PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16331, 21 January 1921, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mr O. IT. Turner., of Wellington, I cam® to Christchurch this morning. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes went north by t the ferry steamer last- evening. Dr A. F. J. Mickle, of Christchurch, j is visiting Auckland. Tho Hon TV. Noftvorfchy (Minister of ] Agriculture) left for the north inst night. Mr C. G. Pyle, of San Francisco, ar- , rived i:i Christchurch by the ferry this . morning. 1 Mr W. ~D. Hunt, who©recently inves- * ti gated commercial conditions in Great Britain, has returned to Invercargill. Lieutenant-Commander E. G. Rhodes, of Christchurch, has returned to New Zealand by the Runhine. Mr T/. (J. E. Haxnann, assistant district traffic manager of railways at I Christchurch, is visiting Tauranga. Mr P. M.’Nam&ia. of the Public 1 Works Department, Christchurch, is at | present on a visit to the West Coasti Mr Naganrimu. a Japanese merchant- ■ who is visiting the Dominion, arrived in Christchurch from the north this Mr C Iloldsworth, managing director j of the Union Steamship Company, was j a passenger by tho ferry this morning. | Mr Iloldsworth left for Dunedin by I the first express. Mr H G. Siedeberg, the well- j 1 known ex-New Zealand cricketer, has j i returned to Dunedin, after a visit to ! Australia extending over some eigfct I weeks. j Mr G. Ollivier. the well-known I Christchurch tennis player, was among I the New Zealanders who were stranded l in Sydney. Tie returned by the Manuka on Monday. Mr E. E. Gillon, chief mechanical engineer of the New Zealand Railways, is expected to arrive from the north this morning. He will go south by the expross. Among the arrivals from England by the s.s. Ruahine was .Mr 8. G. Raymond, K.C., Crown Prosecutor, Christchurch, whose health has been restored as a result of his tour. The Hon Sir William Merries, Minister of Native Affairs, Marine and Customs, has intimated to his constituents that his medical advisers have ordered a complete rest, and to attain that purpose and transact important private business which awaits his attention in the Old Country, he will leave New Zealand bv the Arawa, which is due to r-ail on February 3. He expects to re- ] turn to the Dominion, at the end of j July. ] Mr R. H. Croft, late of Kaiapoi, and recently secretary to tho Canterbury J District Repatriation Board, who is now j in Sydney, lias received an appointment as accountant for tho Commonwealth Government at Raba.ul. in late German New Guinea, and will leave at an early date to take up his duties. Mrs Croft will remain in New Zealand for some months before joining her husband in Rabaul. There died at Opotiki on Sunday week Arapeta Tarano, one of tho. big- ! gest chiefs of the Kawaitn.ngohua, a sub-tribe of the Whannuapanui. Arapeta was nearly one hundred years of age. and sixty years ago was a major , in the British Army. At the time of Volkner’a murder, he had buried hjs i fourth wife, and is survived by No. 13. At one time he ran a scow between Opotiki and Auckland. . Mr E. C. Crosse, head master of l Christ’s College, arrived iri Clirist--5 church to-day. He was met at the * railway station by Bishop Julius, warden of the college, and members of the I governing body. Ho breakfasted with . Bishop .Tillius at the Bishop’s residence r at Cashmere. At 11 a.m., he motored ; with the Bishop to the college and met 5 members of the staff. He will be form- ; ally welcomed at a gathering there this • afternoon.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sleeman, who relinquished the office of Director of Military Training, is probably one of the most capable officers the imperial General Staff Ims lent to the Dominion. Lieutenant-Colonel SI reman, though a comparatively young man, has had considerable military service- lie is a Mens veteran and served with distinction at the front. Though a born soldier, there is no suspicion of military atmosphere in his private life, and ns a lecturer on military tactics he has unquestionably no rivaf in Australasia. The fact that his place will he filled by a member of the New Zealand Defence Staff Corps is no doubt a compliment to that branch of the military institution. Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, father of Mr E&raonde, who has been

barred froln New Zealand and Australia, visited Auckland with Mr John Dillon and tho late Mr John Deasy, in ISS7 : while his brother, Midshipman John. Henry Grattan Esmonde, served on H.M.S. Indefatigable in tho naval battles of Heligoland, in August, 1914, and Falkland Islands. December, 1.91 i ; Schleswig, 1916; and finally went down with his ship in the battle of Jutland. May, 1916. The- Esmond© I'nmiK is descended from the famous Henry Grattan, Irish Protestant patriot, whose name is inseparably connected with what is known to history as Grattan’s Parliament. In its reference to the recent death at Auckland of the well-known theatrical agent, Mr I/. J. Lohr, a Sydney exchange says that his wife, known on the stage as Miss Kate Bishop, and one© a great favourite in Now Zealand, is living in London, and that, although now a septuagenarian, she was still actively following her profession up to the time the war broke out. Miss Bishop came to Australia in the early ’eighties as leading lady to Mr George Rignold. Her daughter. Miss Marie Lolir. is famous as the leading attraction at the Globe Theatre, of which she is also lessee.