PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9173, 13 October 1915, Page 3

PERSONALIA

1 Passengers from Auckland yesterday included Messrs Weston, Rutherford, Mills and Williams. Lieutenant Coates was a passenger from Auckland by the -second express yesterday.

Mr G. H. Stringer, who arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Main Trunk express, is staying at the Grand Hotel. Dr J. Neill Keith, of Nortkcoto, has taken, over his new duties as medical superintendent of tho Wairoa Hospital. Mr George Derbyshire (town clerK at Dargaville, North Auckland) has boom appointed- county clerk tor the Wanganui County Council.

Visitors staying at tho Empire Hotel ire Air A. Is. Innes, of Tauranga. and) Messrs C- W. Kent and J. McDermitt,both of Oamaru.

The custodian of tho Town Hall, Mr T. W. Leslie, formerly well known in Wellington athletic circles, has volunteered for the front.

Air H. P. Brown, who has been indexing “Hansard” since Mr Otterson’s re tiroment, has been permanently appointed to the “Hansard” staff.

Among the visitors pt tho Grand Hotel are Mr and Mrs Isaacs and Messrs constable, Hesse, Duncan, J. B. Franco, and J. A. Hostiok. '

Included among tho passengers from Wellington by yesterday’s express were Messrs Law and Mathers, Mr and Airs Brown, Mr and Mrs Crow and Captain Garland.

Mir J. A. Flesher has been appointed deputy-chairman of the Red Cross executive in Christchurch during the absence of Mr Arthur 1 E. G. Rhodes in England. 1 At the annual meeting of the Wellingi ton Woolbrokers’ Association, Mr A. F, Roberts, of Messrs Murray, Roberts' and Co., Ltd:, was elected chairman for the ensuing year.

A commission has been gained by Sergeant-Major F. «T. W. StaJiard, lata Royal Horse Artillery and recently organising agent of the Nelson Recruiting Aissociation. He will leave with tho 9th Reinforcements.

The Mayor of Auckland, Mr J- H. Gunson, returned to the; city on Saturday, having completed tho first week of his tour of the provincial centres in connection with the unification of provincial patriotic funds.

Two ministers of the Wellington (Taranaki . street) Methodist Circuit, the' llev, J. G. Chapman and the Eov. J; H. White, ‘have accepted invitation® to remain'for their sixth and fourth i -years respectively. ’ The Rev. J. W. Smyth, a Presbyterian clergyman of South Ulster, Ireland, accompanied by his. wife and - family, arrived in Auckland last by the Turakina. He will shortly reach Wel.ingtou, and intend* to make his home iu New Zealand.:

Advice has been received that Mr J. W. H. Scotland, the aviator who left New Zealand under engagement to the British Government a while ago, has reached his destination—Bombay, India, A private letter states that he was under orders to leave for the Persian frontier. Mr Robert Lee, ox-chairman. of the Wellington Education Board, who returned to the Dominion last Saturday by tho Turakiua, is expected to arrive in Wellington to-day via the Main Trunk. Bo has been absent for about sixteen months on a holiday trip to tho Old Country. Tho death occurred at Dunedin yesterday of Mr T. Cole, of the firm of Colo and Springer, , undertakers, at tho age of seventy years, reports a Press Association telegram. Ho was Mayor of.. Dunedin ' in.; 1910, and at tho time of ibis death was a member of the City Council. He was-Mayor of Caversham on two occasions. Death was due to apoplexy./

The Rev. H. H. Robjohns. B.Sc., acting secretary of the Bible-iu-State Schools League of New, Zealand, who has had very considerable experience in organising of all kinds in the Old Conn- : try; has offered his services to the Minister for Defence to do any kind of organising work for the Defence Department, particularly in connection with a great recruiting campaign, which it ifl suggested should he held. Visitors to Wellington at present staying at the Hotel Bristol include : —Mr and Mrs Bilson (Scotland), Rev. and Mrs Archibald Browne (London), Mr and Mrs Abel Eowo (Auckland), Mrs and Miss O’Toole (Maetcrton), Mr and Mrs J. Carpenter (Masterton), Mr and'Mrs Widdowson (Nelson), Mr and Mrs F. Delaney (New Plymouth), Messrs S’. Slater (Napier), H. Bond (Wanganui), T. Bussell (Scotland), and H. Fagan (Auckland). “To appreciate General Botha’s accomplishment (writes Edgar Wallace in' the Birmingham ■ "Post*’), it should be known that when ho went into the field' he was a sick man. I had a letter from a personal friend of his, written the' "oolc before he left to take command of the army operating in German West Africa. A portion of it read: ‘Botha 4 .ictor has absolutely forbidden him to ~o into this campaign.* The self-sacri-fice and devotion he has shown in the cause of the British Empire amply 3 us,y the confidence which has been re-' sed in him by the Government, and are a tribute also to the judgment ot Lord Kitchener, who, after the peace at Vereeniging. said T look upon Botha ae one of the greatest assets the EmpiiJ has.’ ” 1

Trooper Charles Thompson, a member of the 3rd Reinforcements, who was invalided hack to New Zealand, from Kgypt, died in the Wellington Hospital yesterdav. . The late trooper, who _ arrived here by the Wimmera,. on June sth, has until lately been, an inmate of the Dunedin Hospital. He was in Wellington on Sunday on his way to Auckland from the south, when he had a recurrence of his illness and was received into the Wellington Hospital. Deceased is to be accorded a military funeral to-day, when it is expected that many returned troopers will make a point of being present to pay a last tribute to a late comrade. Tho cortege will leave Wilson’s mortuary chapel at 2.30 o'clock for the Karori cemetery. Deceased was about 33 years old. His parents reside in Dunedin and are expected to arrive In Wellington to-day. On the motion of Colonel W. D. H. Baillio (Marlborough), seconded by the Hon. W. C. F. Carncross (Taranaki), the Legislative Council yesterday passed a resolution congratulating Mr L. Stowe, C-M-G., on the fiftieth anniversary of his appointment as Clerk of Parliaments, and recording its sense of the help, industry, and unfailing courtesy which had distinguished him in the .performance of the duties of his office- Sir Francis Bell remarked that Mr Stowe had an extraordinary record of service which began eleven _ years after the parliamentary constitution. Speeches eulogistic of Mr Stowe were also made by the Hons. T. Mac Gibbon (Otago), J. T. Paul (Otago), A. Baldey (Wellington), and the Speaker (the Honc. J. Johnston). Mr Stowe expressed his grateful appreciation of the kindly feeling which had prompted the resolution, and mentioned that only one incident had occurred to disturb his equanimity while he had the privilege and honour of serving under ten Speakers. This was when the Hon. Mr Waterhouse was acting as Speaker,’and he was accused of handing over a division list which was posted in the other Chamber- He had* been absolved on this charge by a Committee of Inquiry; it transpiring that the information had been transmitted from the* Stranger*'. Gallery,