PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8655, 13 February 1914, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr IV. J. Napier, of Auckland,, at present in Wellington. Dr Savage was a passenger to Wellington by the Alain Trunk from Auckland yesterday. Air W. A. Ronnell, accountant at ' the Stratford branch -of- tbe-Bank-of New Zealand, has been transferred to Wellington. Captain J. E. Barltrop, V.D., has retired from the 7th (Wellington-West Coast) Regiment with tho honorary rank of major. Mr Barrington Waters, late manager of the King’s Theatre, Dunedin, is expected in Wellington to-day to take charge of, His Majesty's.Theatre. Air A. H. Holmes will- leave Wellington by the Wahiuo to-night for Christchurch to take up the position of Registrar of tile Supremo Court* The Von, Archdeacon C.. C. Harper and tho Von. Archdeacon "Williams left Wellington for the north by tho Ala in" Trunk express last night. Among those who left for the north, by the Alain Trunk express Mast night were Alessrs Findlay, Harding, Culling,' Fantham, Russell, Halley, Fallon, Pratt," and- J.'AI. Richards. Commissioner W. J. Richards, of the. Salvation Army, and Lioutenant-Colo-nel Powley are expected to return to Wellington to-morrow morning from tho south. .. Tho Holensville branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation, has selected Mr R. Hoe, of AVoodhill, as the Oppositioncandidate for ICaipaara -at the next general election. - Air Arthur Lilly, of Christchurch, has been appointed adjudicator of th» musical and instrumental sections at the next carnival of the. Alasfei'.ton- - Competitions Society. Mr and Alrs .Couper, Air and Mir* Alontgomery, Mrs and Miss Goddla* Aliss Harding, Airs Baeyertz, and MV and Airs Ball left for Auckland yesterday by tho midday express. Air and Mrs Hestill (London), Mrs Sydney Johnston (Hawke’s Bay), - Mr' H- H. AVehb (Melbourne), and Mr AV. Sergant (London) registered at tha Grand Hotel yesterday. Air and*Mrs Wright, -who hive just ' returned from a visit to Sydney, are’ staying for a few days at the Hotel Windsor before returning to theirhome at Ohakune. Recent arrivals at tho Empire Hotel are Mr and Airs Henry Alitohell'(Dim* edin), Messrs C. J. -' ABpinall (Blenheim), 0. Hr Furst (Sydney); D. Wood (Christchurch);'"and AV". E. S. Furby (Stratford). The Royal approval has been given to the Consular jurisdiction -over Now Zealand of Oavaliero Emilio Elos, Consul, of Italy at Melbourne, and Mr AI, , Matteeuw, Consul of Belgium at Sydney. . . ■ The Hon. F. AI, B. Fisher, Minister for Customs, is at -present in the south on departmental business. After visiting Pembroke, Queenstown, Cromwell, and other parts of Central Otago, ho returns to Dunedin, where he ,is ex- , pectod about Alonday. “ The Very Rev. Dean AlcKenna, of • Mastcrton, has left Naples on his return journey to New Zealand.. He will reach Fremantle about Ala-rch 3rd. The Dean will spend some time at/Randwick, being expected to arrive hero about the last week'in'March,.‘ The Hon. AV. Sjcbtt," Premier,of , katchowan, Canada, who arrived' at Auckland by the Alakura, leaves today for Rotorua. He travels thence through New Zealand;, and takes a steamer at 'the Bluff for Hobart (states a Press Association telegram).Mr P. J. Nolan, of-, the Sydney “ Daily Telegraph ” literary staff, and ■who was for some years engaged on the “New Zealand Times,” has been spending a holiday in Auckland and Wellington. Mr Nolan will leave for Sydney by the Willochm this afternoon. Included, in the passengers by the Alain Trunk express from the north yesterday were Aleasrs ? Whillens,. Gilmore, Solomon, .AVillis, Bu-xton, Sneddon, Gregsoh,' J.' Hoogen, . Harrison, Jones, Street, Rowley, Griffiths, But- . cher. Chapman, Nerwey, and Air and Mrs Horton. The Prime Minister (Right Hon. W; F. Alassey) and-the Hon.--W. H. Henries are at Rotorua. Tho Hon. Dr Pomare is still at Auckland, and the Hon. R. H. Rhodes returned from there yesterday morning. -The Hon. F. AI. B. Fisher is at Queenstown, and the remainder of the. Ministers-aws -in Wellington. The Auckland section of the Rdblic Service Association' has decided (says a Press Association telegram) to support, as candidates for the Public Service Superannuation Board, Messrs M. Frazer (Government .Wellington), J'.” W/'Alacdonald (solicitor to. the Public,’Trust’ Office, Wellington), and H. AV. Bishop, S.M. (Christchurch). „ * A private telegram received in Wellington yesterday announced the death at Auckland of Air James Stewart, civil engineer, at .the age of eightytwo. He was born An Perthshire, Scotland, and arrived in Auckiand in'1859." There he practised his- profession os civil engineer and surveyor. He designed tho Auckland waterworks, surveyed the Auckland and Drury railway, end in 1862 was -appointed engineer to the Auckland City Board of Works. During the AVaikato war he held a command in the second-class militia, and--after doing special work in the AVaikato was appointed, in conjunction., with Air Harding, engineer for,, thoconstruction of the Auckland-Drury - railway. Some years later he becamei inspector of steamers and examiner of-* engineers at Auckland under the Marine Department, and while in the de-" partment’s service ho designed several’ lighthouses. In 1872 he was appointed resident engineer, of tho Auckland and Alercer railway, and two years afterwards the whole of the railway works in the Auckland province were placed in his charge as district engineer. In 1881 he was retired from the department and resumed private practice, undertaking many important works. He was subsequently appointed consulting engineer to the Auckland city tramways with the electrification of which ho had' much to do. The deceased gentleman was an uncle of Air J. AV, Stewart (barrister and solicitor, Auckland), Air AVilliam Stewart (manager of tho Auckland Gas Company), and Air Stewart (wholesale stationer,' Auckland). , . ... i..... ■■ . ■ ■' 1 • '■ Airs Rollestdn, hair specialist; hasr*-" turned from Christchurch, where *' branch of her business has been established, and may be consulted peri-onally at her rooms, 2-56, Lambton quay. For appointments, Telephone 1599. •