ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 17659, 17 February 1916, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

The death is announced by a London cablegram, of Viscount Bidley; aged 42. Air T. B. Handley, of Orepuki, has disposed of his interests in the Advocate, and intends moving north. A London cablegram states that the Queen unveiled a tablet to Florence Nightingale in the Crypt of Saint Paul’s. A London cable announces the death of Sir William Turner, Principal of the Edinburgh University. Air Andrew Fisher, Commonwealth High Commissioner, was sworn in as a Privy Councillor, on Tuesday. A London message announces the death of Sir George Pragnell, managing partner of Cook, Son and Co., and chairman of the Employers' Territorial Association and the Wholesale Textile Association. Air Harry Cohen, who acted as treasurer for the Plinnner - Hall Comedy Company, and has since been connected witli the Hugh D. Alclntosh and Frederic Shipman managements, intends to leave Wellington for Sydney, en route to London next Thursday. Air Cohen is a son of Air Albert Cohen, of the editorial staff of the Dunedin Star. It is Mr Cohen's intention to enlist at Homo. Air A. A. Paape, formerly of Invercargill, and who for some time past has acted as organiser for the New Zealand Political Reform League, has resigned that position, and on Saturday next will take over the Waverley Hotel at Auckland. This is one of the largest business hotels in the dominion, employing a staff of 75 people. Mr Paape’s latest undertaking is certainly a big one, but those who are aware of his undoubted organising ability will rest assured that lie will make the venture a thorough success. On the evening of Alonday, Air John Griffin, mine host of the Nightcaps Railway Hotel, Mrs Griffin, and Aliss Griffin were entertained, prior to their departure from Nightcaps, at a social and dance in the Coronation Ha;l. During the evening Air Todd, on behalf of the residents of Nightcaps and the surrounding districts, presented Air Griffin with a gold albert and a pendant suitably inscribed, and Airs Griffin and Aliss Griffin eacli with a silver mounted set of ebony brushes. Air Griffin has sold out his interests in the hotel to Air Frank Boyle, of Heddon Bush, who was last Saturday united in matrimony to Miss Cairns. On taking his seat on Alonday morning at the opening of the Supreme Court session at Christchurch, his Honour Air Justice Stringer said that he would take this opportunity to express the sense of the deep loss, the dominion had suffered in the death of .the late Sir Joshua Williams. He ventured to say that in no part of the dominion would the memory of the late judge be more cherished an(l revered than in Canterbury. The late Sir Joshua practised the law in this province, and was for some years a member of the Provincial Legislative Council, and had also occupied the post of Registrar-General of Lands, In 1875 he was promoted to the Judicial Bench, and his career had a most fitting culmination in the securing of one of the highest positions in the Empire, a seat on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council'. The character and splendid worth of the late judge had been recently and eloquently reviewed by the Chief Justice at Wellington and by Air Justice Sim at Dunedin, and by leading members of the Bar at both places. Therefore it would, be superogatory for him to say anything more except to thoroughly concur with the sentiments then expressed. It had been said by a famous English judge that it was better to be remembered as a gcod judge rather than as a great judge, but the late Sir Joshua would live in their memories as both a great and a good judge. It could be fittingly said of him. "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the kingdom of peace.”