PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7870, 4 August 1911, Page 5

PERSONALIA

Mr Wyvora "Wilson, of Auckland, has Icon api'ointod a stipendiary magistrate sis from August Ist last. ■jVtr J. !•’. Boss, at present a-temporary (officer, is gazetted an assistant meat inspector in the Department of Agriculture.

Passengers leaving Wellington by tho Uliinaroa tor Sydney to-day include Hr ,7. II li. Pontes, Mr G. B. i'liarazyn, tlic lion.’W. I’-'tt (Melbourne.), and tlie Kev. Father i’iau.

jMr \V. 11. Honour, of Wellington, has been appointed sanitary inspector lor .Napier. Utlier applications were received from Wanganui. Auckland, i'otono anti UTmaru.

Mr A T. Maginnity, chairman oi tho Kelson Education .Board, who was ashed to stand as tho Opposition candidate lor Kelson at: the* next elections, has declined Xor private reasons.

Bishop Wilson is about to resign, tho Bishopric of -Melanesia, held by him lor tho last seventeen years, to taxo up work in tho dioce.su of Adelaide, whom ho will hold an Archdeaconry, and also wet as assistant to Bishop Thomas. Italia Garibaldi, a granddaughter of *l»o Liberator, has been chosen by the Italian Conference ut the .Methodist Jlpiseopal Church an one ot its repro.nontutives to tho general conference of tho denomination, which is to meet at aUnnoupolis in May of next year. At tho mooting of tho Wellington Gas Company’s shareholders yesterday, the chairman, Air 11. J. Nathan, mado reference to tho absence from tho meeting of tho oldest employee of tho company, the Into Air Henry Birch, formerly manager -and engineer of tho company. On behalf of the board, lie expressed deep regret at tho death of Air Birch.

Tlio funeral of tho lato Mr George Moited, of Tawa Flat, took place on Tuesday last, the cortege being one of the longest lor many yofirs in tho district. The procession started from the deceased’s lato residence at 2 p.m. for the public cemetery at X'orirua. .U 1 tho dec oasod’s relatives and a great many of the old settlors attended.' Tho Iter. Harry Cotton conducted the service. The sons of Mr S. Oreor, of Palmerston North (grandsons of the deceased), were tiio bearers. The chief mourners were tiio two sons, George and John, and the brothers, Alfred and Jesse Hosted, Mr S. Greer, Mr T. Tremain, tmd air C. Wackrow, sons-in-law.

The French AVar Minister, who was killed at Issy-les-Molineaux, was a geu■orous man. Tho story of his chanties would fill a largo volume. He pave away thousands where others gave hundreds. Bio inherited a fortune from his father, and tripled it himself. Ho was in politics a Socialist, but it Is well known that many of M. Bcrteaux's electors voted for the man rather than for his political opinions, and a remark of Clermenceau about him is historic. < *Borteanx/' lio said, "will always be in power when he likes. He is elected not for political reasons, but because he is a good man, a “brave man. a clover man, and, above all, a good fellow.' **

Mr G. H. Gordon, one of the oldest residents of Otago, died in Dunedin recently, aged seventy. Mr Gordon finished hia education at Eastbourne College, in England, where ho was for a short time a contemporary of the lute Colonel Fred Burnaby, of Abn Klou fame. Arriving in Otago in. pre-digging days, he followed station lifo on tho Hamilton run, his experiences as boundary keeper on tho Rock end Pillar range furnishing him with much matter for his latter-day stories of wild dogs, wild pigs, snowstorms, long traits, and breakneck rides {says tho "Otago Daily Times”). For some years back Mr Gordon lived almost entirely in tho past, in a generation to which he felt in no way kin. and the constant dropEing off of old friends had a very sack!enig effect on him.