PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8189, 2 August 1912, Page 7

PERSONALIA

In addition to his other portfolios, tho Prime Minister has assumed charge of the Department of Industries and Commerce, in place of the Hon. W. Drasor. On the motion of Councillor Tregoar, tho city council lat*t night passed a resolution. expressing tho duopt’fit sympathy with tho families of tho two .tram conductors who recently mot their death.

Mr Diehard Quinn, tho retiring proprictor of tho Provincial Hotel, Upper Hutt, was presented on Wednesday evening last with a wallet, suitably inscribed, ai a token of esteem from his triends. Mr ftobert Maboy occupied the chair. An interested spectator at last nights meeting of the Wellington City U'mncu was tlio Mayer of Dunedin (Mr J. Mileon;. lu acknowledging bis welcome, Mr Wilson said that in Dunedin they v.oro always pleased to see present at their meetings Mayors or councillors ot cllu r boroughs.

Messrs A. Kayo (Canterbury Chamber of Commerce) and A. S. Paterson (Otago Chamber of Commerce), who will be the 0( credited representative* cl the v' e "' land Government at tlio fifth International Congress of Commerce, to bo held in Boston at the end of September, have left to catch the Vancouver steamer at Auckland. The members of the Christchurch Licdertafel assembled on the railway (station on Tuesday and sang a number of songs iu farewell or -Mr ICayo, who is president of tlio society. Tho Hon. T. Mackenzie passed through Christchurch ywtewUxy morning. In an interview he indicated tliat his one mam undertaking as High , Commissioner would bo to negotiate with Continental countries in. the hope of securing a maiket for Nov/ Zealand produce, particularly meat He thought tho prospect of obtaining the relaxation of Trench proteo tion in favor of New Zealand mutton was hopeful,* Germany, too. might amend her Customs tariff m a similar direction. Ho intended to devoto himself energetically to that work, to which he had given some years of close study. Mrs Price, a resident of Wellington for many years, died on Wednesday. She was one of the early pioneers, and resided in Caversham, Dunedin, at a tmio when there were few houses in that now populous suburb. In Dunedin she married Mr* John Charles Price, who was in tho early days a teller in the Hank or New Zealand in Durodin. The deceased lady, who was seventy years of ago when! she died, was a daughter of the late Mr William Adams, an Edinburgh merchant, and was related to tho lato Sir John Coode, tho eminent engineer. Mrs Price leaves cm© son (Mr W. C. Price) and throe daughters, all of whom reside in Ivilhirnio.

A Press Association telegram from Cambridge announces the death, yesterday, of Mr R. C. Dyer, one of the bestknown residents of That town. He was found dead sitting in a chair at home. Just previously ho had been working in his garden, and 5■ is exertions evidently produced heart failure. Deceases, who was seventy-eight years of age, was .born in India and was educated at Cheltenham College, England. In 1853 he arrived at Auckland by the ship Jossph Fletcher, and was farming in tho Mahurangi district for about seventeen years. In 1880 he entered tho service of tho Auckland Education Board, and nine years later became headmaster of Cambridge Public School. Deceased was father of Mr R. W. Dyer, stipendiary mrgistrale at Rotorua. He was a prominent Freemason and an English Church layroader.

"Duloio Deamer" (Mrs Albert Goldie) fh‘e well-known Now Zealand authoress, having escaped tho Titanic disaster by chance. has lived to achieve success in New York. As a rule years of disappointment and weary waiting have to bo expected, but Mrs Goldio has had a very Si,'.'■.'Tent experience. Her very first story “As It Was in tho Beginning ' won the "Loro Hand" story competition neatly fire years ago. After that she had more demand? npen her pen from .Australasian ’•’’bUcn.tions than she could fulfil. Recently Mrs Goldio left with her husband and child for America, io lav siege to the Now York literary citadel —a very tough and almost impenetrable fortress to any but tho truly talented. 'She was prepared io wait a couple of years for recognition, but within a month, according to advices hy the last mail, she had her work accepted bv the big publishing firm of G. W. Dillingham and Go. Mrs Goldie's first book under her contract with tho American firm will bo a romaneo of India entitled "The Suites' of Safa," and was expected by the publishers to be ready for distribution about the end of September. All leading publishing houses have their literary critic and the ono attached to Messrs Dillingham and Co. in reviewing Mrs Goldie’s work wrote:—"It is a remarkably well-written book, the author's realisation of tho mysticism of tho East, being wonderful. Her work Is intensely dramatic and compelling."

A fish with a special Act of Parliament all to itself ifl highly interesting. Quito recently a splendid photo was obtained of the Pilot of the French Pass— Pelorns Jack—and copies are now for sale at Sharland and Coy., Photo Stores, Lambton quay. •