PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12768, 14 April 1910, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Lieut. Col. Joyce, 0.C.D., is at present on a tour of inspection.

Captain S. V. Trask of the Headquarter Staff, returns to .Wellington this morning.

A London Press message records the death of Sir Robert Gif Fen, X.C.8., F.R.S., the well-known statistician. He" was born in 1837, and from 1876 to 1897 he was in the Statistical Department of the British Board of Trade.

A London cable states that Sir George Reid was entertained by Lord Portsmouth, Lord Pentland. and Colonel Seely at luncheon at the British Empire Oiub.

Sir George Bowen Simpson, Senior Puisne Judge in New South Wales, has retired from iie Supreme Court Bench, says a Sydney cable. He has been a. judge of the Court since last year.

Mr W. A. Prickitt, United States Consul-General, who has been stationed in Auckland for the last four years, has been; granted leave of absence by his Government for the purpose of enabling him to pay a visit to his home in America.

Mrs John Ballance, who has been making an extended visit to England, intends leaving again for New Zealand on Apirl 16 by the Ruahine.

A Christchurch Press Association message states that'Dr Crooke, who has been the Medical Superintendent at Christchurch Hospital for eleven years, Bfc's tendered his resignation of the position owing to the state of the health of Mrs Crooke necessitating a change. of climate. The Board accepted the resignation, with expressions of regret.

"The Dominion" states that Mr Arthur Kempthorne, one of the oldest settlers of Poverty Bay, has died of pneumonia. He landed in Auckland in 1842, and was educated at the Auckland Grammar School, under Dr. Kinder, and was afterwards engaged for three years under Bishop Williams, the first Bishop of Waiapu, in teaching at the Native Training College at Waerengahika. He took up land near Ormond in 1865, and has resided there ever since. He leaves two brothers in New Zealand, the Rev J. P. Kempthorne, of Nelson, and Mr E. Kempthorne, of Timaru, and also a sister, Mrs Kissling, of Auckland.