ABOUT PEOPLE

Southland Times, Issue 19656, 5 October 1922, Page 4

ABOUT PEOPLE

The Hon. Downie Stewart was slightly indisposed during last week and was staying indoors. A Press Association message from New York states that Lord Louis Mountbattea with his bride arrived by the Majestic on a three months’ tour of the United States. Mr W. Bremner, who has carried on business in Invercargill for many years as an architect, leaves for Auckland today. It is Mr Bremner’s intention to take up the practice of his profession there. A New York Pre® Association cable states that at Atlanta, Mrs Felten, the first woman senator in history, has been aj>pointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Thomas Watson. Mr S. B. Taylor, official photographer to the Government Publicity Departtnent, has just returned from a visit to the Eastern District, acconqmnied by Mr J. E. Wintdoe, secretary of the Southland League. Mr Taylor will visit Riverton today and on Saturday will leave for the Lakes District. Pol ire Inspector Dew, who has Imm*h transferred to Napier, leaves te take up hts new jxwitinn on October 10. Inspector Dew is%eld in the very highest respect by all members of the force and his departure will be greatly regretted by the staff throughout the Southland Police District. Inspector McNamara, who is to succeed Inspector Dew, will arrive in Invercargill on Saturday next. The Christchurch correspondent of the Southland Times telegraphs: Mr F. E. Baume, of the reporting staff of the Sun has been appointed editor of the Tirunru Herald. Mr Baume, who is a son of the late Mr F. E. Baume, K_C., M.P.. of Auckland, started his jourualistic career on the Auckland Herald, and was on the staff of the Wellington Dominion before he went to Christchurch. He was educated at San Francisco and at Waitaki Boys’ High School, Oainaru. He has written many short stories for New Zealand and Australian journals, and has specialised in branches of descriptive writing. Mr Baume is one of the brightest examples of the younger school of journalists. New Zealanders will be interested to know that Lieut.-General Sir Charles Haringten, at present the principal British military figure in the Turkish trouble, was the officer mainly responsible for working out the plans for the Battle of Messines. During the Great War General Harrington was Chief of Staff te Lord Plumer, both in France and Italy. He was fifty years old on May 31, and before taking over the command of the Army of the Black Sea two years ago was Deputy-Chief of the Imperial General Staff. During the South African War he served on the staff as a railway officer. General Haring ton is a keen cricketer, and is a member of both tho Marylebone and I. Zingari Clubs, and before going out to tho Near East was prewdent of the Army Sports Control Board, and devoted a great amount of energy and enthusiasm to development of sport both m the regular army and the territorials. The title of “Australia’s Air Baby” has been given to little Patricia Treacy, aged two years and four months, who has now travelled, at various times, for over 20 hours in the air—probably a world’s record for one so young (states a Sydney correspondent). Patricia is the daughter of Lieutenant J. Treacy, of the Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company, and has just returned with her mother and father from a trip of 3000 miles or so over the Riverina, wherein the head of his family piloted his Avro aeroplane, and with all his family on board demonstrated to all the reliability of the machine. During each flight the small voyager was strapped on to the front seat; which was carefully padded for her comfort, and being equi|»fM*d with a special flying helmet and Hying jacket she was very comfortable. Usually on a long trip she fell asleep, and, covered with a rug, woke up at the journey’s end. Lieutenant Treacy has flown over 35,000 miles in Australia, having covered Queensland on two occasions and New South Wales once. He has a total, including his war flying, of between 600 and 700 hours’ aerial flight te his credit. The retirement of Mr James Craigia, M.P m as from the end of die present Parliament, means that Tunaru loses a representative who has not once in fourteen years forgotten, that a man goes to Parliament for service, says the Timaru Herald. No electorate ever had a more diligent member, nor can have been served by a representative whose diligence as a rule has proved so completely successful. With pardonable and entirely justifiable pride, Mr Craigie looks back on the fact that K; has lieen in four Parliaments, and at each election has been “the chosen of an absolute majority of the cowtituency." But Mr Craigie is not only retiring from Parliament. His statement, in our columns today makw it. clear that he is going to retire from public life altogether, and it must not be forgotten that his municipal record if even more honiHirablc than his Parliaments ary. We owe it largely to his k>ve of literature and devotion to art that we have such an excellent public library and at least the beginnings of an art gallery. We owe to his private purse such amenities as an avenue of trees, a statue in the park, the chimes in our (>o.st office clock, and so on. And not only Scots, but all who reverence genius, owe to his life-long worship of Burns, a very real contact with immortal