PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9043, 14 May 1915, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr and Mrs Bid well left Wellington by tho Maiu Trunk express last night. Mr Edwin Hall, of Onehunga. has been appointed a member of the Prisons Board.

Mr and Mrs Monckton, of Gisborne, are at present visiting Wellington and are staying at the Empire Hotel. Departures by yesterday’s Main Trunk expresses included Messrs Hudson, McLean, Darbyshiro and Weston. Lieut.-Colonel I'owley, chief secretary of the Salvation Army, leaves this morning for Gisborne. Ho will return to town next week. Mr L. M. Nathan, son of Mrs A. H. Nathan, is to leave Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday, to offer his services to the War Office.

Mr T. H. Lowry, of Hawke’s Bay, intends to leave Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday on a visit to America. He will be accompanied by Mrs Lowry.

Mr M. 0. Gudex, M.A., M.So., of the Christchurch Boys’ High School, has been appointed senior assistantteacher of the Hamilton High School. Mr D. S. Ferguson, manager for Messrs Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., who has been on a business visit to Napier, returned to town yesterday.

Mr and Mrs Solly, Messrs Butler, Lyons, Morrison, Ariieil, and Sinclair wore among the arrivals from the north by the Main Trunk express yesterday' morning.

Staying at the Empire Hotel while j in town are Messrs H. Harris (Dune-* din), G. H. Mason, 15. Wood, W. Dowe, . J. Collier and D. E, Millar (all of Christchurch). Mr William Quinn, who .has for son*# years been the Wanganui representative of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, has been transferred to Wellington,, where he will act as manager of tho company’s branch. , Mr and Mrs " Cameron, Messrs W.j A. Bailey (Feilding), H. Featherstou; (Wanganui), H. Buchanan (Gisborne),) C. H. Cormack (Carterton), and J. t Milne (Auckland) were among those re., gistered at the Grand Hotel yesterday,-

Mr J. A. Carr, son of Mrs R. A. Carr, of Epsom, will leave Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday to offer his services to the War Office. Ho was a member of the Auckland division of the. expeditionary force which occupied Samoa.

Commissioner Hodder, who has been addressing enthusiastic meetings in the. Auckland district in connection with the Salvation Army, will install Major Toomer at Palmerston North as com-' mander of the AVellington division on Tuesday next.

Visitors to town staying at the New: Commercial Hotel include Messrs Liverton .(Wairarapa), Mr Alderton (Blenheim), Messrs Cieghom and Latimei (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs Zemnanek (Christchurch), and Messrs Pilmer and McArtney (Blenheim). The appointments of Messrs G, \V. Woods, James Thorne, Denis Mulvey, Samuel James Johnston and John Crocker as registrars, of births, deaths and marriages for the districts of Timmarunui, Takapau, Tapanui, Wakatipu and Mataura respectively, have been gazetted.

Yesterday a cablegram was received bv Mr J. B. MacFarlanc, of Gillies avenue, Epsom, Auckland, from his eldest son. Lieutenant J. B. MacFarlane. 3rd Auckland Company, stating that he had been wounded, but as the message also contained the word “well,” it is presumed his injury is not serious (states a Press Association message). ' ■

Major-General George Ricketts Roberts, half-brother of Lord Roberts, died at Richmond a few weeks ago. Re was oighty-oight years of age, and was born at Meerut, the first son of Sir Abraham. Roberts by his first marriage. , He entered the army when seventeen years of age, and saw active service at tho battle of Sobraon, 1845, and"' many times afterwards." He was thanked twice by tho Government of, India for his work during outbreaks of cholera. The appointment of Canon George Mac Murray, vicar of, St. Mary's Church, Parnell. as archdeacon of ■ Auckland, in succession to Archdeacon Calder, who recently resigned that position, was announced hy Dr Averill, Bishop of Auckland, on Wednesday 'evening. Archdeacon Mac Murray, who has been viepr of St. Mary’s Cathedral for the past' 23 years, is a well-known figure in ecclesiastical circles in Auck- i land. He is a native of County Done-.; gal, Ireland, where he was born •in 1853. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and took his M.A.- degree. He was ordained as deacon in 1878 for the curacy of Aughrim-cum-Killukin, and was' admitted to the priesthood in the following year and transferred to the curacy of Cavan in 1880. In 1883 ho was appointed rector of Jvillmagh and rural dean. He left Ireland in 1885 and proceeding to Australia began colonial work at Ararat in the diocese of ;Ballarat. In 1887 be was appointed vicar of St. Paul's, Ballarat, and was elected canon of the cathedral. He retained this position until 1892, when.he went to Auckland' as vicar of St. Mary’s Cathedral, a po-' sition which he still retains. He was installed as canon of St. Mary’s Cathedral 'in 1901.

The death ocurred yesterday of Mr James Trevor, a well-known Wellington builder, at the age of G 8 years. The late Mr Trevor came to Wellington from Yorkshire 35 years ago and bad lived here ever since. Some of the works ho carried out were; A tunnel on the Manawatu railway, the old destructor, the Royal Oak Hotel ("after the original building was destroyed by fire). Levin and Co.’s warehouse, and the Harbour Board pumping station. In partnership with his sons he built the corporation powerhouse, the Magistrate’s Court, Barrett’s Hotel, the Hotel Windsor, and at Palmerston North the Post Office, the Grand and Clarendon Hotels and the Municipal Opera House. The late Mr Trevor played a prominent part in the public life of this city. Ho was for six years a councillor, for four years a member of the Harbour Board, and did valuable service as chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. He whs an enthusiastic bowler, was one of the first members of the Victoria Bowling. Club, and was president of the Newtown Club at the time of his death. Deceased was a. man of kindly and charitable instincts and possessed the respect of a very large circle of friends. He leaves a widow and five sons and three -daughters: Messrs G. E. Arthur, Alfred, H. E., and J. Trevor, and , Mrs F. A. Laws, ’Mrs George Howe, and Miss L. Trevor. Yesterday the Hags at the Harbour Board building and the Town Hall were flown at half-mast as a mark of respect to tho late gentleman’s memory.