PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7943, 28 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Mr John Fuller, junr., and Mrs Fuller have returned from a visit to Auckland.

,Mr E. G. Jelliooe was a passenger for Sydney last evening by the Moana.

The Rev. 11. Van Stavereh returned by last night’s express from an official visit to Taranaki.

Mr L. W. Bonrke, wireless operator of tho, Post and Telegraph Department, left tor the Chatham Islands yesterday in connection with telegraphic developments in tho islands and tne selection of a site for the proposed .wireless fetation.

Air W. H. Price, manager of the Nelson branch of the U.S.S. Co. for six years. Who has been transferred to Invercargill, left Wellington for south. last evening. Mr Price wag entertained at Nelson prior to leaving, and received presentations.

As a memento of his recent lectnte in connection with tho Grocers’ and Allied Traders’ Exhibition ot Newcastlo-on-Tyne (states a London cable message) Sir Newton Moore, Agent-General for Western Australia, has been presented with a beautiful silver rose-bowl.

A London cable message states that Mr J. Havelock Wilson, president of tho National Sailors and Firemens’ Union, will sail by the steamer Osterley for Australia.

Mr Nelson, a railway inspector, who was injured in a collision on Thursday while travelling on a railway motor between Woodvillo and Maharahara- stations, died in the Palmerston North hospital yesterday afternoon. Ho had his left leg broken in two places, and suffered other injuries. The deceased was a married man, fifty-nine years of age, and resided in Wellington. Mr Henry D. Baker, American Vico-Consul-Geuoral, who has been on special sendee irj New Zealand for tire purpose of writing commercial reports for his Government on conditions hero, has completed his work, and left yesterday for Tasmania, via the Bluff. Mr Baker expects to spend the summer in Tasmania, and then later to return for a visit to tho United States.

Another old veteran passed-away recently in Mr Thomas Skcllon, who arrived in Auckland by the ship Columbus in October, .1864, being then nineteen years old." In January, 1865, he ioined tho 3rd Waikato Regiment of Militia, and was discharged with his company (No. 10) in October, 1836. He subsequently enlisted in the Aimed Constabulary, and was at Otnuto and the Ngaire Swamp on the West Coast, and with tho first expedition through the XTrewora Country, via Wakatane Gorge, to Euatahuna; and also on the East Coast.