PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12061, 17 July 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL.

..._Si*r George Clifford arrived from the north, this morning. -

Dean Tubman was a passenger by the fen\y steamer to-day. Dr Litchfield and Dr Cockayne were passengers by the Maori to-day. , :Dr-sfea€ker-,--M-.P.. will leave for Wei- . lingtonby this, evening's ferry steamer. ' T/fe Hon J/.G. W. Aitken, M.L.C., left for Wellington last evening. ' Colonel Barrett, Captain Robertson, Captain G. Myers and Captain Munro , arrived from Wellington this morning. j .The flon G. W. Russell, Minister of ' the "Interior, left for Wellington la,st evening.—

Mr -C-. Douglas, secretary to the ; Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pas- • toral Society, • left Christchurch last ' evening for Napier. The death occurred in Christchurch yesterday, after a brief illness, of Mr C. Hogg, well-known as a. tutor for university examinations. Mr Hogg, who was born in Hobart sixty-nine vearsago, graduated at Cambridge University, being the winner of a scholarship awarded by the Tasmanian Government. At one time he _ was head master of the Ashburton High School.

I The Rev J. Watt, Sofion, lias received a cablegram from his son, Private J. O. P. Watt'.' statins that ho is at I present in Hospital, recovering. "from, gunshot wounds Snd a fractured arnr received in action ■in France. Private "Watt, Who is twen-'ty-ono years of age, left with the Thirteenth Reinforcements, and previous to ; enlistment I .tons a member <if the rc- ' porting staff of the " Lyttclton Times."

' Second-Lieutenant J. M. Barton, who has been awarded the Military 'Cross, is a brother of Mr Howard ' -Barton, of Carew, Ashburton County, iand son of /the late Mr James Barton, of Dunedin. He received his early (education under his father, who had charge of the Portobello School, Qtago. \ Prior to enlisting lie was for a number 'of years farming with his brother at ■Oarew, but when the war broke out :ho was in the North Island. Leaving New Zealand, with the Fifth Reinforcements, ;:he. went through the 'campaign at GalHpoli, and from there to France, where he obtained his com- ,: mission. . . -

i At a meeting of the Defence Committee of the Licensed Victuallers' Association held yesterday afternoon, Air •15. Nordon.„ who for the past fifteen j years has been secretary to- that body, ; tendered his resignation on account of

ill-health, and. asked to be relieved of

his duties by the end of September '.next. It was resolved, on the motion of Messrs J- T. SMtton and G. Penally

—"Thatthis association receives there--1 jognation of its secretary with extreme regret, and desires to place on record jts sincere appreciation of tho services 'rendered by him to the association, during his long period of faithful service." Air Nordon intends to leave for Australia about October, and on his return, to tho Dominion will settle in the North Island. An old Auckland colonist, Air George Heron, died lately at his residence, Remuera, Auckland, in his eighty-second year. Air Heron arrived in Auckland in the, ship Egmont in 1858. He saw active <e£rvice in the Araori war, being stationed at Drury and Otahuhu. Deceased went to the Otago and '"'bames

coldfields in-the early rush, and upon his return to Auckland entered into

business as a builder and contractor, , .retiring • some thirty . years ago. Ho was a'member of the Newmarket Borough Council for several years, but resigned in order to pay an extended : visit to England and America. As a . I bowler- HeroniVas widely known. IOHe wa£: formerly.:'at. member of the lAnckjancl'club, and in 1893 was instrumental in forming the Newmarket club. He'was one of tho oldest members of " St Ohurch, Remuera, and a 1 tmnfffcee of t! the Leslie Presbyterian Or-