PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8857, 7 October 1914, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr A. B. Glcadhill (Perth) tg at present in town, and is staying at the Hotel Windsor.

Mr P. C. Price, of Wanganui, accompanied by Mrs Price, is staying at the Empire Hotel. Captain F. Holm, of the Ul-fatod barqueutino Titania, arrived at Wpllington yesterday by the Manuka from Sydney. Mr G. H. Scales, who has boon on a trip to the Old Country, returned to Wellington by the Manuka yesterday. Captain AY, Manning, master of the ferry steamer Maori, has been granted holiday leave whilst the vessel is undergoing her annual overhaul.

Among those staying at Barrett’s Hotel are Messrs J, D. Wilson and C. Boyes (Christchurch). Ditchman (Dunedin). and Lieutenant and Mrs Bradley (Christchurch,). Staying at the Empire Hotel' while in town are Messrs A. Tuokor (Auckland). L. B. Clarkson and Alan Nichols (Christchurch), and D. Redding (Melbourne). At a meeting of the Eiocarton branch of the Reform League. Mr B. Bunn was selected as the official candidate for the seat, according to a Press Association telegram received last night.

Captain John Carvossoe Tonkin died at Napier Hospital in his sixtieth year. Ho was for many years in the service of the Shaw Savill and Albion Shipping Co., but twenty-six yeans ago settled in Napier.

Those lately registered at the Grand Hotel include Messrs H. T. Kitto (Loudon), A. R Watson (Sydney), J. Beveridge (C lira fitch unit), .Mrs and Miss Pawley (Auckland), Miss Bond (Auckland; and Captain Rainey (Napier).

Commissioner W. J. Richards, of the Salvation Army, who is now making a farewell tour in tho South Island, will arrive at Christchurch on Saturday and conduct a "Young People's Day" on the Sunday. He will address a public meet, ing in the evening. ,

Mr W. A. Bodkin will he the Liberal candidate for the Otago Central seat, according to a Frees Association telegram from Dunedin. Mr Bodkin is a young lawyer who received hie training in Dunedin. He was for a time associated with Mir A. S. Adams, tho wellknown temperance advocate. -

Mr James Gnne. for fifty: years a. settler at AVairau Marlborough, sed somewhat suddenly on Monday evening, aged seventy-two. says a‘ Press Association telegram. He was a prominent figure in local politics, and for five years was chairman of the Spring Crook Road and River Boards. Ho was one of the founders of the Marlborough. A. and P. Association. ...

Professor H. B. Dixon, professor of chemistry at the Manchester Universitv. who has been gi ing evidoqpo at, the. coronial and the Government, inquiries into the Hunt! - disaster, returned to Auckland from the mining town on Saturday. Professor Dixon will be returning shortly to Amerioa. where he proposes to visit some of the principal mining districts to carry ,on scientific investigations.

Admiral Sir George Astley Callaghan, who is in supreme command of Britain's great fighting fleet In [home waters, is, like Charles Beresford. an Irishman by ninth. His father belonged to Cork. He is sixty-two years of age. The Admiral has , his country . home at Bathhampton, a parish near Bath which is associated with the name’ of another admiral. Philip, who is called "the father of Australia and was the first Governor of New South Wales.

One who was fox very many years a prominent figure in connection with tho Baptist Church in Auckland. .Mr Riohanl Baroham Sholders, died last week at tho age of ninety years. Mr Shalders left England for New Zealand in the barque Catherine Stuart xorbetf in 1851. During fhe five years he resided in London (from 1847. Shalders was a. member of the Y.M.E.A. committee of that city, and ho_was one of the founders of th* Y.M.C.A. ln Auckland,

Mr L. B. Jordan, of the Government Audit Department in Christchurch, ha* suffered a breakdown in health, and has, under medical advice, received three months' leave of absence. Ho left lor tho North Island on Saturday evening, Mr Jordan, has been acting a a secretory to the Christchurch branch of the hivjj Service Association for some time, ana Et the meeting ait which bis resignation of the poet was received, a vote ot dolence was passed and wishes were expressed that ho might be speedily restored to health.

How deeply the British Minister* «r« personally concerned • in , the war St shown by the following:—Mr has a nephew in a battleship. Htr x«' ward Grey also has a nephew under the flag, lord Crewe's son-in-law and Ml Lloyd George's second son are both in the territorials. Mr Winston Church' ill's brother has joined the forces. Major Guest, the liberal Whip, has joined b« regiment. Colonel Seely, ex-Mmi*ter for War, da nowi with, the expeditionary force. Mr C. F. G. Masterman’s brother has volunteered, and Mr Maelerman has also-a nephew in the service. Mr Mackin non IV ood has a, son under the flag, while a son of .Hr Macnomara, who himself a. soldier’s son, and was born at Quebec, has applied to ho enrolled. Gerald Isaacs, the only son of another ex-Mindeter, who is now Lord Chjef Justice, is with the Inns of Court Officer* Corps. The eldest son, of Mr Godfrey who is how on ’his way home from Canada, will join the forces when he arrives in London, if he has not a!- 1 ready linked up with a Canadian contangent. The Kawakawa corn--jxm don t "of tbs "New Zealand Herald" reports that the Ngapuhi tribe has selected Tau Hcnara as its Parliamentary candidate for-the Northern Maori eeat. He will stand in the Government interest, and hie candidature has been endorsed by the Hon. Dr. Pomare. As the Ngapuhis are by far the strongest tribe in the Northern Maori district, this means that if they are united Tau Henare is practically certain to head the poll. Originally thirteen candidates were in the field, Bight of these were Ngapuhis, three were Kara was, and two Ngatiwhatuas. 'X( seemed hopeless to reduce the number, Hui after hui was held in order to come to some arrangement, but without success. There was a disposition at one time on the part of many of the Ngapuhis to let the nomination go to a Karawa or Ngatiwhatua. as neither of tSieae tribes has been directly represented in Parliament, but this idea did Hot find favour with the majority of the Ngapnhis, and was abandoned. At a hni at Otiria in April the Komiti Wahine (Women’s Committee) scornfully told the men that they were “talking in a circle" and they left the meeting, saying they would' choose a candidate themselves. They chose Tau Henare. The men made the same choice at a hui held at Waitangi on Saturday. Tau Henare is. a dairy farmer of exceptional ability in the Mbtatau district, and is looked upon as one of the most progressive natives in the north.

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