PERSONALS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14957, 3 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONALS.

The death has occurred at Wellington of Mrs. Ruby Hume, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel A. Hume .formerly Inspector of Prisons. She leaves a family of five sons.

Among the members of the House of Commons who have been returned unopposed is Mr J. Cathcari Wason, formerly of Corwar, Canterbury, and' for some years a member of the NewZealand/ House ;of Representatives. Mr. Wason . has represented Orkney and Shetland since 1900, and on more than one occasion, as at the recent election, v.'as returned \ipopposed.

It is not generally known that FieldMarshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in France, visited Australia in 1892. On May 4th of that year he signed the visitors' book at tlie South Head Fort, Sydney. He was then captain in the 7th Hussars Regiment. The mother of Sir Douglas was a Tasmanian, and he has relatives living in Tasmania.

The many friends of Major Hannah (son of Mr. Robert Hannah, of Wellington), will be pleased to learn that he has recovered sufficiently from the serious wounds which he received on the Western front many months ago, to be able to leave for New Zealand. He left the Old Country on the 19th December, and should be back in Wellington about the beginning of February.

Mr. William Arthur Speight, who joined the Colonial Sugar °Refining Company's chemistry staff twenty-five years ago, and became manager of the company's experimental nurseries at Ba, Fiji, died there a few days ago, aged forty-three. Deceased, who was the second son of Mr. W. J. Speight, for many years manager of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Government Insurance Department, was born in Auckland, and after a brilliant scholastic career ho became a school teacher. Subsequently he entered the Sugar Company's service.

News has reached Wellington of the death.in Montello, Nevada, U.S.A., of Mi-. Roderie M'Callum, who was well known in the theatrical and picture business in Wellington. He was manager of the French airman, M. Guillaus, in Australia, and afterwards managed a George stret (Sydney) picture theatre. He was brought over to Wellington to manage the Queen's Theatre, Cuba street, when it was originally opened, and a few months ago went to America' on behalf of a picture-buying syndicate in Wellington. The late Mr. M'Callum, who was about 44 years of age, leaves a widow and infant.