PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8650, 7 February 1914, Page 3

PERSONALIA

His Honour Mr Justice Edwards will preside at tho Supremo sittings at Wanganui next week. Mr Baxter Buckley has returned to town after au extended holiday in the north, A Press Association cable message from London states that Majors Richardson and Gardner, of New Zealand, have graduated at Cambcrlcy. Mr and Mrs Simester and Master Eric Simester left yesterday by tb< Ulimaroa for Sydney, where they join the s.s. Otway en route for England. Mr W. D. S. MacDonald, M.P. foi Bay of Plenty, was a passenger fol the north by the Main Trunk express yesterday morning. Mr C. Bateman, stationmastcr at Pelichot Bay, Dunedin, has retired from the Department on superannuation, after thirty-seven years’ service. Dr J. Arkle,- of Kalgoorlie, is, at. present in Wellington and is going to Auckland by the Main Trunk express to-day in order to attend tho Medical Congress. Mr James Duncan is acting ns Director of tho fields and experimental farms division of tho Agricultural Department during tho absence in Canada of Mr E. Clifton. Mr J. Evershed, Director of the Ko« daikanal Observatory, India, left Web lington with Mrs Evershed yesterday by tho Ulimaroa for Sydney. They art on their "way back to■ India. ■Mr Janies Knight, who was a wellknown resident of Gore fourteen years ago, and has latterly been living in. retirement in. Australia, is on a, visit to Southland.

Miss Mary Proctor, the well-known-astronomical lecturer, who has been in New Zealand for some months past, left Wellington last evening by the Dlimaroa, on route for England. Mr George Bailer arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday by the Dlimaroa I to make arrangement® for. ?ha (k>ca)l season'of the. Willoughby,. Dramatic Company.

The Rev. J,. Dawson, secretary! of | the New Zealand Alliance, left WW- j lington yesterday morning by the' Main Trunk express on,his way f to Rotorua for a holiday. ■' Dr F. W. King, of Auckland, who has been laid up for ®orao weeks as; the result of an accident, has so far • recovered as to be able to leave for fit holiday to Hamilton and To Aroha. Major A. D. Knox, V.D., 'of ' th* Natal Mounted Rifles, Stanger, Natal, and Mr W. Farland, of Stanger, are among those who called recently at the Wellington! Government Tourist Bureau., _ . ■■■ Arrivals from ■ the north ■by the Main Trunk express yesterday afternoon included Mr and Mrs Pa ton, Mr and Misses Humphries (2), - Mrs Meadowcroft, and Mtssrs Shepherd, R. 0. Duncan and N. Woods. Mr H. Wilson, lately of the staff of the Wangau'ai Magistrate’s , Court’s office, and who has been granted extended leave on account of ill-health, has been appointed bailiff at Stratford. . Commander P. J. Stopford, late of H.M.S. Pyramusi was a passenger for Sydney by the Dlimaroa yesterday on his way hack to England. Ho oamo, down from Auckland by . the Main , Trunk express in the morning. Latest arrivals at the Empire' Hotel' , are Mr and Mis Akton dhd party and ■Mr J." E; Cole and son (all of Sydney), Mr and Mrs E. H. Frankish (Wanganui), Messrs 0. P. Waddell and G. Eady (Auckland), A. Darker (London) and 'W; Reed '(HaWra)V ' At the Hotel Windsor are staying Mr and Mrs T. W. Bradley (Daiuicvirke), Mr and Mrs Lindsay (Wai-'„ pukurau), Messrs' Hebcnton (Masterton), C. Hally (Cambridge), H. Angus (Napier) and A. J. Holmes (Auckland). The Right Hon. ■ Sir Joshua Williams, P.C., took his departure ftom New Zealand yesterday evening' hythe" Dlimaroa, accompanied by Lady Williams and. Miss Constance Williams. At Sydney they will join the Orient liner Otway leaving on the 11th inst. for London. Many of their friend® gathered at the Queen’s wharf yesterday to say farewell., —• • A number of medical men, many of whom were accompanied by their wives, were passengers to Auckland by yesterday's Main Trunk expresses for the purpose of attending the forthcoming Medical Congress. They were:—Dr Irving, Dr Ardagh, Dr and Mrs Howard, Dr and Mrs Piirdie, Dr > A. Patterson, Dr and Mrs Valentine, Dr and Mrs Collins, and Dr and Mrs Christie-

Mr Smith T. Green well, of Sydney, accompanied by his son and daughter, was in Wellington the other day during a tour of the Dominion, and haj gone south to visit the Cold Lakes district. Mr Greenwell landed in New Zealand for the first time over fifty years ago,- and was one of the original proprietors of the “Hawke’s Bay Herald.” He lived in Napier for a number of years, but latterly bos resided in Sydney. The death is announced at the age of eighty years of an. old colonist, Mrs > Mary Ann Benjamin, who passed, away at her residence, Grey Lynn, Auckland, on. Tuesday. She was., born in Fermoy, County Cork, in 1834, and was a daughter of the late Sergeant Coyle, of the 58ih Regiment. She arrived in Auckland with the troops in, the Sir Thomas Lowrie in 1813. Mrs Benjamin was the mother of eleven children, nine of whom (four sons and five daughters) survive her. The death occurred in Epsom, Auckland, on Wednesday of Mrs Joseph Craig, at the ago of seventy-nine years. The deceased was bom in London, and, with her parents, arrived at Auckland in 1841, having previously spent a short time in Adelaide. With the exception of a brief interval spent, in Nelson, Airs Craig lived her life in Auckland. It was in Nelson/in ~ 1850, that she ..was -married to her husband, who died in 1885. She leaves a family of six sons and two daughters. Passengers to. Auckland by. yester- - day’s Main Trunk expresses included . vlf and Mrs I. Loughnan, Mr-and Mrs 1 Averill, Mr and Airs Julian, Mr and Mrs Lewell, Air and Mrs Hislop and Aliss Hislop, Air and Aliss Ferguson, Sir and Miss Hogg, Air and Airs Faill and son; Air and. Mrs Gill, Air and Airs G. Skellern, Mr and Mrs and Aiisses Hirst (2), Airs Clay, -Airs Frater, Alisses Grant, Marlon (2), I. Field, Forbes, Moore, Herman, Jones and Holmes and Alessrs Hartog* E. Pearce, W. 1. AVallace, Qneree. A. H. Soott, Alullings, Hopkins, Mitchell, Stevens, C. Adams, G. H. Foe ter ana Mc.Oarthv.