PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7029, 18 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONALIA

Mr P. J. O’Regan, has returned to Wellington from the West Coast of the South Island, where ho has been spending a brief holiday. -Mr and Airs 11, H. Hayward, who have been away on a holiday during the last three weeks, returned to Wellington yesterday. Air R. P. Greville, District- Surveyor in the Lands and Survey Department, has just passed the sucond section of the solicitors’ examination. Air J. N. Arnold, a member of the Palmerston railway staff, has been transferred to Wellington. He was made a presentation before leaving Palmerston. Mother Mary Aubert, of the Sisters of Compassion, is at present in Auckland engaged in making preparations for opening the foundling home in Hobson street, ac the place formerly known as "Central House.” Tho homo will be known as the St. Vincent Foundling Home. A Press Association telegram from Napier states that Air J. B. Fielder, registrar of the .Diocese of Waiapu, was yesterday presented with* his portrait iu oils,.in recognition of his long and faithful services to tho Anglican Church. He has consented to the picture being hung in the Cathedral vestry. Air Thomas Davey, who served with tho 40th Regiment in Taranaki Maori war, died at his residence, Roy street, yesterday, aged seventy-seven years. He resided for many years.in Dunedin, prior to settling in Wellington about seven years ago. The deceased leaves a widow and one son, Mr P. H. Davey. The Rev. F. H. Bennett 1 , tho Maori Alissionary, who has been announced as one of the speakers at the missionary meeting in the Town Hall on Thursday evening, will be unable to attend, owing to tho illness*of his son. The claims of the Maori Alission will therefore bo pleaded by the Rev. Canon Mac Murray, of Auckland, who, at short notice, has consented to fill the vacancy.

A representative public’ meeting, held at Auckland yesterday (says a Press Association, telegram), decided to. present Air H. AV, Northcroft, S.AL, on the occasion of his retirement, with a public testimonial in recognition of the soldierly ability, uprightness, and unwavering integrity displayed by him during the past fifty years as soldier, gold mines warden, and Stipendiary Magistrate. Mr J. H. McCaw, town clerk of Tauranga, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday last week, and received a large number of congratulations from friends during the day. Air AlcCaw has been clerk to the Borough Council ever since Tauranga was declared a borough, and took a leading part in its institution twentyeight years ago. Prior to that he was secretary to the Town and Road Board for a period of six years, thus giving him a continuous employment of thirty-four years in the municipal service in Tanranga.

The branch of the Bank of New South ’ Wales that has been established at Tokomaru Bay is to be iir charge of Mr W. J. Leversedge, •who fourteen or fifteen years ago was on the staff of the Gisborne branch of the bank, and for several years recently has been attached to the inspector's department at Wellington. Mr Leversedge is accompanied by Mr C. M. Sargisson, as assistant, who / has been teller at Gisborne for some years. Mr Sargisson's position in the Gisborne office has been taken by Mr A. E. Williams, from the. Wellington office, as teller. Our London. correspondent writes under date December 10th:—Sir Robert Stout is progressing so favourably that he is now out of the doctor's hands, and recruiting ,at Bournemouth, in charge of a nurse. The date of departure for New Zealand is not yet settled, but he will be remaining hero over Christmas. It will bo the first Christmas he has spent in the Old Country for nearly fifty years. I have heard a report that Sir Robert Stout intends to resign the Chief Justiceship on his return to New Zealand, but I have reason to believe that this statement .is without foundation.

Mr H. E. Nicholls, secretary of tbe Wellington Harbour Board, came in. for a good deal of praise at yesterday’s annual meeting of the Board. Mr T. M. Wilford, chairman, said Mr Nicholls had had an exceedingly hard and strenuous time for the last two years. It had been' a big work to undertake the duties that had been carried on for so long by Mr W. Ferguson. He . regretted that owing to health reasons Mr Nicholls had to be relieved of bis duties for a short time. Mr E. Fletcher'pointed out that Mr Nicholls had not been on holiday for ten years. He was deserving of one now. After other members had spoken on similar lines it was decided that Mr Nicholls should be granted a month’s holiday. Th© Marquis Giovanni Francisco Bononote, an Italian nobleman who is touring the world, is now staying in Sydney. He has already travelled across Europe and Asia, and speaks in high of the potentialities of the 1 trans-Siberian railway. From a postal point of view, the trans-Siberian railway, he considers, will at a future date benefit Australia. The Marquis has also toured Manchuria and visited Hongkong, Saigon, _ and the Straits He is a j ournalist bv profession, and is connected with the "Journal DTtalia.” While in Australia he will write a series of articles, giving his impressions of tbe Commonwealth. These will be published, not only in his own paper, but also in "Le Matin" (Paris) and the “Estampa du Turin” (Turin). He will return to Italy by xvay of South America.