PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 7

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. Tho following received invitations to lunch at Government House on Sunday last: —Mr and Mrs Drumioton, Mr and Mrs Harold Cooper, Mr and Mrs . Uidwiil, Mr Vavasour, i'loin Blenheim, and Mum Wilfiou (who in slaying at Government House, where she i.s the guest of their Excellencies,).

This evening Lord Islington will attend tho lecture to bo given at the down Hall by Captain iiavis, <>t Ur Antarctic exploration ship Aurora.

The Prime .Minister /Hon. W. V. Massey) left for Woodvillo yesterday to attend a “social to Mr J. 11. LscoU, M.|». for Hahiatua. He returns afternoon.

Tin. Hon. Jt. 11. Rhodes, Minister m oliiU-'-c of Hospitals, has accepted llm Wairarupa Hospital Hoard’s invitation to oflii dally open tho Hut lonian Homo at Urey town at 2 p.m. next Thursday. Tho J’limo Minister is on routo Iron' Woodvillo to Wellington to-day. and tno Hon. W. Fraser from Wellington to K Kuiti. All tho other Minislois aro m town.

Mr \ H. La no. who has boon for some Vtsirs on tho Christchurch ■'l'nn'i ' ronorting staff, lias h,en ’•ilitur of (bo "Southland Rimes in sucoossion In Mr Han-lay, who is joining tho Sydney "Telegraph" staff. .Mr A. U’ohstor. town clerk. Rotone. has placed his resignation in the hands of tho \tavor. Tho mailer is to bo placed '..‘mo flu* conmdl moot:no on .Uonday no\f. Iliicing tho past ten months no Joss than sov.m responsible officers of the I’ctono Rorongli (Joum-il huvo rcs.gnctl their positions.

'Hu* n f *w I! -h'q) of MiLincHia leaver Auckland to-duy lor Wellington. Ho rulihvsscs h public uifdtin" on mission work nt tho Town Hull tomorrow night. On Friday Bishop Wood loaves for Sydney, nnd thcnco Ii« goes to Norfolk Island, where he meets the Southern Cross, which ivill take him to the.future headquarters of tho mission in tho Solomon Islands. During his stay in .Adelaide Bishop AVood v.pent a couple of days with his predecessor. Bishop AVilson, whom ho found in very bad health. The sudden death of Mrs T. Hancock, nt her residence. Carlton Goto road. Auckland, on Thursday evening, removed another of Auckland’s old identities from tho fast-decreasing list. The deceased lady came out to New Zealand in 1862, on tho ship Romulus, and joined her sister, Mrs Bloomfield, sear., at Turanganui, the site of the present town ox Gisborne. In November, 1668, the family had a narrow escape from being included in the Poverty Bay massacre. Fortunately they were warned in time of Te Ivooti’s raid by a friendly Maori, and fled, whilst the neighbouring houses ■were being destroyed. On her, coming to Auckland she married Mr Thomas Hancock, tho founder of tho firm of Hancock end Company. Tho death occxirred nt Lansdowne, Maetorton, on Sunday, of Mr diaries Wilton, one of tho pioneer settlers of the AVellington province. Tho deceased was born in 1839 in Somersetshire (England), and 151111 his parents (Mr and Mrs Robert Wilton) arrived in Wellington, by tho ship Oriental in 1811. The other members of the family who came onb by the same vessel were Mr Nun AViltoni (who was a nurseryman), Mrs Budding (Nelson), the late Mrs C. E. Ollivcr (Carterton), the late Mrs A. Fill (AVellington). Mr Elijah Wilton (formerly a butcher and latterly a. farmer). Mr Thomas AVilton (farmer of Raugittiraau), nnd Mr Job Wilton (of tho AVest Coast). The late Mr Wilton, after serving an apprenticeship with Moßeath and AVallacc, grocers of Wellington, commenced business on his own account on Lambton quay, Wellington. .Subsequently he went to AVairarupa and commenced farming at Tnrntahi. After being there for i-oino sixteen years, he started in business ns a grocer at Kuripnni, remaining thorrt until ho retired into private life. A family of ten are left, Mrs AVilton having pre-deceased her husband some years ago. The members of the family aro Mcedame® H. J. Dagg, 14. .1. King, A. Matthews, and W. Henson, and Messrs A. E. Wilton, K. F. AVilton, C. F. Wilton, J. AVilton, W. A. AVilton, and D. Wilton.

A remarkably £no photograph has been secured of tho world-renowned fish ’’Pelorus Jack” just as ho is about to disappear after a, leap out of tho water. Visitors to Now Zealand and those desirous of sending a wonderfully interesting picture or postcard to friends can secure copies from Sharland and Co.. Photo Store, Lambton quay. *