PERSONALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9256, 25 January 1916, Page 3

PERSONALIA.

-Professor Adamson (of Victoria 1 Col* lego) ii. visiting New Plymouth.- . Mr ami Mrs S. A. SmitU-Jensen," ol this city, are at present in Napier. The Eight Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, Minister for finance, will return to Wellington from the north to-morrow. Tlx) Hon. J. Allen, Minister for U*fence, paid a visit to Somes Island yesterday, “

The Rev. Father Gilbert, of St. Patrick’s College, Wellington, is at jirescut visiting Grey mouth.

Ur. Albert Martin has returned from his holiday at Titahi Bay and has resumed practice.

.Mr and Mrs €. Kirkiey, of Hastings, leave (or Christchurch this week, where they will take up their residence. His Honour Judge Hosking, who has been on a holiday visit to Australia, returned yesterday by' the Moeraki from Sydney. ~ ‘t Captain Mehaft'y, a Now KgsaiMlc.r who has been with the Australian forces in ‘Bahaul. arrived from Sydney yesterday by the Moeraki on sick leave. Dv. R.: Brewster.' of New 1 Plymouth, has received : a commission as .captain, in the R.A.M.C.. and goes into camp at AwapuuV shortly. Mr J. R. Samson, officer-in-charge of the. Defence Information Department, left lost night for Dunedin and.lnvercargill on departmental business. : .. Sir Edward Gibbes. Secretary -for Education. has returned to Wellington, from Auckland, where bo attended tho Native School Teachers’ Conference.

The Prime Minister (Eight Hon. W. P. Massey) is in the north and is not expected back in Wellington for.a day or two. <

Superintendent Hillson, of -the Napior Volunteer Fire Brigade, who was recentlv appointed to that position 101 three months, ha. been re-appomtad for a similar term.

Mr J. w. Tibbs, (principal of the Ashland Grammar School, arrived m Wei--1 burton by the Wimmorn from Hobart on Saturday. He will attend the New Zealand University Senate session hero.

Mr J. P. Lomas, after being in Ofcaki for a number of .years, will leave In the Ipoifrao of a few day® for Takapau, where he intends to enter into business. - Among departure* for the north by the Main Trunk expresses yesterday wore Messrs Daysh, Ellis, Edwards, Buchanan, 'Parqnhar (2). CJurter. Smith, Davidson, Lyall, Noedlison, D, O'Connor, and Colonel Powley. >. * The Main Trunk express which left Auckland )on Sunday evening brought to town Messrs Wilson, MacKey, Leighton, Keene, J. Howe, Rattray, Jones, Cooper, apd Mitchell, .and Mr .and .Mrs Cole. ; 1 - , The death occurred last week at the ago of 82, of Mr Alexander MoLcod, e>f Glen dry nooch Station, Martinborough. Tho lato Mr McLeod, who came out to Now Zealand in 1865 in the ship The Bearer, leaves a family of threo..-scns and seven daughters.; Mr G. S'. Reeder, assistant to the Napier city engineer, 'who has enlisted, has been granted part salary, t sp as. to make his pay equal to what it is at present, whilst' on active service. ' Mr Leader is to leave at the end of the month.

Registrations at the Grand Hotel during the last two days have included the names of Messrs Abbott; C. While (Melbourne), G. D. Dary (Sydney),. -JL. h. Penibruton, M. Reynolds, and A. .and N. Jarvis (Melbourne), and W. R. Ramball (Maetcrton). , ; < Mr W." G.' Ashford, Minister of and Agriculture in Now SoutlT; Wales, arrived by the Makura yesterday'. v-Tho principal object of his visit jto the, Do-, minion (says a Press Association telegram) is to observe what the Government is doing in regard to afforestation.

A photograph, of the late Captaan»Au(hony Wilding presented by the-pawmtu of the deceased was offered at-aactton at the Wairarapa lawn tenni»-..iouxna-ment yesterday in aid of the wounded soldiers’ fund and realised a sum , of £s33.—Press Association.

Mr Herbert Arthur Beauchampi 1a settler in - the Sounds, died in' Pitfton last week, aged 49. tteccasod wa» a son of the late Mr Cradoook Beauchamp, and arrived from Christchurch "ten years ago to take over his mother’s pro perty at Anitawa. He leaves a widow and family. _ ..

Mr F. Martin; solicitor to the' Muni, ci.pa.l Association, of Wellington, hat been retained on behalf of the' Napier City Council to fight - their raseVin- connection with the Commission . which it uo Sit on the Westshoro bridge question. The council are asked, to pay .£10,001) towards the cost of the, bridge, but propose to oppose the claim.

Recent 1 visitors to the Empire Hotel have included the Revs. J. A. Gleeson and J. Byrne (Melbourne), Eieut, And Mrs G. Burrows (BangiotiJ), Mrs J* J. MacKersey (Master-ton), Miss 'Cuihming (Auckland), and; Messrs T. H., Harrison (Palmerston'*North), P. R. Douce (Christchurch), J. A. Butler, B. : Byron -(New Plymouth), A. Trovarkis (Sydney),— Jr. E. and E. E, Herbert (Eketahuna), and &. J. Perry.

Mr Thomas Wheatcroft, of Auckland, who died suddenly last week at English’s Bush, was the eldest son of'tiro late Mr David Wheatcroft, of Nottingham, England, and Mrs M. A, Wheatcroft, ,<jf Auckland, and brother of;Mr* J. Mcldrum, of Bond street,' Devonport, He had been on a visit to bis sister and complained of slight pains at the heart, bat apparently thought medical advice unnecessary. Mr Wheatcroft at one time carried on a bakery in Karangahape road. ; ■■■■ y s

.Mr Hose Clark, chief officer of the *.*. Katoa, at Auckland on Saturday was paid a manly compliment by the sailor* of the vessel. Air Clark is about to go to the training camp in preparation lor active service, and his men on thi boat desired to show that tuey wished him well. They mustered -at. midday, and presented the chief office). 1 with a handsome wristlet watch, engraved, “Prom the sailors of the Katoa, - ' and took the opirortniufy to tell him that they respected him as an officer and a gentleman, and wished him all the good luck that was duo to him.

The invalided soldiers who are to a* rive by the Rotorua, early in Fp.bruaiy include a well-known ex-Havreva-Ka-tivf, Awatapu Nguki, who several year* ago resided at Taiporohenui and other pas, and was the first native educated at the- Hawera State School. Ho went with the Main Body of the Maoris, enlisting at Auckland. Tapu, att'he'wa* familiarly called, as a youth took a great interest In the South African war, and kept the Maoris at the acquainted with the news of event* whilst that campaign ws to progrew