PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8029, 7 February 1912, Page 7

PERSONALIA

His Excellency the Governor's programme lor the current week is as fol-lows;—To-tiny: Leave Kuatahumi G a.m., arrive on shore AVnikaremoaiia Luke noon, arrive Wuikaremoana !i p.m.; Thursday: Leave Waikareinoaua 9 a.m., arrive Yvairoa 1 p.m.; Friday: Leave Wairoa 9 a.m., arrive Gisboruu 2 p.m.; Saturday: At Giiiberjio; Sunday: Leave for Wellington, per s.s. Monowai. Mr H. L. Bavago is leaving on a trip to Australia next week. Tho Mori. H. McK-enrio, Minister of Public Works, returned to Wellington iroin Nelson yesterday. i)r and Mrs Pairrnan, who are- among \he Kotorua's pusoCiiKera from London, intend to settle in New Zealand. Sir Vernon. Keed, M.P. for Bay of Wands, is visiting Wellington on business connected with lus constituency, mid may stay until the session. All the members of the Ministry except tho Hon. J. A. Millar, who is at Rotorua, Mid the lion. A. T. Nffutu (at Port Awanui) axe in Wellington to-day. Miss Wingato, an English artist, and her brother arrived in New Zealand on the Kotorua from London yesterday. It is their intention to eeWlo in Auckland.

Dr. Prcndergast Knight, chairman of tho Golden Bay Cement Company, and Mr W. M. Hannay, managing director, left by tho Alapburika for 'Nelson, yesterday ou ji visit to tho works. At tho annual meeting of tho Petone Technical School Hoard last evening tho Itov. A. Thomson was re-elected chairman, Mr J. G. Castle hon. secretary, !tud Mr G. Duncan hon. treasurer.

llr- W. Pryor, secretary of tho Employers' Federation, who has been seri--6ußi/ indisposed for somo time, has now toino#hat recovered, and will leave Wellington to-day for a month's holiday at luotorua.

Captain. Eoso and Mrs Rose, who wore among tho arrivals by tlio liotorua .from Ihigkuid yesterday, aro revisiting tho Doimiiiou after many years' absenco. Captain itose was formerly manager of tlio Now Zealand Shipping Company in Wellington.

Mr' John Newlands, a young missioner, who has been, engaged m that work in Glasgow, arrived in Now Zealand yesterday by tho Rotorua to take up homo mission duties under tho auspices of the Presbyterian Church. His station had not yet been decided. A meeting is to bo hold at Otaki tomorrow to decide- on tho form of recognition of 4lr W. 11. field's services to tho district as M.P. llr Field represented *he district for upwards of twelve years, and it is therefore expected the SLttondanoo will ho largo and enthusiastic.

Captain A. C. Critchley-Salniondson, of tlio Royal Munster Fusiliers, who is under tiireo years' engagement to tho JVew Zealand Defence .Department as instructor in infantry duties, arrived in Wellington from England yesterday. It is not yet known where ho will bo stationed.

I'ho presidency of tho industrial exhibition to be held in Auckland next year has- been accepted by Mr Barb Kent, who was president of the Auckland industrial exhibition of lbSii-y, and for many years S resident of tho Auckland Chamber of ommeroo (sayu a Press Association teiegrain from Aucklaiui).

Tho friends of Mis Dora Moutray,' elder daughter of Mu. B. L. Redmond, pf Oriental Bay. will i egret to learn of hex death suddenly at her homo at L'astlecliii, Wanganui, yesterday mompig. Mrs Moutiay was connected with the D.I.C. for several years before leaving for New South Wales.

Air C S. Nixon, Collector of Customs lit Wellington, who had been seriously indisposed for some months, has recently «o muoh improved in health as to have arranged to resume duty next Saturday. Mr 13. B. Brabazon, who has been act-ing-collector at Wellington, will return to hia position as Collector of Customs it Napier. ' Sir Fred G. Matthews, 'who has been five years on the Prime Minister's secretarial staff, has been appointed Sir Joseph Ward's chief secretary. He joined tho Civil Service fifteen years ago, in the Customs Department, and served on the late Mr Seddon's secretarial staif. Following tho late Prime Minister's .doath, Mr Matthews acted for a year as private secretary to Sir William HallJones, !.

Mr William Murray, general manager of tho Christchurch Moat Company, who lias been away from New Zealand for six months on what was intended to be a business trip in England, returned yesterday on the steamer Eotorua with his family. Unfortunately, Mr Murray's health, broke down 6oon after arrival in England, and an operation became- necesoary, so that ho was unable to take much part in business affairs. Ho has benefited greatly by tho outward voyage.

The Rev. J. A. Lush arrived on the Botorua from England yesterday to take •up his appointment as vicar of Haveloek Noith Hawke's Bay. Ho has already ■visited Now Zealand, having been tutor to a son of Mr A. E. Ch Rhodes, Christchurch, from 1203 until 1906, when ho returned to England, and was ordained. His clerical experience has been in North of England cities, and he is of the activo, robust type of cleric who should find Now Zealand lifo congenial. Mrs Lush and her baby are to reach Wellington, on tho Ruahine, about the end of April,

In the Supremo. Court at Palmerston Worth yesterday morning reference- to tho death of tho late Mr Fitzherbert, S.M., at Now Plymouth, was mado by ihis Honor the Chief Justice (Sir Robert 6 tout) and Mr Loughnan, on behalf of tho bar. His Honor alluded to the iato Mr Fitzherborfs legal career and his associations in. Palmorston, where he was formerly Crown Prosecutor and from ■which place ho was appointed a magistrato. Tho position that tho deceased lhad attained to was an honourable and i-espcnsible one, and his Honor had no doubt he had performed his duties to the ■best of ihia ability. Mr Loughn-an endorsed tho learned judge's remarks, and (stated that the relations between the late Mr Fitzherbert and the legal professicm in PalmeTston were of a cordial aature.

Mr R. H. Rhodes, of Timarn, returned to New Zealand •with. his wife and daughter yesterday on the Eotorua, after a year's absence. Mr Q. 11. Rhodes, a nephew, and Mrs Rhodes accompanied them. During hia _ travels Mr R. H. Rhodes •visited Messina, many months after tho calamitous eruption of Stromboli, and was surprised to find that the town was practically in tho state in which it appeared to tlio rescue parties, lin attempt was being made to clear tho e'reets, but the inhabitants had not given up the use of temporary huts sent to them from tie United States. _ Wliilo tort disposed to say much, regarding tho haidling of New Zealand produce in London, Mr Khodes remarked that a freafc deal of attention had been given to the matter, with vory good results.