PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7302, 5 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONALIA

His .Excellency the Governor will go through to Palmerston North to-morrow. Podding will bo officially visited- on Wednesday. Lord Islington attended the gathering to mark the jubilee of Mother Mary Aubert’s wort in New Zealand, held in the Town Hall on Saturday evening.

On his trip to England to represent New Zealand at the Coronation and the Imperial Conference, the Prime Minister will bo accompanied by the Hon. Hr Findlay, The Attorney-General will at the, same time appear for the Crown in the natives’ appeal to the Privy Council regarding the Te Akau block and also with respect, to the Webster claims. Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C., will represent the Tainuis, appellants -in To Akau. Sir Joseph Ward expects to leave New Zealand for Loudon about the end of February. The opening of next session of Parliament has been provisionally fixed for July 31st. It will not last more than a month or six weeks. Tho leader of the Opposition, Mr W. F. Massey, for private reasons, will not he able to proceed Home as one l of the Dominion’s representatives at the Coronation. ; •A Press Association message states that the Royal Society has awarded the Albeit Medal to. Madame Curie, the distinguished French scientist. Mr Justice Cooper, who had been presiding at the criminal sessions at Auckland, returned to Wellington hy the Main Trunk express on Saturday. , A requisition is in circulation in the Palmerston electorate, asking Mr R-. McNab to become a candidate for the Palmerston seat, says our Palmerston North correspondent. , Sir Jenkin Coles has completed twentyone years’ service as Speaker of the South . Australian Assembly, states _a Press Association cable message. He has not missed a single sitting. Mr Emil Dumas, who acted as war correspondent for "The Times" in India and South Africa, has died in Washing-, ■ton, states a Press Association _ cable message. He was found overcome in the city streets in October, when he refused'to reveal his identity. Deceased founded the - Manitoba Agricultural , College. Mrs Lucy Eleanor Tides, wife of Mr F. J. Tiffen, of Napier, died on Friday evening. The deceased, who was seventyone years of age, and a daughter of the late Dr G. D. Monteith, of Wellington, arrived in Wellington by the Duke of Roxburgh in 1840. She married Mr 1 • J. Tiffen in 1859, and for twenty wears they lived: at Blmshill station, finally going to Napier, where (says the “Herald") they had resided for the past thirty years.

A work apart from hi& judicial capacity that gives Dr McArthur, o*M., pleasure was mentioned by him to the Mon's Brotherhood yesterday. l«o was, he said, always pleased to meet the poor folk who same to see him in tho mornings, and who had learned somehow or another that he was approachable to them,. believing that he could» help them •n their troubles. Ho Itad not always been successful, but with some he had got them to look at both sides _of the question* and to practise:-, a little give and take., So long as he was in-his present position, added Dr McAidhur, lus door would always bo open to those who thought, his advaco worth having. (Applause). Mr Joseph H. Williams, for some years president of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society, and a wellknown slieopfanner, ' died at Havelock last : Thursday evening, , aged s .fifty-six years. The deceased was a son of . the late Mr Edward Marsh Williams (osjudge of tho Native Land . Court and Resident Magistrate for Bay of .Islands and northern districts), and settled m Hawke’s Bay in 1875. He was formerly manager of Mr J. N.. Williams' Erimlcy estate. On the sale of that property he removed to Havelock and worked his own property 1 at .To -Apiti, l iMr iWilliams was one of tho most enthusiastic presidents who ever hold office in tho A. and P. Soeioty, and was held in high esteem throughput the Hawke's Bay and East Coast districts. . * .