PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10416, 22 October 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Sir Joseph Ward has returned t« Wellington after a brief journey south. Mr J. A. Parker .of Dunedin, who arrived from Auckland on Saturday, left for the south last night. Tho Hon. H. F. AARgram, M.L.0., has been granted leave of absence for tho remainder of tho session of Barlia rnent on the ground of ili-healtlu; -» Among visitors to Fiji is Dr Adams, tho Government Astronomer from New Zealand, who is getting first impressions of Fiji. He says he is delighted with all he has seen. On the motion of Mr It. F. Bollard (Raglan) two days’ leave of absense was granted by the House of Representatives yesterday to Mr J. A. Nash (Palmerston North) on account of,,urgent public business. Dr Buck, formerly M.P. for the Northern Maori electorate, visited Parliament Buildings yesterday, and met with a very hearty reception from member .on both sides of the House. Mr A. D. Cook, who returned from active service on the loth inst., resumed his old position as resident secretary for tho Royal Insurance Company, Limited, Wellington, on the day of Lis' arrival. Mr A. R. Jordan, assistant local deputy public trustee at Auckland, who has been promoted to first assistant local deputy public trustee at Christchurch, has left for the south. At a gathering of the Auckland staff, Mr Jordan was presented with'a suitcase. Lieutenant-Colonel P. S'. Hall,' D. 5.0., just returned from the front, has been appointed Commandant of the Fiji Defence Forces, vice Captain Faddy, M.C>, Acting-Commandant, who will return to the Agricultural Department, where he was employed prior to enlisting. The death occurred at Carterton ojj Saturday of Mrs Mary AA’aterson, re* lie of 'the ’late Mr' George” AVaterson, at the age of 81 years. Deceased arrived in AVellington in 1841, and resided first at the Hutt, then at Greytown, Dalefiold, and Carterton. She leaves a family of five daughters and one son. Private cable advice has been received of the death at Working,.-Eng-land, on Monday, of Canon James. West Stack. Born in, the .Wsjkat© inj 1835, and educated at St. John’s College, Waimate, Bay of Islands, the deceased was connected with the earliest church mission work in the Dominion, from 1859 to 1898. He joined a party of AVosleyan missionaries on their sirrival in New Zealand, and ho worked with them for about ten years. Ha then joined the Church Mission Society, and assisted Bishop Selwyn in the Auckland portion of the diocese. After a stay in England, the deceased entered the service of the Church of the’ England Missionary Society as a lay agent in the AVaikato. He became a deacon in 1860, and was ordif.ned priest two years later." He was chaplain of the (Maori Mission for the Christchurch diocese from 1860 to 1884. "Then (hie,, became incumbent of various parishes, in Canterbury, and a canon of the Christchurch Cathedra] in 1894. He left Now Zealand in 1898. Ring up Stanton and■ Evans Cphons" 2240); they will do the rest. Open'" and oiosed-in cars at shortest notice. Garage accommodation and repairs. *