PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8364, 26 February 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICEREGAL. His Excellency the Governor will leave Wellington to-day for Taihape, where Lord Liverpool opens the A. and P. Show to-morrow. Mr V. I. Tegner, formerly of Wellington, but now a resident of Buenos Ayres, is on a visit to this city. Mr J. A. Lomas, secretary of the Labour Department, returned from Auckland yesterday. Constable P. Doyle, orderly at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, has received notice of his transfer to tne district police office at Wanganui. He will take up his new duties next -week. Mr W. W. Scott, who has filled the position of accountant in the Auckland branch of the United Insurance Company for some time, has arrived in Wellington to take up similar duties with the company here. Mr Gilbert K. Chesterton, the wellknown journalist-author, has severed his connection with the Loudon “Daily News and Leader,” and has chivalrously joined the staff of the new LondonLabour daily, the “Daily Hera.d,” which is in straitened circumstances. Princess Charlotte, a young lady of fifteen years, eldest daughter of King George of Tonga, arrived in Auckland by the Atua on Sunday evening. She has come to New Zealand to complete her education, and will be a pupil at the Diocesan High School for Girls at Epsom. Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, was a visitor to the House of Commons when the final stages of the Home Rule Bill were reached. Ho is of opinion that the measure will eventually become law in May of nest year. His Grace expects to return to Wellington in April. The Wellington Education Board has accepted the following resignations from March 31st next; Miss M. L. Marten, Ponatahi; Mrs M. Dupree, Shannon; Miss 1 loms, Normal School; Miss A. Murray, Masterton. From February 28th; Mr F. Robertson, Mt. Cook Boys’. Commander Evans, R.N y of the Terra Nova, accompanied by Lieutenant Bruce (brother of Mrs Scott) will arrive in Wellington this morning from Lyttelton, to meet Mrs Soott, who is a passenger by the Aorangi, due at Wellington to-morrow from San Francisco. Mrs Scott and Lieutenant Bruce will go on to Sydney to join tha P. and O. steamer Medina, for England. A Press Association message from Melbourne states that the Otranto’s Niew Zealand passengers include: Misses Lennox, Ferguson, Mackerry, McKintey, Giles (four), McNeight, 'Bowron (three), Harrild, Tisdale, Douglas (two), Henderson (two), Hill, MacDonald,'Walker, Evans (two), and Cooper ; Mesdames Giles, McAdams, Tisdale, Henderson, Lindsay, MacDonald. Woolf and Cooper: Messrs Giles, McNeight, Bowron. McAdams, Tisdale, Marshall, Woolf, Wilkes, and Rev. Long., The late Dr. .Harrison, of Eltham, was bom at Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He was a B.A. of Cambridge, .M.R.C.S., England, and a L.R.0.P., London. His father, who paid a visit to New Zealand some two years ago, is (say; the “Hawera Star”) Dr. A. J. Harrison, Failand Lodge, Clifton, Bristol, and was for some time lecturer on skirt diseases at the Bristol Medical School, and was on the honorary star) of the Bristol Hospital. Dr. Ham son was educated at Clifton College, and afterwards at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He then went to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and qualified for his profession in July, 1893. He came out to New Zealand in January, 1894, and since that time has practised in Eltham. He leaves a widow and two sous. Sir Joseph Ward has made up his mind to spend some part of the winter at Nice, hut is quite uncertain as to when he will shako the mud of London off his feet (writes the London correspondent of the Auckland “Star”). Even whilst the weather is in its present . unamiable, quiok-change-artis* mood, the metropolis holds many attractions for the visiters, and unless snow and fog make London “impossible,” it seems likely that Sir Joseph’s address for some weeks to come will be Hotel Cecil. Sir Joseph Ward was amongst the Speaker’s guests in the distinguished strangers’ gallery at the House of Commons, and heard practically the whole of the debate on the third reading of the Home Rule BilL He heard, at all events, the speeches of all the leading lights of the Imperial Parliament, among them being Mr Balfour, Mr Bonar Law, Mr Redmond, Mr F. E. Smith, and Mr Birrell. It was a third reading without any detail, and the speohes of the leading men on both sides reached a high level of oratory. But the speech which impressed Sir Joseph Ward most was Mr Asquith’s, and next thereto Mr Redmond’s. An emphatic “Fine” was Sir Joseph’s' verdict on these two speeches. Mr Bonar Law’s contribution to the debate was, he com fessed, very good, but neither the leader of the Opposition nor Mr F. E. Smith seem to have appealed to Sir Joseph to the same extent as the Liberal leader and the “Dictator” from the green isle of Erin. Captain William Waller, of tha Union S.B. Company’s steamer Wimmera, who has been appointed harbourmaster at New Plymouth, is a native of that town. He lived his early days with his parents on their farm near the Lepperton station, now the racecourse. As a youth ha cherished a strong desire for a sea life, and at about the age of seventeen shipped on board the 92-ton schooner Mary Webster (Captain Thomas Holmes), owned by the old firm of Webster Bros. He served some years in her, and learned much of his seamanship in that schooner. Anxious to obtain foreign certificates, he joined the ship Holmesdale in Adelaide for London, and then went into the China trade in the barque Alexa, making several voyages. After obtaining his certificates he returned to New Zealand, where he secured a position with the Union Steam Ship Company. He had command of the s-s. Oreti, and afterwards the Brunner, Flora, and Rosamond. He was chief officer of the s.s. Hawea when she was lost at the breakwater (says the “Taranaki Herald”). After some years’ service with the Union Company he joined the Huddart-Parker Company, Ltd., as chief officer of the s.s. Anglian. On this company building larger steamers for the increasing intercolonial trade Captain Waller was given command of the s.s. Victoria, and ran that steamer between Sydney and Melbourne via southern New Zealand ports and Hobart. He also commanded the s.s. Westralia for some time. Since the s.s. "Wimmora came out about five years ago ho Jias captained her