Sydney last June. He suffered from a fibrous growth

on-the lungs. The deoaased's threfc daughters and two brothers were present when he died. The remains are to ■be buried in the family vault in Dublin. A Sydney message states that there have been general expressions of regret at Sir Frederick Danley's death.