PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18876, 31 May 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Dr Marshall Macdonald left yesterday a short visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs W. A. Cadbury and Miss Cadbury, of England, who are touring the dominion, are at present in Rotorua. Tho Hon. W. J. Geddia, M.L.C., managing director and editor of the New Zealand Times, who is convalescent alter a prolonged illness, has returned to Wellington i'rom Napier. The Minister of Lands and Railways (tho Hon. D. H. Guthrie), who has been in a Wellington private hospital for some time past, returned to his home at Baekakarikr last Saturday, and is now convalescing there. Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P. (Leader of the Opposition) left by the 8.30 a.m. express train for Invercargill yesterday, en route to Bluff, to bo present at a complimentary social to Mr P. de la Perrelle, M.P., at Bluff. lie will return to-day and purposes being present at a social to be tendered to Mr J. A. Macpherson, M.P., at Palmerston this evening. The death is announced (says an Ashburton Press Association telegram) of Mr Charles Morrison, county engineer for the past 17 years, aged 72 years, who supervised the construction of the first of the county s extensive network of water races in ISBO, and completed the system which now measures 2030 miles. He recently remarked proudly to a reporter that “all the bridges and races I built are there now.” He is survived by a widow and two sons (Messrs Alec and Duncan Morrison, of Wairarapa). Dr John Adams, professor of education at the University of London, has accepted the invitation to visit New Zealand extended to him by the Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr). Dr Adams, who is among the foremost British educationists of the day, intends to visit California, South Africa, and Australia. The death of Mr Arthur Littlejohn, which occurred at his residence, Chaucer street, Milton, on Saturday morning, after a brief illness, marks the severance of another hnk in tho chain connecting the present day with the early history of Milton district. The late Mr Littlejohn had passed man’s allotted span of life by a dozen years, having been born at Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, in 1841. Ho came to New Zealand about 53 years ago, and first worked at his occupation as a builder in Lawrence, Tuapeka, and the goldfields districts for a few years. He has been residing in Milton for about 50 years. A London Press Association cable message announces the death of Viscount Chaplin. He was born in 1841. He entered Parliament in 1868, and sat as a Lincolnshire county member for 38 years, during which period he successively filled the offices of Chancellor of tho Duchy of Lancaster, President of the Board of Agriculture, and President of the Local Government Board. He was a consistent Protectionist from the first, and advocated Mr Chamberlain’s subsequent fiscal policy long before the latter had. any thought of 'abandoning Freetrade. He won renown as a sportsman as well as a politician, He lost his Lincolnshire seat in 1906, but sat for "Wimbledon from 1907 to 1916, when ho was made a peer. There passed away recently another early settler in tho person of Mr Edward Milligan , of Warepa, at the age of 83 years. He was born in Dumfries, Scotland, and at the age of 14 years went to sea and spent about II years as a sailor, having varied and sometimes rough experiences. He was in Australia about 1862, and shortly after sailed for New Zealand. He worked for a while for his uncle, the late Mr D. P. Milligan. Later ho started work for Somerville Brothers, flour millers, at Waitapeka. and was in their employ doing various works for 16 years. In 1883 he went Home for a trip. After leaving Somervilles’ he carried on farming at Waitapeka for seven years, 1 and about 25 years ago retired to Warepa, where he spent the rest of his life. He leaves a widow, three sons and three daughters.