PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 24 February 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. Lord and Lady Liverpool, accom> panied by Miss Foljambe and Captain Hutton, A.D.C., will leave Wellington for Taihapo on Wednesday morning. His Excellency will open tho Agricultural and Pastoral Show next Thursday. Lord and Lady Liverpool will go into residence at Auckland early in March. His Honor Mr Justice Sim arrived from the south yesterday by the Maori. Colonel Porter, C. 8., who has been spending a few days in Wellington, leaves for Gisborne to-day. Mr G. Hogben, Inspector-General of Schools, is spending a holiday at Nelson. He will return to Wellington shortly before Easter. Mr H. D. M. liaszard, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for Westland, aud Chairman of the forestry Commission, arrived in Wellington from tho South yesterday. Mr Hubert Nathan has decided to offer himself as a candidate at the next Harbour Board election as a representative of the payers of dues upon ships. Mr W. S. Douglas, editor of the “New Zealand Herald,” who has been seriously indisposed for some time past, underwent a successful operation at Mount Pleasant private hospital, and is making a very satisfactory recovery. Miss Helen Dalrymple, of the Napier Girls’ High School, has been appointed to the position of assistant mistress in the Girls’ High School at Dunedin. Miss Dalrymple was a former pupil of the Girls School. Constable George Chalmers, a popular member of the Dunedin police force, died on Thursday evening, aged thirty-six years. He was a native of Aberdeen, and joined the service at Dunedin in 1905. The deceased had a paralytic stroke about a week ago. He leaves a wife and one child. Mr Peter Johnson, late of Garrett street, whose death is reported at the age of eighty-eight years, was an old settler of Wellington, where he arrived in the Wild Duck in 1859. For nearly a quarter of a century he was watchman for the City Corporation in tho old Fire Brigade tower in Manners street. He leaves a grown-np family of three sons and five daughters. The Rev. Canon Garland has left Wellington for Christchurch, where ho is taking part in a series of meetings this week in connection with the Bible-in-schools movement. Ho is being assisted at a demonstration to-mor-row night by Mr J. G. Foulkes, who was a member of the West Australian Legislature for twelve years. The system of Bible reading advocated by the leagno has been in operation in West Australia since 1895. A pleasant evening was spent in the social hail at the Central Fire Station on Friday evening, the occasion being a farewell to Station Officer A. Craig, who has been appointed captain of the Remuera (Auckland) Volunteer Fire Brigade. ■ On behalf of tho officers and men Superintendent Tait presented to Mr Craig a portmanteau and set of hairbrushes, and in doing so wished him every success in his new position, assuring him that he carried with him the good wishes of all_ connected -wiih the brigade. Mr Craig leaves by the Main Trunk express to-day to take up bis new duties. The Hon. P. M. B. Fisher, who leaves by the Main Trunk express today for Auckland, will he absent from Wellington about a fortnight. Ha will then make a brief stay en route to Bluff, whence he leaves for Mol. bourne on March 24th, The Hon. W. Fraser is at Invercargill, and. will return to Wellington about the end of this week. The Hon. W. H. Herries, how at* Wellington, will leave this week for,the East Coast district, and will attend a native gathering at Gisborne on March oth. The Hons. W. P. Massey, A. L. Hordman, H. D. Bell, R. H. Rhodes, and are at Wellington. The. Hon, J. A. Millar returned to Wellington from his Dunedin visit on Saturday. Acting under advice, he will not address his constituents during the recess, but it is his intention, if the improvement in his health is maintained, to take his place in Parliament in June. There is no foundation for the report that Mr Millar in. tends to reside in Auckland. “Dunedin has always stood by me, and, a a I - stated during the strenuous campaign of December, 1911, I shall never offer my services for any other constituency than Dunedin West,” said Mr Millar to a Dunedin interviewer. He will take a trip to Australia shortly.