PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8651, 9 February 1914, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor (thfl Earl of Liverpool) -arrived from Christchurch .by the Wahihc yesterday morning, and went on to Auckland last night. He opens the Medical Congress there to-day. On Wednesday His Excellency will attend the Marion A. and P. show. He will leave 'Wellington for the south ~ on Wednesday night, and will open., the Van dor Vcldeu art exhibition in Christchurch on Thursday. On the 17ih and 18th insts. lie will visit Timani and Dunedin.

Mr and -Mrs T. Usher, Nelson,' are' 1 ; staying at the Empire Hotel. Included in the guests staying at the Empire Hotel aro Mr and Mrs G. "Raf" fan and Miss Teller, of Sydney, 1 Mr 11. H. Ostler is at present in Christchurch on Crown Law Office bust ■ ness.

The Hon. J. D. Ormond has been ~ re-elected chairman of the Hawke’s L’ny Rivers Board.

It is generally understood, says a northern exchange, that Mr J. G. Wilson is to bo offered tho position of president of tho Board of Agriculture.

Mr and Mrs C. R. Morris, of Ade- .. laido. South Australia, aro at present in Wellington, and are staying at tho.ar. Empire Hotel. •

Mr T. N. Holmden, of the legal firm. of Messrs Webb and Holmden, is about to leave Wellington to” go to Auckland. He Will'depart for tho northern, city at'the end of this week., ~ Major-General Godloy, Commandant,., / of the Defence Forces, accompanied- by »a a Captains Eastwood and Estconrt, returned from the north yesterday morning. $ • -

Blessls J. B. Bfilcholl (Invercargill), J. R. Mackenzie (Dunedin), F. Beadle (England); and E. J. Nnfso (Auckland) are staying at the Grand Hotel while they are in Wellington, '

Viscount Kolburn, the new commander of H. 81.5. Pyramus, arrived in AVellington by yesterday morning’s express from Auckland. He is to return to the north to-morrow.

Blr T. R. Roydhouse, latterly editor of the Sydney “ Sunday Times,” arid formerly of the Wairanapa and Wellington, has purchased the paper at Wnrkworth.

.Tile., death occurred on Saturday of ; ex-Couucillor H. J. White, who served ’ ’ upon: the- City Council from- January, ' 1892, to September, 1893. ; As a mark of respect to his memory the dyer the Town Hall was flown at hMf-mast, ~’ Among the passengers from the. ■ south by the Maitai yesterday weri Dr C. Ryan, of Blelbourue, on his way to the medical conference at Auckland; and Blr R. 0. Duncan, stockbroker, of Christchurch. , ~ ,

Sydney visitors registered at the ' Empire Hotel are Messrs J. E. Coles, J. R. Alston, H. Junger, A. Allen, J. Hicks, S. Clark, Walter AV. Depyoy, G. Banner, J. Blarcus H. Jenkins, R, S. Guy, J. Blullaney and A, Walker.,

Blr George Williams, secretary of the, Napier branch of the Amalgamated So- - ciety 6f Railway Servants, lias been nominated for a seat as representative of tbe workshops branch on the Railway Appeal Board (states a Press Association telegram). Blr G. W, Russell, BLP. for Avon, visited Nelson after attending the conference of the Liberal party in Wellington last week. Blr Russell return —, ed to AVellington on Saturday, and left for Christchurch by the Blaori that-,, evening. ~:.,

Mr J. E. Ward, of the Post and"" 1 Telegraph Department, has been trams- •" fen ed from AA r ellington to Taurnani-'"" nui. Blr AVard was secretn ry -of the : AVellington Catholic Club - and a mem-- ; her of the Dominion executive of theCatholic Federation. .= . ■

Mr A. A. Hintz, well known in Now Zealand in connection with technical education, who has been out East for the past eighteen months, having held tho position of Director of Technical, Education to tho Federated Malay States, is visiting Gisborne, and may possibly settle there. ■;> Passengers to the north by the Main Trunk express which left at midday on Saturday, were Mr and Mrs Cooke, Mr and Mrs Scofield, Mr and Mrs Nelson, Mr and Mrs Burnett, Mr and Mrs Win stone and party, Mrs Hobson,. Mrs,-,-Bess, Miss Seddon. and Messrs Jones, n , Wilson, Leary, TpswcU (2), and Haslett.

Arrivals from tho north by the Main Trunk expresses on Saturday included Mrs and Miss Gill, Mrs and Mass 11. Coopor, Mr and Mrs Allport, Mr and Mrs Hordman, Mr and Mrs'Joliffe, Mr and Mr Simcox,' Mrs’SaVabcy, Mrs Stichbury, Mrs Hobbs, Mrs Barclay, Miss Dwyer, Rev. Father O’Neill, Messrs Roundy, Carpenter, Gordon,, Ryan, E. E. Hudson, Wei Ism an, Moore, and Miller.

The Prime Minister (the Bt. Hon,. W. F. Massey)j the Hon. R.> H.Rhodes, the Hon. \V. H. Herries and the Hon. Dr Pomare are in Auckland. Tho Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is travelling from Christchurch to Dunedin today, and goes on to Gore to-morrow. Tho Hon. W. Fraser is still in the north. The Hon. H. I). Bel returned to Wellington from the-north yesterday morning. Tho Hon. J. Allen is in Napier, and the Hon/ A. L. Herdmau in Wellington. ’ . • ' ‘ '

Amongst the latest arrivals at" the " Umpire Hotel are Messrs Andrew Irving (Brisbane), 11. Y. Slyfield and T. H. Lahatt Ai'jC. JVlfe.n,. Ewan (Petersham. New'' South Wa1e5).,. ,,. D. Leslie (.Sale, Victoria),..S-.-McLean---'-(Lkmorc. New South Wales), J. Fitz-. - gerald (Randwick), R. A. Hamilton(Brisbane), R. Rankin (Gynipie), A. E- ■ : Mair and H. Burton Charier ' G. -Collins (Brisbane), James Jolly (Lisunorc), S. T. Spain (Christchurch), T. Adair (Gisborne),' 6. Short (Auckland), and A; Baker (London). '

The death is reported of .Mr John Wolstenholmo, which occurred at Hast-,, ings on Thursday. Deceased, who was rerv widely known and highly esteemcd 'throughout Hawke's Bay, was for many Tears headmaster of tbo district school at Port Ahuriri. After quitting the Education Board’s service the late Mr Wolstenholme commenced a bush ness at Onga Ouga, but failing health compelled him to relinquish it, and he returned to Napier to live. He lately acted as relieving teacher for the Education Board, and whilst taking •'pari' in the physical training class ' Hastings had a seizure,. death, lowing as stated. . Deceased wa», 1 bom °in Lancashire,' ' England. In his time he was "one of the Hawke’s Bay district’s best cricketers, and quently represented, the province. Heleft a widow and a grown-up family.