PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7979, 9 December 1911, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Mr Joseph MaoMahon arrived by the express from Auckland yesterday afternoon on a brief visit to Wellington.

Mr William’Allan, Armour, B.Sc., of the Dunedin Boys' Hrgh School, has been appointed principal of tho new technical college at Wanganui.

The funeral of the late, Mr A, R, V. Lodder took place yesterday afternoon. The interment took place at the Karon cemetery. The Rov. Dr., Gibb officiated at tho graveside. Councillor J. Smith and Mr J. RPalmer (Town Clerk) will leave M ellmgtou on Wednesday next for Auckland to represent the City r Council at the opening of the new Town Hall in tho northern city on December 14th. Mr A. R. Hislop, who has been, on a round trip to Tonga, Samoa, Piji, Sydney, anil Melbourne, returned to Wellington yesterday morning by tho Warrimoo. Mr Hislop was accompanied by Mrs Hislop and her daughter, Mrs C. K* Pordham and child.

Mr John Caughley, M.A., lato of Training College, Wellington,' and now master of the Christchurch West school, has been nominated by tho Wellington branch, of the New .Zealand Educational Institute for the position of president for tho ensuing term.

A London cablegram announces that Captain E. F- Haworth Booth, it-N., has taken up his duties as naval adviser to the Commonwealth High Commissioner. He is selecting officers for tho Training College. They will probably sail in January. Captain Booths salary has been fixed at JE7UO a year.

At a largo gathering yesterday afternoon of members of the Star Boating Club Hr H. C. Wallace, who has received notice of his transfer to Christchurch, was presented with a case of pipes. Mr A. B. BayfieT3 (club captain) referred to Mr Wallace's successful career as a regatta representative. Miss Alison Mary Tucker (says a Press "Association telegram from Dunedin) has been awarded by Mr Charles Schilsky, examiner, for, fhe Trinity College of Music (Lend.), the Governor’s medal. She was adjudged to bo tho best candidate in New‘Zealand in the senior division of practical work for tho year, A cable message from London announces the death of Sir Georg© Henry ’Lewis, senior member of the legal firm of Lewis and Lewis, and the most famous solicitor in England. Ho was bom in 1833, educated at University College, London, and became a solicitor in 1856. In 1833 he was knighted, .in 1903 was created a baronet, and in 1905 the C.V.O. was conferred on him. His son, George James Graham, succeeds to the title., Mr James Adie' and Mrs Adie, of Birmingham, with their son, Mr Ernest Adie, are at present visiting relatives in Wellington. Mr Adie was. for twelve years a member of the Birmingham City Council. Yesterday ho paid a visit to the Town Hall- and expressed himself surprised and pleased to see such a tine structure. “It is quite as good as our hall in Birmingham,’’' ho.remarked. The visitors will spend the Christmas holidays with relatives at Napier, and after seeing Hotorua and Auckland they will go to Sydney en rout© for England.

A Press Association, telegram from New -Plymouth. states that Mrs Obey, mother of Hr H. J. Xl* Okey, M.P. for Taranaki, died yesterday, aged eightytwo years. She was born in Gloucestershire, and had resided in New Plymouth \ since 1857. Her husband predeceased her two years ago. During the Maorilwar the deceased lady refused' to obey the orders of the military authorities to leave with all women tor Nelson. She hid in the bush so as to stay with her husband. The authorities sent no women away afterwards. Mrs Okcy leaves four sons and two daughters. Among the passengers who arrived at Wellington by the Maitai from San Xi'rancisco, via the Islands, yesterday, Were Mr P. E. Howard-Smith, of the Howard-Smith Steamship Company; Messrs J. 11. Dilks and B. Brown, representatives of the Baldwin Engineering Company, on their way to Melbourne to superintend! tho building of locomotives for the Government; Mr J. D. Douglas, superintending engineer for the Devonpert Perry Company at Auckland; Mr O. E. Lennon, an English comedian who is proceeding to Australia; Mr A. W. Wheeler, tho Union Company’s auditor, who has been to Bare tonga; Dr. A., Storey, of Rarotonga; Messrs W. Schryver, E. McMahon and W. Scott, of the Young Australia League boys on tour of California, on their way back to Western Australia. Sir John Kirk, director of tho London Ragged School Union and Shaftesbury Society, arrived in Wellington yesterday. As the result of this visit to the Commonwealth and Dominion, Sir John Kirk hopes that a scheme will be formulated whereby many thousands of’the children from the Shaftesbury Society will begin the wage-earning stage of their life in. these lands. They are in no sense "derelicts”; they, are bright, intelligent, and fairly well-educated and industrious. . Many have done excellently in Canada. In West Australia a partially improved farm has been secured, and, in addition, forty boys have been placed with farmers of good ■repute. The demand for these boys greatly exceeds tho supply. The age Bruit of these immigrants is from fourteen to twenty-one years. In a speech in West Australia Sir John said : “1 am desirous of being a link in the chain of inter-oommunioatiou between tho heart of the Empire and tho great continent of Australia. Such inter-communication between'the headquarters and tho outlying parts of the Empire make for the building up of a great nation, and promote the peace of tho world." Rewards were given tho young people who had passed from their hands for keeping up their association with Sunday school and Bible class. This was the material with which the agencies had done well and which was offered tho oversea daminlons of the Empire.

Busy men cannot spare time to develop and print their plates and films, and to them the knowledge that this work can safely be left to others must be welcome. Shariand and Co., Ltd., Photo Dealers, Lambton quay, employ skilled hands in this department, and amateurs can leave their plates or films with them, knowing that' the beat results possible will be obtained. *