PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7058, 21 February 1910, Page 7

PERSONALIA

Ills Excellency the Governor was entertained on Friday night at Motueka. On Saturday, accompanied by the Hon. U. McKenzie, and members of the Wairnea County Council, Lord Blanket left by motor for Nelson, via Bangatotara, Woodstock, and Stanley Brook to Tapawera, where tho party was entertained at lunch by Councillor Macmahon. They thence proceeded to W akefield by way of Spooner's range, and from Wakefield to Richmond, reaching Nelson in the evening. To-day Ix>rd Plunket will be officially received by the Mayor of Nelson, and entertained at luncheon in the Municipal Chambers. After luncheon his Excellency will visit the Alexandra Home, the Mental and General Hospitals, and the Nelson Colleges. The unveiling of the memorial to Huria Matenga, the New Zealand Grace Darling, is to take plac* at, tho S liter Art Gallery at 4.30 p.m. This evening his Excellency, as Grand Master of the New Zealand Freemasons, will bo. officially received at the Masonic Hall, and afterwards entertained at a banquet at the Provincial Hall. The Prime Minister is to-day eu route from Dunedin to Christchurch by train. The Hon. J. A. Millar and Hon. T. Mackenzie are in Dunedin. The Hon. A. T. Ngata left Tokoinaru Bay yesterday morning for Napier, en route by rail to Wellington. The Hon. J. Carroll is at Okaiawa, Hon G. Fowlds at Ha wera, Hon R. McKenzie at Nelson. Tho Ministers in town are Hon. Dr Findlay and Hon, D, Buddo. Air C. J. Crawford, who has been Mayor of Miramar for the last three years, does not intend bo seek re-election.

Air Wilfred Badger, of Christchurch, who has been to London on Privy Council and other business, returned to New Zealand by the' Tainui on Saturday.

Mr C. H. Poole, M.P. for Auckland West, who has been visiting Wellington on public business, is leaving to-day for the north. Ho will stay a day en rout© at Feiiding.

Mr F. A. Bates, of tho teaching staff of tho Hawera District High School, has accepted the position of first assistant at tho Feiiding District High School. Air Bates will leave Hawera in about a month's time. News has been received in Nelson of the death at Sydney of Mr E. P. Watkis, who retired from the Civil Service last year. He was agent for tho Public Trustee at Nelson for several years, and was well known and much respected there.

Air T. R. Roydhouse, the well-known ex-New Zealander, now editor of the Sydney “Sunday Times" and originator of tho Boy Scout movement in New South Wales, is spending a few days at “The •Oaks,*' A lan leu, the rcidence of Air and Mrs David Pxrani. Air Roydhoiise, who is accompanied by his wife and eldest daughter, is making a tour of New Zealand, and will study tho Scout movement her©

Sir George AlcLean is retiring from the turf for tho time being; His five horses in. training will run at the Cup meeting, and afterwords be auctioned. His stable at Wingatui has been sold to Air Hazlett, who leases it to AfcCombe, the trainer. Sir George AlcLean began his connection, with tho turf m 1880, and it on for some time in partnership with Sir Hercules Robinson, then Governor of New Zealand. 1 Tho Rev. Father Fay, of Blenheim, has been appointed successor to the late Ven. Archpriest Le Mcnant des Chcsnais, parish priest of Temuka, and the R-ev. Father Digiian has been appointed curate to Dean Gimaby. at St. Mary's/ Christchurch. Father Venning, of Timaru, succeeds Father Fay at Blenheim. All three appointees were educated at St. Patrick's College, Wellington. Air P. L. Porter, of the Invercargill branch of the Bank of New Zealand, is under transfer to the head office, Wellington. ’ Air‘Pbrter : has been prominently associated with Southland nockey.

Mr E. Semple, president of the Miners' Federation of New Zealand, is about' to tour the Dominion in the interests of the federation, and left Qreymouth on Saturday night by the Mapourika, en route for Waihi, where he will open the campaign.

Mr Wm. McEwan, a golf professional from England, arrived by the Tainuß under a two years' engagement to Messrs H. I. Jones and Sons, Wanganui. Air AlcEwan wag assistant professional at Pollok, near Edinburgh, and afterwards went to F. A. Johnson's London establishment *to learn club-making.’ Subsequently he became head professional at Bournemouth. He won the Thames Ditton Commercial Club's Championship last April. He has brought out a set of horn-faced clubs with cane rivete, similar to those used by Taylor, the British champion in all his recent matches.

News of the death at Kimberley; Banchory, Scotland, of Captain John Stuart, for many years a commander in the service of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Ltd., has been received. Deceased was a well-known and popular officer in the Dominion, and was in command of the original Arawa all the time she was in the New Zealand trade, and for some time after she had been put on the Vancouver run. He was afterwards captain of the Waiwera, ,in which he took the first two New contingents to South Africa. Captain Stuart is survived by a wife and family. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister of Agriculture, arrived in Christchurch on Friday evening, after having concluded an extensive visit to the West Coast. He went from Nelson to Westport and other 1 towns, and down the coast as far as the Franz Josef Glacier. He made special inquiries in regard to the track connecting the Mount Cook Hermitage with the glacier, by way of the Copeland river and Graham's Saddle. He states that he is delighted with the tour, and was charmed beyond measure with the West Coast scenery. He was accompanied by Miss Mackenzie. The Ministerial party left Christchurch for Dunedin on Saturday. Sir John Batty Tuke, ex-M.P. for Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities, who served as an Army surgeon to the troops in New Zealand from 1857 to 1860, and was surgeon to the colonial troops in this Dominion. from 1860 to 3863, arrived in Wellington by the Tainui on Saturday afternoon from London. He will attend the meeting of the Medical Congress this evening. Sir John, who intends making the round trip on the Tainui, is medical director of the new Saughton Hall, Edinburgh. He was bpm at Beverley in 1835, and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University, which he has had the honour of representing in Parliament. After obtaining his M.D. degree, he came to New Zealand with the Imperial troops during the Maori war. On his return to England in 1865, when he was only thirty, he was appointed medical superintendent of Fife and Kinross Asylum, which position he held for eight, years. He afterwards settled down to practise in Edinburgh as a specialist in mental diseases. There are few men in the United Kingdom who can beat him in knowledge or skill in this department of medical science. He was a contributor to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," and has written many books and pamphlets on the subject of mental diseases. Sir John, who was created Knight iii 1893, ra # n call himself doctor in three rights, for, besides being an he is a Doctor of Laws (Edinburgh), and a.Doctor of Science (Dublin). He is a member of the General Medical Council of Rogistration, and Education, and president of the Neurological Society of the United Kingdom.