PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8367, 1 March 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr Justice Denniston will take th* Supreme Court sittings at ivew Plymouth next week. ■

Inspector McGrath, who has recently been appointed Inspector of Police at Auckland, loaves Wellington this morn" ing to take up his new duties. The Hons. IV. P. Massey, H. D. Bell, A. L. Herdman, It, H. Rhodes, and Hr Pomaro arc at Wellington. The Hon. W. Praser leaves Christchurch to-night for Wellington, arriving tomorrow morning. The Hon. W. H. Herrins is en route to Gisborne. The Hon. P. M. B. Pisher will probably remain at Auckland a few cays longer. A Press Association telegram states: Senior-Sergeant Dart is leaving for Auckland, and Mrs Dart received a present from the Tixuaru force yesterday as a token cf the esteem in which her husband was held. SubInspector Cruickshanks and his comrades spoke very highly of the departing officer.

Bishop Sprott, who is on a visit to Wanganui, will hold a confirmation service tiior© to-morrow. Cm Sunday, March 9th, ho will conduct an ordination service at St. Paul’s, Pro-Cathe-dral, and on Monday and Tuesday, March 10th and 11th, h© will deliver mid-dap addresses to women in Wellington . Hawera will be visited at Easter, and on Sunday, March 30th, Dr Sprott will hold a-confirmation service at Poston.

Bro. Frederick Westbrook, who died suddenly this week at Blenheim, where he was a delegate to the Bechabito conference, was a member of the Oroua Lodge of Druids, liaving been a member for the past ten years. Ho left Pamerston some sis yiars ago for Wanganui, where (says the “Daily Times”! he followed the occupation of a bricklayer’s contractor. He was tliirty-f mr years of age, and leaves a wife and young family.

Mr Andrew Gillespie, second son ot the late Mr C. H. Gillespie, of Wellington, died at Waipawa, Hawke* Bay, on Wednesday, aged fifty-one years. The deceased, who had resided m Welington for about forty-five years, ior some time kept th. 6 bhep* herd’s Arms Hotel, having succeeded his father, who owned the hotel before him. ilr Gillespie then went m for farming pursuits at Dannevirke, subsequently removing to Waipawa. Ho leaves a widow and five children.

Captain Northcroft. Resident Commissioner at the Cook Islands, and Mr H. H. G. Ralfe, Assistant-Comnus-sioner and Registrar at the group, were passengers for Rarotonga by the Moana last evening. Before leaving Auckland, where ho had been engaged as clerk of tbe Stipendiary Magistrate’s Court, Mr Ralfe was presented by the magistrates and staff with a salad howl, a dinner song, and a smoker s cabinet. The Auckland Law Society presented him with a purse of sovereigns. Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., and members of tbe legal profession paid lng;h tributes to the ability, industry, and courtesy of the recipient.

Mr John Jauncey Buchanan, farmer, of Glencoss, Tikokino, Hawke’s Bay, died on Thursday, in his seventy* ninth yean The deceased, who was one of the original Canterbury pilgrims, was the fourth son of the late Captain Alexander Buchanan, R-N., and grandson or the late Admiral Shippard. Ho was a native of Edinburgh and came to New Zealand in 1850 in the ship Castle Eden, landing at Lyttelton Mr Buchanan was tbe original owner of the Triangle, Christchurch, which he let to the first Supenntendent of Canterbury at £5 a year. In 1865 he took horses and cattle overland from Christchurch to Hokitika. Subsequently he settled at Tikokino, where he had since resided. Mr Buchanan took an active part in the Maori war. He mamed m 1809 the only daughter of the late Mr George Allen, a Canterbury pilgrim, who came out to New Zealand in the slup Charlotte Jane.

Mr R. McNab expects to publish i 4 April or May his new book, entitled “The Old Whaling Days,” on which ho has been working since the publication of “Murihiku” four years ago. the new volume will comprise the record or New Zealand early history from 1830 to 1840, and will deal especially with took Strait and the South Island. Mr McNab proposes to leave New Zealand in Juno to complete his investigations or French, Spanish, and Portuguese records, and he will probably do this in time to enable him to publish his firs® book in reference to the North .Island (the fourth or the series of which' *1 ho Old Whaling Days” is the third) in London before his return to the Dominion (says a southern contemporary}The work will necessitate a rather prolonged residence in Paris, in the French ports, and in London, and the date of Mr McNab’s return is therefore uncertain at present—so uncertain that h« will resign his scat on the Victoria College Council and other bodies in Wellington and Palmerston North befor* leaving for England. After a week or two in Southland, Mr McNab wDI return to Wellington to supervise the publication of “The Old Whaling Days,” and will afterwards wind up his affairs in Palmerston North before the end of June. 1