PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8171, 12 July 1912, Page 7

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor yesterday morning inspected tho cadets in camp at Trentham. To-day Lord Islington visits Masterton in connection with tho Competition Society's carnival. Eig Excellency, who is patron of tho llOrphans’ Club, will bo installed tomorrow evening at tho Masonic Hall. Mr H. A. Jackman, chief clerk of tho Wellington Customs office, is seriously •indisposed. Mr C. B. Headley, of Napier, and Mias Headley,. will leave for Sydney to-day, eu route to London. Mr A. E. Braithwaito has received appointment as deputy registrar of marriages, births and deaths at Bulls. Mr John O’Donovan has been appointed an, inspector to report upon chartered clubs as defined by the Licensing Act. Mr AY. B. Gough, Petone borough inspector. has been appointed to a similar position at Hawera. Mr Gough, who has been in tbe Petouo borough for fourteen years, was chosen from fiftytwo applicants, A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that, at au enthusiastic meeting of the Legion of Frontiersmen last night, the Prime Minister (Hon. AY. F. Massey) was elected honorary commandant of the Auckland district. Mr T. M. AYilford, M.P., is to be the gnest of tho Trentham Club, whoso third annual social takes place in tho Oddfellows’ Hall, Trentham, to-morrow evening. It is expected that Sir James Carroll and other prominent visitors will bo present. Mr A. A. Paape, general secretary of tho ' New Zealand Sports Protection League, returned to Welling ton last night from Auckland, in'which district ho has been carrying out organising work. Mr Paap© states that he met with considerable success, twenty-one branches of tbe league having teen formed in the Auckland province. Tho funeral of the late Maior Malr took place yesterday (says a Press Association telegram from Whangarei), the remains being interred in the family vault in the Anglican churchyard. Tho coffin, which was enshrouded in a Union Jack, was met at the station by tbe school cadets, numbering 150, who accompanied the cortege to the grave. Dr James Hudson, of Tapawera, who was in a motor-car accident on Monday, was formerly district health officer for Nelson and Marlborough. He married a daughter of the late Eev. J. C. Andrew, of Masterton. Tho deceased was a brother of Mr W. B. Hudson, of tho New Zealand Government Life Insurance Department, Mr G. V. Hudson, of tho Now Zealand Post and Telegraph Department, and Miss Hudson, of Wellington. The late Mr Charles Hudson, at one time assistant general manager of railways in New Zealand, was also a brother. The Anglican Bishop of Auckland (Dr Crossley), accompanied by Archdeacon Oalder (commissary for New Zealand for tho Bishop of Melanesia), tho Rev. Henry N. Drummond (Norfolk Island), and the Eev. G. K. Moir (Gela), mission priests of tho Melanesian mission, arrived in Wellington last evening by tho Main ■ Trunk train, on route for Dunedin, to attend tho consecration of the Bishop of Melanesia (Rev. Cecil John Wood, D.D.), on Sunday next. The Bishop of Auckland will afterwards go to Nelson for tho consecration on the 21st inst. of Eev. Wm. Chas. Sadlier, D.D., of Nelson. Our Christchurch correspondent telegraphs that there passed away yesterday, in hia eighty-first year, a well-known figure in Mr G. F. Bullen. of Kaikonra. Mr Bullen was born at Fulham, Somerset. in 1832. lu 1833, with his brother Frederick, he went to Melbourne, where they secured work in a drapery establishment. In 1861 tho brothers came over to New Zealand and established a drapery business in Dunedin, at what is known a« Bnllen’s comer. Mr Bullen, about this time bought a. property in’ Otago, which he afterwards sold to tho New Zealand and Australian Land Company. It is known as the Clydovale estate. Ho and his brother also purchased a mine in tbe south known as tho Skipper’s Lease Mine. In January, 1866, Mr Bnllen went to Kaikonra and bought tho Elms estate, of 60.000 acres, from Messrs Keane and Fyfo. He owned this estate at bis death. He also bought the Greenbills estate, of 39,000 acres, from Mr Fyfe. _ This estate ho- recently sold to a syndicate to cut up for closer settlement. He also at one time held all the Hendallo county on lease from the Government, and used to shear about 100,000 sheep. • Mr Bullen leaves a grown no family of two sons and five daughters. He was very prominent in Presbyterian Church matters in the district. A crowd or passengers always congregate on tho bow of tbe steamers passing throngh the French Pass for the purpose of viewing tbe pilot fish "Pelorus Jack." A (beautiful snapshot has been taken recently and is now on sale at Sharland and Co.’s Photo Store, Lambton quay. *