PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8028, 6 February 1912, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Itr \V. H. Buswoll, of tho city council engineering staff, leaves to-day for Giflborne to take up Ids duties as electrical engineer.

The Iter. James Paterson, of ■Wellington, is acting as locum tenons at Havelock North for a month, during Mr Waugh's absence. It is stated on what is apparently good authority that Mr Morton, city engineer, will be offered tho position ol traffic superintendent of the tramways. The Hon. J. A. Millar, who haa been enjoying: a holiday in the Taupo district, will return to Wellington at tho end of this week.

Mr W. L. Mowbray, accountant to thv Treasury Department, has applied to bo retired on superannuation owing to ill health. Ho has had over thirty-seven years* service.

Mr G. H. Bullard, district survey6r for Poverty Bay, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Hands lor Taranaki in succession to the lato Mr W. Armstrong. Mr Bullard who was formerly district surveyor for Taranaki, ha s seen thirty-seven years' service. Mr 11. H. House, of the principal office staff of the Colonial Mutual Lite Assurance Society, Limited, has boon appointed assistant resident secretary for tho society in tho Dominion of Now Zealand, and left Sydney for Wellington on Saturday. Mr R. F. Lynch, chief clerk of thu Department of Internal Affairs, who recently left on extended sick le-avo, haa retired from the department on superannuation. Mr Lynch, who has been connected with the Civil Service fop thirty-eight years, will be succeeded by Mr G. P. Newton. Tho Eov. Father Fay, S.M., parish priest of Temuka, has* been appointed to Blenheim. Ho succeeds tho Very Rev. l>e?n Hills, S.M., who goes to Christchurch as Vioar-Gcneral and rector of St. Mary's. Father Fay had previously spent twelve years as assist ant priest at Blenheim. Tho death is announced at New Ply* mouth, early yesterday morning, of Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., aged sixty years. He sat on tho bench on Tuesday last, but had to adjourn tho court on account of illness- He was a son of Sir William Fitzherbert, and was himself an M.H.R. in tho 'eighties.. Death was duo to cancer. Mr Fitzherbert was horn in Wellington and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, and Melbourne University. Ho was admitted to tho Bar in 1875, and was for a time a member of tho firm of Barton and Fitzherbert, and later of the firm of Buckley, Stafford, and Fitzherbert. From 1884 to 1890 he was a member of tho House of Representatives, his constituency being the Hutt. Ho took an interest in volun--1 toe ring in his younger daj'S, and was captain .of the Petono (Wellington) Navals. For some years bolero his appointment as Stipendiary Magistrate at New Plymouth, m 1907, Mr Fitzherbort practised his profession at Palmerston North.

The death occurred on December 26th, at Southsea, of Captain Henry Holland Torlesse, 8.N., elder son- of tho late Eev. Henry Torlesse, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Captain Torlesse, who was in his fifty-fourth year, had been in delicate health for some considerable time, and, he was compelled in November to resign his post as captain-superintendent of Sheerness dockyard, which ho had held for a little over a year. Captain Torlesse entered the navy as a cadet in 1871, becoming a sub-lieutenant 'in 1878, lieutenant in 1882, commander in 1886, and captain in 1802. He served in the Minitaur during the Egyptian war, 1882, and was awarded the Egyptian medal and the Khedive's bronze star. AVhen commander of the St, George, flagship of Bear-Admiral. H. H. Bawson, C. 8., he was present on the occasion of the bombardment and capture of the Sultan of Zanzibar’s palace in August, 1880, by Admiral Bawson’s squadron, and served in tho expedition landed from the squadron to punish the King of Benin for the massacre of the political expedition in the following year. For these services he was mentioned in dispatches and received the general Africa medal with Benin clasp. He was captain of the Inflexible, battle cruiser, when Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Edward Seymour, hoisted his flag in her to proceed to New York for the Hudson-Fulton celebrations in 1903, after which he was appointed as captain-superintendent of Sheerness dockyard. While holding this post ho was decorated, with the Second Class of the Order of the Bed Eagle on the occasion of the visit of thfc German Emperor in May last. Captain Torlesse (who left a widow and two daughters) was buried in Haslar cemetery with full naval honours.

PELOEUS JACK.—Tho pilot Ash of the French Pass has been successfully photographed at last. Postcards with a short description of tho fish and giving an excellent picture of Jack’s dive are on sale at Sharland and Co.'s Photo Store, Lambton quay. These make excellent greeting cards for oversea friends. ■