PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7449, 25 May 1911, Page 6

PERSONALIA

Mr W. F. Massey, loader of the Opposition, passed through Wellington terdai- en route south on a political campaign. Messrs Redmond, Hazleton and Donovan, the Irish Homo Rule envoys,. were passengers for Lyttelton last evening *>y the Maori. King George of Tonga loft Auckland on Tuesday by tho Atua on, his return to the islands, after spending an extended holiday in the Dominion. The Hon. D. Buddo, Minister of Internal Affairs, returned to Wellington yesterday morning after an absence ot about ten days in. the South Island. Tho Hon. T. Kennedy Macdonald has resigned his position as a member oj the Legislative Council. Ho was called to tho Council on Juno 22nd, 1903. Captain McDougaU. of the. Grenadier .Guards, who hasx been appointed aide-de-camp to Lord Islington, in place ot Captain Hamilton, was a passenger by the Warrimoo from Sydney yesterday. The Rev. H, Van Staveren, who went on a visit to Australia for the benefit of his health, returned to Wellington yesterday by the Warrimoo from Sydney. His health has greatly improved as a result of the tnp. Sir Robert Stout will preside at the "capping" ceremony at, tho Auckland University College ou’Friday, June find. In the evening *ie same day he mu deliver a lectin. the Leya Institute on "What Eugenes Mean/' Mr Harold Carr, touring manager of the Royal Hawaiian Concert Company, was in town yesterday making arrangements for tho opening at the Town iiati next Saturday night. Mr Carr left lor Lyttelton per Maori. Advice is just to hand that the Ivev, W. Wooding, 8.A., of London, wnd Mrs Wooding (sister of Mr Asquith, the Prime Minister) intend to visit New Zealand in the coming spring-’ Mr Wooding null preach and lecture in the Unitarian Church during his stay in Wellington. The late Mr James Ashvroft was buned in Karroi cemetery yesterday morning, tho funeral being of a private nature, by desire of tho relative®. A service was held in St, Paul'b Pro-Cathedral, and at the graveside tho service was conducted t>y tho Revs. F. E. Evans and J. Jones. The death is announced of Mrs W. Pratt, one of the oldest residents of Canterbury, She arrived In New Zealand at Nelson at tho beginning of 1843, and afterwards removed to Lyttelton, whore she was married in 1851. Three years afterwards she returned to Nelson and resided there until 1863, when Mr and Mrs Pratt went back to Christchurch and remained. Mrs Pratt leaves three sons and live daughters, twentyseven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.

Captain F. D. Seaborne died in a private hospital in "Wellington yesterday morning, aged fifty-two years, after a long illness. Ho was until recently master of the steamer Cranley, trading under charter to tho Tyser Lino between New York and tho Dominion. Captain Seaborne was well known in these waters. In the seventies he was second mate on tho Shaw-Savill sailei Crusader, and subsequently became master of the staemer T’olosa, trading in these sects. He was also with Captain Steele as chief officer of the Swanley. He laves a widow and two children in Bristol, England. A-funeral service will be held at St. Petec*s to-day at 10 a.m., px*ior to the interment A correspondent writes as follows: — Friends of Mr and Mrs ,W. B. Craig, who formerly lived in Christchurch and Timaru, will bo pleased to hoar of their success at the Cannes (south of France) Golf Club spring mooting. .Mrs Craig, who is a daughter "of the late Rev. Henry Glassou, formerly of Avonside, won the Grand Duke Michael of Russia gold enamel tea service, worth -ESO, and Mr Craig the Grand Duke’s gold cigarette case for men, also worth XSO. It is' the first time on record that a husband and wife have secured at the same meeting these celebrated prizes, for which tuere are always many competitors of all nationalities. Mr Alfred Cox, an old resident of Christchurch, died there on Tuesday in his eighty-sixth year. He secured two grazing runs at Timaru in 1851 and settled in that district three years later. Deceased resided there till 1682, with the exception of some seven or eight years in the Waikato, where ho was interested in a very large block of swamp laud, on which he spout large sums of money on drainage. Mr Cox went to Chnstehurcii in 1662 ana rosined tliero ever since, at St. Albans. He was a member of the House of, Representatives for Heathcote from 1863 to 1665, and for Timaru from 1666 to 1866. Ho uusucctissiuxly oouteisttd the Geraldine seat in 1661;