ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 17657, 15 February 1916, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

A London cablegram announces that Air P. F. Warner, the cricketer, is seriously ill. _ A London cable states that Miss Proctor, lecturer on astronomy in New Zealand. has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Air .1. B. Hine, AI.P., for Stratford, has accepted a captaincy in the Sixteenth Reinforcements and goes into camp in ATarch. ...

Sir Charles Bowen (Christchurch) has received a cable offering him a fellowship of his old college—Cains College. Cambridge. Lady ’Williams, with one of her daughters is returning to Dunedin almost immediately. Miss Helen Williams is already on her way back to the dominion. Mr Wm. Smith, of Yarrow' street, is the latest aspirant for municipal honours and will contest the seat on the Town Council that has been rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr E. Sheehan. There are now' five candidates in the field, viz., Messrs E. Sheehan, J. Winders, Jacob Alsweiler, Thos. Harrington, and Wm. Smith. On leaving Winton to take a position in Messrs Smith and Laing’s Invercargill branch, Mr .1. M. Daly was met by a number of friends, on behalf of whom Mr F. Mulligan presented to him a handsome leather suit case and an auto-strop razor us a mark of esteem. A Sydney cable records the death of Mrs Hall, widow of Walter Russell Hall, Mount Morgan millionaire, whose names are associated with great charities, including the Walter and Eliza Hall Trust, whereby the income from a million stcr. ling is devoted to benevolent, religious, and educational purposes. Paving a tribute in the Christchurch Supremo Court to the late Sir Joshua Williams, Mr Justice Stringer said that in no part of the dominion would the memorv of Sir Joslyta be more cherished and'revered than in Canterbury. It had boon said by a tamous English Judge that it was better to be remembered us a good Judge than as a gieat Judge, but Sir Joshua would live in their memories as both a great and a good Judge. Mr Arthur Osborne Gibbcs, accountant to the Treasury, passed away on Thursday, at the age of 57 years. Deceased, who had been in 111-iiealth for some time, was born in Whangarci, and was a brother of Sir Edward Glbbes, Secretary for Education. He had nearly completed 40 years’ service. In the earlier days of Wellington the late Mr Gibbes occupied a leading position in the athletic world. He was a prominent player in the ranks of the Wellington Fbotball Club, and was also well known in the rowing world. He was one of the Star Boating Club’s well-known four —Henry Stock (stroke), E. S. Pollen (3), A,’o. Gibbes (2), and E. C. Batkin (bow) —which had an exceptionally successful career. He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs C. Holmes, whoso husband (formerly of Messrs Dalgety and Co.’s staff) is now at the front. Mr William ,K. Dallas, son of Mr John Dallas, late of “Finegand,” Ealclutha, lias been appointed by Mr Edmund Clifton. New Zealand Government Commissioner at the San Francisco Panama Exposition. to take charge of the installation and display of the New Zealand products at the exhibition in New York, organised by the Panama-Pacific Medal YVinners’ Association. The New Y'ork exhibition will he officially opened on February 12, and has already aroused considerable interest on the Atlantic seaboard, and New Zealand’s participation in the American metropolis will bring the potentialities of the dominion before the wealthiest and most populous centres of the United States. Mr Dallas, who acted as a member of the New Zealand Commission at San Francisco since the inception of the Panama World’s Fair, left California for the East on January 18. Connected with the Department of Agriculture under the New Zealand Government, he was formerly assistant orchardist at the experimental farm at Waerenga, near Auckland. At the conclusion of the two weeks’ exhibition in New York he will return to the West, travelling through the Dominion of Canada to Vancouver, and thence will proceed home to New Zealand. Whilst at San Francisco he rendered excellent service as an officer of the New Zealand Commission at the Exposition.