PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7878, 14 August 1911, Page 7

PERSONALIA

The death is announced of Mr William Grade, late senior partner of' the iinu of Grade, Bceudey and Co.; Liverpool. Mr C. J. X’arr. Mayor of Auckland, has decided that his civic duties are paramount, mid ho will not content tlxo Parliamentary seat for City West,

Passengers by the Maori from Lyttelton yesterday included the Hon. J. D. Ormond, M.L.C., Colonel Heard, and Colonel Collins. Tho Mines Commissioners left Auckland for Thames on Friday afternoon, and will sit at the Thames Courthouse to-day for the taking of evidence. Since leaving Auckland the Commissioners have visited fcho ilikurangi and Northern Coal Companies > mines, and on two days took evidence at Whaugarci. Mr If. L. Benjamin, 8.K., A-CE-lk. son of Mr Lionel N. Benjamin, of Auckland, has accepted a position in the sales organisation of the Westinghouso Electric and Manufacturing Company. New York. After graduating from the New Zealand University Mr Benjamin spent two years in the company's factory in PittsburgLater, ho spout two years on the road on erecting work for the same company'. Mr William Franklin Browne, whoso Interment took place in Karorl Cemetery yesterday, was a native ox Bardaddo(>s, where his father., an. officer of the I2th Battalion Loyal Infantiy,' wasi stationer]. Mr Browne arrived in Wellington in IRG2 in tlin brig Blanche (Captain Jacob Care), after a tempestuous voyage of 153 days. Ho joined the Native School Department in 1873 as teacher, and during his twenty years' connection with the deportment served in Poverty Bay, Bay of Plenty. Hokianga, and Wairarapa. Ho was sixty-seven years of age. The nulpit of St. David's Presbyterian Church*. Auckland, which has been vacant pmcG the Iter. W. Gray-Dixon left tor Dunedin some twelve months ago, is to bo filled by the Rev. John.M. Saunders, M.A., of Cardiff, Wales, who has been engaged for six months, but will probably settle permanently iu Auckland. Mr Saunders is said to stand in the front rank amongst the younger ministers ot Wales, and has occupied many important positions with honour. Mr Saunders, with his wife and family, sails for New Zealand on the 19th List., and is duo to arrive early in October. Mr J. E. Henrys. hundicapper, who nv turned to Wellington from Christchurch yesterday, was entertained at lunch at iticcartoh by the members of the press SUery on the occasion of his attaining s majority as handicapner tor tho Canterbury Jockey Club. The btar says:—“ Mr Henrys has always been one of the most obliging and courteous ot tho club's officials where the prasa is concerned, and although time did not allow of any congratulatory speech-mak-ing the little gathering, which, was attended by all the visiting and local sporting writers, was a hearty appreciation of Mr Henry's unfailing willingness to make smooth the way of tho newspaper naan."

Sir Henry Lucy writes, in the course of iiis weekly letter to the “Sydney Morning HeraJd, published on Saturday week last:—“No ono will more warmly wel* come cessation of mental and bodily strain in connection with tho Coronation than the Premiers and other representatives of dominions over tho sea. Hospitality, official and private, has been unbounded, and a wish nearest the hearts of those chiefly concerned must be for return to familiar quieter times. -Happily, the visitors arc* of exceptionally line stamina, and arc able to live through a spurt that would break down weaker brethren. In this connection Sir Joseph Ward, tho New Zealand Prime Minister, told me on interesting circumstance. Amid the turmoil of life in I/eition he has not once varied from his homo habit of not sleeping more than four out of tho 24 hours. Snoh capacity gives a man an almost unfair advantage over fellowereatnres, even such as limit tho period of their sleep to eight hours. For a shrewd, capable business man to bo every day of his life four hours ahead of his neighbours is an immense pulfi almost equal to doubling the length and opportunity of a working day." ' Nelson has a generous benefactor in Mr Thomas Cawthorn (says tho Marlborough Press"). Some years ago no presented a Sunday school to ToiToi Valiev. He made a valuable presentation to tho Nelson Museum, and donated ,£SOO to the Nelson Institute He subsequently offered to defray the cost of carrying on tho improvement scheme for tho Church Hill steps in •connection with the Albert Pitt memorial . tun „ d -,, £SOO to the building iund of the School JfMusic. and lent .£‘2ooo to the school tt a nominal .rate of interest. Indeed, but for his assistance the School of Music could never have been built at all Quito recently he donated another £SOO to tho same institution, ana has nromised three further donations, each of tho earn© amount, at half-yearly intervals, so that the indebtedness ot the school in about a year’s timo will be completely extinguished. In addition to the foregoing he has ordered for tnobenool of Music a magnificent organ at a cost of about <£2ooo, Altogether, Mr Cawthorn’s benefactions to Nelson arc almost ■unprecedented in the way of spontaneous liberality so far as New Zealand is concerned.