PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8481, 16 July 1913, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governs.% Lord Liverpool, lias intimated his ac.:>.-.-anco of the position of patron i..j Discharged prisoners’ Aid Socie.y. Lord and Lady Liverpool will present at the races at rremhuiu ■ day, and will also attend the rate 1.i.-to-merraw. Mr TV. Somers, of Auckland, is on a visit to TVellington. Lieut.-Colonel Patterson arrive! i Auckland by yesterday's express, iu.i is staying hero for a lew days. Mr Robert VVynyard, secretary - ■ the Takapuna Jocaey Club (A-,., land), is in Wellington. Mr C. F. Mark, eemetary of _ the Auckland Trotting Club, is visit Wellington. Mr H. H. Hayr, secretary of the Avondale Jockey Club (Auckland), on a visit to Wellington. Captain Glanvillo was a passenger to Wellington by yesterday mernmg'u ferry steamer from Lyttelton. Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, r >• turned from a visit to the South, ■- ~ •nd yesterday morning by the Mar..roa. The Hon. R. H. Rhodes, Postmaster General, returned to Wellington trai l a brief visit to Christchurch yesterday morning. The Rev. F. B. Redgrave is a passengor to Wellington from London by the Ruahine, which is duo on Monday next. * Mr C. H. McLean, an ex-manager of the Palmerston branch of the Rank of New Zealand, is lying seriously ill at Napier. Mr H. M. Campbell, M.P. for Hawke’s Bay, returned to Wellington last night, after spending tbo weekrond at his home at Poukawa. Professor Pickorill, M.D., head. «4 the Dunedin Dental School, who came to Wellington to attend the Dental Association’s conference, left on his return home by the Mstraroa laet night. Mr J. W. Smith, .officer in charge of the Wellington Tourist Bureau, has returned from Te Aroha, where ho has been on relieving duty for two months post. On the motion of Mr A- Fair, Mr P. H. Harper, solicitor, of Levin, was yesterday admitted by his Honor the Chief Justice (toir Robert Burnt) as a barrister. Mr and Mrs J, A. Motion, Auckland, Messrs H. Ga'isford, Dannevirke, and J. B. Gaisford, Bulls, are visitors to Wellington. They are at the Empire. The Hon. A. T. Ngata has recovered from hia recent illness, and is expected to roach Wellington and take hia place in Parliament at the end of the week. Visitors to Wellington staying at the Royal Oak include Mr and Mrs and Miss Armstrong, Dannevirke, Mr O. H. and Mr and Mrs H. 11. Beetham, Mastcrtou, and Air and Mrs and Miss Corry, Blenheim. Mr L. Powell, of Rewa, a well known footballer in the Rangitikot Union, is at present iu the PalmwsUv. Hospital suffering from uu acuto at tack of. paralysis, and his condition is causing anxiety to his friends. Dr Hardwick Smith, the medical superintendent of Wellington Hosp.taJ, who, with Mrs Smith, has been on n six months’ visit to England, is now on his way back to the Dominion. Ho will arrive in Auckland by the Kaikoura on August 24th. , Sir George Clifford is expected to arrive in Wellington from Christchurch by this morning’s ferry steamer. To-day ho will be present at a meeting of the Board of Control ol the Sports Protection League, and, tomorrow ho will attend the Racing Conference. Mr Herbert Bley, conductor of the Wellington Professional Orchestra, has resigned on account of ill-health, _ and intends to give up all professional work for a period. The orchestra has accepted his resignation with regret, and is arranging to tender him a benefit concert at an early date. Mr T. A. Gates, of St. Stephen’s Anglican choir, Ashburton, claims that ho is probably the senior chorister of the Dominion. “I have been an active member of the church, choir continuously for the past forty-nine years,” said Mr Gates at a chair gathering last week, “and hope to continue so for some time to came.”

The Speaker of the House of Representatives yesterday read a letter he had received from Lady Guinness, who expressed her deep appreciation of the resolutions of appreciation of the services of Sir Arthur Guinness, and of sympathy, with her in the bereavement. lady Guinness tendered her heartfelt thanks for this mark of esteem for the memory of her late husband. On the motion of the Prime Minister, the Letter was recorded on the journals of the House. Mr John Garencieres Rose, whose death was announced yesterday, was the second son of Captain Henry Bose, for many years Wellington manager for the Now Zealand Shipping Company. He was educated at Wellington College, and then joined the staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ho was afterwards in the service of the National Eire and Marine Insurance Company in Wellington, - and was with that corporation until he went to the South African War as a member of one of the Now Zealand contingents. On , his return to the Dominion he joined the staff of Messrs W. and G. Turnbull and Co., and was attached to the firm’s insurance branch until his last illness as the local manager of the Guardian Company. For many year? he was connected with the D Battery, of which he was captain at the time of his death. Ho left a widow and one child.

Canon W. W. Sedgwick, vicar of St. Luke’s, Christchurch, has been ol,ercd by Bishop Juuus, and has accepted, tho positions of diocesan missinner, organising secretary of the olrurch Miss .on Fund, and bishop’s chaplain, tho last-mentioned being purely an honorary office. Canon dedgwick’s principal work will be the -■-organising of the whole of the mission business. He is almost certain tc live in Christchurch, but will he attached to no parish. Canon Sedgwick has had an interesting career. He served as a naval chaplain, and saw active service in the Soudan with ths Gordon relief expedition. Returning England, he shortly afterwards; on --ount of ill-health, left for South Africa, serving in Bcchuanaland. He eturned to the Old Country one® more, and then, thirteen years ago, came out to New Zealand, taking charge of St. Luke’s ten years ago. He was recently appointed a canon of the Christchurch Cathedral.