PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 4

PERSONALIA

The lion. .Tames Can-oil (Acting-Prime Minister) will visit Cauterbmy early iu Juno. Mr George P- Brown has been appointed a member of the Levin Domain Board. Mr XI. H. Hayward, of Baldwin and Hayward, left for Auckland this morning, and will be away about a week. Mr Geoffrey Buddie, of Auckland, who has been studying at the University of California, was a passenger by (lie Manuka yesterday" from San Francisco. Mr A. XXL Sneddon, an Australian, passed his final for a Fellowship of the Institute of Actuaries, states a London Press Association cablegram. A Pass Association cable message from Sydney yesterday announced fhe deathof Captain Barron, formerly well known in the Ngw Zealand trade. Air Howard Rumney, of the Strand, London, solicitor, has been aiipointed a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Xew Zealand cruder the Judicature Act. Dr XV. IT. Murray, of Cairns, Queensland, arrived in Wellington by the Warn moo on Wednesday on a holiday visit to New Zealand, extending over a month. Captain Sidney G. Stringer's appointment as examiner of masters and mates has been gazetted, also that of Mr Charles M. Reliant as an inspector for adjustment of compasses. Air William Orsman, aged eighty-five years, one of the oldest residents of Nelson, was found dead in a stable on his premises yesterday. Death is presumed to ho due to heart disease.—Press Association. Air George Nelson has consented, in reply to a deputation, to stand for the Napier seat as an Independent Liberal. Ho would, he said, if elected endeavour to work with the Government until lie had reason for doing otherwise. Air T. H. Aloynihan, on behalf of the Maoris of the district, presented Mr It. Hazleton, ALP., one of the Irish Home Knle delegates, with a heautifully-work-od Alaori kit as a memento of his visit to Taradalo. The TTiider-Seeiretary of Justice (Air F. Waldegrave) will accompany the Chief Justice (Sir Hebert Stout), who leaves Auckland on June 3rd for the Cook Islands to conduct a murder trial and investigate complaints against the administration. Ministers iu town to-day are the Hon. ,T. Carroll, the lion. G. Fowlds, the Hon. D. Bnddo, and the lion. A. T. Ngata. The Hon. J. A. Millar is returning from Wanganui, the Hon. E. McKenzie is at Alexandra South, and the Hon. T. Alaokenzie at Waerenga. Mr D. G- A. Cooper, Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington, who has been granted twelve months’ leave, of absence, leaves for London by the Rotorua on Wednesday next. During Mr Cooper’s absence "Mr XV. W. Samson. Deputy-Registrar at Christchurch, will act as Registrar at Wellington. Air H. J. Hanson, Melbourne agent for tho New Zealand Tourist Department, arrived at tho Bluff on Alonday by tho TJlimaroa for a holiday tour through the Dominion. During his absence from Melbourne Air Donald MacLeod, late of XX 7 ellington, will act as representative of New Zealand. XVedncsday last was the fifty-ninth anniversary of tho sailing of the ship Tory from Wellington with 130 golddiggers hound' for Ballarht and other mining centres of XHctoria. |Of these only two are known to be living. Air Frank Smith, of AXVllington, and .Air James .Brown, of Upper Hutt. Air William Joseph' Park, one of the Crimean and Indian Alutiny veterans, died on XVednesday at XYauganui. where ho had resided for many years. Deceased was for. twenty years in the 6th Dragoon Guards and was through the Crimean X\ 7 ar and Indian Mutiny, having been at Meerut when the Indian revolt took place. Air 11. T. Ellingham’s term on the XVellington Land Board having expired, members at yesterday’s meeting • made complimentary reference ,to his work. Mr Alackenzi? (Commissioner of Crown Lands) said it had been a great pleasure to work with Air Ellingham, who, coming from the back-blocks, was very useful to the hoard. Air Ellingham, in his reply, remarked Hint he intended to stand for re-election. Among the passengers who arrived by the Alanuka from San Francisco yesterday were Air E. Rhodes (Auckland), Mr D. B. Bussell (a former Auckland resident, who has been . faming in Mexico and has returned to settle in New Zealand), Mr and Mrs Kolb (German visitors. who are touring the world), and Afr XXulson (a Los Angeles journalist). Mr XX 7 . Sharpe, manager of tho Cook Islands Trading Company, was a passenger from Rarotonga. , ■ y Mr XV. F. Bateman, who died at Auckland on XX 7 edncsday as a result of injuries received 6u the harbour dredge, aged thirty-seven years, v served, his time in tho shipbuilding,, yards on tho Lees Conservancy Commissioners’ graving dock, Aliddlesborough, and he came out from Home ten years ago in'the Huddart, Parker Cd.’s new steamer Barwon, os guarantee engineer. Ho had remained in that company’s service un till (vghteen months ago, when he left tho Wimmera to take up the appointment of chief engineer of tne Auckland Harbour Board’s dredge. While in Huddart, Parker and Co.’s service Air Bateman,' was chief engineer of the XVarranhnol, Burrumbeet. XX 7 estralia, Victoria, Zoalandia and Wimmera. A distinguished honour has been conferred upon Air A. R. Hislop, secretary for the Institute of Marine Engineers in New Zealand, who has received advice by the ’Frisco mail from London that he has been elected a viep-nresident of the Institute of Afarine Engineers of Great Britain'. This institute, which includes in its tnembershin Lord St’-ath-eona. the late Loud Kelvin, the Hi-Mt Hon- lord Pirie GTnrla.nd end Wolff). Sir XX’illiam XWiite (late Chief Naval A —litenth and Sir A. J. Duuricu (Into EngiiiP.cr-in-Chief of the British Now). Alessre .Tuo. and Arch. Denny, and the princma) shin builders and engineers in the Old World, received Sir Joseph Ward.- Sir James Mills, and Air Hislop in 1907 at the Hotel Cecil in London, when Sir Jreenh decorated the Riel-t TTon. Lord Pirie with the emblem from New Zealand in tho presence nf a great gathering. This is the se-ond occasion noon which New Zealand has been honoured bv the Institute of Great Britain, the ccc-sion bring when the late Right Hon. Afr Soddon visited London on his representation at the Diamond Jubilee, and Mr ITi'-’op is to lie congratulated upon the distinction conferred upon him', an honour- which will Tv- nrmreciatod bv the en—in ears of this Dominion. Sir XFilb'am Ha’l-Jntie's is !>n_ associate of the Institute of Great Britain, and we have frcnuentlv referred to In's connection therewith j n our corre spomlenae from the Afotberland.